Zooming and panning within a fixed-size frame

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Step 1: Nest your still image

Step 2: double click on the nested sequence

Step 3: animate with keyframe. Don't resize

Step 4: go back to the master sequence

Step 5: click once on the nested sequence, resize and change position.

Here's a video explaining those steps:

https://youtu.be/C5CyLvsL8mM

is this what you're trying to do?

https://vimeo.com/452706628 

this is with motion paramenters in the nest...  Happy to share project with timeline if you like...

working with nests solves a lot of problems, otherwise please post a screen recording of your issue

OK, based on everything you’ve said so far, here are a few key things about Premiere Pro that should help you get there simply and quickly.

Nesting an image (or video) in its own sequence is instant, because if you simply drag a media item in the Project panel to the New icon, a new sequence will be created that contains that media and exactly matches the media pixel dimensions. Now that media is in a frame of the same exact size, with no math needed.

The slow part is that you would have to do this for each media item you want to animate in a frame, because each of them needs to be in its own sequence. Do not drag more than one at a time, because that would build a single sequence with multiple items (great for a slide show, but not for what you want to do here).

Once you have a sequence for each media item, you drag these (not the original media items) into the master sequence, which makes them nested sequences. This is what you have to do so that each media item can be animated inside its own frame limits.

How do you animate each? Double-click one of the media item sequences to open it, in its Timeline select the original media item, and look in the Effect Controls panel. Enable keyframes for the properties you want to animate, and then you have two time-saving choices to do your pan/zoom:

• Click to select the Motion heading so that a bounding box appears around the media items in the Program panel. Now you can position and scale using that bounding box and its handles.
• In the Effect controls panel, scrub the values next to the properties you are animating.

Remember, you are not doing the animations in the master sequence; only in each individual nested media item sequence. When you’re done, your animations in each of the nested media item sequences will be visible in the master sequence. You can do the nested sequence pan/zooms either before or after you add those to the master sequence.

There’s one more thing I noticed: If you have multiple media items that need exactly the same pan/zoom, you can select one of them in the master sequence imeline, choose Edit > Copy, select the others, choose Edit > Paste Attributes and select Motion. That will copy the animation to the items you selected, though they will now have the same position so you’ll probably have to pull them apart in the Program panel and drag them to their final positions. But it means you only have to set up the pan/zoom once.

This is going to be both more flexible and higher quality than rendering out video and importing it back in for each item. Using nested sequences, you can keep making adjustments to each item at any time and they will continuously update the master sequence (no waiting for rendering, no extra export/import steps), and there will be no generational quality loss from rendering out and importing each item.

I would never have thought about using crop on an adjustment layer for this, works well.

Drop a adjustment layer over the image and add the CROP effect.

now you can pan and zoom the image without disturbing the edges.

build the move with the image full frame and then next it and scale it down...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ken+burns+premiere+pro&page=&utm_source=opensearch