In this video, we're going to look at how to add, zoom in and zoom out effect on our clips I've got.
A clip of a person playing guitar from Videocon, let's just put that in our timeline, there's no audio
because it's not important for today.
If I press play, it's just a really nice video of a stationary camera that was on a tripod of somebody
playing a guitar.
And you could see the right hand and left hand are doing their thing.
And it's video.
What I want to do is zoom into this person's right hand just to show a close up of how he's playing
the guitar.
And of course, that's what we assume ends and zoom out for because we want to show something on the
screen in a little bit more detail.
Let's go to our VFX, making sure that our tracks are nice and big so that we can see them.
And what we're going to do is very quickly just scan the video and I'll say about here, I'm going to
press I on my keyboard market in.
And about here, I'm going to mark o an out using the oh my keyboard so that I've got a region where
I want to apply my TV.
I'm going to click on Plus make sure I've chosen TV from the list, pick up a 2D and throw it inside
that little region I just marked.
I'm going to get rid of the ins and outs so that we can see clearly what we're doing.
And you can see that I've now got a region inside which I can now zoom in and do whatever I want to.
So let's do that right now.
So using my scale and master, I'm going to just drag it up and go to about there.
That's cool.
Now, obviously, I've zoomed into the center of the picture, which is useless.
So go to my position of X.
I can now move it so that you can just see the hand.
And if you notice, if I go too far, the video will shoot off the side of the screen.
Let's put that back where it is because that looks really bad.
And if we just watch this video now, you can see that's the original video.
And then the zoom comes in so you can watch the detail of the right hand and then it jumps straight
back out to the original video.
Now, although that effect can look really cool in some videos in this case, I think the jumping in
and the jumping out of that zoom is actually quite upsetting to the viewers eyes.
It's really not a nice effect.
So what we need to do is animate this, zooming in and zooming out so it looks kind of smoother.
So let's just go back to our TV now for this to actually work.
I'm going to zoom in quite a bit so that we can actually see what we're doing here.
Let me just find where I am.
There we go.
So we'll go to the start over here and what we want is really the first frame, which is really that
one.
They're not first frame of our DVD where we've zoomed in.
I'm not going to go to the master, click on the clock and go to the X and click the clock.
And you can see that right at the bottom here where my key frames are in, I've got a key frame.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to count 15 frames in, so I'm going to go one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
And I'm going to mark another set of key frames here.
And you can see that now I've got a key frame on frame one and 15 frames later, I've got another key
frame.
I'm going to go back to my original key frame.
That's the first one there.
And I'm going to reset the X to zero point five and I'm going to reset the master to one.
So really, the zoom, when it starts, it starts at the original size.
And then it zooms in to the area I want to show, so let me show you that at real speed.
Which is a really cool, smooth zoom effect, so it's going to zoom in now, let's just zoom out using
my magnifying glass.
Let's just watch that again.
You can see that's a really smooth effect.
Now, if you want a slower zoom in, of course, I counted 15 frames.
You can count 24 frames or however many frames you want to.
I think 15 frames works really quite well.
Now, of course, we have to animate the zoom out effect, which is going to be at the end.
So let's go to the end.
So that's our last DVD and I'm going to count 15 frames back in.
So that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
I'm going to mark some key frames like so I'm going to leave those there because of course, at that
frame, I assume, in effect should be still there.
And I'm going to now forward to the very last frame.
Of our DVD, let me just zoom in a little bit, because I know Lightworkers can be funny with the cursor
keys, so that definitely is the last frame because there I am.
And what I'm going to do, because I've already got the key frames at the end, I'm going to put the
X back to zero point five and the master scale back to one.
So if I now zoom out, what we should have is zoom in effect, watch the detail that you want to show
and then at the end, a zoom out effect.
So if we have a look at this video again, I think you'll agree this zooming in with animations and
zooming out with animations just adds a really nice effect to your videos and makes everything you do
look a bit more professional.