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Resizing to Destination Using the Crop Box
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Saving and Loading Resize Setups
Animating Resize Settings
You can animate the position of the crop box
to pan and scan a 16:9 clip to a 4:3 format. Pan and scan is a technique
widely used for resizing 16:9 clips to a 4:3 resolution when the
area of interest in the shots is to one side of the 16:9 frame.
You can follow the area of interest in the shot by animating the
crop box along the X-axis.
You can also animate the size
of the crop box and lock the output to the crop box. This animates
the resolution of the clip, meaning that the second frame of the
clip is different from the first. You can do this only in Batch.
To
pan and scan a 16:9 clip to a 4:3 clip:
- Access the Resize module
for a 16:9 clip on the desktop, in Batch, or from soft effects if
you are working on the timeline.
- Make
sure Regen is enabled to get dynamic visual feedback of the result
clip in the viewport on the right. See
Getting Dynamic Feedback in Result View.
- From
the Resolution Presets box, select the 4:3 resolution to which you
want to resize the source.
- From
the Fit Method box, select Crop Edges.
- Click
the Source button next to the Clip label to make the crop box the
same size as the source frame.
- Depending
on the source and destination resolutions, select a scan mode from
the Scan Mode box. See
Destination Settings.
- Go
to the first frame.
- Make
sure Autokey is enabled so you can create position keyframes for
the crop box automatically.
- Scrub
through the clip to identify areas where the area of interest includes
the left and right edges of the clip outside the crop box.
- Animate
the position of the crop box accordingly by dragging the crop box.
Press Shift while
dragging the crop box to constrain changes in position to the X-axis:
- If
the area of interest changes suddenly following a splice between
clips, add a keyframe for the X-position of the crop box at the
last frame of the outgoing shot, and then add another keyframe at
the first frame of the incoming shot.
- If
the area of interest changes with camera movement, create a linear
or hermite animation to change the X-position of the crop box gradually.
- Depending
on the source and destination resolutions, select a scan mode from
the Scan Mode box. See
Destination Settings.
- Process
the result.