Zooming

[Redexpress27]

I have just done a video with about 120 photos of which I needed to zoom into about 50 of them to pick a good aspect, more detail etc.

I've used the Pan and Zoom option and clicked the No Panning box.

The problem is that I only want to use the first key frame and not the second. Therefore I have to zoom into my picture to how I want it, then go to the second key frame and type the same zoom ratio in there to stop it moving to the default. I don't actually want zooming in or out just a zoom into the picture itself.

This is time consuming, increases the risk of errors and is really frustrating.

Is there just a straight zoom filter/function or a workaround at all?

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

What version of VS are you using? There is one time-saving step/feature, that is not in the earlier versions. First you do need to set the zoom level on the first key-frame. Then just right-click on the keyframe and select copy/paste to all. This will paste the zoom level to all keyframe, and since you only have the first and last keyframe, it is much quicker to do this then re-enter the levels.

Now that you have the zoom level set for this image, you need to apply it to the others, right? So first select the photo that you just set the zoom level, right-click, and from the menu select Copy Attributes. Now if you know that all your photos are going to use the same zoom level, or the ones that will, select them in the time-line. This is done in the traditional windows method. To select all adjacent images, click the first one, press and hold the Shift key, then select the last one. Or if you know which photos you want to have the same zoom level, pressing and holding the Control key while selecting. Once you have all the images selected, right-click and from the menu choose, Paste Attributes. All those images should now have the same zoom level..

[Redexpress27]

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the response. That's much better and I tested it in my version of VS PRO 3.

Thanks!