I can't seem to slow it down. It plays for 7 seconds and I want 55 seconds.

@Bruce-Rutherford

Hi Bruce.

Grab the right hand end of the clip and drag it across the timeline to the desired length.

Ray.

When I try to drag the right hand end of the clip across the timeline it just moves the whole clip and when I let go it snaps back to where it was.

Hi Bruce.

You must be in timeline mode in the editor and mouse mode for single objects.

Ray.

@Bruce-Rutherford

Hi,

Is the clip that you are dragging an image or a video clip?

I'm having trouble imagining what you are doing. Can you post a couple of screen shots?

John CB

Here's a screenshot of it as a video and as an image. Neither one works.

@Bruce-Rutherford

Did you apply a pan?

Under the Effects tab I applied A Camera Zoom Shot

@Bruce-Rutherford

First, change the length of your image to 55 secs on the timeline: either zoom the timeline out and then drag the right end of your image further to the right to the desired length, or double-click your image, then over on the extreme right (in the box just to the left of the small clock icon), insert 55 seconds (it defaults to 7 seconds) and hit Enter. Your image will stretch out to cover 55sec of the timeline.

Next, start at step 2 in my post above. You have to set up a pan, starting from the left side of your image/room, that then goes across the image to the right end. This is achieved by setting one "keyframe" at the starting position, then setting another at the final position. Follow my steps to do that.

Anybody got a camera/Zoom shot effect tute handy?

@Bruce-Rutherford

Hi,

Normally, you have to use panning on the panorama image like @AAProds indicated.

However, you need to understand how to do keyframing and using the Size/Position commands.

For a normal panorama, rather than the camera/zoom, I would put a Size/Position keyframe (Effects, View/Animation) at the start, and modify the left position to 0 (the image should already be full height. In the keyframe window, go to the end or near it and change the left position to the width minus the project screen width. If your project is 1920x1080 (width x height) and your image has width of 5000, then the left position at the end would be 5000-1920=3080. Now when you play back, the image will be panned from left to right. If it goes too fast, make the image duration longer and drag the right keyframe to the end. Zoom is not needed as the image is already full height.

However, you do not have a normal panorama, you have a 360° image, and you have to process that using the 360° Video commands under Effects, in particular 360° Editing, including perspective adjustment. For this, you will need to learn how to treat the 360° image and all about keyframing. Open the manual and go to 360° Editing and start reading and learning. The manual describes how to treat the image and create a video.

MEP has two ways to work with 360° material (see the manual):

1. Creating a 360° video from your 360° output material and adding content (videos, images and titles) and effects to it, or
2. Adding your 360° content to a normal video and specifying the display section and direction of view.

If you could post the original 360 pan image to DropBox or something, then we can all learn together, unless someone else has mastered this and wants to demonstrate how.

John CB

@Bruce-Rutherford

Further to the above, do you want to create a video that moves around - no user interaction?

Or do you want to put up a 360 image that users can move around in like in the link below?

http://vanlieshout.com/360test/

Drag the image around using the left mouse button, up, down, around.

John CB

@Bruce-Rutherford

I found a 360° photo with Bixorama (Motion Studios) and imported it into MEP and then VPX - same process and result.

First, you have to set the Project Settings to 360° - Movie settings tab, Video Settings, popdown and select one of the 360° presets. This will change the ratio to 2:1.

Import the photo to the timeline, select it, right-click, Change photo length and change it to 00:25:00 (mm:ss:ff). Accept.

Press on F to get full width on the timeline.

Photo selected, go to Effects, 360° Video, 360° Scene rotation.

In my case, I set a keyframe at the beginning for "Turn around y-axis" of -120 and another at the end for +120.

This gave me a full rotation.

I didn't touch any of the other effects.

I exported with File, Export, Video as MP4, checked Display all, pop down, selected the corresponding 360° MP4 preset.

Here is the result.

In fact, exporting it messes up the effects on the timeline, don't know why.

This creates an interactive video, at least in Windows Media Player, allowing the user to move up and down and around while the video is playing or paused.

Hmmm. Just watched the result after posting, and this is not what I get in WMP.

John CB

@Bruce-Rutherford

It's the viewer for the Magix forum. Watch this that I posted on YT. While playing or paused, you can scroll left, right, up, down.

Is that what you are looking for? Or do you want a static pan video with no possible user interaction?

John CB

That's exactly what I am trying to do. I just found out that Movie Edit Pro won't let me export as an MP4

@Bruce-Rutherford

Of course it exports to MP4. Give us a screen shot of your export parameters.

Are you going through File, Export, Video as MP4?

Click on Display all, then pop down to see the parameters.

EDIT: which version of MEP are you using? See under Help, About.

John CB

@Bruce-Rutherford

Hi

. . . . Movie Edit Pro won't let me export as an MP4 . . . .

It does - see the image below - ensure you check the Display all option..

Note the top presets blurred out are custom presets I created - you will not have these.

John EB

Here's the "Export Movie" options. There's an MPEG4 but no MP4. and they are different.

I opened it in Adobe Rush and then exported it as an MP4. I have Magix Movie Editor Pro Plus. The Panorama that you posted above is what I want but what is "the viewer for the Magix forum"?

@Bruce-Rutherford

MPEG4 is MP4.

OK I got the export as an MP4 thing figured out. Thanks John

My panorama program won't accept an MPEG4. It only accepts MP4's I Googled it and apparently they are different.

No, they are the same. Look at the images from John EB.

That 360 video is neat! 👏 

What sort of camera takes 360° images?