Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Is there an elegant way to locate a pan and zoom still?

I tried a test -- cut a different picture as slug under an existing
pan&zoom effect, then subsequenced it into its own bin.

Displaying sources in that bin shows a source item for both the new and
old pictures.

So that's a little more elegant way to get the picture name, although
unlike Pat's method, I don't see any way to get the path information,
just the filename.

Cheers,
--Michael Brockington

Pat wrote:
>
> Well there is a quick and dirty engineering solution to this problem.
> Create a new bin. Sub sequence the sections with the pan and zoom
> effects inside into a new mini sequence. Save the bin.
> Outside MC open notepad (or any text editor) and open the bin you
> created. The path and the name of the file used in the effect(s) will
> be listed in the middle of all the normal rubbish. It should look
> something like "kAvxPluginAttributes  C:\Users\Pat\Pictures\F800\Bike
> strip\IMG_5829.jpg "
> Normally eaists to search for the .jpg or .tif or what ever extension.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
> >
> > Okay finally got a chance to try the summary source report and with
> no slug underneath the Pan and Zoom the summary shows no imported
> sources. To get back to my original request the pan and zoom effect
> definately knows to ask for the still by name when it is offline to
> the effect. How do I access that info when the still is still online
> so I can find out the source for the pan and zoom effect. Seems like
> the metadata is in the effect so why not let me see it? This is a
> bug/shortcoming of the Pan and Zoom effect, one of many unfortunately.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't get me started. I don't know what ticks me off more. The
> missing slug video or the slug behind the keyboard.
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You are correct. It only works with actual imported stills. The
> other way that offline editors screw you is they import a still, then
> change their mind and link Pan and Zoom to a different still without
> reimporting that still.
> > > >
> > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, "kenton.vannatten"
> <kenton.vannatten@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > <<Wouldn't this only work if the still had been imported as a
> slug? If you're stuck with a P&Z image that is just sitting on Filler,
> then I don't think the Source Summary would show you anything. >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>

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