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Anonymous
November 17, 2017
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Premiere Pro [ Pan & Zoom] Problem

  • November 17, 2017
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Hello everyone, interesting problem I came across and I have no idea what's caused it.

 

I'm doing a simple pan & zoom type edit, zooming in, moving the camera, and zooming out. Problem is, when I make my edit ( from stationary ) to zoom in, move it around, and zoom back out, the "camera" or video now shakes around, very subtly.

 

Example being,

 

Position: 960 - 540

Scale: 100

 

TO

 

Position 1189 - 950

Scale: 178

 

I don't have any extra frames, or edits, but for some reason, as it zooms in and moves into position, ( usually ) the horizontal will move slightly from 960 - 1189 ( what I want ) - 1178 - 1189 ( back to what I want ) causing this sort of moving camera effect, which in a way is cool, but I don't want it. It's a subtle camera shift ( and it's not from the video ) but is somehow caused from me editing it. It will go to what I set it to go to, then ever so slightly move around and go back into place.

 

No mistakes, camera shifting from the video or misplaced edits. I have double checked countless times, redid the edit, so on and so forth. Is it a setting I can't find? I have looked it up, but no results or anyone else with a similar issue.

 

Thank you for your time.

 

First Edit ( Moved horizontal and vertical to where I want )

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Second Edit ( Only touched the vertical but horizontal moves )

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Correct answer Ann Bens

Set all spacial keyframes to Linear: see if that will help.

On a side note: zooming in to 178 wont look nice, will give you quite a picture quality loss. I prefer not to go over 110%.

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Anonymous
November 18, 2017

I fully reinstalled Premiere Pro, and everything seems to be working normal now. No idea what the problem was, if I turned some setting on, a bug, or what. ( It wasn't just that one file obviously, I tested it. )

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GuyUK
Inspiring
November 18, 2017

I would suggest that you move the Anchor Point to the centre of your image before you start your move.

This tutorial shows how to do this.  https://youtu.be/jBBw2Ikfufk

I hope this helps.

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Anonymous
November 18, 2017

The Anchor Point is already at the centre of the image. 960 / 540

I guess I have to state I have prior experience in Abobe Premiere.

This doesn't help with the problem I asked.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Ann BensCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 17, 2017

Set all spacial keyframes to Linear: see if that will help.

On a side note: zooming in to 178 wont look nice, will give you quite a picture quality loss. I prefer not to go over 110%.

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SAFEHARBOR11
Participating Frequently
November 17, 2017

Ann is right, probably the Bezier setting on keyframes causing that. Right-click actual keyframes (diamonds) to get to settings for Linear.

On another note - assuming source is 1080p - do you need to deliver as 1080p also? Or might 720p suffice? If the latter, you can edit in a 720p Sequence, then use Set to Frame option on clips to make the 1080 clips fit the 720 frame, but the original "extra" resolution will still be available to provide better image quality when Scaling. Of course if you are only doing this a few brief times, may not matter really. But if you want to use zooming a lot, this could benefit the workflow.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera

Safe Harbor Computers

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Anonymous
November 17, 2017

Sadly it's not that. Thanks for the tips though.

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