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SPOILER ALERT: The solution is to create a compound clip for your top clip (Thanks to Uli Plank for the solution).

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I am trying to create a "picture in picture" and zoom in to the top picture WITHOUT expanding it?

I have a video on track 1 and a still on track 2.

I want to "zoom" into the still on track 2, but I DON'T want it to expand. I don't want the size to grow.

Take a look here:



This is how I have my tracks set up:



I tried using crop on track 2 (the bathroom) and that didn't work.

I tried using dynamic zoom on track 2 and that didn't work either.

Help!!!

Learn the Inspector, it's all there.

Uli Plank wrote:Learn the Inspector, it's all there.

I have looked through the instructions in the manual regarding the inspector. I have searched on google and on youtube. I have spent about three hours dicking around with it on my own. Nothing I have found so far explains it.

Please kindly explain how to do it (if doing it that way is even the right way).

Thanks in advance.

Mark_Rodriquez wrote:I have looked through the instructions in the manual regarding the inspector. I have searched on google and on youtube. I have spent about three hours dicking around with it on my own. Nothing I have found so far explains it.

Uli is correct: the Transform controls in the Inspector will do it. Read the section on "Transform & Cropping" starting on p. 531 of the Resolve 14.3 manual. Basically, you keyframe a zoom on the smaller square until it fills the frame. Only this image will change size, not the background. That's if I understand the effect you're trying to achieve.

Marc Wielage wrote:

Mark_Rodriquez wrote:I have looked through the instructions in the manual regarding the inspector. I have searched on google and on youtube. I have spent about three hours dicking around with it on my own. Nothing I have found so far explains it.

Uli is correct: the Transform controls in the Inspector will do it. Read the section on "Transform & Cropping" starting on p. 531 of the Resolve 14.3 manual. Basically, you keyframe a zoom on the smaller square until it fills the frame. Only this image will change size, not the background. That's if I understand the effect you're trying to achieve.

Thank you for your response!

Unfortunately, I don't think I made clear what I want to have happen. (Either that or I don't understand your response.)

I DON'T want the picture in picture in the upper right hand size to expand over the frame. I DON'T want it to fill the frame. I want it to cover just that upper 1/4th of the right hand size like it does at the start of the clip. I DON'T want it to expand over more of the frame.

But I do want it to "zoom" in on the bathroom image that is in that frame. Meaning, I want the borders of the frame to remaining the same size, but what is in the frame will be zoomed in.

I want the clip to start like this:



and I want it to end up like this:



Notice that the bathroom covers the same total area of the frame* but the bathroom image has zoomed in so that it no longer shows the door on the left and the sink on the right.

I hope this is a better explanation.

Thanks again.

*I had to mock this up in photoshop to explain so the frame in the upper right is not exactly the same in my mock up, but I think you get the idea; i want it to cover the same area of the frame.

Think of it this way:

In the background you have interview footage with someone talking.

And in 1/4th of the screen (and ONLY 1/4th of the screen) you have a still image that you want to animate kind of like a Ken Burns slide show with a zoom and pan. But you want that animated image to STAY IN THAT 1/4 OF THE SCREEN AND NOT EXPAND / MOVE. That still image has been zoomed in on and panned, but it remains in the exact same 1/4th of the screen.

How would you do that?

Here is another example that I mocked up in photoshop that might be clearer to see

This is how I want the clip to start:



And this is how I want the clip to end:



The photo of the bedroom takes up the same total screen area, but it is zoomed in on the bed and doesn't show the rest of the bedroom.

Now how would you do that in Resolve???

OK, I got it.
Do you know the concept of nesting? In DR it's called a compound clip. First animate the zoom-in on your clip in it's original size. Make it a compound clip (contextual menu). Call it "zoom-in" for example.

Put that compound clip over your background clip and now zoom and position it where you need it. Done!

Uli Plank wrote:OK, I got it.
Do you know the concept of nesting? In DR it's called a compound clip. First animate the zoom-in on your clip in it's original size. Make it a compound clip (contextual menu). Call it "zoom-in" for example.

Put that compound clip over your background clip and now zoom and position it where you need it. Done!

Thank you so much, Uli

That pretty much solved it for me.



The only thing I can add to clarify your instructions is that if you see most of the background clip covered in black, use cropping on your top clip (the composite clip) to remove the black.

At first, I thought I needed to change one of the Composite Modes of the composite clip to have the background clip show through the black. But you just need to crop the top (composite) clip to allow the background clip to show.

Thanks again. I am a happy camper.