Ken, look here...

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I know exactly what you want with that 4k video. You want a mask with a smaller rectangular opening of 1920x1080 that will display the first 5 sec. on the left side and everything else on the screen will be black. Next 5 sec. you want the mask slowly moving to the right and stop at the right. The last 5sec. you want it displaying the cropped video on the right.

I just tried it and found that I cannot keyframe moving the position of that mask. This is before anyone posted any link to any YT videos.

Edit: Looks like Barry responded so I’ll watch his video. You may have to settle for other user's ideas.

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I just cannot duplicate what you're doing.

Quote: I know exactly what you want with that 4k video. You want a
mask with a smaller rectangular opening of 1920x1080 that will display
the first 5 sec. on the left side and everything else on the screen will
be black.

NO! I want the crop to fill the entire screen.

The crop does not have to be exactly 1080x1920. It will probably be larger. But the produced video will be 1080, so the crop will merely be downsampled to 1080.



Watch the linked video I posted.

Great job, Barry. And I like your southern accent... Regards,
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Quote: I just cannot duplicate what you're doing.

I assume your difficulty is with keyframes, because you didn't specify.

I found keyframes to be the most difficult part of PD to grasp. Don't know why, because others seem to have no problem, but I still struggle (but less than I did at first). Regards,
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I can set keyframes all day long. The issue is getting the crop to 'line up' with the keyframes.

I can kinda do what I'm looking for, but the pan is in the wrong direction. If I try to reverse it, I get a third blue dot and then the pan/crop goes all over Gods' Creation.

"NO! I want the crop to fill the entire screen."

Ken, Barry's method does fill the entire screen. You need to be watching the preview window on the right to see the finished product, not the larger work window on the left. Regards,
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"I can kinda do what I'm looking for, but the pan is in the wrong direction. If I try to reverse it, I get a third blue dot and then the pan/crop goes all over Gods' Creation."

Sorry, your problem is beyond my limited ability. Regards,
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Barry - I do see now that you knew exactly what Ken480 wanted. That is is a great presentation video on YT you did showing everyone how to do it. You make it look so easy. I feel that a high school film student could do it after viewing your video.

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Regardless, Barry's video shows a pan from the very beginning of the video clip.

Quote: Regardless, Barry's video shows a pan from the very beginning of the video clip.

What does that mean?

Don't you have the basics now to keyframe any movement you want? I can't do it for you. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Hi Ken & everyone assisting -

Barry - great little toot!

Ken - you would have seen in Barry's screen capture that by duplicating keyframes you get NO MOTION. I'm sure if you played around with it, you'd find a way to achieve that NO MOTION > PAN > NO MOTION thing you're after.

PDR does not "force" you to zoom in or out. It's the keyframe settings that determine what motion is applied.

Try this. Open the attached PDF, which shows the steps to do what you want. Follow the steps with your own video clip. Let us know where it goes wrong or if you're unable to get exactly what you want.

This is the consequence of thos 4 lil ol' keyframes...



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Quote: Regardless, Barry's video shows a pan from the very beginning of the video clip.

All you had to do is to add a keyframe 5 sec. after the 1st one and set it to duplicate previous key and then in the 1st 5 sec. there will be no panning. Barry was showing the basics and it is clear in the video. It works for me.

Don't quit, Ken, you're on the cusp of getting your crop/pan done, and it's a good lesson on key-frames which applies to lots of other PD functions. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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I got it figured out. I've done a similar screen capture as Barry's and am uploading it now. I'll post it as soon as YouTube gets done chewing on it.

Quote: Great job, Barry. And I like your southern accent...

That would be South Boston!😏 HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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>Tools

>PowerTools

>Crop & Zoom

Crop/Zoom

Crop image in working window

>Play video until start of pan location

>Duplicate Previous Keyframe

Play video until end of pan location

>Duplate Previous Keyframe

>Play to end of video

>Duplicate Previous Keyframe

Now choose the third Keyframe (the end of the pan location)

Relocate crop to desired position

Go to end of video (4th Keyframe)

>Duplicate Previous Keyframe





That's it.