Adding Pan and Zoom Manual Effects to a VideoWave Production

Once the video has loaded, press the Play button to begin.

Adding Pan and Zoom Manual Effects

VideoWave makes it easy to control Pan and Zoom effects. The Manual option in EMC's Pan and Zoom Editor (Custom option in Creator 2009) lets you determine the exact start and end of your pan and zoom effects. To create a manual pan and zoom effect, right-click on image and point to Edit, and click on Pan and Zoom Editor.

In the Pan and Zoom Editor, click the button next to Manual. (In Creator 2009, click the button next to Preset and then on the Custom setting in the drop down menu.) Notice the Red Box surrounding both the Starting preview image and the Ending Preview image.

Use the sliders or the Plus (+) and Minus (-) buttons (In Creator 2009 use the Red Box corner handles to drag it to the desired size) to indicate the amount of image to be displayed at the start of your effect. Click on the red box and drag it into positions for the Start and Finish.

Click the green Play arrow to preview the effect and re-adjust the red boxes if needed.

Pan and Zoom is also a quick way to eliminate the black bars that result around some of the images in a production. Try using the red box to effectively crop out black bars. It doesn't work for 100% of images but for most landscape-oriented images, it will do a good job.

Remember that the more you zoom in to crop, the more resolution you lose. Usually, though, you can get a good balance between cropping and motion and still retain decent quality.

Click OK to save the effect and return to the main VideoWave window.

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