Bob Ross is my hero. :) Also, super glad that the hand/grab option was well received. I always cautious about putting in too much and getting things over people's heads. But, I'm erring on the side of stretching everyone's skills more, rather than less. - troy
Does resizing video cause the video to become blurry? I've experienced this for several videos and so far the only thing I've learned that seems to fix it is to make sure my canvas size matches the video resolution and make sure I've exported the video in the same resolution. Is it possible to resize your video with no degradation?
If you record at 1920x1080, and then are editing on a 1920x1080 canvas it will look sharp. But if you change the scale to anything over 100% it's absolutely going to blur because you're essentially stretching the resolution. There are two ways to avoid this: 1) Record at double (or large than) your editing size. Want to edit at 1920x1080? Record a screen of 3840x2160 for example. 2) If you've already recorded at 1920x1080, try changing your project settings for your project to 1280x720 (smaller) and then you can zoom in without losing quality.
Imagine my clip recording is smaller than my canvas, i.e. I needed to scale the clip to 120% size - like you have in your example. Lets say I zoomed in and then want to reset quickly to my scaled 120% (it's the situation you have at 8:09). What happens with the "reset" button is that everytime I have to restore my scale and position settings by hand. Is there a trick to make this the new "default" size? The only workaround I found is the following: when you're happy with the clip's scale and position add a custom animation where you actually don't animate anything. You just go to Animations and click "Scale to fit". This will create a 1 second zoom-animation that will "restore" your custom scale & zoom setting but not reset to 100%. It's still a workaround for me though.
3:38 The shift trick for moving around the canvas (without moving the objects) is superb - I totally forgot about this shortcut.
Diggin' the Bob Ross add-in :) Legend! Thanks for the tip with the space bar / hand grab option...very handy! Great work!
Glad you liked that! Thanks Chris!
Bob Ross is my hero. :) Also, super glad that the hand/grab option was well received. I always cautious about putting in too much and getting things over people's heads. But, I'm erring on the side of stretching everyone's skills more, rather than less. - troy
Does resizing video cause the video to become blurry? I've experienced this for several videos and so far the only thing I've learned that seems to fix it is to make sure my canvas size matches the video resolution and make sure I've exported the video in the same resolution. Is it possible to resize your video with no degradation?
If you record at 1920x1080, and then are editing on a 1920x1080 canvas it will look sharp. But if you change the scale to anything over 100% it's absolutely going to blur because you're essentially stretching the resolution. There are two ways to avoid this:
1) Record at double (or large than) your editing size. Want to edit at 1920x1080? Record a screen of 3840x2160 for example.
2) If you've already recorded at 1920x1080, try changing your project settings for your project to 1280x720 (smaller) and then you can zoom in without losing quality.
7:26 shortcut shift+A to add custom animation on a clip - this too is super handy!
Imagine my clip recording is smaller than my canvas, i.e. I needed to scale the clip to 120% size - like you have in your example. Lets say I zoomed in and then want to reset quickly to my scaled 120% (it's the situation you have at 8:09). What happens with the "reset" button is that everytime I have to restore my scale and position settings by hand. Is there a trick to make this the new "default" size?
The only workaround I found is the following: when you're happy with the clip's scale and position add a custom animation where you actually don't animate anything. You just go to Animations and click "Scale to fit". This will create a 1 second zoom-animation that will "restore" your custom scale & zoom setting but not reset to 100%. It's still a workaround for me though.