Everyone needs a summer break, right? (Did you notice how I didn’t use the word “deserve”?)

So the Avid Screencast will be on summer hiatus until September 9th, while I will enjoy a nice vacation with my girlfriend and the the two kids in Greece.

Until then, check out some old episodes. If you’re anything like me, you have forgotten pretty much everything by now, anyway!

And if that’s not enough, read through Freddy’s List of Relevant Avid Links, memorize every one of them, because there’ll be a pop quiz when I get back.

One more homework: Send me suggestions for new episodes, it’s really hard to think of new topics myself. And someone in the bus told me about crowd-sourcing and how it’s a good thing. Thanks!

Have a great summer! (If you’re in the northern hemisphere, otherwise: put on a coat, for God’s sake, you’ll freeze your nuts off! If you have nuts to begin with.)

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After last week’s look into Avid’s Pan & Zoom effect, this week we check out the Pan & Zoom effect that is included in Boris Continuum Complete 5 and later.

It’s a great effect that is incredibly easy to use, and we’ll create a simple zoom in auto-mode (it will literally take you 30 seconds to do) and get into the nitty-gritty for more complex animations.

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I’ve had several requests for tutorials on Pan and Zoom, so this week and next, this will be out topic.

This week, we’ll look into Avid’s own Pan & Zoom effect. It is used to, well, pan and zoom into images that are larger than your sequence dimensions without quality loss (as would occur if you imported the image into a bin and then used, say, a 3D Warp for panning and zooming).

We’ll create simple and a bit more complex animations, learn about the different temporal and spatial interpolation parameters, and of course I’ll hint at some best practices and some quirks of the effect.

Next week, we’ll check out the Pan & Zoom effect that is included in Boris Continuum Complete 5 or later.

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