Sony Vegas: expand an image from 0 to bigger from the center of itself

[rocco123]

So I want that for example a square, that is around the upper right corner of the screen, appears and expands in size, from the center of itself, from to 0 whatever size I want. I will try to draw this in case it doesnt make sense:







I hope you get the idea. I have tried doing it with keyframes but it's a mess, I can't make it spawn from the center of itself, it moves. Isn't there any sort of transition that does this?

[poisondeathray]

Probably the easiest way is to use track motion and keyframes on the top layer (the red one in your picture).

[rocco123]

Probably the easiest way is to use track motion and keyframes on the top layer (the red one in your picture).

I have been trying to play with the track motion features but i cant find a way to do exactly what I want, how would i go about it?

[TreeTops]

Here's a tutorial for Vegas Movie Studio but it is very similar using Vegas. If you watch this you will get a good idea on how to do what you want.

https://www.moviestudiozen.com/free-tutorials/sony-movie-studio-platinum/29-how-to-use...hd-platinum-10

[poisondeathray]

Probably the easiest way is to use track motion and keyframes on the top layer (the red one in your picture).

I have been trying to play with the track motion features but i cant find a way to do exactly what I want, how would i go about it?

What can't you do exactly ?

Set a start keyframe for width/height = 0 . Start an end keyframe for whatever dimensions. If you want the position offset (in your example, its more to the top right), set the x, y position - but that doesn't animate, only the width/height animate. That's it. 2 keyframes. Very simple

Or did you want some other type of animation curve, like easing or cartoon bouncing / overshoot ?

[rocco123]

Hi, I just want the image which is a dialog box, to appear from the center, just like on this videogame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZ47ppAGf0&t=3m20s

[poisondeathray]

If you have multiple events / text boxes or whatever , I would use event pan/crop instead. As the name suggests, track motion affects the entire track .

But the procedure is otherwise identical to the instructions above. Set start and end keyframes. The x,y position is the same for both keyframes, that way the box doesn't move - it only scales from the same origin position (ie only the width/ height change over time)