addressed Panorama photo

[kristiansen]

Is it possible to put a panoramic photo together with ordinary 4: 3 photo
I can not make it work.

[borate]

This post by Nat may help.

[Nationalsolo]

Hi

My post from sometime back outlined the way Zoom can be used to pan across an already composed widefield image. Your post seems to suggest that you want to use VP to pan across several 4:3 images that make up a panorama. 

This IS possible but requires some setting up. It would in fact be better to use a third party program to stitch the images together to produce a panorama first and then proceed as per my post. Otherwise you can try this.....it works here OK but is fiddly...

• Load your 4:3 images to the timeline in order from left to right. This is assuming they have some overlap and are relatively level. e.g... Here are 4 images, all about the same height and overlapping....
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• Click the FX for the first image and select the Zoom effect.
• Set the AR to 16:9  Adjust position of the rectangle to encompass what you want it to contain. Bearing in mind you will need to move it eventually across all the images at the same height and size. Move it to the left side.......
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• Note the height parameters and the size of the rectangle. You will use these on each image to keep the subsequent pan level.
• Create a keyframe
• Move the timeline cursor along to the next image and in the sequence display note the position of some prominent feature (like the tree) Dual displays are useful for this exercise.
• Now move the zoom rectangle across the Clip Preview to the right so it lines up with the noted feature in the Sequence Preview... here the rectangle LHS edge lines up with the tree position in the in the second image on the right.....
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• Create a second keyframe. First image is now done. It will pan across and stop where the second image starts.
• Repeat the procedure for the second image creating keyframes for the start position and end position so the zoom ends where the third image starts  and so on.

If you set things correctly (I said it was involved ) you should see the pan go smoothly across all the images. You can of course adjust the zoom positions afterwards if alignment etc is not quite correct. Joints can also be smoothed if necessary with a very short cross fade. In short the basic idea is that the Pans for each image end where the pan for the next one starts. You have to use zoom 16:9 and lose some of each image of course (top/bottom in this case)  otherwise you would have no image to move move the rectangle into.

It would be much simpler to create your panorama outside of VP with the images beforehand.

Nat