Can't apply pan and zoom

[Steve Berer]

As I load photos into the video track, some of them allow me to apply panning and zooming (either auto p&z or customized), and others don't allow it. For about half my images, the auto p&z is grayed out, and on the Photo Options panel, the P&Z option is gray and the radio button can't be activated. For both images that work and images that don't work, they are all .tif files of varying sizes. I can't see any logic in why some images allow P&Z and others don't. I'll drag and drop an image onto the video track, and if the P&Z is grayed out, I'll delete it, drag and drop another image, and boom, no problems. P&Z is active.
What's the problem?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Steve
and welcome to the forums

“What’s the Problem”, I don’t know?

Can you add the images to the timeline, right click and select properties, do this for all images
Are the properties the same?
How large in MB? etc

[aljimenez]

One guess is that VS sees your inserted media as a video. What is the precise name of the media you are inserting that has the Pan&Zoom greyed out?

[Steve Berer]

Hi Trevor and Al.
Thanks for your help. In response:
Trevor: Yes, I do add the images to the timeline (drag-drop, and via menu) and right-click to get properties. "Auto P&Z" is grayed out there, as well as in the Options-Photo tab. Properties, best as I can tell, among all the images are the same. They were all created/saved by the same software to the same format (tif). The sizes vary, from ~200K up to 4MB, but some large files allow P&Z and some small files don't, so it doesn't seem to be dependent on file size. I've worked pretty hard to find some pattern or reason. I'll drag and drop image after image into the timeline and test to see if P&Z is grayed. I've tested images in new projects to verify that there's no leftover formatting or anything gumming things up. Here's the thing: ALWAYS, the same images allow or disallow P&Z. It's always the same culprits that don't allow p&z. I'm going to go back, and resave these images a jpgs, and see if that makes a diff. Will let you know.
Al: I'm virtually certain that the filename isn't a problem, but I'll try renaming and see what happens. Here's 2 names, one from a file that allows P&Z and one from a file that doesn't:
allows: 1a-Reformers-LastSupper-Durer1.tif
doesn't allow: 1h-Reformers-LastSupper-Durer1.tif
Weird, eh?
Steve

[Steve Berer]

Hi Al and Trevor.
So, I resaved one of the images that didn't allow p&z with a new name. Didn't help. But when I resaved it as a jpg rather than a tif, that fixed the problem. Actually, here's what I think is happening. It's not a tiff vs jpeg thing. I think some of the tiffs I saved allowed "transparent pixels/colors" and VideoStudio doesn't seem to like those images. When I saved the tiff as a jpeg, Gimp, my image editor, said it had to strip the transparent pixels out, so I'm assuming that's where the glitch lies. VideoStudio can read those files with transparent pixels, but can't work very well with them, for some reason. Anyway, that's my current guess.
Do you agree, or have further insights?
Thanks!!!!
smb

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Steve

What you have said does seem to make sense to me.
I don’t normally use Tiff, my camera produces either Raw or Jpeg.

If you can e-mail a sample of both types one with Transparent Pixels I will have a play about with them to see if I can confirm your findings.
Find my e-mail address from the Quick Guide link below.

Although given time I may try to create my own using photoshop.

post modified:-
Just ran a few tests and It does seem that some programs do not support the Tiff transparency option.
In fact Photoshop prompts you with a warning.
Certainly Video Studio does not like it