Magic Motion crop shapes

JB2012

Newbie Location: Joined: Feb 23, 2012 20:47 Messages: 4 Offline

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Feb 25, 2012 08:26

Hi,

I made an earlier post but I have read the guidelines since. I'll try to
post a more descriptive and compliant question!

I am running PD10 Ultra. My computer is Windows 7 w/ 8Gb RAM.

I have an image of a program (jpg) from a kiddie event w/ all the events listed.
I want to crop the image around my kid's name, and then zoom out smoothly
to show the whole image.

I see that the Crop Image tool allows "Freeform" sizing, so I can crop very
closely to the region in the image that I want. This way, I can crop to
show just my kid's name, and not be restricted to a 16x9 shape, or a 4x3 shape.
That is great. But then I want to smoothly zoom out to show the whole image,
which is a 16x9 jpg. Magic Motion seems to have a nice User Defined effect
where I can select the beginning crop and the ending crop. The ending crop
(whole image) works great. But I don't seem to be able to choose a Freeform
size for my initial crop (the one where I want to crop just the selected
part of the image).

Does anyone know a way to convince Magic Motion to allow a Freeform shape
(or the equivalent) for the initial crop, or a different solution to
the issue?

THanks very much!

MARK_W

Newbie Joined: Jan 06, 2012 08:50 Messages: 44 Offline

Feb 25, 2012 09:01

Hi JB2012
When I select Magic Motion for my image. Select Zoom out motion style, then select Motion designer.
On the first keyframe I can move the box, and resize it at will, I then go to the last keyframe and select the whole image.

Seems to work well.
Is this what you your doing, and perhaps I didn’t understand your query.

Mark

JB2012

Newbie Location: Joined: Feb 23, 2012 20:47 Messages: 4 Offline

Feb 25, 2012 09:23

Hi and thanks very much for helping here!

I *think* I am having the same problem w/ Zoom Out that I was having w/ User Defined, but I am not sure if I am doing it right. Here is what I did.

I highlighted my image on the Timeline, and then selected Magic Motion. THen I clicked Motion Designer. This brings up the Magic Motion Designer window, w/ my image in there and the sizing box. The sizing box is 16x9, and it has 8 tiny white squares for sizing the box, and a blue diamond for moving the box. The problem is that when I try to grab the white re-sizing squares, the sizing box grows and shrinks appropriately, but I cannot seem to undo the box's 16x9 ratio. For ex, in PowerPoint, resizing from the corners would allow the image to keep its proportions, but resizing from the sides would allow changes in proportions.

Is this making any sense? I have this nagging feeling I am very close to getting this to work but I can't quite get there.

Thanks again, I very much appreciate people taking time to help me out!

HalCon

Senior Contributor Location: Charlottetown, PEI Joined: Mar 01, 2008 10:36 Messages: 719 Offline

Feb 25, 2012 10:12

JB2012,

There does not appear to be any way to unlock the aspect ratio in Magic motion.

You could try working with the focus effect, but it may not be just what you are looking for. There is no zoom, but you can focus in on the name and then widen out to the complete shot.

Here is a sample using the focus effect, http://youtu.be/bByviIrxytA

Try playing with the settings, and you might get close to what you want.

Hal OS - Win11 Pro, Alienware R13, CPU - Intel Core I7-12700KF 12 CPUs), 16g DDR5 4400 RAM, Video - Geeforce RTX 3080ti 12g, PD11 & PD365
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JB2012

Newbie Location: Joined: Feb 23, 2012 20:47 Messages: 4 Offline

Feb 25, 2012 17:12

Hi Hal,

Thanks very much for the response. That is a great idea, the problem is that the initial text is pretty small and I'd really want to zoom. But I learned about a new effect, so thanks also for that!

Ok, silly (?) question, how the heck to you make that nice video? Do you use a screen capture, or do you actually point a videocamera at your computer screen? That was really nice and I appreciate the effort.