I agree. Save yourself the trouble and the extra rendering of every
single frame with an effect on it. Make an image with the highlights
already created and use that for your pan&scan.

Bill Cammack
http://BillCammack.com

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Adam Quirk" <quirk@...> wrote:
>
> You can highlight the sections beforehand in an image editor like
Photoshop,
> or Aviary or another free image editor if you don't have Photoshop;
save the
> image as a highest-quality jpeg; then use After Effects to pan and zoom
> across the sections. Google "ken burns effect" for tutorials and
> descriptions of how to create the pan-and-zoom effect.
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> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:17 PM, travisdmathews <travisdmathews@...>
> wrote:
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> > Hi there,
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions or tutorials to point me toward re
> > creating a zoom and scan across a newspaper effect where a specific
> > part of the paper is highlighted? I'm open to various ways of
> > conveying the same idea, I just don't want it to look cheesy or cheap.
> >
> > I also have a vector map of the US that Im going to alter before
> > dumping into FCP. I'm concerned about it looking bitmapped once placed
> > into FCP. any suggestions or alt ways of saving it to avoid that?
> >
> > At my disposal: FCP/Motion/After Effects
> >
> > thanks so much for any input you might have!
> > Travis
> >
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