Panning

[secookie]

Hi

I'm trying to get a pan and zoom to work on an image of the London underground map.

I've zoomed in to the station I start at and then set points to travel along the map to the end station. When playing the pan, however, rather than going from point A to B to C etc in straight lines, the camera sweeps around from point to point.

Is there any method to rectify this or is there a better way to do what I am trying to do?

Many thanks for the help.

SImon

[BJC]

Well you haven't told us which of the many options available in Videostudio to do that you have used - my number one choice would be 'Customise Motion' - zoom in and out at will and travel in straight lines between any number of points one by one

[secookie]

Sorry, I selected the picture on the timeline and then clicked on pan and zoom which brings up the two screens with the pictures and where I want the zoom to go to.

Where is the Customise Motion you mention?

[lata]

Hi Simon
What version of Video Studio are you using, the latest versions have updated the Pan & Zoom although like BJC feel the Customise Motion may be the way to go
Right click the clip for options

There is also the Prodad stuff, roto-pen etc that may be useful, just tried to use those and my X10 simply froze as did 2019 hmmmm

[secookie]

I'm on Videostudio Ultimate 2019.

[gewb]

At first the "new and improved" Pan&Zoom in VS2019 seem difficult to manage but once you grasp the workflow and the strange behavior it is usable. However, I'm in agreement with BJC and Iata - use Customize Motion instead.

[Davidk]

What can cause the 'swooping around' you refer to is the way you set up the pan. To illustrate
- with P&Z selected, moving the crosshairs of the desired key-frame between locations may not be in a straight line ie, it's moved too far. then back etc before you choose the location for the keyframe. The play will follow what you actually did rather than the straight line between the 2 points.
Customise motion is easier to handle but will do the same thing.

The way you should do it is to progessively
-select a point (move the time marker to it) on the timeline in the P&Z or custom motion pane, and insert a new keyframe there (click on the + symbol); observe the new diamond icon in the timeline
-click on the new keyframe (diamond icon turns red) and size the zoom box in P&Z, or choose size in custom motion and adjust the numbers (zoom in means larger, zoom out means smaller)
- repeat for as many key frames as you want for the movement over the map image
Since you haven't created any swooping progressive motion tracks between the keyframes, the software will interpolate between the start and finish keyframes for each section of time in a straight line.

[lata]

Hi secookie
Not sure if this is the thing you are after but I used Customise Motion to move a train image along the Central Line
Smart Package, project should open with X10, 2018 and 2019

train.zip

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[asik1]

Hi secookie
Not sure if this is the thing you are after but I used Customise Motion to move a train image along the Central Line
Smart Package, project should open with X10, 2018 and 2019

train.zip

Nice

[Davidk]

V nice, shows off the use of keyframes to control motion well.