tanguero
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VideoStudio X8 Ultimate on Win7 64-bit
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Post by tanguero on Jun 30, 2024 4:17:26 GMT
I want to Zoom about 200% using the Video Pan and Zoom FX, while panning to keep one person always in the middle (in a group of people singing in this case, but one could imaging a more common application of a person walking across a stationary frame and wanting to pan on that person's face). Although in my case the person happens to be stationary and the panning is actually to undo (compensate for) camera movement or panning (intentional or otherwise at the time the video was taken) so that the person of interest is always in the center.
I've typically done this manually within the Video Pan and Zoom filter by creating a new keyframe with every significant movement of the object of interest and recentering at each keyframe. But this is very tedious, made all the more so by the difficulty in selecting the correct red crosshair when the other white crosshairs are close by (is there a secret to this, incidentally?). And since there is a motion tracking feature in VS, although I know it applies to having an overlay track "follow" an object on the main video track, perhaps there's a way to use that object recognition and tracking engine for tracking panning? It seems like this would be a much-used feature, so I'm hoping it exists and I just haven't been able to find it. Thanks!
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Post by Trevor Andrew on Jun 30, 2024 8:55:36 GMT
Hi tanguero. “Is there a secret to this”
Yes it can be awkward in selecting the red selected keyframe, one way would be to use the 9 anchor points to move the red (selected) cross away from the other crosses, now we can select the red one to drag and reposition.
Tracking, yes there is a feature, the 3 white circles on the tool bar.
Tracking will not do what you want, it tracks an object across the screen but does not reposition it to the middle, it overlays the object with another image, maybe blurring out a face.
Customise Motion has more options than pan and zoom.
Right click your clip for Motion - Customise Motion.
It is worth spending some time to master this effect.
We can add keyframes across a timeline so easy to select, resize the frame (zoom), reposition the frame (pan)
Rotate, add borders, fade in (opacity)
What version of VS are you using?
Update, I see from your status you are using X8
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tanguero
Junior Member
VideoStudio X8 Ultimate on Win7 64-bit
Posts: 15
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Post by tanguero on Jun 30, 2024 19:20:21 GMT
Yes it can be awkward in selecting the red selected keyframe, one way would be to use the 9 anchor points to move the red (selected) cross away from the other crosses, now we can select the red one to drag and reposition. Ah beautiful, great tip! I was trying to move the red crosshair with keyboard arrows but that didn't work. But the anchor-point trick is perfect--thanks!!
And regarding the rest, I guess you're pretty much confirming that there is no automatic mechanism in VS to pan keeping an anchored objected centered. No matter, for my simple cases thus far, your tip above has already reduced the effort by 2/3.
As far as Customize Motion, I do remember you and someone else as well suggested it for when I wanted to rotate the image by a small number of degrees so indeed it has a lot of flexibility, so thanks for that reminder to go there first for these types of things. For my current use-case, the pan and zoom subset is all I need, so I may just stick with the Video Pan and Zoom FX. |
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