Hi,
In the photo slide show I check the box: apply pan and zoom to all, and preview the slideshow, there is no pan and zoom at all. And then I modify it in Videowave, selet all photos right click, chose the automotion, there is dialog pop up says: Automotion has been applied to all photo in your selection, so I click ok. then preview it, still no pan and zoom.

Please suggest.
Thanks.
Yanning.

i would guess your video card is not supporting Pan and Zoom, but before I make myself certain, can you try this.

1) open videowave
2) add one photo
3) right click the photo and select "edit" then "pan and zoom"
4) on the popup window, select manual
5) move the first bar to the "-" side under the first picture
6) preview to see if the "pan and zoom" effect is happening...


if not, update your video card drivers, update windows directX and see if you have any luck, and most importantly post your computer spec's here so other people could verify if your computer would support "pan and zoom" or not...

happy editing...

Chun

I don't have the computer with me now, but I did right click on one photo, edit->pan and zoom, the status is none, so I chose any preset, and it works, looks like the pan and zoom works for the individual photo, not the group.

My computer has Petium III, 2.6 Ghz, 1 GB Ram, 80 GM hard disk.

Thanks.

hi, Chun,
I did what you suggested, the pan and zoom works, so it is just not working for apply all, please do investigate.
Thanks.
Yanning.

Yanning,

I tested again on my PC, either in slide show assitant or within videowave the "pan & zoom" effect would work when apply all.

What kind of Video Card do you have and is the driver up to date? If you had the luxury of changing your card and do a test, that would be nice, as I believe this type of video effect has a lot to do with the video card.

Oh, one more thing, what if you shift your rendering mode(hardware to software or vice versa) within your videowave(pull down menu Tools -> Option -> Render ...) and see if any difference.

Good luck,
Chun

Chun,
My video card is:ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700, my question is if it is Video card problem, how come it works for individual photo, not apply to all?

Thanks.
Yanning.

Yanning,

That would be my question too :-) The reason I suggested for another card is for testing purpose and even if a new card would have solved your issue, I can not say for sure it is this ATI video card to blame.

I was out of ideas if the driver was updated, your directX is the latest version and software rendering also failed.

Maybe someone more experienced here could jump in and make some suggestions?

Cheers,
Chun

Sermon:
I have a suggestion and not a fix; there are some parts of this program that do not work well, this is one of them.

My suggestion is to really consider how much you want to use pan and/or zoom with all the images. After awhile, it becomes tiring to the viewer because of all the adjustments (eyes and mind) to keep up with the constant movement. Choose the ones you really need to emphasize such as zooming in on a group of people and then slowly panning across each face. This is really effective for the people if they are in the picture. Auto pan ans zoom will not do that well. You might also want to create an overlay with a close up of an image, the original image remains at the full size but the overlay is visible in the "corner" . Remember to thank about your audience. The show should be what they would like to see and not what you think is interesting or what you want to see (show off with.)

Thanks for both of you, I guess I just have to live with it, actually I still keep the version 7 which has some better features that version 8 isn't inheritanced, for example: conbination transitions, better motion overlays...but Version 8 render faster and has HDTV featuer, so I use some part of both, just wish all good in one.

Yanning.