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If necessary, you can animate Pan & Scan effects in one of two ways:
• Using keyframes: You can keyframe all the Pan & Scan transform controls. For more
information on keyframing in Color, see Keyframing.
• Using a tracker: You can also use motion tracking to automatically animate a Pan &
Scan effect; for example, to move to follow a character who is walking across the screen.
Once you create a tracker and analyze the shot (in the Tracking tab), you simply choose
the number of the tracker you want to use from the Use Tracker pop-up menu, and
the Position X and Y parameters are automatically animated. If Use Tracker is set to
None, no trackers are applied. For more information, see The Tracking Tab.
Copying and Resetting Pan & Scan Settings
Three buttons at the bottom of the Pan & Scan tab let you copy and reset the adjustments
you make with these controls.
• Copy To Selected button: Select one or more shots in the Timeline, then click this button
to copy the current Pan & Scan settings to all the selected shots.
• Copy To All button: Copies the Pan & Scan settings to all the shots in the program. This
is useful if you’re making a global adjustment when changing the format of a program.
• Reset Geometry button: Resets all the Pan & Scan parameters to the default scale for
your project.
The Shapes Tab
The Shapes tab lets you draw custom shapes to use as vignettes in the Secondaries room
for feature isolation, vignetting, or digital relighting. The Shapes tab is not meant to be
used by itself, nor are you meant to begin operations in the Shapes tab. Instead, shapes
are initially created by choosing the User Shape option from the Shape pop-up menu of
the Vignette controls in the Secondaries room.
When you choose this option, you are immediately taken to the Shapes tab of the
Geometry room, which provides the controls for drawing and editing your own custom
shapes. For a more thorough explanation of this workflow, see Creating a User Shape for
Vignetting.
Note: User Shapes can only be used with secondary operations in the Secondaries room.
They cannot be used in the Color FX room.
361Chapter 15 The Geometry Room