Hey, there's a feature in the new Filmora that allows you to make your zoom
effects happen a lot easier... especially if you're trying to move around a screen
zoom in and hang on a spot. I tried to talk about this in my live stream the other day
and I think I kind of failed so I want to get it right today
so let me show you how.
The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to open up my Filmora
panel and I'm gonna go over to Filmstocks and choose their free inventory
see if we can find something in the images category. Filmora has a lot of
great images that are free that you can use in your own project so stop by and
check some of them out here's one right here let's try this one right here
the Japan shrine I'll click for free download and they'll add that to my
computer desktop I should also mention that Filmora's trick-or-treat with Filmstocks
promotion goes on until November 15th and you could win a bunch of prizes
including a free GoPro Hero 8 black so make sure you swing over and click and
spin the wheel for your chances to win I'll leave a link in the description let
me show you how to do this so let's bring that image in that I pulled from
the Filmora Filmstocks site and I'm going to stretch this out a little bit
so it's a little bit longer I have more space to work with
it's not exactly sized for the 16 by 9 aspect ratio project that I'm working
with so an easy way to solve that is to right-click on your footage and click
crop to fit and if you notice in the upper right preview that image now fits
the screen entirely one thing I like to do is zoom around an image a lot of
times when I'm using screen capture as well and I'll go to one portion of the
screen and hang there for a while and then I'll move over to another and stay
there for a while zoomed in I'll show you the way I used to do that was to
open the crop and zoom tool and I'd click on pan and zoom and then I just
click inside the end window and put that where I wanted it to be let's say over
in this corner now if I wanted that zoom to only apply to say the first few
seconds of this image I would split that image right here that would allow me to
zoom into one portion of that image and get close up to some certain section
that I wanted to highlight but once I got there a lot of times I wanted to
stay there right now it's just repeating that zoom and what I used to do was I
would click on that second section open up the crop and zoom tool again click on
the pan and zoom feature and I would stack these boxes together basically I
would make each one of these be the same size
so that the start point was the same as the end point effectively I'm telling
the start point and the end point to be the same so that the zoom isn't really
moving anywhere it's just staying still it's not painting in it's not zooming
out and that was one way to do it but you can see sometimes getting those
boxes to align perfectly it's really tricky so I want to show you a better
way to do that that was pointed out to me by a community member named Lord
bucket head thank you lord bucket head we appreciate it shout out to you my
friend so if you split your footage you now have that pan and zoom effect
zooming in the same way it does on the first piece as it does the second and
you'll see if I play it it zooms in but then when it gets to that split in the
footage it just goes back to the full screen and starts zooming in again but
we want it to hang on that interior section where it's zoomed in too the way
to do that is right click on your second piece of footage and choose the crop and
zoom tool again and in the pan and zoom window what you want to do is right now
the start is the larger section let me move that over so you can see it and the
zoomed in section the end is the smaller window let's use the reverse keys to
make the end window now the larger one we've just changed the assignment do you
see what I'm saying so that smaller point is now the start point if we now
click over to crop crop assumes that the start point is your crop and it now says
okay that's our crop and it assigns it as the crop to this section overriding
the pan and zoom and just hanging there so when I hit play it will zoom in get
to this point and stay there how cool is that
no longer do you have to match those boxes together let me show you that one
more time so you understand just make sure the smaller window where you want
to hang is now the start window reverse use those reverse arrows and once that's
the sign is the start window hit crop it will save it as a stationary object hit
OK and you are good to go bomb look at it hang there Lord Buckethead thank you
so much for that tip! I hope that's helpful to you! Make sure you head over
and spin that wheel one more time on the Filmora website
for your chance to win more prizes from Filmora. I'll see you soon!
Peace!