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The Crop/Zoom/Pan tool is a self-contained feature and is typically used when you want a quick and easy sweeping path rather than any tightly controlled movement. To completely control the crop size, direction and speed of your pans, use the Keyframe tool on its own.
Basically you need to chose one or the other as they don't share info and trying to apply keyframes to a CZP clip (or vice versa) will only cause frustration.
I tried using a "clean" copy of the same clip I was working with before, but just clicked on the keyframe button. What I can't figure out is how to crop the video (at a certain time) so that the cropped video will be full screen. I want tostart with the original video, then go to a cropped area that will fill the screen, then create a panning effect to pan from left to right, then go to the original video that I started with.
When I tried adjusting the height/width it's changing it at the center of the original video and I can't seem to find any way of (in this case) moving it to select an area from the left side of the screen (that I want to be displayed fullscreen). And then further down the fimeline I would want to move the same area to the right side of the original video so I would end up with a left to right panning action that would all be shown full screen.
I can't find an instructional video that address these ideas, which would basically duplicate the results of using crop/zoom/pan but with the keyframe editor would provide the abiliity to do other things.
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I'm trying to make multiple cropping with some zooms in a clip. Start with full screen. After some time I want to zoom to a portion of the original screen (on the left side), still using the 16x9 format, but I always end up with a weird effect when the zoom takes place and if I have another clip in back of this one on the timeline some of that clip shows on the edges during the zoom from the full screen to the cropped area even though everything is supposed to be full screen size. And on the keyframe window I get this crazy convoluted path displayed rather than a straight path from the full screen to the cropped area. As an alternate I would perhaps like to just "jump" from full screen to the cropped area, but can't define one keyframe on top of the other. I realize that this may mean I'm forced to trim the clip for that area, but if there is a way to avoid that it would be nice.
In the process I also tried clicking on the keyframes button, but that doesn't actually show any keyframe markings even though I have already defined keyframes for the selected clip. In fact, I'm not sure what functions the keyframes button is suppoed to provide.
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From some things I've seen in PD20 I suspect that there is a way to create multiple fade outs and fade ins within a clip so that it would not be necessary to divide the clip into multiple short clips when going to other clips. As part of doing this it would be nice to be able to move the fades in the editing timeline so the fades would be at the desired locations to let other clips be displayed.
So if multiple fades can exist within a clip, rather than just at the beginning and end, I'd like to know the best way to do that as well as how, if possible, to move the resulting fades within the time line display.
Bob
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I know that Fix/Enhance/Color Match works with continuous clips from two different cameras if done at the beginning before editing, splitting, and cutting. It would probably work with four camera videos if you try it and figure it out.
Thank you. This solved my question/problem. And it works for multiple cameras. You just have to do each camera individually.
Bob
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Is there a shot matching function in Power Director 20 where you can select one camera as the "standard" for color etc and Power Director will automatically adjust the other camera videos selected to match that video? I've used that function in Magix Video ProX13 and found it useful, but as I try PD20 I'm finding that it seems to work better in many cases, especially with my older laptop PC. But I just produced a Christmas video with 4 cameras and found the shot matching was very helpful.
Bob
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