Panning & Zooming

[wkadams]

I am using pro X4 on windows 7. For my current project I am doing a slide show with added titles and audio. I decided to try pan & zoom. So on the menu bar I selected edit and then selected auto pan & zoom. This applied pan & zoom to all the photos (over 100). As I have previewed the results, I find the pan & zoom effects for many of the photos is not appropriate meaning faces are being cut off etc. I know I can go in and customize the settings for pan & zoom and even copy the attributes to all the photos. At this point what I really want to do is turn off pan & Zoom. I can't figure out how to do that. I select auto pan & zoom from the edit menu with no impact. I select a photo and open the option window. The radio button for pan & zoom indicates that it is active. I can't deselect the radio button. I just can't figure out how to turn off pan & zoom. I would like to do it to all the photos in one step like I turned it on. Any suggestions?

[Ron P.]

You need to select the radial button for Resample Option, this will de-select the Pan/zoom. Also depending on how many undo levels you have set, if you don't like what you've done, you can always use the Undo (Control +Z) and undo it. So you apply the Auto Pan/zoom, preview it and don't like them, just use the undo.

Now with that said, applying pan/zoom (Ken Burns effect), will almost always require some fine tuning, especially if you just have the program decide. The pan/zoom can be customized, even keyframed.

• Double-click on a photo you need to customize the pan/zoom. This will cause the Options panel to open up to the Photo tab.
• Here you see the radial button selected for Pan/zoom, and the "canned" pan/zoom templates. Click on the Customize.
• In the Customize dialog window, you see 2 previews, named Original and Preview. Beneath them is a timeline. This is where you keyframe your effect.
• In the lower left there is the Anchor settings, which are those boxes. The frame can be anchored to the center, upper-right, upper-left, lower-center and so on, by pressing one of those boxes.
• Zoom Ratio slider, allows you to set the zoom level in percentage, from 100% which is full size, to 1,000%.
• Transparency slider, allows you to set the transparency or opacity of your photo. You can use this to create a fade-in/fade-out for the photo.
• Background Color, default is black, click on the black color swatch or use the eyedropper to change it.
• No Panning, check this box to allow just zooming in.
• Best for last---The Timeline. You see red triangles on the timeline at the start and end duration points. There's also buttons on the top-left of the timeline. Those buttons are for adding/removing keyframes, moving the keyframe, jumping to the next/previous keyframes, or inverting the whole thing. Keyframing in video editing is what really gives you the freedom to do what you need to do. Just move the playhead by grabbing the triangle above the red keyframe, and dragging it. Stop where you want to change things, press the + Add Keyframe (you can also right-click on the timeline and choose Insert). Now make changes by moving the sliders, or you can grab one of the yellow corner handles in the Original window, and dragging to resize/zoom, or move it for panning.

That should give you enough to get started with customizing your pan/zooms so they look how you want them to.

[wkadams]

Ron

Thank you very much for taking the time to give me some instructions. It helped a lot. I experimented with your instructions and think I got a pretty good handle on Pan & Zoom.
WK Adams