System information
Animating Video Events and Tracks
Using animation, you can pan and crop video, add motion to still images to create a Ken Burns effect, or
animate a video track as an overlay.
Panning and Cropping Video Events
From the Tools menu, choose Video, and choose Video Event Pan/Crop from the submenu to crop, zoom,
rotate, or pan the selected video event. You can also use panning and cropping to add motion to video
events created with still images.
You can also use the Pan/Crop plug-in to create masks using Bézier curves.
To prevent unwanted blurring, you can choose whether effects are applied to the event before or after
any event panning and cropping by arranging the Pan/Crop button in the plug-in chain at the top of
the Video Event FX window.
Here, the Deform plug-in is applied before the pan/crop and the Glow and Color Curves plug-ins are
applied after the pan/crop.
Cropping or zooming a video event
Cropping is the process of removing the outside edges from an image or video without resizing it.
When you use a single setting for the duration of an event, you are cropping the contents of the event.
When you add keyframes to change the extent of cropping through the duration of the event, you can
create an animated zoom effect.
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