Nobody? Surely someone has run into this problem before.

Quote: I have a clip which I want to edit by inserting a freeze frame, zooming in on the subject's face, pausing briefly, then zooming back out to full frame, and continuing the clip. I don't have any problem figuring out how to do this in Powerdirector 11. However, I'm having a problem with Magic Motion. There seems to be no option to set a keyframe to encompass the whole frame of video, nothing more or less. You seem to have to select the whole frame manually, which is next to impossible to do accurately. The result is that the beginning and end of the Magic Motion zoom do not match the rest of the clip.

Is there any way to do this?

Hi Mizkreant ,
Open MM Designer>User Defined
Select in MM Designer
Uncheck Snap to Reference Lines - this really throws out positioning to full screen.
Slider Keyframe starter position.
Use the Expansion markers in the Preview and attain full screen.
Double click on Slider keyframe on the right
Select the Duplicate Keyframe> Duplicate Previous keyframe

You have now setup the starter and last positions as being the same.

Does that help?

Dafydd
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I figured out a key part of the problem. Even though I'm working on a 720P video, when I made a freeze frame from the clip, PD saved it at 1080P resolution for some reason. That seems to be why Magic Motion is defaulting to a window size smaller than full frame. I should also mention that this video project is actually 1152x720 (pillarboxed 16:10 aspect ratio).

Can I scale images directly in PD? (I found scaling in Clip Attributes - but there is no way to type in values, or lock HxW.) I assume the freeze frame resolution has something to do with the current project's properties but I can't figure out where to change them.

Hi Mizkreant -

Sounds like (maybe) a screen capture video, recorded at your screen resolution???

With the clip in the timeline, have you applied any stretch to it via Set Clip Attributes > Set Aspect Ratio?

I can confirm what you found with the snapshot resolution. 1152x720 video in timeline. Snapshot = 1920x1080 - BUT that has nothing to do with why Magic Motion defaults to a crop size less than full screen.

In fact, that suggestion has been put many times (i.e. that the default first keyframe for user defined magic motion is set to full screen/maximum zoom)... for the exact reasons you describe: You seem to have to select the whole frame manually, which is next to impossible to do accurately. The result is that the beginning and end of the Magic Motion zoom do not match the rest of the clip.



Agreed - it's very difficult to set the keyframes to exactly match full screen - but not impossible (attached example where a snapshot has been inserted at the split using the steps described above).

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Hi Mizkreant -

Sounds like (maybe) a screen capture video, recorded at your screen resolution???

Yes, it's captured gameplay footage.

With the clip in the timeline, have you applied any stretch to it via Set Clip Attributes > Set Aspect Ratio?

No, I haven't. Should I?

I can confirm what you found with the snapshot resolution. 1152x720 video in timeline. Snapshot = 1920x1080 - BUT that has nothing to do with why Magic Motion defaults to a crop size less than full screen.

That's very strange behavior indeed.

In fact, that suggestion has been put many times (i.e. that the default first keyframe for user defined magic motion is set to full screen/maximum zoom)... for the exact reasons you describe: You seem to have to select the whole frame manually, which is next to impossible to do accurately. The result is that the beginning and end of the Magic Motion zoom do not match the rest of the clip.

They should do that and/or have a button to reset to full frame. This news is disappointing. I'm evaluating a competing product at the same time that doesn't have this problem.

I want to thank everyone who replied for their help.

I miss using movie maker. Panning and zooming was so easy................;(