Widescreen help

[whiff79]

I am cutting together some video footage that was shot in widescreen. I am also trying to insert some still photographs. I can make then widescreen, but I would also like to give them some movement (a slow zoom in). As soon as I start to zoom in, the photo fills the frame and covers the widescreen. How to I give the photo movement, but keep the widescreen aspect ratio?

[mats.hogberg]

I'm not sure, but perhaps MS PhotoStory 3 supports wide screen? It at least does the kind of zoom/pan you're looking for.
If it does only 4:3, you could always crop it down to 16:9 at a later stage.

/Mats

[whiff79]

No, I know there is a way to do it in Final Cut Pro (I guess I should have mentioned that I'm using that program).

[lordsmurf]

Ken Burns effects.

[mats.hogberg]

Ah - sorry. Didn't realize you were on Mac...

/Mats

[rumplestiltskin]

I am cutting together some video footage that was shot in widescreen. I am also trying to insert some still photographs. I can make then widescreen, but I would also like to give them some movement (a slow zoom in). As soon as I start to zoom in, the photo fills the frame and covers the widescreen. How to I give the photo movement, but keep the widescreen aspect ratio?

It sounds like you have a 4:3 project with 16:9 footage that you're letterboxing? Could you confirm this?

[whiff79]

I guess. When I imported the video, it came up letterboxed, and now I need to match some still photos to the video, and I also want to created some movement in the photos.

[guns1inger]

It sounds like you started with a 4:3 project, then imported 16:9 footage, hence the letterboxing. I would try changing the project properties to 16:9 to see if the video now fits correctly, or start a new project with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and see if the video imports correctly. Once you have that sorted out, the photo side of it should be easy

[whiff79]

It's okay, I just applied 2 slugs on top of each photo and cropped the top and bottom. I knew there was an easy way to do it.

[guns1inger]

Which is a simple fix to your immediate problem, but still leaves you with 4:3 letterboxed output at the end of the project. Which I guess is fine, if you like that sort of thing.

[Tom in HD]

If you use keyframes in the motion tab of your viewer, you can set your pictures to zoom or shrink. You have to set a start size and a stop size using the setting called scale. One size for each keyframe. After you have done that and rendered it, you can then apply your widescreen effect. The widescreen will not be affected by your size changes, The soze changes will occur within the parameters you have set. Good luck!