tanguero
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Post by tanguero on May 14, 2024 5:20:41 GMT
Using VS X8. I see only ways to rotate the video 90 degrees at a time. However, I need to rotate perhaps 2 or 3 degrees to correct a levelling error when the camera was mounted a little skewed on the tripod. Yes, I realize you lose some resolution and there may be aliasing effects, and I may need to recrop. But any but the most basic photo editing program lets me do it on a picture (in about 0.1 degree increments), so I'd like to think there is a way to do so on VS. Thanks!
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Post by davidk on May 14, 2024 6:59:29 GMT
I no longer use X8, but there's a solution to this that's been in VS for along time. Insert your video in the overlay track, and size to fit the preview window. Select the video, orange edges all round it. Then select the show options icon on the far right just above the timeline space. choose advanced motion, then customize (which becomes active when the advanced button is selected). The options available changed with 2018, so X8 may have fewer of them, but advanced motion has been in the package a long time, so you may have to look for it. Alternatively, open the X8 user guide (a pdf file) and search for advanced motion: it's there in my copy of the X8 guide on p159.
That produces an image panel with your selected video and a range of controls which allow incremental adjustments to motion to be applied to the video. Rotation is one of those. Play with it until you get what you want - meaning, choose a motion item, customise it, play the video; not happy? reverse the change, try something else, etc. When finished, click OK and the changes are applied to the selected video in the overlay track.
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Post by Trevor Andrew on May 14, 2024 8:07:55 GMT
A David suggests Customise Motion aka Advanced Motion I believe is the best option
Right click your clip for Motion – Customise Motion.
Set the rotation for both keyframes first and last. (Set key frame 1, right click for copy to right / other key frames.
Customise Motion is very good and worth the effort mastering the feature.
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Post by Zaťko Vendi on May 14, 2024 8:15:03 GMT
Použitie VS X8. Vidím len spôsoby, ako otočiť video o 90 stupňov naraz. Potrebujem sa však otočiť možno o 2 alebo 3 stupne, aby som opravil chybu vyrovnania, keď bol fotoaparát na statíve namontovaný trochu šikmo. Áno, uvedomujem si, že strácate určité rozlíšenie a môžu sa vyskytnúť efekty aliasingu a možno budem musieť znova orezať. Ale ktorýkoľvek iný ako najzákladnejší program na úpravu fotografií mi umožňuje urobiť to na obrázku (v krokoch asi 0,1 stupňa), takže by som si rád myslel, že existuje spôsob, ako to urobiť na VS. Vďaka!
Veľmi jednoduché: Kliknite na video alebo obrázok na časovej osi, otvorte prispôsobenie pohybu 1: Použite otáčanie so šípkami, 2: Potom zadajte príkaz Zoom, 3: OK. To je všetko.
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Post by tanguero on May 14, 2024 14:04:05 GMT
Thank you, David, Trevor, Zaťko, customize motion it is (with rotation about the Z axis in my case)! And as a bonus it seems I can adjust my pan and zoom in the same interface without needing to use the Video Pan and Zoom FX. I used it on the main video track itself where it also seems to work just fine. Rotation is in 1-degree increments (wish it were smaller increments since from my experience even a 0.5 degree skew is noticeable, but I can live with that limitation)--do later versions give you finer control than 1 degree? And indeed Customize Motion seems to be a very useful tool to master going forward, thanks!
P.S. Incidentally, in X8, it's not located in the Options tab but rather under Edit > Customize Motion ... (and of course by right-clicking the clip on the timeline).
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Post by davidk on May 20, 2024 10:22:22 GMT
No. In fact, all of the adjustments in advanced/customise motion are in a single digit - 1 - at a time, but you can apply many of those at each setting, which is generally at a successive key frame. For example, keyframe at the start and one say 1 minute into the clip; set rotation at the start to 0, and at the next keyframe you could make it rotated say 3 digits. The software will interpolate the degree of change between keyframes smoothly. So, doing it this way - let the software interpolate between the key frames - and you may get the line level of control you want. You can decrease the control as well eg go from 3 at one keyframe to 0 at the next. Set the keyframes - or remove them - by positioning (click n drag) the track marker and clicking + to add a key frame , or positioning over a keyframe and clicking - to remove it.
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