Image Pan Problems

[quik7]

I imported a still image into the timeline and I just want to pan from one side of the image to the other. I tried setting the motion, but there's this white space...I dont want the image out of the viewable area.
how do I pan across an image without any type of background showing?

 

[acke187]

In Adobe After Effects, u can animate the anchor point. Maybe u can do that in Premiere also

 

[calculus]

Use the zoom tool to make the image larger, then use motion to make the image appear to pan.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

quik7,

If I understand you correctly, you're trying to use Video >> Motion instead of Video >> Filter >> Image Pan.

Video Motion allows you to toss that image all over the place, but can be very sloppy pixel-wise. If you want to pan within the image, simply use Image Pan.

Exactly what are the dimensions of the image you're importing.

What are your project settings?

Image Pan ought not to allow you to exceed the border of the image. At least it doesn't do that in 5.1c.

Image Pan basically establishes a window to viewing your image. Assume your project settings are 720 x 480 and you want to pan around an image that is 1440 x 960. 1440 x 960 is only four pieces of 720 x 480, stacked in a square. So, if you want to maintain a viewport of 720 x 480, then you can only pan 2x vertically and horizontally.

Now, say you want to really zoom in on Jennifer Lopez's blouse. You can do so, using Image Pan, but if your viewport becomes smaller than your project settings, then Premiere is going to have to make pixels up from scratch. Yes, you couljd set a viewing port in Image Pan of 72 x 48 pixels, but for every pixel from your original image, Premiere will have to make up ten pixels.

You can easily violate your ratio for cool effects, by the way.

If you have some 720 x 480 image of a bunch of snow and you set your view port to 720 wide by 5 pixels high, Premiere will stretch that selection to fill the 720 x 480, basically, filling your screen with vertical 5-pixel streaks. Pan down-to-up and the practical effect is that it looks like rain is falling on your image (well, not very good rain, but you can tweak it!).

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[quik7]

Thanx everyone for the solid advice!!!

BTW...whats the difference between After Effects and Final Effects?

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

What is "Final Effects"?

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[quik7]

Final Effects -

http://www.media100.com/fec.asp

s'ok..i found out its just a plug-in for premiere...

 

[Akribie]

Bad idea to use Motion in Premiere up to 6.5 for zooming into an image and panning because Motion scales to video size first, then zooms. Result = pixelation and loss of the clarity from the extra pixels that have been discarded too early in the process.

Much better either to use the Image Pan effect or the Transform Effect. The 'new' image pan effect is best used with keyframes. The 'old' image pan effect under 'obsolete' effects gives rather more control without keyframing.

Premiere Pro is reported to offer much improved options in this area.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Akribie, what do you mean by "The 'old' image pan effect under 'obsolete' effects gives rather more control without keyframing.", specifically, "without keyframing"?

I use 5.1c and it allows me to drop effect keyframes all over in the Image Pan effect.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door