in this video i show you how to zoom in and out in Shotcut hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome to
Ubitronics on this channel i show you how to use open source software today we're looking
at zooming in and out in Shotcut and the first thing to realize is that there are two main ways
to zoom in and out the first is a quick zoom which is like jumping in and out of the video
and then there's a smooth zoom which is smoothly zooming in and possibly panning around the video
and then zooming back out i'll demonstrate both of those now for you and just so we're clear on
the end results here is a quick demo of what we're going to be doing so zooming in and out
and then in and out and that feature is quite commonly used in YouTube videos i'm doing it in
quick succession here but you would probably do it every 10 to 15 seconds to try and hold
viewers attention the second method is more of a smooth zoom which goes in and
then you can pan around if you wanted to and then ultimately you you usually want to zoom back out
and they're the two kind of methods that we'll be demonstrating right now
so method one basically consists of chopping your video up into small sections and then zooming
in on the sections that you've chopped so let me demonstrate let's imagine that we want to zoom in
and when the hand into the video i'm going to click this button here which splits the video
and then i'm going to fast forward to the point where i want it to play to zoom into okay
and now i'm going to cut again what that gives me is one section of this video that i can now select
if i select that clip then head up to filters and click on the plus under the video search
look for size size position and rotate tool and from here i'm able to zoom in on this particular
video clip so here if i just zoom in let's say 158 there we go that'll do then it zoomed straight
in so now if i play that video clip it comes up and it zooms in at the point i wanted to zoom in
out at the point where i don't want to zoom out now that might be perfect for you for me
I've zoomed in and i'm not really focused on the bit that's important what i want to do is
make sure that i focus in where the piece is landing i do that by clicking and dragging enter
there and just coming up to where i wanted to die so now that zoom in looks something like that
now one helpful little hint here is if you had multiple zoom ins that you wanted to be exactly
the same what you can do is i'm just going to cut this video up a little bit more just to
demonstrate it what you can do is you can select your original clip once you've selected your
original clip on copy filters and then select the new clip and click on paste filters what
that's going to do is set all of these settings up exactly the same as your original what that means
is when you play it it's going to zoom in and out and also if you've moved the video at all it will
move it to that proper location that you want it to be at you might find that helpful you might
not but it's worth knowing that it's there because if you're zooming in in exactly the same location
again and again and again throughout the video then you might just want to copy and paste
your filters in okay so that's option one the quick zoom the jump in and out now if we wanted
to make it smoother so you're actually panning around the video let's demonstrate that now
first of all i'm going to drag in a new video clip demonstrate on and if i play that as you can see
it's quite a basic video it's not really doing anything it's got a small pan where it's following
the bicycle but apart from that it's very kind of static it's not really moving much now to
demonstrate this there's a couple of ways to do it i'm only going to show one way today i'm going to
show you the most versatile way so if you learn just this method you'll basically be able to do
all of the features of zooming in Shotcut it doesn't matter how complex you need it to get
it should be able to handle it by using this method there are other alternatives but i'm
going to skip over them today just to show you the most involved method and the one that will
facilitate basically everything that you need to do that is using keyframes so the very first thing
we want to do is we don't need to cut the video a clip at all because we're going to be we're going
to be seamlessly moving from one zoom to another and making it look like it's one key flow to
create that flow you first of all apply the same filter come up to here make sure you've got your
video clip selected click the plus and then type in size click on the size position and rotate tool
and you come up with exactly the same options as before now what we want to do
is leave all of these settings as is and click onto this keyframe here button here
says keyframe on it and what that's going to do is it's going to take you to the keyframe tab
and it's going to be on the size position and rotate tool and under here you've got an extra
channel which is just for size and position if that doesn't make much sense right now don't worry
about it doesn't matter too much we're going to go over each step the very first thing you probably
notice is this kind of triangle shape here that's actually a diamond but because it's the
very beginning frame you can only see half of it a diamond represents a linear fixed position so if i
right click on that first of all go to frame type and it's selected as linear what we actually want
is this transition to be smooth so we don't want it to be jolty and jagged we want it to transition
smoothly from one to another just select the smooth option and that will turn into a circle
all of our keyframes we're going to want to appear as a circle in this instance but you're welcome
to experiment with the view of both of them um they kind of do the same thing but one's just um
the linear is less smooth than the smooth option go figure okay so what this keyframe here is doing
is saying start in exactly the same position as the video starts if you wanted to start zoomed in
and then pan out you would change these options here to start off the video by being zoomed
in or in a different position or whatever you want but to start off with on this demo we're
going to start off in the right position and then zoom in as the cyclist starts moving so i'm going
to select two seconds in on my timeline here and that's going to move my timeline position
to exactly two seconds i'm going to click this little tool here which is add keyframe at playhead
and as you can see it's mimicked the last one so it's a circle again if you haven't changed
that to a circle then this will show as a like a diamond shape and with this one selected in red
we want to change the zoom b let's say 197.4 you can obviously you can type in
here and make it exact or you can use the bar just to zoom in and out as you feel fit
okay so before we go too much further let's just play that and see what it looks like
now we've got a smooth zoom in on your video that's great but it zooms in at this point to
somewhere that's probably not the desired effect having your key frame selected here you do need to
make sure you've got it selected then you can move wherever you may want that to zoom into and also
if you've realized that the zoom isn't quite right after you've done that you can still change the
zoom as well there to zoom in to exactly the right position so now if we try that once more
it zooms in on the wheel which is our desired effect now as you can see as the video plays on
the wheel is no longer in the center let's imagine that we wanted that wheel
in the center the whole time up until this point let's create a new frame and then reposition
if you need help understanding where the center is you can click on this tool here and it will show
you exactly where i'm only doing this as a as an example so it doesn't matter if it's not exact but
just clicking here on this grid will show or hide the grid for you and it will give you the
the center spot okay so now let's zoom back out and play that now the wheel stays pretty much
in the center the whole time so now let's imagine we're wanting to zoom back
out towards the end of the video let's create another keyframe and you can reset this to 100
when you do that you're going to notice that this is all gone sku with
that's absolutely fine you can click on these options here
and that will reset all of the settings so you zoom back out and have exactly as you imagine
but now if we play the whole video through zoom in on the wheel it's going to follow the wheel
and it's going to start zooming back out up to the end of the video so when you start working with
keyframes it can get quite complicated and the biggest tip that i want to give you just on this
video is that wherever your timeline marker is is where you're going to be creating keyframes so
let's say my video I've got my marker here and i change this to something like that i'm going
to create a new position marker now that is going to change the look and feel of what happens okay
so if you've accidentally created extra markers and you don't mean to then it's very easy to do
you just have to click on this delete button here the way to edit a marker is to click on it first
and then if you change any of this all it's going to do is edit this keyframe it's not
going to keep on changing things and making it do distorted things that you're not expecting so
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