I need some help, i was wondering if a person could take screen shots of the frames of videos they're working with, and if its possible to zoom in..

I understand about pan/crop, i want to be able to WATCH the zooming in/out of the clip, i know that you can do it in vegas 8.0, but i dont know how, and i dont know if its possible in Vegas 7.0... help please? thank you.

to take a screen shot press the button that looks like a disk in the preview window. that saves a still as a jpg file.

to zoom in use the pan/crop by resizing/moving the frame. you can watch by looking at the preview screen while you do it.

You mean the resultant video zoomes in, yes?
You use keyframes.
When you open the Pan/Crop window there's a timeline at the bottom (if you can't see it, move your cursor towards the bottom until it becomes a double-headed arrow and then click&drag up)
Place timeline cursor at the beginning and clik the "+" Icon to create a keyframe.
Move the cursor to where you want the clip zommed in and do your pan/crop. This will create another keyframe.
Frames in between will be interpolated - that is a smooth transition will be created.
Search manual and help for keyframes for more info.
BTW you do realise that zooming in on an image will esult in loss of quality and you may have problems with interlace, don't you?

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