V5 rotate

[Mike Reed]

I am trying to rotate one image over another whist also adding a little zoom to the rotating image. I seem to have cracked how it is done using the key points to select parts of the rotate and the zoom but cannot ensure that each movement is of the same length so it looks a bit jerky. Any ideas how to overcome this.

[Lin Evans]

Hi Mike,

It sounds much like you may have too many keypoints which might split time into uneven intervals and thus affect the rotational speed incrementally.

Essentially, PTE uses linear motion as a default so the way you would normally achieve this effect would be as follows:

Set one keypoint beyond the start (the defalt start keypoint for the object) at the place on the timeline where you wish both the zoom and rotation to cease. Activate or "select" this keypoint by clicking on it so that it becomes blue rather than grey, zoom the object (image) to the desired dimensions then with the keypoint still selected change the rotation from zero to the desired degree positive or negative depending on the direction and number of rotations you want.

This will give you a linear response between the starting keypoint and the ending keypoint. Any intermediary keypoints will just confuse the issue for a simple effect like this.

Best regards,

Lin