Folks: Thanks for the forum availability. Here’s my issue(s) –
Working on a Dell XPS desktop with Intel i7 3.60 GHz quad core, 32 GB RAM, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit running Avid Media Composer v8.5.2. Trying to do some “Ken Burns” moves on still images – the slow pan/tilt across a high rez picture. I have tried both AVID Pan and Zoom and Boris Continuum Complete Pan and Zoom with the same (read: NO) effect. After dropping the effect onto the image in the Timeline, the prompt is to Select Image -> so I navigate to my file (it’s my understanding AVID won’t work with *.TIFFs so I transcoded my media to *.JPEGs) and as soon as I select the file, the Playback window goes black.
There is a drop-down to choose to view Background Color or Video – if I have cut the desired image onto the Timeline and THEN choose Video here, I can see the image but cannot manipulate it, do any moves, etc.
I’ve read that super huge file sizes don’t work well (but that’s where we get the best image quality…?!) and it’s best to have the image in as high-level a folder as possible, so Avid doesn’t have to go searching.
I know I’ve used this effect in the past; anybody have any suggestions as to what I’m missing here?
Thanks, as always. Tom