"Camera movement" effect?

[volker]

Hello,

would it be possible to have an effect that

makes a soft-scroll from one area of a

picture to another area? Let's say a high

resolution picture, and the effect is given

two rectangular boxes, a "start-box" and an

"end-box". When the presentation starts,

first both boxes will be trimmed (hight or

width decreased, if needed) to the present

aspect ratio of the screen PictureToExe is

given. Then, when presenting, a softly

accellerated scrolling from the "start-box"

into the "end-box" is made, scaling the visible

area if necessary. The "start-box" could be

any area or let's say the whole picture, the

"end-box" e.g. any detail within the picture

and then the effect would produce a "camera

movement" zooming into the detail. Optionally

a check-box "stop when any box is smaller than

screen-resolution" so eg zooming to details

would stop when the screen resolution is

reached (to avoid blowing up pixels).

Just an idea.

Rgds, Volker

[Lin Evans]

Hello,

would it be possible to have an effect that

makes a soft-scroll from one area of a

picture to another area? Let's say a high

resolution picture, and the effect is given

two rectangular boxes, a "start-box" and an

"end-box". When the presentation starts,

first both boxes will be trimmed (hight or

width decreased, if needed) to the present

aspect ratio of the screen PictureToExe is

given. Then, when presenting, a softly

accellerated scrolling from the "start-box"

into the "end-box" is made, scaling the visible

area if necessary. The "start-box" could be

any area or let's say the whole picture, the

"end-box" e.g. any detail within the picture

and then the effect would produce a "camera

movement" zooming into the detail. Optionally

a check-box "stop when any box is smaller than

screen-resolution" so eg zooming to details

would stop when the screen resolution is

reached (to avoid blowing up pixels).

Just an idea.

Rgds, Volker

Hi Volker,

In the Objects and Animations screen under the Properties Tab check the "Perspective Correction for Zoom" box. This doesn't control the degree of zoom, you do that visually when you create the amount and direction of zoom with keypoints and numbers but it does simulate the camera zoom perspective you are looking for.

Best regards,

Lin

[volker]

Hi Volker,

In the Objects and Animations screen under the Properties Tab check the "Perspective Correction for Zoom" box. This doesn't control the degree of zoom, you do that visually when you create the amount and direction of zoom with keypoints and numbers but it does simulate the camera zoom perspective you are looking for.

Best regards,

Lin

Hello Lin,

Sorry I don't find that check-box. I use PicturesToExe 4.48, searching PicturesToExe

Help using Search function does not find anything on "Perspective Correction" so this

must be well hidden... ist it to be found in the Object Editor or somewhere in the

Customize Slide window?

[thedom]

Hello Volker,

This option is only avalaible in v5, sorry.

It was released for v5 beta #8 : http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5237

"+ Added "Perspective correction for Zoom" option for objects. See "Objects and animation" window.

With this option enabled we simulate true movement of a camera to an object."

Here are some demos members made about this feature :

http://www.lin-evans.net/p2e/perspective.zip

http://www.alrobinson.com/perspective-zoom-exe.zip

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....post&id=475

But maybe you could give a try to version 5...

[Lin Evans]

Hello Lin,

Sorry I don't find that check-box. I use PicturesToExe 4.48, searching PicturesToExe

Help using Search function does not find anything on "Perspective Correction" so this

must be well hidden... ist it to be found in the Object Editor or somewhere in the

Customize Slide window?

Hi Volker,

As the Dom said, this feature only appears on version 5 which is now in late beta but available for you to use. Download the beta from the forum you are in on the second link from the very top.In the beta of version 5 you will find this feature as well as the ability to zoom, pan, rotate, adjust opacity, use multiple layers, etc.

Best regards,

Lin

[volker]

Hi Volker,

As the Dom said, this feature only appears on version 5 which is now in late beta but available for you to use. Download the beta from the forum you are in on the second link from the very top.In the beta of version 5 you will find this feature as well as the ability to zoom, pan, rotate, adjust opacity, use multiple layers, etc.

Best regards,

Lin

Hello thedom,

hello Lin,

many thanks for your replies. Yes, I found it in the

beta 8 and I'm impressed by these new functions!

Just the text comments seem not to work any more,

I did not find that issue risen yet in the forum. Maybe

it's a bit complicated as - ideally - the text would sit

right on the screen while the zoom would be going on

behind it. But it would be fine not to have text comments

when there is any kind of "motion" animation (or to have

the text inserted after the last movement). Maybe in the

next beta the text functions are back again (at least for

"still" images).

Regards,

Volker

[thedom]

Hi Volker,

I guess you're talking about the "add text" feature.

This option will be re-activated in beta #10 or beta #11.

And you will have the ability to apply pan/zoom/rotate/centre/opacity to a text object.

If you want to see a list of what still missing in v5 (compared to v4.48):

http://thefreedom.free.fr/share/viewtopic.php?p=54#54

You can read the Road to final release of v5.00 :

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5173