Pan and Zoom -- what does the ruler mean?

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September 19, 2021
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(I'm using 2021, Version 19)

When I go to pan and zoom, there is a blue ruler above the timeline marked with increments. It would really help me if those increments matched the seconds in my video because I could make a mental note that the subject turns left at 45 seconds; but the numbers don't match the actual seconds. Do they mean anything? How are they useful to me?

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Correct answer Steve Grisetti

In the Pan & Zoom workspace, there are a number of features I'm not happy about. That blue line represents the pan from face to face.

Here's my tutorial explaining what's going on what you can do about it.

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Steve GrisettiCorrect answer

Legend

In the Pan & Zoom workspace, there are a number of features I'm not happy about. That blue line represents the pan from face to face.

Here's my tutorial explaining what's going on what you can do about it.

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I've already seen your video. But thank you very much.
Regarding the timeline, oh, that is very unfortunate. That is virtually useless.
So, my videos track a moving animal not still picture of human faces. Here's a link. I think I did a brilliant job with pan and zoom. But is there a better way to accomplish this, because this took the whole day.

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Steve Grisetti

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I didn't see the panning and zooming in your link, Cindy. But the Pan & Zoom tool is a pretty primitive tool primarily for pannning and zooming over photos.

Regardless, you can pan and zoom with much more ease and control if you just manually keyframe. As I show you in one of my Basic Training tutorials.

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