VideoStudio 9 Pan and Zoom

J Eaves · Post by **J Eaves** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:44 am

Having a problem with the Pan and Zoom function. I have a rather large slide show / video project with about 130 photos and video clips. One of the photos is a wide panorama in which I have set up three pan / zoom points. Because the photo is some-what wide, there is a long distance between two of the pan/zoom points. The problem is the connecting line that VideoStudio has between all pan/zoom points. This line SAGS down between two of my points which causes the PAN effect to also sag, since the pan path follows this line. Is there any way to control this pan path line? The SAG causes important parts of the image to be to close to the edge and will probably be cut off from the display. I have noticed this problem on other photos, with the pan path having a funny turn due to curves in this pan line. I haven't found any way to make the line straight. Any suggestions???

stickman · Post by **stickman** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:37 am

Did you try the customize option for the pan and zoom? If I have troubles with a particular zoom path I'll try and find the closest one to what I need and then reposition or add points as I need to.

I've never tried adding a panaroma into one of my projects.

J Eaves · Post by **J Eaves** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:04 am

I basically do all my pan and zoom work in the "customize" option since I use pan and zoom to go to a particular spot or spots in a photo. It is on this "customize pan and zoom" screen where the pan lines are visible. I have been able to correct the sagging and drooping pan lines in previous versions of VideoStudio (version 7) by inserting extra points at the location of the sagging line, and use this extra point to raise up and thereby control the pan path. In version 9, it seems Ulead has limited us to only THREE pan/zoom points which took away that option in many cases for me. If we could still set up more than three points, I could work around this problem. The "customize" option only gives me two pan/zoom points, by clicking on the "middle" point option, I have three available. I haven't found a way to get more than three points. I often have old group photos, which in the past I have used many zoom points to zoom up on different people and insert text to identify them. I can no longer do this with version 9, with only three points available per picture. This panorama picture has about 350 people in it, and I need about 12 points to do what I want to do. Does anyone know how to add more pan/zoom points???

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:30 am

Your problem stems from the cute geometric line VS8/9 draw between your three points, to achieve a seamless movement, really cute but as you saw, sometimes unfortunate.

Use only two points, that will give you a straight line.

Get your picture on the timeline, using only begin end, select the first two points.
Copy the image back to the library then back to the timeline (occurence nr 2). It will get the same Pan/zoom properties.

When in zoom/customize for this picture nr2, select End point, then click on No Panning box.
Now both start/end are the same and Start is now at the exact End of image 1, enable panning again (unclick box) and using End point settings, define you path point nr. 3
Repeat as needed (of course don't use transitions and shorter image display time accordingly). Unlimited number of points.

J Eaves · Post by **J Eaves** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:15 pm

Your method of creating multiple pan/zoom points in VS9 will work, but when you are needing 12 points, that is a LOT of trouble to accomplish the same thing that you could do in VS7 in just a minute, and only dealing with ONE picture instead of twelve different pictures in the timeline of the same photo using the method you described.

When you have a zoom/pan thread going through only one photo, it is easy to see what you have and to make small adjustments. When you are dealing with 12 pictures of the same image in the timeline, having to pan/zoom the first, pick up on the second where the first left off - doing this five, ten, or twelve times is not an improvement over the last version of VS. Also, using your method, you have the added steps of having to go back and change the duration of each of the pictures to work with only two points, and add them all up to give you the duration you need for that photo.

Thank you for your input, and for this workable method, but it seems to me that Ulead needs to restore the capabilities they have taken away from VS in this latest version. I don't like to pay for program upgrades that causes you to loose functionality.javascript:emoticon(':(')
Sad

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:46 am

For such a wide picture you may be better preparing it with Proshow Gold.
This will create you an MPEG file that you can import into your VideoStudio Project.

Although Video Studio has this "Ken Burns" effect, it is not as comprehensive as that in ProShow Gold.

I tend to use the best bits from a variety of programs and then piece it all together with my ulead products. Another example would be sound editing with Audacity.