Zoom in on video clips???

anyone know of any plugins that allow zooming in on video clips?
sort of like the ken burns effect for still photos?
thanks

http://geethree.com/slick/index.html
They MIGHT have what you need. Too many to browse today. This is easily done in FCE or FCP. If it is a still shot you might try zooming in in iphoto and adding a disolve between the original and the blow up.

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Easy way to do smooth motion pan and zoom on a video clip?

Howdy..
As a recent convert from Vegas and Premiere Pro, I'm very happy with FCP6, with 1 issue: Easy moves on video clips.
It's very easy to setup a move with the motion filter, but the problem is that zooming with moving on the clip with 'ease-in' is problematic.
The scaling and motion seem to accelerate at different rates, making it very tough to achieve a smooth pan and zoom at the same time (either one by itself is easy).
I've tried using anchor points, but that's difficult when doing several moves on a clip.
Basically, is there ANY way (either native or via a plug-in) to set up simple pan+zooms on a video clip, with smoothness turned on without having the 'slingshot' effect that you get? I know I can mess around with the acceleration points, but this is tough to do with 100 of clips that need adjusting.
I'd appreciate any help you can offer..
Thanks...
Best,
Ben

Howdy...
Usually I set easy-in/out on the canvas window (for center) and then 'smooth' on the keyframes (for scale) in the motion window.
Can you actually set smoothing for center in the viewer? I think you can only set easy-in/out for center in the canvas. (could be wrong on this one).
I wish it worked like in Motion. Much easier and more intuitive, but one shouldn't have to jump to a different app just to do a simple pan and zoom...
Any other ideas?
-Ben

Zooming into video clip a la Ken Burns effect

Sorry for what may be a dumb question with an obvious answer, but I've not ever seen this come up in any FCP forum.
Does the "Ken Burns" effect also work on video clips? That is, if you have a one camera interview shot or tutorial, can you "zoom" in on the person as you might with a still photo? If I had a 2nd camera or some one to shoot for me, it would be less of an issue. But, just to have some movement occasionally instead of a static talking head would be nice. I suppose if overdone, focus and quaility issues would come into play.
Thanks,
Dave

Tom Wolsky wrote:
The explanation isn't quite right. Scaling is a logrithmic animation. An image at 100% scale fills the screen; when the image is at 50% scale it's a quarter size of the screen. This is why when you scale an image up it seems to get slower and slower as it scales up, and vice versa. Position on the other hand is a linear animation . The difference in the two is the problem.
Tom, you have great experience of this, so I'm a little wary of criticising but are you sure? I see that when scaling an image its area does not vary linearly (technically it's quadratic, not logarithmic, I think) and this will produce the illusion of changing speed which you speak of. Nevertheless, any given point in the image will move with constant speed.
On the other hand, position is not implemented linearly in FCP X. I set up a simple animation to test this, and at the start and end of the movement, the image's Y-coordinate changes by 2 pixels per frame of animation, whereas at the mid-point it changes by 6 pixels per frame: three times as fast.

When I drag a video clip into the upper region, it zooms in, cutting off part of the head of the subject

I have a movie clip imported from my DVD video camera. After importing, I drag it to the Project library. However, it then zooms in and cuts off the head of the main subject, besides making things blurry from zooming in. I would say it almost doubles the zoom. I have gone to all the options... took of the cropping effect, etc. Nothing works. Any ideas? I saw something else about it on here, but no answers.

This can happen if you have image stabilization turned on as it zooms into the clip to compensate for the camera shake. It can turn it off or control the zoom factor in the Clip Adjustments function. If you reduce the zoom factor too much you'll see black around the image.

Why the video clip will automatically "zoom in"?

I do not make any changes on the video clip, but when I drag the video to the channel, the video is zoom in. However when I drag it to working panel( is it the name of it? the top left area... ), it look normal.
Why this is happen? How can I solve this problem?

Harm, you crack me up!
For the OP, it sounds like the footage you have is too big for the size of project you set up in Premier. the two have to match.
The SOURCE MONITOR (top left) resizes itself to fit whatever footage you happen to be looking at. It always "fits".
The PROGRAM MONITOR (top right) show the footage exactly how it relates to the project size. If, for instance, you put SD footage into an HD project, the footage would seem to small for the frame.
Hope this helps.
MP

Zooming in on part of a video clip

I'm new to iMovie and don't even know if what I want to do is possible, but i've done a few searches and come up empty, so here goes:
I'm working with a video clip of my dog playing that is about 45 seconds long. In one part of the clip she runs away from the camera, and does a funny jump. I want to zoom in on her when she jump, which is lasts 5 seconds (not the jump itself, just the lead up and landing :P).
I know that I would lose some resolution in doing this, and I'm OK with that. it's not too much zoom, maybe 25% of the original frame would be lost. Is this possible in iMovie '11?
Thanks,
psymn

Split the clip on the section you want to zoom in on. Click on the gear popup on the clip and select crop & rotation. Drag the edges to the section you want to zoom into. Click Done.

