BCC Pan and Zoom

Category: BCC Perspective

Effect Name: BCC Pan and Zoom

The BCC Pan and Zoom filter, part of the BCC Perspective group, automates the work of documentary style pan and zoom effects, where a large still image is panned along the horizontal and vertical axes, or zoomed up or down in a composite. This, in effect, creates animation to a still image.

Working with the Filter

Presets and Common Controls

• BCC filters come with a library of factory installed presets plus the ability to create your own custom presets and preview them with the BCC FX Browser™.
• BCC filters also include common controls that configure global effect preferences and other host-specific effect settings.

For more information about working with presets and other common controls, Click Here.

Source Group

• Source: Determines the input image source for the pan and zoom effect.

• Host Layer: Uses a layer already imported into the host.
• External File: Uses an image which has not been imported into the host. Provides a load mechanism to import an external image file.

• External File: Selects an external media file to use as the source.
• Watch Folder: Sets a folder for the filter to scan for the external image source if it cannot be found at a previously known location. This is useful for finding missing media when the project is opened on a different system or when media storage locations have changed.
• Host Layer: Selects the host layer that will be used as the source image.
• Source Pixel Aspect Ratio: Sets the aspect ratio of the source image (which may be different than the aspect ratio of the current project).
• Aspect: Allows the image to be stretched horizontally or vertically to compensate for the pixel aspect ratio.
• Video Safe Colors: Determines whether the source clip levels are remapped to video safe ranges (16-235 in 8bit).
• Workflow: Determines how the effect will be animated.
• Transform A: Sets the filter to run in manual, Transform A only mode.
• Transform B: Sets the filter to run in manual, Transform B only mode.
• AB Completion: Sets the filter to run in semi-automatic completion animation mode.
• AB Auto-Animation: Sets the filter to run in fully automatic mode.
• BA Auto-Animation: Sets the filter to run in reverse, fully automatic mode.

Animation Group

• Scale Interpolation: Determines how the image scaling interpolation is animated.
• Straight: Creates a straight linear zoom from setting A to setting B.
• Exponential: Creates a more natural exponential zoom which matches the behavior of a real camera zoom from setting A to setting B.
• Completion: Allows the creation of keyframes when in AB Completion mode to manually generate animation.
• Hold Start: Sets the amount of frames for which there is no animation at the start of the effect.
• Hold End: Sets the amount of frames for which there is no animation at the end of the effect.
• Ease In: Sets the amount of softness at the start of the animation curve.
• Ease Out: Sets the amount of softness at the end of the animation curve.
• Preview Ease Curve: Displays the on-screen graph of the animation curve.

Preview Group

• Preview Mode: Toggles the preview mode, enabling on-screen widgets for movement guidance.
• Preview Target: Selects the on-screen User Interface during set-up mode.
• Setup A: Displays setup A on-screen user interface widgets.
• Setup B: Displays setup B on-screen user interface widgets.
• Mix: Displays the setup A and B user interface widgets as well as a box showing the animation.
• Preview Monitor: Displays the final result in a small on-screen window.
• None: Display is disabled.
• Top Left: Display shown in the top left of the frame.
• Top Right: Display shown in the top right of the frame.
• Bottom Left: Display shown in the bottom left of the frame.
• Bottom Right: Display shown in the bottom right of the frame.
• Luma Shift: Reduces or increases the luminosity of the area outside of the setup window action.
• Action Safe: Displays the action safe zone within the setup box.
• Title Safe: Displays the title safe zone within the setup box.
• 4:3 Safe Displays the 4:3 safe zone withing the setup box.
• Rotation Control: Toggles the rotation control on-screen widget.
• Enable 3D: Enables 3D viewing.

Transforms Group

• Adjust Scale: Sets the scale of the image in the preview window off fit to either 100 percent or 100 percent letterbox.
• Lock Anchor: Locks the anchor position to the center of the input image when enabled.
• Rotation Center: Sets the center for image rotation.
• Final Viewport: Rotates the image around the center of the currently visible frame.
• Anchor: Rotates the image around the center of the current anchor position.
• Position A: Sets the position of the animation at the start of the effect.
• Anchor A: Sets the anchor point for the animation at the start of the effect.
• Scale A: Sets the scale of the image at the start of the effect.
• Rotation A: Sets the rotation angle of the image at the start of the effect.
• Spin A: Spins the starting point of the image.
• Tumble A: Tumbles the starting point of the image.
• Position B: Sets the position of the animation at the end of the effect.
• Anchor B: Sets the anchor for the animation at the end of the effect.
• Scale B: Sets the scale of the image at the end of the effect.
• Rotation B: Sets the rotation angle of the image at the end of the effect.
• Spin B: Spins the ending point of the image.
• Tumble B: Tumbles the ending point of the image.

Cropping Group

The cropping group determines the amount of frame that will be removed from the clip.

• Top: Adjusts the amount of pixels cropped from the top.
• Left: Adjusts the amount of pixels cropped from the left.
• Bottom: Adjusts the amount of pixels cropped from the bottom.
• Right: Adjusts the amount of pixels cropped from the right.

Motion Blur Group

• Smoothness: Sets the smoothness of the motion.
• Shutter Angle: Controls the angle from which the shutter is pointing at the animation.
• Adaptive Motion Blur Mode: When enabled the filter automates the motion blur.

Quality Group

• Draft Mode: Toggles draft resolution for the effect.
• Method: Determines the level and method of smoothing and sharpening applied to the effect.
• Sharpness Amount: Sets the sharpness for scale settings where the image is zoomed in beyond it’s native resolution.
• Softness Amount: Sets the softness for scale settings where the image is being down sized from higher resolution.
• Reduce flicker popup: Adjusts the amount of flicker that appears in the video clip.
• Mix (Fxplug only): Blends the effect with the original image clip to which the filter was applied.

Vignette Group

• Center: Sets the center point of the vignette.
• Style: Determines whether the filter produces a color vignette, a blur vignette, or both.
• Radius: Sets the size of the vignette shape.
• Vignette Color: Sets the color of the vignette region.
• Vignette Color Opacity: Sets the opacity of the colored vignette region.
• Blur Offset: Sets the relative radius of the blur vignette versus the radius of the color vignette (when the Style is set to Color and Blur). At the default value of zero the color and blur vignette regions have the same size (as determined by the shared Radius control). Larger values cause the blur vignette radius to be proportionally larger than the color vignette radius, whereas negative values cause the blur vignette radius to be proportionally smaller than the color vignette radius.
• Blur Amount: Defines the peak blurriness amount on the outer regions of the vignette.
• Squareness: Controls whether the vignette shape is elliptical, rectangular, or somewhere in between.
• Softness: Softens the edges of the vignette shape.
• Smooth Softness: For a given Softness, this controls the smoothness of the transition between the inside and outside regions. With higher values tend to produce smoother, more natural looking gradations.
• Stretch: Sets the relative width vs height of the vignette shape.
• Rotate: Rotates the shape.
• Source Intensity: Sets the brightness of the source image in relation to the vignette.
• Combine: Determines the blend mode used to apply the color vignette back onto the original source layer.