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SImple Zooming in and out
Could someone please be so very kind as to point this poor dullard to a place where he can read or watch anything on how to zoom in/out of a piece of video.
If there’s the optional benefit of how to pan as well, I’d be ecstatic!
Regards,
Lawrence Eaton
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2 Replies
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Hi Lawrence,
Panning and zooming within a video frame isn’t too difficult but keep in mind that in order to do both you’ll have to display the video at larger than 100% frame size, so your quality may suffer somewhat. If you can keep the zooming to no more than 110 – 115% it shouldn’t look too bad.
Panning within the frame is pretty simple. If you already have the clip in the timeline double-click your clip to load it into the viewer. From this point forward any changes you make to your clip in the viewer will be reflected in the canvas window and vice versa. In the viewer click on the motion tab. Look for the scale parameter and for the sake of this exercise (you can size it to whatever you want) change it from 100% to 110%. Now your clip is larger than the viewer window. Make sure “image and wireframe is selected. Drag your clip in the direction you want your pan to start from until you reach the edge of the frame. Hit the “K” key to insert a keyframe. Again, for the sake of this exercise, move your playhead 5 seconds furthur to the right down the timeline. Go back to the viewer and drag your clip in the opposite direction until the you see the edge of that side of the dlip appear. Hit “K” to insert another keyframe.
That’s about it. Play your clip and it should pan smoothly from one side to the other. The speed of the pan depends on how far you’ve zoomed in and how long the time is between the two keyframes.
Zooming is the same workflow as panning but instead of dragging the clip left and right you just keep the scale at the beginning keyframe at 100%. Park the playhead further down the timeline, then increase the scale to 110% or whatever, reposition your frame within the window so that whatever point in your frame you want to zoom to is centred in the middle and then insert another keyframe.
– Don
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Don,
Many thanks. I will wake up my mind in the next hour and nurse my lips away from my coffee cup and try what you mention! Oh hell, it is morning!
Many thanks,
Lawrence Eaton
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