VS X6 pan and zoom problems

[Steve Berer]

Hi all. Using X6 I am doing some custom pan/zooms on stills in a video sequence. They spiral around an image, which requires multiple steps in building the spiral sequence. When I create the sequence it plays smoothly. But once it is integrated into a series of stills and video clips, the movement becomes very choppy, as if the camera were bumping into a wall to change directions, rather that moving smoothly along a curve.
I found a work around: to make the pan/zoom sequence singly on each still, turn each into a video, and then import these videos into the whole sequence. Actually, even this solution has problems if I then want to set variable speeds on each individual video sequence. It again becomes very jerky and bumpy. Perhaps there are better solutions. I'd like to know.
Failing a more effective solution in X6,if I upgrade to X9 Pro, will the custom pan/zoom be improved and useable without creating individual video clips? Or is the X9 custom pan/zoom essentially the same as the X6 Pro version?
Thanx.
Steve

[asik1]

X9 will not be better than X6 in that respect. There isn't any need for video'ing the still, what you should do is once you set your key-frames play the clip in the edit menu twice, by the play button at the far right.
If you put here a demo VSP with one of your zoom's we can examine it.