Posted by Okay Yankee on 12/23/64 11:28

":1) You have a "fixed" zoom window but the subject inside
wanders around or in/out of this frame.

2) Your zoom window doesn't stay in the location you want.


Please clarify which one you mean as the solutions are very
different. "


You're absolutely right, my language was ambiguous. Let me be more
specific.


When I have used the Motion option, I've been able to zoom in on a spot

in the video.


However, the Motion option also causes the Zoom window to move all
around in the frame.


In other words, and to return to my theoretical example, the Zoom will
move from the poltician's face down to the podium, over to the right
hand corner of the screen, back to his face, etc.


It doesn't have to do with shaky footage because these are tripod
shots. What I want is to be able to specify a certain part of the
image (say, a 150 x 150 box in the dead-center of the image) and to
never have the Zoom leave that spot until I specify otherwise.


Richard, your advice about the Time Slider sounds as if it would
work... I do remember using that tool when trying to fix Motion but I
could not figure out how to make it stay in one spot. Would your
advice do what I am looking for? I won't be able to work on the
project till the weekend, but any advice I can have going into it would

help greatly.


Thanks very much,


o.k.y.

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