Most people who have done any video editing are familiar with how to do pan and zoom in edit
But today, I'm going to show you a few of tricks you may not have tried.
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I'm going to be using Filmora's pan and zoom
But even if you're using a different video software
you can still use these very same techniques.
The first one I want to show you is the pan and zoom opener.
I use this one all the time.
You can certainly start a video by just starting your first clip
Like this.
Welcome to the channel! My name is Daniel and today we'll be covering Filmora's pan & zoom.
Or... you could use a really fast pan and zoom to accentuate the beginning
Like this...
Welcome to the channel! My name is Daniel and today we'll be covering Filmora's pan & zoom.
Another pan and zoom effect I use is the pand and zoom transition.
I'ts similar to the "whip pan", but this is done completely in post.
What I do is pick a spot somewhere in the frame,
Usually in one of the corners and then zoom in on it.
For instance, I'm going to zoom in on the upper left hand corner.
Are you ready? Here we go!
Because the camera was moving inward and upward at the same time
technically this is a pan AND zoom effect.
In fact, I'm using pan and zoom effects right now
to accentuate the motion of my hands.
I can use this pan and zoom technique
to transition into the next piece of footage.
Because the camera was up and to the left
as if we were throwing it to a new piece of footage,
we want the next transition to start from the lower right.
That would look something like this.
Now let's take those two pieces of footage and put them together.
Are you ready? Here we go.
Did you see how cool that looked?
It looked like some fancy camera motion or expensive transition
but it was actually a simple pan and zoom.
Now let me show you how to do both of those in Filmora.
With Filmora open and a video clip in your timeline
select the portion where you want your pan and zoom transition to occur.
I find that these work best when used rapidly
with around 16 frames of footage used for the entire transition (at 30 fps)
So from the first piece of footage,
Let's seperate 8 frames from the end of the clip.
We want to right-click on that footage and open up the video menu.
Click on "crop and zoom"
and a crop and zoom window will open up.
Click on the "pan and zoom" option and in the left hand window
You'll see 2 frames appear
One inside the other.
If you look in the lower left of each frame
They say "start" and "end".
These define the size of the first frame
and the last frame of your video clip.
And once you enter those parameters
the software will automatically create a camera pan
or zoom between those two shapes.
In our first clip, we want to start with the full frame.
then pan and zoom to a very small frame in the upper left-hand corner.
So, we'll click on the end frame
so that we can shrink it
and drop it up in the left hand corner.
Click "OK" and let's move onto our second section.
Let's isolate 8 frames from the beginning of this clip.
Right-click... click on the "crop and zoom"
and in the "Pan and Zoom" window
we want to reverse this motion.
In the left just above this window
there are 2 arrows.
If you click on this
It allows us to swap the two frames
making the end frame the start frame, and vice versa.
Let's shrink the size of the start frame and drag it down to the lower right corner.
Click "OK"... and, as always
Let's render our footage for smooth playback.
Now let's look at our transition.
Perfect.
The way we do the second half of that transition
is exactly how I do the intro I showed you.
Isolate about 6 or 8 frames from the beginning of your sequence
Right-click
Click "pan and zoom"
and then click on the arrows to swap the end frame to the start frame.
And then just decide where you want to pan in from.
A lot of times, I like to pick an interesting spot in the frame
because even though it goes by really quickly
your brain subconsciously picks up what it sees
and it'll recognize it as being either something smooth and cool
or clunky and awkward.
Let's zoom in on my eyes in this case
because although I'm never the center of attention in my own household,
I am in this piece of footage.
And there is our intro zoom shot.
You can do this with almost any video editing software
but if you'd like to try Filmora for free
I'll put a link in the description below.
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WAIT!
Here comes the Pan & Zoom