thuvia ptarth

( Babble )

Oh, wait, I have an actual question. If you have an imported still image or a clip with no external motion and you want to fake a camera movement on it (in Premiere CS3, if it matters), do you just use a combination of zoom, magnify, blur, and motion on it, or is there an easier or better way*? And if you want to add some hand-held jiggliness or naturalness to the movement, is there any easier way to do it than manually adding jigs and jags to the motion?

* I know there's an effect called "Camera View," but it doesn't seem to be made for, say, making it look like your cameraman is moving the camera across a landscape top-left to lower-right.

Also, if you happen to know off-hand why Premiere sometimes spontaneously decides it won't show my imported GIFs and other times is perfectly okay with them, that would be very helpful to know, but I haven't poked around much in the Help File yet so don't answer if it requires any research or real effort on your part.