looking for software

[framig]

hi! i'm just asking a favor for someone who could share their talents on video edting.i have been on this hobby for a long time but i could not find the right software that would fit my achievement! i'm looking for a software that can zoom ,pan or whatever you call it within a picture.i am doing a video tribute project. to visiualize what i'm talking about,i have a family with seven people on it.in that picture, i want to zoom ,pan or whatever from one person to another until all the seven people were passed.it is just like you are holding a video camera focusing on a 7 people standing and you are focusing to their faces one by one. i hope somebody gets what i am talking about.video editing softwares have a lots of transitions between video clips or images but i could not find one software that you can zoom inside the image . i will really appreciate if someone help me on this.thak you!!!

[MachineMan]

You are probably only going to find Zoom and Pan on the high end softwares. Check out Ulead MediaStudio 7. I tried that once after already captured to MPEG2 video and when I zoomed in the quality wasn't very good. If I do it again I woud capture the raw DV to AVI and edit first then render to MPEG2. My experience with this zoom feature is limited so Im not 100% sure it can do exactly waht you want.

[cdb]

Though it has gotten mixed reviews on this site, MovieXone Plus (the paid version, about US $40 when I got it) and zoom and pan either on stills or within video clips. You have to buy the paid version to save to mpg. I think the free trial can save in avi.

HOWEVER!
1. The quality you get out depends totally on the resolution of the original still or video clip. When you zoom in or pan across you are either taking 720x480 (or whatever resolution your project is in) out of a source that is larger (like a 1024x768 digital photo, or even higher resolution scan of a print), or the program is expanding your source up to the project resolution and you get blurry or blocky video out of it.

2. It can take a LONG time to encode, because what you're doing is pretty complex, especially if you're zooming and panning across a video clip.

That said, it can be done for a relatively low cost.

[housepig]

Vegas Video can do this easily, but it's not cheap.

[alenhard]

Any editing software with keyframable motion effects should work. Very easy to do in supporting apps. Premiere, Mediastudio Pro, the aforementioned Vegas, etc. Again, the resolution of your image is important, so make sure to scan that sucker in at a high resolution!

If you can't get access to capable software, here's a workaround (though not as cool or visually impressive)- just scan your image in at a high resolution and then crop it a couple of times to the points you'd like to focus on, and fade in from each image to the next. Hopefully though you can get your hands on some good software. My vote? Hands down- Premiere Pro.

[holistic]

Sounds like you are trying to do the "Ken Burns" effect.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/

An effect made popular by the PBS doc - The Civil War.

http://www.digitalzoo.com.au/lunchtime/lunch_docs/related_07_ken_burns.htm

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[Gees]

try this thread: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=180033&highlight=pan+zoom

also leads to others

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179213&highlight=rostrum

expensive, solution-only one-function option - Canopus Imaginate

[framig]

hi! i really like to thank the people who responded to my inquiry about the "looking for the right software". i really appreciated it very much. now i know where to go because of you people. again thank you very much!!!!

[holistic]

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