Hey everyone Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal. Today I'm going to show you three cool techniques
you can do to create different punches and zoom effects on your footage I'll be showing you
the basic cut punch in which is quite popular the digital zoom in effect and motion tween
the thing you need to remember when you're zooming in on your footage
is that as you zoom in it will add more pixelation so that's why it's better to use
higher quality footage of course if you don't have 4k you can still do the effect
you can see it on lots of Youtuber edits for that comedic zoom in effect
and it's completely fine so for this particular demo clip i'm using a stock video clip from envato
elements if you want to get the downloadable preview version with a watermark to follow along
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my link below i'll tell you more about them later for now let's go ahead and jump on in
the punch cut is the easiest type of zoom in and it doesn't involve any key framing at all simply
move the playhead to the point where you want to punch in then press c on your keyboard to
bring up the cut tool and then you can cut along the playhead to create the first cut
then you can make another cut where you want the punch end to end and go back to that wide shot so
now we have this middle clip here just select it and then go up to the effect controls panel
and here you can adjust the position and the scale so now when we play it back it starts wide and
then it punches in and then it goes wide again so this is a great effect to do if you want to
call attention to one area of your screen let's go ahead and move on to the digital
camera zoom effect the digital camera zoom effect is essentially when you're zooming into an image
from point a to point b you can use the same technique if you're zooming out or zooming in so
for this while you can keyframe both the position and the scale to zoom into your image it's
actually easier to first move the anchor point the anchor point is that little tiny blue dot in
the center of the image in the video that you can move it's essentially the default center so what
you can do to move this anchor point into place is first go to effect controls and you can select the
anchor point and then when you go to the program monitor you can hover over the anchor point
until you get this little black and white kind of icon and then you can click and move it anywhere
and it doesn't move the image or the video around so just move it to the point where you want it to
zoom in whether it's somebody's nose somewhere in the face somewhere in the background until you get
it into place and now we just need to keyframe the scale so first make sure that your keyframes are
enabled on the scale by clicking the stopwatch if it's enabled the stopwatch will be blue
click the add keyframe button to create your starting point then move the playhead to the point
where you want it to be fully zoomed in and then increase the scale up to however much you want and
lastly to make it smooth you can select this last keyframe right click and select ease in and this
is our final really smooth the digital zoom in now on to motion tween so for this third method it's
by far my favorite and the fastest method but it does involve a plug-in called motion tween which
is by film impact film mpacts did not sponsor this i just really really love this tool i use it all
the time because it doesn't involve keyframing and you might be asking gal why would i buy something
when you just showed me two free methods well touche it makes sense you could definitely use
those two free methods but the reason why i use this is it saves me time and when you're editing a
lot and having to change keyframes all the time it adds up another reason is if you decide to change
the scale of your clip later on after you've done the animation it screws up the keyframes so if you
have to redo that all the time it eats up time but using motion tween you don't need to do keyframing
so let me demonstrate how it works so just like the punch cut we're going to make a cut where
we want the zoom to start and then you're going to go to the clip to the right of the cut and go
to effect controls and scale it up and reposition it until you want it in the zoomed location okay
so once that is done instead of going to keyframe you're actually going to go to effects and search
for motion tween and then drag and drop this effect at the cut point like a transition but when
we play it back you can see that it did something strange there's something weird happening a black
frame well that's because we have to update the render options so you need to go to the motion
tween effect controls and change the blood mode to composite and that's really important here so
once that is done you can just hit enter to render it out quickly and look at that we have our smooth
zoom in without any keyframes at all one thing you might ask is how do you change the duration
of the zoom to be slower or faster you can just grab the end of this transition the motion tween
and lengthen it out to make it longer in duration or push it in to make it shorter so that's how you
use motion tween i made a whole another video on cool tricks you can do with motion tween
and i'll link to it right up here so you can watch that other video and check it out there
so those are the three zoom methods you can start using in your own edits if you have any other
tools that you use to create easy zooms i'd love to know below just leave a comment and let me know
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