3d - Album panzoom tutorial

3D-Album PanZoom Styles allow you to create animations that zoom in and out of photos and pan from one area of a photo to another. Various effects and transitions can be created using these styles for a more dynamic photo presentation. What's unique about 3D-Album PanZoom is that all these pan and zoom animations are applicable to 3D photos as well. Select on the photo folder that you desire to create the animation. Photos can be a set of traditional 2D photos or a set of 3D photos each containing a left eye and a right eye image. The current supported format of the 3D Photo is MPD which contains two jpg files. You can also use separate left-eye and right-eye photos in any 2D format, group all left-eye photos in the folder and put all right-eye photos into a subfolder named _righteye. When displayed in 3D mode, 3D-Album will create a left eye view with the left eye image and a right eye view with the right eye image. Click on one of the TDT3DPanZoom styles. A default Pan and Zoom Animation will be created for each photo. Click on the PanZoom tab to edit the PanZoom animation. Notice how the animation stops. Click the photo at the right image slot to select the photo that you want to customize the pan and zoom animation. If the photo is too large to be viewed entirely in the window, adjust the position and size of the entire photo in the preview window by clicking on the desired directions of the hands below. In the timeline shown, the S at the far left end indicates the start frame. This indicates the initial focus position that the photo will be displayed. Note the corresponding "S" frame marked out physically in the preview window. Here, the photo will focus on the man in the center first. The end frame, denoted "E" can be found at the far right end of the timeline. This frame designates the final position that the photo will be displayed. Here, the photo will end, focusing on the woman to the right of the photo. Let's look at the final result. Additional frames can be added between the start and end frames by simply clicking anywhere on the timeline bar. They will be numbered according to the place you added them into the timeline. These frames can be dragged to any time point in the timeline. Note however that you cannot move the position of the start and end frames in the timeline. You can also delete a frame, with the exception of the start and end frames, by clicking on the frame and then selecting the red X. When you add a new frame, you will see a box added in the preview window. The box indicates the pan and zoom area, or the focus area, to be filled in the display window at this frame. The location and the shape of the added box is somewhere between the previous box and the next box. During the animation, the photo is displayed from one focus area to another, with smooth transitions in between. Here we will see the animation pan from the man down to the wheel of his bike and then back up to the woman. I can adjust the pan and zoom area at a particular frame by changing its associated box position, size, and angle. Select the frame by clicking on any of the buttons displayed at the edges or center or by clicking on the frame located in the timeline. To change the position, click on the center button marked with "S", "E", or a number and drag the frame to various positions. This can also be done by changing the fields marked X and Y under the "Photo position". To change the size, click on the button at the bottom right corner and drag. You can also change the size by changing the Z field under "Photo position." To change the angle of the photo, use the button at the top right and drag to rotate. Or, change the value in the "Tilt angle" field. There are other features under the PanZoom tab that can help facilitate the animation editing process. Located above the timeline are several options to editing the focus areas of the key frames. The first one to the left is used to reset the selected key frame back to its previous setting. For example, if I adjust the focus area of this frame and I decide I don't like what I did, I can click this button to return the focus area back to how it originally was before the edit. Note that this function only works with last edited frames. If you move on to edit another frame, you cannot go back and use this option on the previous frame. The next button, pictured a green arrow, can be used to reset all the frames back to their original setting. The original setting is the setting the frames were found when the picture was first selected. After selecting on this particular photo, note the positions of all the frames. Now let me add a new frame and change some of the settings of the other frames. When I click this green arrow, note that all the original frames have been returned to their original settings and that the additional frame I created was also deleted. The following button fixes all the frames at a selected setting. For example, if I want all my frames to be the position, size, and angle of this frame, I would select the frame first and then click on this button. The next button is a copy tool. For example, I can copy the position, size, and angle of this frame by first selecting it and then clicking the copy button. I can then transfer the settings of this frame onto another frame by selecting on the other frame and then selecting the paste button, which is located next to the copy button. The fade-in transition from the previous photo can be controlled with the small square right above the timeline towards the left hand side. By dragging it to the left or right, the time in which the photo fades in becomes shorter or longer. You can also adjust the duration of the fade-in effect by entering the time in seconds in the "Fade in" control. The duration that the photo is displayed can also be adjusted by entering the desired length of time in the workspace, using the up and down arrows to the right, or clicking the button on the left and using the slider. Using this method will only change the time for this photo. This duration will override the default duration set in the "interval" control in the General Tab. If I want to see the pan and zoom animation for just this photo, I can use the controls above the timeline. Note that you can move the cursor above the timeline in order to play just a selection of the animation as well. If you wish to see the entire pan and zoom animation for all the photos starting at the beginning, then click the "Start over" button. Sometimes you want to focus on different points of the photo for different lengths of time. For example, I want to focus on the baby for a longer time before moving on to the end frame. In order to achieve this effect, I will add additional frames to the left and right of the frame that I want to focus on. Then, I will adjust these additional frames so that they are located near the focus area of the frame in the photo. Also I will adjust the placement of these frames in the timeline. In doing so, I can increase the length of time that is focused on a particular spot of a photo. Some styles can do this focusing effect automatically for each focus point. These styles contain the Zoom speed and Range controls. They are provided to control the speed and focus range of the pan and zoom animation. The Zoom speed controls how fast the photo will move from one focus point to another. Setting the speed to 100 will cause the animation to jump from one focus point to another without any transition, like so. Setting the speed to 1 allows the animation to go smoothly from one focus point to another. The Range control determines the range in which the animation will stay at the focus point. If the range is set to 0, the animation will remain stationary at the focus point. If the range is set to 100, the animation will continue to move at the focus point allowing for a smoother transition from one point to another. Note that these two features may interfere with one another and that adjusting one may require you to adjust the other. Try different combinations of values for both controls to get your desired effect. For example, if I want the animation to move quickly between frames but slowly on frames, I can set the Zoom speed to 50 and the Range to 20.