Operation Manual

154 Pinnacle Studio 9
Animating Pan-and-zoom in Studio Plus
If you own Studio Plus, or purchase an activation key
by clicking the unlock button on the pan-and-zoom
controls, you can create effective animations from your
photos and graphic images. Use the highest-resolution
images available with this technique, since they allow
greater magnification levels before there is perceptible
loss of quality.
Start creating a pan-and-zoom
animation by clicking the
Animate from start to end
checkbox to activate the animation feature for the
current clip. This enables the Set start and Set end radio
buttons, with Set start initially selected. Use the pan-
and-zoom controls to set the framing you want to see at
the start of the clip. Finally, click the Set end button,
then use the controls to set up the framing you want for
the end of the clip.
When the clip is played back, Studio will generate the
intervening frames to connect your start and end views
in a smooth animation.
The procedure above describes the simplest form of
pan-and-zoom animation. Effective uses include:
• Moving from a full-frame photograph to a detail
view of a person or thing somewhere in the image.
This gives a similar result to zooming in while
shooting video. This might be used to prepare the
viewer for a sequence of shots exploring the same
close-up subject in multiple views, or providing
further close-ups of different parts of the same scene.
• Moving out from a detail to the full-frame view, as
though zooming out with the video camera. In the