Different zoom levels for different clips in the same project?

Hi
I am making a movie with videos from two different cameras. As a result some of the clips are cut down in size to a small portion of the screen. This can be solved if it is possible to use different zoom levels for different clips in the same project. I have not been able to do this. Is it possible?
kind regards
Soren

You can scale the small clips up to the same size of the larger one... but you will get a quality loss.
Using Motion or Scale to Frame Size commands
Better to scale the large ones down to a Sequence that matches the smaller clip dimensions.

Zooming in on video?

Is there any way to digitally zoom in on video? I know you can do it on photo, but can u do it for video? One clip isn't on center, but if I could zoom itd fix things a little.
15 PowerBook G4

If you only need to zoom a small bit, this may help you:
http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/simplezoom.html
Please note that a digital zoom will not look as good a real zoom would have, and quality loss becomes visible quickly.
Hope this helps,
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Best aproach to zoom in on a clip

What would be the best apporach to zoom on a certain area on a clip? Is there a plugin to do this automaticaly?

There is no need for a plug-in. Each Video Clip automatically has several fixed Effects applied to them. First, Select your Clip, and then click on the Effects tab, choosing Edit Effects (lower-left of that Panel). This will get you to the Effects Control Panel. Look for Motion, and there you will choose Scale to Zoom. You might also want to Pan, and that would be done with Motion>Position.
One can adjust these Effects to be static for the entire Clip, or they can be Keyframed to change over time. To start the Keyframing, you need to toggle ON Animation with the little "stopwatch" icon.
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How to stop the jerking of my video clips? on Premiere Element 10

How do I stop the jerking of my video clips when I add effetcs ..to do not zoom in or out etc..smoothly.
Thank-you,
Claudette

Claudette,
When you started your Project, from the New Project screen, you were given some choices. If you do not recall what you chose, you can go to Edit>Projects Settings>General, and see what you chose. I do not think that location has moved in PrE 10, but if it has, someone will correct me.
Now, in very general circumstances, one should choose a Project Preset, that matches their Video Source Files 100%, or there can be issues.
However, if one ONLY has Still Images, and there is no Video being used, things differ a bit. In that instance, one would ask themselves a question, "how will I deliver my Video, created from those Still Images?" That answer might be a DVD-Video, a BD (Blu-ray Disc), a streaming Video files on a Web site, or as a file, that one sends to others. With a Stills Only Project, one would most likely choose a Project, that matches their delivery. If there are several delivery schemes used, then I would recommend choosing the one that is the highest resolution, and handling the others with Export/Share.
Now, within all Project Presets, there is a Frame Size, say 720 x 480 for an NTSC DV Project, designed to go to DVD-Video, or perhaps 1920 x 1080 for the production of a BD. Though PrE can Scale large Still Images to fit, it does not do the best job, and there is a major processing "hit," that can bring a computer to its knees. For those reasons, we recommend using a program, such as Photoshop, or Photoshop Elements, to do that Scaling, before one Imports the Still Images into the PrE Project. For SD (Standard Definition) DV, the "rule of thumb" is to Scale to 1000 x 750 pixels. For an HD Project, that same thinking would be 2000 x 1500 pixels. That gives one some "wiggle room." I will actually Scale to the exact pixel x pixel dimensions, unless I have a compelling reason to do otherwise - then, I will calculate the larger size, and Scale to exactly that.
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What are the specs. of the Project (using the method above)?
What are the pixel x pixel dimensions of your images? If they are random, then concentrate on the larger ones, please.
Good luck,
Hunt

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diegogo
Irregardless of the Premiere Elements version...
I do not believe you are doing anything wrong. I have not found it possible to copy a Timeline clip to which Time Remapping has been applied and use Paste Effects and Adjustments to other selected clips on the Timeline to achieve the same fast or slow motion for more than one clip at a time. For one thing the duration of the Time Remapped clip is different than those that have not gone through Time Remapping.
And, you cannot select more than 1 clip at a time to be taken into the Time Remapping workspace.
Also, special considerations need to exist for Pan and Zoom Tool for its pan and zoom effect applied to more than one photo at a time.
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ATR

