Video zooming

[budbon]

I have a video of some deer in the yard. When I shot the video I was zoomed out. Is there a way to zoom on a particular portion of a track? i'm missing something and can't figure it out. I want to zoom in on just one deer.

[Ron P.]

You should have a Video Pan/Zoom filter. Drop that from the FX Library onto your clip, then press the Customize button to customize it.

[joosuna]

One way would be to put the video clip on the overlay track, and expand the overlay video clip and move it around until you get your deer. One problem with that is that if your deer is not toward the center,
the borders of the video would show.

[BrianCee]

onr more thing you should be aware of - a video picture is basically a low resolution image and zooming in on a video in the editing stage will almost certainly result in some fuzzyness in the finished video.

[tinybeetle]

If you use the Pan and Zoom FX, set your in and out points to be the same percentage of increase and the same location on screen if you don't want the panning and zooming effect. There is a check box for that functionality within the effect, but sometimes it doesn't work.

From the sounds of it, actually using the pan and zoom feature would probably produce a nice effect for your video.