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browj2 wrote on 7/8/2019, 7:12 PM

Hi,

Assuming that you have MEP2019 Plus or Premium (you didn't say), select the photo, go to the Effects tab, View/Animation, Size/Position and you have all of the tools necessary to zoom in and out and move the image around, along with the keyframing area below. You need to learn how to use these.

Obviously, you zoom in at or near the start and drag the image to the starting position. Set a keyframe. Move to where you want the effect to end, click on Center and Movie Size and an ending keyframe will be set full size and centred.

Alternatively, go to Camera/Zoom shot, click on From section button and reshape the dashed rectangle on the monitor by dragging the handles in to zoom in and moving the rectangle over the eyes. Under Duration, leave it as "Over full duration" to start. Press on Play. Magix!

Look at the keyframe area. There is one at the beginning of the clip, the other at the end. Under Camera/Zoom shot, switch the Duration to 2 second edge. The keyframes move in leaving 2 seconds at the beginning before zooming in, and the zoom ends 2 seconds from the end. Adjust timing by dragging a keyframe left or right.

You can switch to Size/Position and make whatever adjustments that you want by selecting the keyframing and then modifying the zoom or position. If you are not on a keyframe and adjust something, then a keyframe will be added at that point. The rest is simply learning and practicing what these do.

John CB

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browj2 wrote on 7/9/2019, 12:24 PM

Here are a couple of old tutorials to help you understand zooming and panning using keyframing:

https://www.magix.info/us/tutorials/how-to-create-ken-burns-effects--858590/

https://www.magix.info/us/tutorials/movement-effects--1192345/

John CB

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Desktop System - Windows 10 Pro 22H2; MB ROG STRIX B560-A Gaming WiFi; Graphics Card Zotac Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX-3060, PS; Power supply EVGA 750W; Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz (UHD Graphics 630); RAM 32 GB; OS on Kingston SSD 1TB; secondary WD 2TB; others 1.5TB, 3TB, 500GB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB, 8TB; three monitors - HP 25" main, LG 4K 27" second, HP 27" third; Casio WK-225 piano keyboard; M-Audio M-Track USB mixer.

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