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Zooms & Pans

Gareth Casey Updated by Gareth Casey

Zoom effects can be added to any visual object (video, image, GIF, shapes, etc) to change how large the object appears within a project. Pans can also be applied to adjust what part of the eobject is zoomed in on.

Adding a Zoom

You can add a Zoom to an object by going to the Zoom and Pan tab of the Media Panel and then dragging and dropping the Zoom & Pan effect onto the timeline object that you want to apply it to.

When the Zoom marker is selected on the timeline object, a preview of the video will be displayed in the Style Panel on the right of the screen. The frame placed on top of the preview image will indicate where the image will zoom in to. Initially the frame will be set to either the full image size but the frame can be resized and moved to set the new zoom level.

To return to the default zoom level, simply click the Reset button or set the zoom value to 1.0.

You can set the timing for when the zoom transition will begin and end by dragging the markers at each end of the zoom arrow that is added on top of the timeline object. If you want the zoom to be instantaneous, simply drag the markers on top of each other

Adding a Pan

If you add multiple Zoom & Pan effects to a single timeline object, you can use those to pan around the image instead of just simply zooming. Each additional Zoom & Pan effect will start withthe zoom level set to the zoom level of the previous Zoom & Pan effect.

To create a pan, simply move the zoom frame on the preview in the right side panel without changing the size of it.

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