Panning and scaling inside a mask

I'm wondering if it's possible to animate a scale of a layer independent of it's mask so that the mask stays locked but the layer moves. Like in Photoshop you can unlink the mask from the layer.
The only way I can see how to do this is to pre-comp the layer, mask the pre-comp, and animate it's stuff in the pre-comp.
Pls let me know if there's a better way to do this!

Track Mattes are what you want. Read this: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7cf9 a.html

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when I render out a movie of my project that has still images that are
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How can get the motion so its smooth and does'nt stutter
any help would be very helpfull

Rick Gerard wrote:
If your computer is up to the data rate required by the codec and frame size, and the image is still juddering then you're in the world of wrong panning...
Unfortunately that is not always the case...
Below a scenario that has been driving my nuts, nuts :
On ANY Mac when viewing in quicktime the following applies:
(Before anyone is tempted to say 'But my Mac will play back 1080p' - mine TOO.... But NOT when moving 1080x1920 pixels
over an extended amount of time!!!)
1) Boot up you Mac
2) Prior to launching ANY others apps, launch the quicktime player with the 1080p pan
3) Use the Plus-Minus keys to set the QT window to half size.
4) Hit play. Shot play wonderfully.
5) Open Premiere Pro or After Effects and do an hour's worth of intensive work.
7) Close all the adobe apps.
8) Open the QT player and try step 3 and 4 again.
On my Mac which is about as fast as they come... THAT movies which used to playback VERY smooth now looks as if
someone is having an epileptic seizure !
Do a restart and it all looks smooth again. Work an hour in the two a.m. apps or other apps for that matter and your are back
epileptic seizures....
No matter how much one would like his movies to playback on a computer..... As of today, I have yet to come accross
a CPU capable of moving 1080x1920 pixels SMOOTHLY over an extended period of time.
Hopefully, the future holds more for CPU-viewing of Video !!!

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I am trying to pan and scan a clip that has mask. But I do not want the mask to follow the pan and scan. Can this be done?
I am using CS5 on Win7

Thanks. So I just need to create a solid, punch my hole in it using the mask, disable the solid visibility, then use it as a track matt for my layer that I was trying to mask. This should work perfectly.
But why does a mask change positions and size when I change the layer's position and scale in the first place? If you change the track opacity, the mask opacity does not change. Does the mask also follow a parented layer's scale, etc? I have probably taken advantage of this "feature" in the past w/o thinking about it. But now it sounds counter-intuitive to me. It would be nice if there was an option for the mask size, position etc. to follow the layer's properties or not.

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Hello,
happy new year to the community!
I recently did a lot of research in this forum and for the most problems in my project i could find adequate solutions in PrE 11 which I treated myself to purchase at Xmas
But there's still something left: I'd like to align several rectangular cells in a grid, each containing a still image that is animated by some pan and zoom.
I cannot achieve it via the pan and zoom tool since it is restricted to the frame ratio and displays full screen. Then I tried to use key framing for the pan and zoom and cropping the photos. But the crop was scaled together with the photos and didn't remain fix. My last hope was to use an alpha mask which would have the advantage that i could create a fixed grid. But the mask was affected by the animation as well...
I suspect, after reading the post http://forums.adobe.com/thread/996581, that this is not possible without creating intermediate video files for all photos. So my question is if there's still some way to achieve the task or if it can be confirmed that the intermediate videos are the only way.
Regards,
phylome

The only way I know to do this in Premiere Elements is to create your pan & zoom for each image and then output each using Publish & Share/Computer/AVI with the DV preset.
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Hi Guys,
When I watch the demo QT of Pages 2 the narrator shows you how to place a picture in one of the image placeholder and then she can pan and zoom the image just by double clicking on it. I have tried this and it wont work...any advice!
DS

Peggy, love your help in Pages.
I am very confused by the Quicktime Quicktour of pages too.
1. Drag an image to the placeholder.
2. Create a mask to the exact size of the place holder.
3. Then I can double click and pan the image inside the place holder.
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Do I have to make the mask to "drag and zoom" on the placed images.
Reference manual and help menu have no reference to this feature (that I can find).
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How do I use pan and zoom on vertical photographs without editing out most of the photo?

