Question on Pan & Zoom using Ease-In/Ease-Out

Rick3516

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2015 08:31 Messages: 16 Offline

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Jan 07, 2016 22:57

I’m new to PowerDirector so I trying to figure how to pan and zoom with ease-in and ease out. There are 2 things I am trying to accomplish:

1) Pan and zoom on a single photo. The only option that I found to do this with the ease-in/ease out feature was using the PiP Designer window (the other option of using the Magic Motion appears not to have ease-in/ease out capability). The issue that I have with the PiP Designer option is that the ease-in/ease-out is only applied to the position. Any changes in scale (zooming) and/or rotation result in abrupt changes that I find unacceptable. Is there any way to apply ease-in/ease-out to these other two object settings (in particular zoom)? Should I be using something other than the PiP Designer?

2) Pan and zoom on a photo that is a PiP. I have a photo that is a PiP (covers the top right quadrant of the screen). I want the location and size of the PiP photo to not change (stays in the right quadrant) and but I want to pan and zoom within the PiP photo. Using the PiP Designer seems to only manipulate the position and size of the PiP window – not the PiP photo. The only way that I found to do this was to use the Magic Motion feature but as stated above does not appear to have the ease-in/ease-out feature for any of the object settings (including the predefined and user defined motion options).

The last video software that I used was Pinnacle Studio 9 (about 10 years ago). It included P&Z and applied ease-in/ease-out to both the pan and the zoom … so I’m sure that I’m just missing something here. Thanks for the help in advance!

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jan 08, 2016 14:44

Hi Rick -

Even though you're new to PDR, you've done a good job of sussing out what's where!

Your observation is totally correct. Ease-in & ease-out doesn't apply to Magic Motion. PiP Designer - yes! Title Designer - yes! Action Cam Center - yes!

Cheers - Tony
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Rick3516

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Jan 09, 2016 10:33

Tony - Thanks for the reply.

Given that Magic Motion does not have the ease-in/ease-out feature, is there a way to use the PiP designer to accomplish item #2 in my original post (P&Z with ease-in/ease-out on a photo that is a PiP)?

Is there a way to apply ease-in/ease-out on the zoom as well as the position?

Thanks - Rick

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jan 09, 2016 13:45

Hi Rick -

Ease in & out only applies to motion to & from a position - so it affects the "take off" & "landing" speed gradation. The speed of the overall pan or zoom motion is only controlled by distance & duration.

To contain the pan/zoom motion within a static inset frame, you need to pre-produce the motion clip & insert the video over your background clip/image... unless there's some other method that hasn't whacked me in the head yet!

Here's an example - ease in/out is set at 60 - https://youtu.be/e_o22gw4Bbc

Here's a tutorial showing how - https://youtu.be/JnAyVnA2O5o - though you don't need all the splitting & masking

Cheers - Tony
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Rick3516

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Jan 09, 2016 17:47

Tony -

Wow - Talk about a response!!! Your example video you put together is exactly what I am trying to do. Not only that, the How-To video was excellent. I have asked questions in several forums on various software topics but I have never received such a comprehensive answer which included videos to explain. Thanks again.

Seems to me that if Cyberlink would include an ease in & out checkbox in the "User Defined" option of the Magic Motion Designer that ease in & out could easily be applied at each inserted keyframe for BOTH position AND zoom of the photo. The same could be done for video in the Power Tools "Crop & Zoom" (both the Magic Motion User Defined tool and the Power Tools Crop & Zoom tool appear identical - one for photos, one for video). This would make "our" lives so much easier

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I am going to make the above suggestion (along with providing ease in & out for rotation) in the PowerDirector 15 suggestion forum. Maybe as a senior contributer to the forum and apparent PD guru you can help influence Cyberlink in improving PD!

Thanks again for your help - Rick

Rick3516

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2015 08:31 Messages: 16 Offline

Nov 28, 2019 11:31

I'm checking in with the forum to see if someone can tell me if PowerDirector has yet included the ease-in / ease-out feature in the "User Defined" option of the Magic Motion Designer. I'd like to do pan and zooms on photos that don't start and stop abrubtly using this tool. I believe the latest version of PD is 18 (I currently have 14). Waiting to upgrade.

Thanks,
Rick