Reducing the size of a photo on the screen

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I'm trying to make a slide show which simulates an e-card. I'd like for the very last panel of the slide show to be a smaller version (about half the size) of one of the photos in the slide show. In the ideal case, I'd like for the show not to jump directly to that small size but rather smoothly reduce the size of the photo over a couple seconds.

 

Pan / Zoom doesn't do it, because I have to zoom in on part of the photo (I want the whole photo) and then Videowave fills the whole screen with the result (I want it to fill at most half the screen). I don't want the PEOPLE in the photo to get any smaller or bigger; I want the whole PHOTO to get smaller, or barring that, just be small.

 

Anybody know how to do that?

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I found the answer to the first part!!! I inserted a color panel, and then inserted the photograph as an overlay on the internal track of that panel. You can size overlays. So I just sized down the photo and voilá! Small photo on a big screen.

 

Now, does anybody know how to make a smooth transition from one panel (with the photo filling the screen) to the second panel (with the small photo off to one side)?

 

 

Sorry about quoting myself -- hit the wrong computer button by accident.

 

Thanks for the suggestiong about using ZOOM. I'm still having trouble making it work. First, even though I move the photo around in the screen as much as I want, I can't figure out how to "set" the position I've chosen as the starting position (or ending position) of the zoom. So once I press "play," the program takes over with a (rather wacky) set of its own ideas, usually preserving the original direction it wanted to zoom in the first place -- I want it to go towards the left, not towards the right -- and doing wacky things with the size to compensate. Do you know how to tell the computer where I want it to start and end the zoom?

 

And secondly (less important, but would be handy to know) is there some way I can choose "Slow Zoom" as the

END path?

[Cookies]

I found the answer to the first part!!! I inserted a color panel, and then inserted the photograph as an overlay on the internal track of that panel. You can size overlays. So I just sized down the photo and voilá! Small photo on a big screen.

 

Now, does anybody know how to make a smooth transition from one panel (with the photo filling the screen) to the second panel (with the small photo off to one side)?

[sknis]

Sorry about quoting myself -- hit the wrong computer button by accident.

 

Thanks for the suggestiong about using ZOOM. I'm still having trouble making it work. First, even though I move the photo around in the screen as much as I want, I can't figure out how to "set" the position I've chosen as the starting position (or ending position) of the zoom. So once I press "play," the program takes over with a (rather wacky) set of its own ideas, usually preserving the original direction it wanted to zoom in the first place -- I want it to go towards the left, not towards the right -- and doing wacky things with the size to compensate. Do you know how to tell the computer where I want it to start and end the zoom?

 

And secondly (less important, but would be handy to know) is there some way I can choose "Slow Zoom" as the

END path?

 

In EMC 7, it was easier to do pan and zoom. In V8 and V9, they "improved it" so that it is now very difficult. I'm not sure this will help you but read this. I hope you are not using automotion. This is on an image and not on an overlay.

 

If this helps, let me know, I want to do another demo video and this one may be the next one to do.

[ggrussell]

Click on the image overlay and then VIEW SETTINGS

Click the little red ball TAB (motion)

For start path, click FLY and in the 'style' drop down list, select SLOW ZOOM.

 

You may have to play around a bit with starting image size and end 'size' to get the effect you want.