Filling screen with multiple pictures/ videos in a cyclic order

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

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Feb 20, 2014 23:49

Here is the situation

I put 4 pictures/videos on tracks 2 to 5 as pip and each picture occupied a corner of the screen.

I now want each picture, starting from bottom left to zoom and fill the screen, stay for a while and shrink back to its corner.

I used motion and scale functions to achieve this.

The problem is objects sitting on higher tracks ie. 4,3,2 the image slides behind the other 3, the reason being the track at the bottom ,i.e., track 5 in this instance, takes precedence over the other tracks above it.

I can use opacity to solve this. I however want the other clips lying on other tracks visible all through and behind the image I am up and down scaling as I cycle through each clip in succession.

This message was edited 4 times. Last update was at Feb 20. 2014 23:56

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OS Windows 10.0 Pro
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Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

ynotfish

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

Feb 21, 2014 03:17

That's a shocking situation to be in, Bab!

Essentially, as you've said. each of the other photos/videos has to become transparent while the "subject" is zooming & displaying.

The attached project (zipped) kind of does what you want. With PD12, you can save a little time by copying & pasting keyframes... then modifying.

Cheers - Tony

Filename	BabIndia.zip	Download
Description
Filesize	1963 Kbytes
Downloaded:	296 time(s)

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babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Feb 21, 2014 03:32

Thanks for the reply ynotfish. I am at the office as I type this. I have seen such as required be me on TV in NatGeo and few others.

It looks beautiful. There is a mosaic of pictures / videos, all still. The respective picture or video fills the screen as the narrator starts to describe it.

Keeping the video still is possible by taking a snap shot of 1st frame of the video and positioning it just before the start of the video clip, provide enough duration so that it zooms, fills the screen and the video starts from thereon.

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PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Feb 21, 2014 03:43

There seems to be a solution which is

Create and render 4 pictures keeping the picture that is required to fill the screen at the bottom most track. Save and render
Repeat for other 3 clips, keeping each in bottom and rendering making a total of 4 rendered clips. Put these in a new PDS time line and render as a complete video.

This will work with more clips; however will become exhaustive if the clips are say 50 PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Feb 24, 2014 04:22

Ynotfish

I checked your PD. It is indeed quite impressive. You usage of opacity and sizing does work. I would rather produce 4 clips keeping each clip at bottom most track, fill the screen and return to the original size and position at its corner.

Thank you once again Ynotfish for taking trouble to help me. PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Mar 07, 2014 23:56

I think this achieves the desired effect

Filename	zoom without using opacity.zip	Download
Description	Zoom without opacity
Filesize	4324 Kbytes
Downloaded:	258 time(s)

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Mar 08. 2014 00:05

PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

ynotfish

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

Mar 08, 2014 01:52

Good stuff BabIndia!

That's a 10/10 solution to your original question... and with PD12, you can just copy & paste keyframe attributes to other images.

Cheers - Tony
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babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Mar 08, 2014 04:51

Thank you ynotdish for the eloquent praise, PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080