Audio and video clip lengths differ in encore timeline

Hi
I have been working to build a BD-R H.263 ac3 disk. I used AME from within Premiere Pro to export the M4V and (at the same time) AC3, using the present defualt parameters-no tweaking of any setting. The clips appear to play great on encore's monitor--everything in sync.And on the burned BD-R
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This is with the timeline fully expand--each division is a frame. Note that break between the two audio clips is offset from the break between the two video clips by two frames. This offset is after several clips. I could find no information on what the one frame crosshatching at the end of the leading clips means. Can anyone explain this cross hatching? What do I do about it? the image below is after the first clip in the timeline:
In this image, the offset is less than a full frame??????
I tried using the trim tools to bring these together-but, the trim tool only lets it jump a full frame and then only to a GOP boundary, which doesn't help because the boundaries are obviously different fro the video and audio track.
I want to emphasize that these assets were created from the Premiere CS4 timeline (which had no offset between audio and video) using the default H.263 and AC3 presets in AME and the same presets selected in Encore.
The offsets do not appear to cause the actual audio and video to go out of sync when I play the burned disk. But, I get the 1-2 second wait between menus and chapters, or with items in a playlist.
The audio offset suggests that the player may not know what to do when faced with a chapter point that is different on the audio and video tracks, although, I will note that encore snapped to the joints in the video track not the audio track.
You can see from this listing that several of the clips audio and video lengths that differ by one frame. By the end of the timeline, the cummulative offset is 3 seconds (48 minute timeline)
Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks

I don't think that I had the same problem that you do, but I thought I'd throw in my two cents just in case it might help. Encore would not build the output; it said something like the inpoint and the length did not match the endpoint. Actually, I think this happened in several different situations. In one case I simply adjusted the audio and video tracks to match endpoints. In the other case I went back to Premier and found that in some cases where I had added transitions it had shifted the endpoints of the audio and video tracks so they did not match. I removed the transitions. It didn't matter that much to me since I'm doing this for personal use. Is it possible those crosshatched lines you're seeing are transitions?
I am using CS 3 and editing HD. I have had many problems with encore. I read in the form someplace that it had a hard time handling H.264 so I changed to MPEG-2 and that fixed one problem. In another case it couldn't find some files and I found some advice not to use HD or wide menus, so I switched to standard 4:3 menus and it worked.

Can I zoom the flv video playing in my swf?

Can I zoom the flv video playing in my swf?
Hi,
I have a FLV video that is linked from my SWF file (It plays inside a flvplayback component in my movie). I'd like the flv to zoom (as it's playing) when the User mouses over it. Is that possible? I've been able to 'Create a Motion Tween' on it so that it plays in editing mode but when I preview it, the flv just stays the same size.
I've been doing this zooming with symbols/shapes (using the 2d-zoom motion preset) but I'm wondering how I would do this on a flv. I need the video to be playing as the transform changes so I can't just zoom an image that looks like the video and then swap it for the real video when it gets actual size.
Thanks for any help.

Thanks Kglad.
I found a good step by step explanation of this process by Somascope (you need to make a movie clip out of the flv playback component to actually tween it):
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3481842#3481842
also here is some documentation:
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/trans itions/Tween.html

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Elements can deal with a wide variety of video formats but, as far as I can see, only AVI and WMV videos can be imported into slide shows. Compact digital cameras typically use AVI, MOV and MP4 formats. My camera produces MPG videos, which I cannot import. I have to convert the clips into AVI format and reimport these into Organiser etc - which is very fiddly. I am considering buying a new camera that produces AVI video clips as standard.
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Thanks for this. I tried that, but again, Streamclip only imported content from the first clip, ignoring the rest...on further inspection, all the VOB files were sub-divisions of the the first item (in essence, the system had chopped up the first recording into sections and formatted them as VOB files, but failed to do that for the remaining content of the DVD).
I booked an appt with a Mac Genius today and he downloaded Handbrake and this appears to be the way forward - you can isolate any of the content from the DVD, and save into either avi or mp4 files. I currently don't need Streamclip, since after my selection's been saved unto the desktop it can be dragged into iMovie and edited from there. I'll be keeping Steamclip though...after all of the aggro, it seems to good to be true!
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I'm studying abroad in Europe -Austria to be exact- and loving it. I also have .Mac (and a fast internet connection) so I'm taking a TON of pictures of all my fun trips and putting them online. This is working wonderfully and my friends and family check my site all the time, which makes it really useful.
I got a new digital camera for my trip, a Canon PowerShot SD400. This little guy is performing amazingly with the small downside that Canon released a bunch of new models just after I bought it and came over here! Doh!
I only have a 512MB memory card for the camera and I'm tired of bringing my 12" PowerBook into sketch hostels when I'm traveling, especially when I'm going into "Eastern" Europe. (Now that I've finished my drug-like addiction to US TV now that I've download and seen the last episode of "Lost" season one, I have no more good reasons to bring my PB on these trips.)
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- The Apple site also says that you need an iPod Photo with software v1.1, but I'm assuming they just haven't updated this page since v1.2 came out?
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