I am trying to make a slide show. When I have a vertically oriented (portrait) photograph and try to use pan and zoom, the feature eliminates much of the photograph. It seems the pan and zoom feature only works for horizontally oriented (or landscape) photographs. Is there a way to use pan and zoom on vertically oriented photographs to capture all or most of the photograph and zoom in from there?

gtavetian
I decided to use a different strategy to convey the principle. It is most likely that your photos will be 4:3 and you may or may not be taking them into a SD widescreen or HD widescreen project. With all those variables, to get the basic ideas across, I am going to use two models with a generalized scheme.
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NTSC DV Standard Project - Portrait Oriented JPG, in this case 2448 x 3264 3:4. Could be any Portrait Oriented JPEG any pixel dimensions. But best plan ahead for what you have and what you would like.
Manually set the project preset to NTSC DV Standard.
File Menu/New/Project and, in the new project dialog, set for NTSC DV Standard.
Before exiting the final dialog in that area, put a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on This Project". Close out of there.
Next go to the Edit Menu/Preferences/General and remove the check mark next to "Default Scale to Frame Size". Close out of the preferences.
In the opened Premiere Elements Expert workspace, use Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets to get your portrait oriented JPG to the beginning of the Timeline.The 2448 x 3264 3:4 will overwhelm the space in the Edit Mode monitor. That is to be expected. The Timeline Indicator is at the beginning of the Timeline @ 00;00;00;00.
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After the scaling to get that look, the important information that you want is on the right in the Motion Panel
Position values 360.0 and 240.0
Scale value 14.6%.
The next phase is as before (See post 21 of this thread...but much of that is repeated below and modified for what is being described at this moment)
With Timeline Indicator at the beginning of Video Track 1 (00;00;00;00), go to Tools Menu/Pan and Zoom and click on it to open the Pan and Zoom workspace.
In the Pan and Zoom workspace, you will see that the feature has created the initial two Focus Frames for you.
Do not do anything to Focus Frame 1 in the bin below the image window.
Click on Focus Frame 2 in the bin below the image window and set the Focus Frame as wanted.
Click on New Frame in the panel to the left of the image window to create a third Focus Frame which will appear in the bin. Set Focus Frame as wanted.
Click on New Frame in the panel to the left of the image window to create a fourth Focus Frame which will appear in the bin. Set the Focus Frame as wanted.
Click Done to the Pan and Zoom workspace so that you are back in the Premiere Elements Expert workspace with its Timeline.
In the Expert workspace,
Move the Timeline Indicator to the last frame of the selected pan and zoom clip 1. In Applied Effects Tab/Applied Effects Palette/Motion Panel expanded, (Toggle Animation should be active at this point), make sure Position settings are 360.0 and 240.0 and Scale = 14.6% (with Constrain Proportions used).Then go to Tools Menu/Freeze Frame and set the freeze frame for 3 seconds and hit Insert in Movie.
Then move the Timeline Indicator to the first frame of the selected pan and zoom clip 1. In Applied Effects Tab/Applied Effects Palette/Motion Panel expanded (Toggle Animation should be active at this point), make sure Position settings are 360.0 and 240.0 and Scale = 14.6% (with Constrain Proportions used). Then go to Tools Menu/Freeze Frame and set the freeze frame for 3 seconds and hit Insert in Movie.
Render.
The Timeline content sequence from start to finish should be:
Freeze Frame 3 seconds First Frame of pan and zoom clip 1
Pan and zoom clip 1
Freeze Frame 3 seconds Last Frame of pan and zoom clip 1
Freeze Frame 3 seconds First Frame of pan and zoom clip 2
Pan and zoom clip 2
Freeze Frame 3 seconds Last Frame of pan and zoom clip 2
A Dissolve/Cross Dissolve Video Transition (1.00 seconds) is placed between end of Freeze Frame Last Frame of pan and zoom clip 1 and beginning of Freeze Frame 3 First Frame of pan and zoom clip 2.
Additional pan and zoom portrait oriented jpgs to the Timeline would be treated as above.
What was done above can be applied to any photo with any project preset. The basic idea is to
a. Start with determing the whole picture Position and Scale values as described with the Default Scale to Frame Size option disabled.
b. Do pan and zoom with Pan and Zoom Tool in its workspace
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d. If you want the whole view to present for more than that one frame, do the freeze frame at each end, with the wanted duration.
e. Apply emblessments as wanted, such as video transitions, an animated graphic flying through the last scene, etc.
We could take this same clip into a NTSC AVCHD Full HD 1080p30 project and do the same, except the Position and Scale values and the Scale % determined at the beginning and used subsequently will be different than in the NTSC DV Standard project.
Please check out the above and see how you do with it. If problems, please indicate where and we will work through them.
Thanks.
ATR

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