Zoom In Effect

Mr McFisto

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2012 13:26 Messages: 2 Offline

Solved by

Dec 29, 2012 13:37

I would like to change the speed of the Zoom In effect - I know the speed is affected as you change the duration, however at 5 seconds (the duration I required) it's still too fast and the text I'm zooming in to is zooming off the screen.

On other projects I've worked on, the duration of 5 seconds was the correct speed, but as I'm now working on a new project and have added the Zoom In effect, it's too fast, and I cannot figure out how to slow the zoom down?

On a previous project which was zooming at the correct speed, as a test I deleted the effect, and readded it, and it was then too fast???

Is this possible or am I limited to the speed it runs at based on the duration?

I'm working with PowerDirector 9

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Dec 30, 2012 01:10

Hi Mr McFisto -

The way to control (a) the amount of zoom & (b) the speed of zoom with the zoom effect is to use keyframes.

Select the effect in the timeline, then click the Keyframe button. You'll see the last keyframe is set to 114 (default) - just move the sliders back to get the zoom you need.

Extra keyframes can be added, but 5 seconds isn't much to play with. The speed of the zoom is determined by how close the keyframes are. Closer = faster.

Cheers - Tony


Filename	ZoomEffect_KF.png	Download
Description
Filesize	102 Kbytes
Downloaded:	1489 time(s)

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Dec 30. 2012 01:10

Visit PDtoots. PowerDirector Tutorials, tips, free resources & more. Subscribe!
Full linked Tutorial Catalog PDtoots happily supports fellow PowerDirector users!

Mr McFisto

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2012 13:26 Messages: 2 Offline

Dec 30, 2012 04:53

Tony,

That was fantastic! Thank you, and thanks for such a quick reply.

BTW - great videos and tutorials!

Carl.