Post production digital pan and zoom is a very useful editing tool which gives our project that professional look and feel. Let's apply them to our music video clip.
- The media clip we will be dealing with is the shot of the singer sitting on his luggage at the side of the road on the timeline at 00:01:11:00 from Take 3. Go to this clip and click on the Event Pan/Crop tool icon on the right-hand end of this clip.
- A new window will open showing a still from the media clip with a letter F over it in a bounding box with eight adjustable boxes around it. You will notice below the frame a timeline with a track header that says Position and below that Mask. We will be dealing with the Position track. This timeline represents the duration of the selected media clip, which in this case is about 00:00:04:20 in length:
- Now by clicking on the timeline within the Event Pan/Crop window at around three seconds in, you will see that the image in the frame updates to the event at that time. You will notice that the character waiting is looking at his watch. As the lyric of the songs says Please don't make me wait here forever at this point, it would be good to bring the viewers attention to this moment.
- With the cursor sitting at the 00:00:03:00 mark in the Event Pan/Crop window, activate the sync cursor icon which is highlighted in yellow in the next screenshot:
- Grab the top-right adjustment tab of the frame and move it towards the center of the image. If you can still see your preview monitor, you will notice the zooming in effect we are creating, and also that a small diamond has appeared on the position track in the Event Pan/Crop window timeline at the point the cursor is sitting at. You will also note that there is one at the very beginning of the timeline. These two diamonds represent the two positions of the Pan / Crop frame. One for the start position and one for the end position. Multiple points are allowable where you can move the Pan / Crop boxes multiple times and positions within a clip.
- If you right-click directly onto one of the diamonds, you will see they have a variety of settings such as Cut, Copy, Paste, Linear, Fast, Slow, Smooth, and so on. If you change both our diamonds to Smooth, in our example you will see the zoom now feels even more like an actual in-camera zoom. Alternatively, if you set the first diamond to Hold, the frame won't move from its first position until it reaches the second diamond and there it will quickly jump to the second position. All these options are creative tools that you can explore at your leisure to see how they affect your edits.
- Close or dock the Event Pan/Crop window and make sure you can see the preview monitor. Click the cursor just to the left of the media clip we have been dealing with on the main timeline and hit play. Now you will see the panning / zooming effect we just created. The speed of this zoom is editable by simply clicking on the right-hand diamond and sliding to the left to speed up the zoom or to the right to slow it down.
- Also, one thing we have to be conscious of in doing this is the quality of the media clip. As we zoom in we are in effect reducing the number of pixels that are being used to display the image, so if we zoom in too far on a low resolution image it will start to show up as grainy or jagged edge footage. As you deal with higher quality HD footage in your projects, the amount of zoom allowable increases dramatically.
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