and you'll never have to use pan and zoom again.
AVX
http://www.stagetools.com/
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:45 AM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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