I’m trying to generate video files that are more-or-less slideshows of stills but with a zoom-in transition between each still. Zoom in on a corner of image one, transition to image two, zoom in on corner of two, transition to three–sort of a rolling “zoom and enhance” cheat. I want to do this too many times to manually animate each slideshow the exact same way.
The native Image Sequence functionality seems extremely close to what I want! How do I adjust the baked-in Pan and Zoom so that I’m zooming in where I want, at the rate I want? Basically, I’m targeting the bottom right corner of each image in the slideshow (which seems to be the default behavior) but I want it to get in much much closer to that corner than the default does–basically 200%. How does one edit this parameter or set of parameters?
You can save any effect or effect stack as a custom effect for future use. So, in your case I would adjust the effect(s) as I want them and the save it as a custom effect “My Slideshow” (or something to that effect).
Once you have filled the timeline with the images, arranged and cut them as needed, select them all, and then apply the “My Slideshow” effect or drag it from the effects list to one of the selected clips.
Unfortunately, you cannot change or adjust the default transitions for images sequences. You can only adjust the duration for each image in an image sequence. But I think a [Feature Request] in the official bug tracker is in order
This is actually so close to being completely trivial to do in the way Bernd describes … at least if you’re ok with the images being displayed in “bin order” and all for the same duration.
If you’ve added the images you want to the bin, it’s possible to select them all in the bin and then drag them to the timeline - which will drop them all in a single track, end to end as a sequence, in a single action.
You can then apply the custom ‘animation’ effect to all of them in a single action as Benrnd describes.
If you’re ok with a hard transition to each new image, you’re done - but if you want a smooth dissolve or a wipe, this is where it gets a little trickier…
Since the only thing it appears you can’t do is apply the transitions between them in a single action … if you drag a composition to a selected group it will only drop a single transition to it, not apply it as a mix at every transition point. And for the compositions with adjustable parameters you cannot save the ‘effect stack’ or apply changes to every composition in a group (the buttons are there like they are for effects, they’re just deactivated).
I can still remember when compositions were treated as a subgroup of effects before they were split out as a more separate thing, so I wonder how hard it would be to support those things for compositions too?
It still means this is relatively easy to do unless you’re doing it for many thousands of images, you just need to drop the composition/mix manually at every transition.
