Pan and Zoom question

[cinedan]

I am using Videostudio 11+ trial version. I printed out the entire user guide and am not impressed with it. I found out on this board how to use keyframes better.

Using a photograph in my slideshow presentation, I would like to start the 6 second clip with a close-up of someone's face and hold that close-up for the first 2 seconds before the picture zooms out to full frame. I just want to know how to do a short pause during the clip.

[pdunn]

how about cutting the clip into a 2 sec and a 4 sec segments, and applying the zoom only to the latter ?

[Black Lab]

This is where you put the keyframes to work. By default you already have 2 keyframes - one at the beginning and one at the end.

Click on the first keyframe to activate it, move the crosshairs over the face you want to zoom in on, then adjust the percentage of the zoom that you want.

Now move two seconds forward in the Pan & Zoom timeline and add another keyframe. Use the same attributes for this keyframe that you used for the first.

For the end keyframe move the crosshairs to the middle of the picture, and set your zoom level to 100%.

[cinedan]

Thank you, Black lab!

It worked! I found that using the (snap to) grid helped to put the 2nd keyframe exactly where the first one was.

[Black Lab]

Cool.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Jeff said (Now move two seconds forward in the Pan & Zoom timeline and add another keyframe. Use the same attributes for this keyframe that you used for the first.)

You can copy the attributes from one key frame to the another

Right click the first key frame and select copy.
Right click the second key frame and select paste

Hope this Helps

[Black Lab]

Thanks for that Trevor. I was working from memory and didn't want to steer the OP in the wrong direction if that wasn't the case. As you are well aware, some attributes can be copied and some can't...