I just wanted to add that while there is the BCC pan and zoom plug-in, I just used it on a project with 120 stills and I was in render hell with it. I'd render, it would create the render file and then not link to it (blue dot remained). Also, while it had a good deal of features, it lacks rotation on the X and Y axes.
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On Jun 4, 2011, at 3:47 AM, Jeff Krebs wrote:
> Use Stagetools. You won't crash, you'll render fast and you'll have control.
> and you'll never have to use pan and zoom again.
> AVX
> http://www.stagetools.com/
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> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:45 AM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
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>> 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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