Fried Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I've created my first pan and zoom effects. This is going to be so nice! I think I have the hang of how it works. Very nicely done on the UI. QUESTIONSuppose I have a graphic object (like a logo) embedded on an otherwise blank field, created in Illustrator and saved as a GIF. I'd like to create an animation that starts with the logo very small and centered and then zoom in on it until it almost fills the screen.I made one version that starts with the logo at 50% in size of the desired end size and then applied a 200% zoom. It starts to look a bit fuzzy near the end.How would you do something like this for a logo that starts at 10-20% of the final intended size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xahu34 Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Long zooms naturally lead to problems. Some time ago, Lin Evans made some studies on the "infinite" zoom, see here.Regards,Xaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Your pixel size at the end of the zoom needs to be the same as your screen resolution i.e. if your screen res is 1024x768 and your logo is going to fill the screen it needs to be either 1024 wide or 768 high (100%). The fact that you are having to use 200% is leading to the pixilation.If you are zooming further then you need a bigger image.You would probably be better off with a JPEG unless you are using a transparent GIF.DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted June 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Hmmm... okay now I see what I did wrong. I should make the image be the final "full" size, then set the zoom on the FIRST keypoint to the desired small starting size. If I make the background blank field large enough I'm good. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yachtsman1 Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Hi FriedWhy not use the text creator in PTE???Open the picture you want text on, click the icon at the right hand end of the text box, type in your text. Make sure you have set the size & style from the project options/comments tab. You text should now appear on your picture. Click the objects & animations button, click the text on your picture which will put a bounding box around the text, for a first timer, click the +> button bottom right, drag the bounding box so the text fills the screen, click the < button then press play, the text will xoom from the original size to the stretched size. Click the customise slide button and set the time for the zoom. From there it's just a question of refining your tecnique.Yachtsman1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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