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I figured out sony vegas pro, how do i pan and zoom in after effects?
« Last Edit: November 24, 2014, 09:34:21 PM by Maxxi »

Don't they explain that in some of the tutorials?
It did for me, it's all just picture in picture



I understand its not your video but that video was god damn terrible

So open sony vegas (I have 12 but w/e) and open your video (or Image, I'm just gna use an image for this example
My screen looks something like this

Now on the right of your media you should see 2 icons "Event pan/crop" and "Event FX"
First click on "Event pan/crop"

With that you can zoom in/out, rotate, use keyframes and forget arround on your first time.

Basic things you should know ^^

In this is zoomed in my media over 30 frames (1 second if your FPS is set to 30, obviously. I usually set mine to 29,970.)
Now lets insert some text, rightclick the space under your media and select "Inset video track"

Now that we have inserterted a video track, we can insert some text (Or images, just drag them over the track.)

The default time is 5 seconds, you can simply edit that by dragging the media shorter or longer or changing it in the settings.
Some basic things you also should know vv

Now if you accidently closed the screen you can just re-open it with the generated media file (Oh and also activate the 'solo' button)

Now forget a bit arround with these things, if you just want to add another text but it overlaps something else just create a new track
Now if you want to change color 'n stuff just go to generated media and clock on the clock on the left from the color slector thingy
Its should bring up a timeline at the bottom and just edit the colors 'n stuff

(Note: you probably want to place the 'keys' closer to eachother from the example) (Also 11/10 typo)
If you have any questions just PM me or something.
I reccomend to start learning sony vegas and then start using After FX since it offer allot more but its much harder to use.

Here's a nice tip in case you run into an issue where images can't utilise the entire area of the screen in panning and zooming:

in the pan/crop dialog, right-click > match source aspect (it should be something similar to that)

Here's a nice tip in case you run into an issue where images can't utilise the entire area of the screen in panning and zooming:

in the pan/crop dialog, right-click > match source aspect (it should be something similar to that)
It deforms the whole image. There is another method but I forgot it.

It deforms the whole image. There is another method but I forgot it.
does it? it seems to just expand the bounds of the layer to match the output aspect. i've never noticed any quality degradation

speaking of; i meant to say match output aspect oops

Bomp, I need to pan and zoom in after effects and i'll be done

There is a tutorial button for the Sony Vegas just so you know. :v