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Zooming: Quality Concepts
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Animations: In-Depth
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The Zoom-n-Pan tab offers a quick way to add zoom in, zoom out, and pan animations to the timeline.
Add zoom and pan animations to:
A Pan animation moves the video from side-to-side or up and down. When panning, the pan animations are all the same size.
To add a pan animation, you first need to add a zoom animation.
The timing of the zoom animation determines how long it takes to zoom in, zoom out, or pan.
Easing simulates acceleration and deceleration by applying the "look and feel" of friction and gravity. The addition of easing on an animation can positively affect the look of the animation since it appears smoother and more natural to the viewer. Animations without easing can look jerky and stops and starts can be too quick making them appear robotic.
By default, easing for animations is turned off. To turn easing on making it the default setting for all animations:
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Zoom rectangle |
The rectangle in the Preview Window indicates the position of the zoom animation within the video. To change the zoom position, click and drag the rectangle. |
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Maintain aspect ratio | Maintain the same aspect ratio for the zoom rectangle as it is sized. |
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Scale |
The zoom scale indicates the zoom percentage for a zoom and pan animation. To change the zoom scale:
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SmartFocus |
Automatically generate zoom and pan animations for TREC or CAMREC (Camtasia Studio version 8.3 and earlier), recordings on the timeline. Continue with Auto Zoom and Pan with SmartFocus™. |