Viewers have asked me, "Daniel how do you do that super smooth zoom around your
screen capture in Filmora? Mine always comes out janky and jittery" Well that's
because there's a very specific way you have to use your crop and zoom tool
stick around I'll show you how hit the subscribe button and click the
notification bell to be part of the conversation the first thing you want to
do is film your entire screen capture in full screen I use film or is built-in
screen recorder because I think it's one of the smoothest screen recorders out
there if you don't know how to do that I'll leave a link to show you how bring
your screen capture footage into Filmora and down into your timeline scroll
through your footage and find the first move you want to make now you don't want
to cut the footage or zoom at this point you actually want to crop the entire
piece of footage at once right click on the footage and select the crop and zoom
tool now crop down to where you want your first zoom to end this might seem
odd but this will give you the ability to always have a start point and a
finishing point throughout the entire movement once you have the crop right
where you want it and at the spot you want it to happen use your scissors tool
to slice the footage from here we'll scroll back a little bit so that we can
set up our first zoom let's cut a small section and click on the crop and zoom
tool again let's click on pan and zoom and the default end screen is in the
middle in orange we want our zoom to end where the current start box is so let's
reverse the two boxes by clicking the two little reverse arrows down below in
our preview window now the end box is the start box and vice-versa we wanted
to start with a full screen and zoom in so let's set our start position to full
screen and click OK the piece of footage before that was where we started and
that should just be full screen so let's open up the crop and zoom tool again and
just reset it so that it's back to full screen so now we have our first zoom
from full screen zooming in and landing in the upper right this is where you'll
really begin to understand why we did it this way from here the footage stays on
this upper corner shot for a second and then I want it to pan to the left so
let's drop a slice in right where we want the pan to be
open up the crop and zoom tool and create the pan to the left I know this
looks like we just took the entire rest of our footage and slowly panned it to
the left but if we scroll to where we want the pan to actually end and slice
the footage it will apply that same pan to the short piece of footage making for
a quick pan left the problem is the same pan is now applied to the remainder of
our footage on the right what we really want to have happen next is for our
camera to stay focused on the upper-left for a bit so let's open up the crop and
zoom tool again and here's the next trick you'll need to know even though we
want the footage to remain in one place we're going to use the pan and zoom
feature but this time we're going to drag our start box over resize it and
place it directly over the end box we've basically told filmora that the start
point and the end point of the pan and zoom are exactly the same so it will
just sit there without moving next we want to pan downward so we'll slice
right where we want the next move to begin and in the following piece of
footage open up the crop and zoom tool and this time we just want to move the
end box you'll notice when the two boxes are stacked on top of each other you can
click inside of them without moving them and it will change the selection from
one to the other select the end box which will make it
turn green and drag that down to our next location once we have the length of
that movement decided slice your footage right where you want that pan downwards
to end we want to hang there for a minute so you already know this trick in
the following footage drag the start box down resize it and place it right on top
of the end box is this starting to make sense let's do the reverse of that this
time and pan back upwards we'll put a slice right where we want the pan to
begin open up the crop and zoom tool click on pan and zoom click on the end
box and move that back up to the top we'll scroll ahead a little bit in our
footage to where we want the pan upwards to stop and slice again now we'll take
the remaining footage and use our stacked panning trick placing the start
box directly back on top of the end box to hold the focus on the upper left area
of the the next move is a pan and a zoom all
together we're going to move to the right and zoom in on this tiny little
part of the screen figure out where you want that pan and zoom to end slice the
footage and in the remaining footage drag your start box back over resize it
and place it right on top of your end box
the last move we'll make is from this tiny zoom spot back to fullscreen so
let's slice out the section that will be our pan and zoom outwards set it to go
from the tiny zoom box all the way back to fullscreen and then the very last
piece of footage which should just be our fullscreen end shot we'll just reset
the crop and zoom back to full screen and there you go we've just successfully
moved around our screen by always leaving each piece of footage with a
starting point and an ending point for reference you can do this with any kind
of footage not your screen capture so play around and see what you can come up
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