[Avid-L2] Re: Finding Still Image in Pan and Zoom Effect?

No if it can't find the image it asks for it by name so there is metadata to tell the effect which image was loaded. Unless the effect can't find the image there is no way I'm seeing of determining what the image name is. I'm well aware that the offline people should have put a slug in underneath but the effect does allow you to choose video as the background and in that case you can't have the image under the effect. It does seem that the behavior has changed and it no longer stops you every time you hit a missing image with a dialogue box to find that particular image, perhaps this is a preference somewhere. I'm happy it's finding the images which have not moved on the San but annoyed when I need to know their name.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@...> wrote:
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> If I'm remembering correctly...
> Avid's Pan and & Zoom plug-in does _not_ indicate the image to which
> it is pointing/connected to in any way.
> Avid's suggested workflow is to first import the file and cut that
> clip into the timeline so that the name of the still will appear
> rather than just using the plug-in on Filler. If you'd rather not do
> that, then the only other solution I can think of is a locator which
> includes the name of the still.
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> HTH... at least for the future, anyway...
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> On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:50 PM, John Moore wrote:
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> > In moving pictures I can get the name of the still imported on the
> > timeline. If a still is connected to a Pan and Zoom effect and
> > someone has not put a slug of the imported still underneath how can
> > I find the image name? In this case I had a still properly linked
> > but I wanted to find the original still to modify it in Photoshop.
> > Since the Pan and Zoom had an image already mapped, but no import of
> > the still underneath, when I hit load image it just says pick an
> > image in the dialogue box. I ended up taking a subsequence of the
> > effect to my laptop system which was not connected to any media and
> > then opened the effect and hit the load image button and then it
> > asked for the still by name. There must or should be an easier way
> > to find the image name used in a Pan and Zoom. Anybody got a
> > suggestion?
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> > John Moore
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> > Studio City, CA
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