Freeware that does Panning Stills

[wild4trv30]

Does anyone know of any freeware that creates panning/zooming still effects. I know there are pay programs, but I'm looking for freeware. I tried to download MovieXone since I heard that has the effect, but the site won't let me d/l? As bad as it is, I've used VideoWave III for my editing since it came with my camera. I've been able to do what I need with it, but would like to be able to do some more effects with my stills.

Thanks for any info you may have.

[housepig]

this might work for you -

http://www.thugsatbay.com/

I've downloaded it, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

- housepig

[themichael]

There is a plugin for virtualdub, but I haven't used it. I wrote a short pan and scan script for Avisyth. I posted it at the avisynth usage forum at Doom9. I can post it here if anybody wants it.

Mike

[trillium]

if you could post the avs script OR the link to it on the Doom9 forums it would be great

thanks Mike

-trilli

[wild4trv30]

housepig,

Thanks for the zwei-stein link! It does exactly what I need with the still! I need to explore it some more to see how it is as an overall editor. I was a little concerned that I wouldn't get the output I wanted but figured out how to output to DV quality AVIs using the DVSoft codec.

I did a little test with some video clips and notice that the output for the video was a little pixelated (unlike the stills avi output). I may be that I was trying to zoom too much from the source clip.

This will allow me to add a whole new level to my home movie productions, thanks again for the link!

[housepig]

glad it worked for you!

like I said, I came across that searching for something else, and grabbed it, but I haven't had time to load it or play with it.

glad it did what you needed!

- housepig

[themichael]

Sorry about not including the link. But here is the script with plenty of comments. It is pretty idiot resistance, i haven't been able to crash it during testing.

###############################################
#                                             #
#  Pan and Scan Stills or                     #
#    The Ken Burns Effect                     #
#                                             #
###############################################




###############################################
#                                             #
#          Load Plugins                       #
#                                             #
###############################################

LoadPlugin("ImageSequence.dll")


###############################################
#                                             #
#         Variables                           #
#                                             #
###############################################

#Pick frame rate needed
FrmRate=30     #NTSC  imagesequence doesn't like 29.97
#FrmRate=25     #PAL
#FrmRate=24     #Film
#FrmRate=24     #NTSC Film   imagesequence doesn't like 23.97
#FrmRate=       #Custom rate

#pan/scan time in seconds
Time=20

#video size
v_width=704      #352 352 480 704 704 
v_height=480     #240 288 480 480 576

picpath=""

t_frames=FrmRate*Time


##############################################
#                                            #
#     build clip and add borders if needed   #
#      to keep 'crop' happy                  #
#                                            #
##############################################

#using built-in variable 'last'

ImageSequence(picpath, 1, 1, FrmRate)
i_width=Width
i_height=Height
(i_width>v_width) ? last:AddBorders(round((v_width-i_width)/2+1),0,round((v_width-i_width)/2+1),0)
(i_height>v_height) ? last:AddBorders(0,round((v_height-i_height)/2+1),0,round((v_height-i_height)/2+1))

#reset image variable to new size
i_width=Width
i_height=Height

clip=loop(t_frames)


##############################################
#                                            #
#           THE FUNCTIONS                    #
#                                            #
##############################################

function scanup (clip clip, int V_width, int V_height, int i_width, int i_height, int t_frames)
{
top_start=i_height-v_height
left_start=Round((i_width-v_width)/2)
top_end=0
left_end=left_start
Return Animate(clip,1,t_frames,
\       "crop",
\       left_start,top_start,v_width,v_height,
\       left_end,top_end,v_width,v_height)

}

function scandown (clip clip, int V_width, int V_height, int i_width, int i_height, int t_frames)
{
top_start=0
left_start=Round((i_width-v_width)/2)
top_end=i_height-v_height
left_end=left_start
Return Animate(clip,1,t_frames,
\       "crop",
\       left_start,top_start,v_width,v_height,
\       left_end,top_end,v_width,v_height)

}

function panright (clip clip, int V_width, int V_height, int i_width, int i_height, int t_frames)
{
top_start=Round((i_height-v_height)/2)
left_start=0
top_end=top_start
left_end=i_width-v_width
Return Animate(clip,1,t_frames,
\       "crop",
\       left_start,top_start,v_width,v_height,
\       left_end,top_end,v_width,v_height)
}

function panleft (clip clip, int V_width, int V_height, int i_width, int i_height, int t_frames)
{
top_start=Round((i_height-v_height)/2)
left_start=i_width-v_width
top_end=top_start
left_end=0
Return Animate(clip,1,t_frames,
\       "crop",
\       left_start,top_start,v_width,v_height,
\       left_end,top_end,v_width,v_height)

}