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theRealPedron
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April 15, 2019
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How to use zoom and maintain proper scale?

  • April 15, 2019
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I've been searching for a bit on this, including in this forum, and can't find an answer that works for me. I have a video that I am using the Zoom effect with. I move it around during the video. However, the aspect ratio on the video is wonky for most of the zooms. It's ok for a couple. For the bad ones it's all stretched and looks terrible. Is there a way to get this to look better, or am i going to have to calculate the aspect for each zoom? 😃

thanks!

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Correct answer kevina41766135

Yes, you want to be using the Motion/Scale effect! (Just to be sure, you know how to work with keyframes, right?)

Premiere Pro: Animate the Scale, Location & Rotation of Images Using Keyframes - YouTube

Not sure why you would have to crop anything at all. Just make keyframes for the "scale" and "position" of the video, and you can effectively "zoom" into the video by just making the video larger. Don't worry about the parts of the video that are gonna be outside of the frame.

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theRealPedronAuthor
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April 19, 2019

Yeah. i was WAY off with using the ZOOM flag on the crop tool. The scale/position keyframe combo works WAY WAY better. live and learn! thanks everyone for the input. i REALLY appreciate it

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    April 16, 2019

    Motion/Scale shouldn't change aspect ratios at all. How are you zooming?

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    theRealPedronAuthor
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    April 16, 2019

    Neil, i appreciate your reply. It made me realize i broke the first rule of foruming.... Thou shalt be clear and concise! =)

    What i meant to say in my original post is that I am using the Crop Effect, and the zoom tool in that. It works great! The only problem is that if the space i need to zoom is too small it doesn't work well.

    My solution is that I just zoom in on it, then play around with the 4 different crop properties until it looks right. it's working for now.

    The other solution was to use the actual zoom... but if I want to zoom different parts of the screen i'd have to move my video all around, right? there is probably a gap in my knowledge here (i'm a newbie still, so i have lots of those!), but this is working.

    The video is a technical instruction, so I'm zooming in and out of different sections of the screen constantly. Do you have any suggestions for how to do this besides using the Crop effect, combined with the zoom switch? thanks!

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    kevina41766135Correct answer
    Inspiring
    April 16, 2019

    Yes, you want to be using the Motion/Scale effect! (Just to be sure, you know how to work with keyframes, right?)

    Premiere Pro: Animate the Scale, Location & Rotation of Images Using Keyframes - YouTube

    Not sure why you would have to crop anything at all. Just make keyframes for the "scale" and "position" of the video, and you can effectively "zoom" into the video by just making the video larger. Don't worry about the parts of the video that are gonna be outside of the frame.

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