Simple Pan & Zoom

[ProfZArkov]

I am a bit exasperated - years ago I used to make slideshows with Windows 7 and their MediaPalyer. It had a simple slideshow creator and it had a Pan & Zoom transition. I even think it randomly changed the zooming & panning from slide to slide.  I just bought the latest PTE AV studio Pro and it has lots of transitions but NO pan & zoom.  Is there an easy way to apply a simple pan & zoom to a small slide show?

[SeismicGuy]

I had a similar frustration when I first moved from using MemoriesOnTV (a slideshow software that is no longer available) to PTEAV.  MOTV had an option to apply random pan/zoom to all of the slides (or whatever slides you wanted) but you would still need to go back afterwards to fine-tune them.  The closest thing that PTEAV has is the Ken Burns Effect Theme (a Theme is just a collection of Styles).  The KBE Theme has 8 styles that are variations of Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects and you can apply the Theme to as many slides as you select.  Again you need to go back afterwards and fine tune the result since it may be zooming out on a slide you wanted to zoom in to or might be panning right to a slide that you wanted to pan left, etc.  It also helps to watch the tutorial videos that can be found via the Forum.

[jkb]

Too many Pans & Zooms can leave your audience feeling seasick!

The effects can take over & you end up watching them & not the actual content of the Slides.

If you must do it then do it yourself in O&A, it is very simple using Keyframes.

Click on the Slide in the Slide List, open Objects & Animation.
Click the image so that it is highlighted & drag with the mouse on any of the grab handles around the edge.
You can easily Zoom it in by dragging, or click anywhere on the image & drag left/right/up/down as required.

Right Click the blue KeyFrame & select Clone. This creates a 2nd KeyFrame, drag that along the Timeline to where you want it & adjust the image size/position to where you want it to end.

Press play & see how it looks.

All very easy & simple to achieve exactly the effect you want.

Jill