I've been doing some music videos, and in the latest one, I have six clips simultaneously arranged on the screen (individual musician shots). Looks pretty cool, but what I want to do is have one or more of the clips expand to fill the screen. Then at some point later, take all six and have them "separate" and move back to some screen arrangement.

How would I take an existing clip and dynamically change it's size and position on the screen, zooming in or out, simultaneously panning to a new position? Not zooming the camera on the clip (a'la Video Crop), but resizing and moving the clip itself.

On a related note, I confess, I tend to misunderestimate exactly when and how to use Video Crop. I've used it before to try and position clips, but I feel I have been hitting a tack with a sledge hammer sometimes.

Here's a link to the current video, btw. I know I'll be doing more of this sort of thing in the future, and I would like to have the initial fullscreen image "fly out" into the several clips, then coalesce, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sP5RIaeAyI Chuck Puckett
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