I'm using Pro Plus 2018 v 17.0.1.148 UDP3. I used to be able to keyframe Section (under View/Animation). Now the keyframing controls (e.g. adding a keyframe) got grayed out.
Hi,
'Keyframing a section' might be a misleading term. The method is to make a section and then use keyframing under Size/Position.
This year old thread may be helpful.
Thank you very much Terry! Best regards, Mic
Eureka!
As Terry indicated, there was never a way to keyframe a Section. Once cropped, stays that way.
Now, it can be done using a combination of the Cookie Cutter and Size/Position. Use a rectangle in the Cookie Cutter (CC) and modify the size to what you want. Move around on the image with X and Y to get what you want as a section. In the keyframe area, add a kf or try to near the beginning of the clip. Open it up to see all of the parameters. You have to place kf's on the parameters that you want. Move along the timeline somewhere and now change the CC parameters that, like moving X and Y to find a new area and make sure that kf's are set. Of course, this moves the rectangle on the screen. Go to the first kf, switch to Size/Position (SP), move the image with the rectangle to where you want and set a kf. Go to the second kf for the CC values and you'll see that the rectangle is not in the same location, go back to SP, and move the rectangle somewhere else, for example, close to where the box was initially. The section image stays the same. Scrub across and you'll see that the section or cropped image changes within the rectangle.
You can also kf the rectangle size, and you can kf the zoom in SP.
The only difficulty is trying to get the rectangle to be in exactly the same position from start to finish. Probably takes some calculation.
Play around with these and you will find more possibilities.
John CB
Hi John
An interesting work around, however, as you say,
. . . . The only difficulty is trying to get the rectangle to be in exactly the same position from start to finish. Probably takes some calculation. . . . .
without a bit of maths it is not easy to control size and position as you are effectively working with a 'full size object', from the perspective of Size/position, rather than just the part that has been 'cookied', as you can see in the image below of a Full HD image with the Cookie cutter effect and viewing it with the Size/position effect applied in front of a FUll HD blue background.
HTH
John EB
I couldn't figure out how to calculate it, so I created a grid to help me keep the same position, or close to it.
In the video below, I managed to keep the inset close to the original position and size but panned the section clip by moving the X,Y positions of the box, and then size/position to bring it back.
Changing the shape worked fine.
I also tried zooming out on the section image. That became problematic as the original box got bigger outside of my left and right keyframes for bringing it back to the initial size using size/position zoom.
Of course, the easiest is still a mask, but one would also have to make a border if that is what is desired.
John CB
I should add, you can use the Cookie Cutter on multiple overlays.
I wonder if the Cookie Cutter can be used to create some Collage templates.
John CB