Back in the trenches with a stills heavy season opener and I just can't fathom the lack of attention Pan and Zoom has been given since it was introduced. I know the old, "it was made over a weekend by an Avid engineer to facilitate a home video he was working on" line but it's been out a long time now. These aren't new but I feel I should reiterate them. When pan and zoom is already linked to low res stills and there is not slug underneath there is no prompt to give you still number information to help find the high res source. This is a real pain. Then when you find the high res still if all the keyframes are highlighted and you select the still the move is nuked, you have to make sure only one keyframe is highlighted to preserve the move. This is not only unintuitive but really lethal when an AE has relinked the stills and now you have no moves in online. This is as bad as the 100th auto save bug a while back, or at least close. Then
when you don't redirect the source for the pan and zoom the render requires a second render to get the full quality. Again this is not intuitive at all and sometimes it's hard to tell if you need to rerender to get full quality. The way pan and zoom works is pathetic. I appreciate the ability to get to the full res stills but really Avid this is the best you can do? In comparison the Title Tool looks like a Chyron Infinite relative to the poor implementation of pan and zoom. To be fair moving pictures has it's quirks but come on Avid help me find the source data without having to take things off line.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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