Maintaining Crop Scale While "Zooming" into a clip

[eanc22652658]

Being that it's Christmas I'm not expecting a flood of responses, but if anyone is out there I would appreciate the help! My issue is in regards to using the crop effect to letterbox my video. It works as it should on all of my clips except the only one where I've keyframed the scale to create a zoom effect. What happens is after a few frames the scaling moves into the image passed the letterboxing I'm left without the desired effect. By the end of the clip the letterboxing is nowhere to be found. I'm wondering if there is a way to lock the position of a crop so that I maintain the same letterbox scale even when using the zooming in effect created by the scaling. Thank you!

[Meg The Dog · Accepted solution]

On the clip with the scaling animation, remove the crop effect. Now Nest the clip with scaling animation (select it on the timeline, once selected go to the menu Clip > Nest). Once nested, apply the crop effect to the nest.

MtD

[jdvideo]

Brilliant Meg, thanks!

[Jason327523480lib]

7 years later, this helped me in creating my own CinemaSins-style video. It was driving me nuts but this totally fixed my issue Thanks SO much, Meg, you GOAT! 😄

[Ann Bens]

@Jason327523480lib 

Piece of cake in the Ess Graphics Panel

Mask with shape: independent scaling.

[eanc22652658]

This was driving me insane, thank you so much!