Using the pan and zoom tool in Adobe Premiere Elements, you can create video-like effects from images or movie clips. For movie clips, the effect works best when there is minimal movement of objects within the clip. Show
When working with the pan and zoom tool, you select objects and the order in which they are panned and zoomed into. Adobe Premiere Elements provides you with customization options using which you can apply the effect according to your requirements. Apply pan and zoom effectYou can apply pan and zoom effect on any image with a format that Adobe Premiere Elements supports. For a list of supported image formats, see Supported file formats. For movie clips, you can create an image out of a single frame using Freeze Frames. Import the image into the Adobe Premiere Elements timeline and apply the pan and zoom effect.
The tool auto detect faces and automatically create pan and zoom sequences focusing on the faces. The Pan and Zoom tool follows the 'Z' pattern while detecting and creating sequences for recognized faces. Select Reverse Automatic Panning Direction option in the settings dialog box to follow the 'S' pattern. You need to reset and re-apply the setting for changes to take place for already applied frames. Pan and Zoom settings Adding focus framesBefore you apply the pan and zoom effect, you identify the objects in the image that you want to pan or zoom into using focus frames. Focus frames are resizable rectangles that identify the location of the object in an image. For images with more than three focus frames, only the selected focus frame, and the focus frames previous and next to it in the sequence are displayed. If a picture has not been analyzed previously, the following focus frames appear when you click the pan and zoom tool icon: Focus frame
Pan and zoom tool: Timeline and thumbnail view
Add focus frames manually
For images with more than three focus frames, only the selected focus frame and the focus frames previous and next to it in the sequence are displayed. Add focus frames to previously analyzed imagesFrame hints are red colored rectangles displayed on the media. When you click a frame hint, it is converted to a focus frame. Ensure that you click the frame hint only once. Double-clicking a frame hint adds two focus frames. Modifying focus framesMove focus frames
Reorder focus frames to modify panning sequence (photos only)The number on focus frames determines the panning sequence, the sequence in which objects are panned into. For example, the focus shifts to the object with focus frame 3 after the object with focus frame 2 is panned.
Resize focus frames
Delete focus frames
Change pan durationChanging the pan duration changes the time for moving from one focus frame to the next. The pan duration appears on the connector between two focus frames.
Alternatively, you can adjust the focus frame markers in the timeline to change the pan duration. Change hold timeHold time is the duration for which the focus stays on an object before panning comes into effect. Increasing the hold time increases the time for which the object is displayed when in focus.
Alternatively, you can change the hold time by horizontally dragging the right side marker of a focus frame in the timeline. Preview pan and zoom effect
Change default settings
Use zoom to accurately position focus framesThe zoom options in the pan and zoom toolbar help reduce the size of a focus frame beyond what is possible in the normal view. Zoom option For example, the focus frame in normal view is now reduced to a size beyond which it can be reduced no further. However, the size is still not small enough for the object on which you want to focus. In such cases, zoom into the object, and then reduce the size of the focus frame. Apply pan and zoom effect on videosPan and zoom effect works best with videos that have minimal movement of objects in the movie clip. You can create only one focus frame for every movie frame in the movie clip.
You can work with focus frames in videos the same way that you work with focus frames for images. However, only those options that are relevant to movie clips appear in the pan and zoom tool. |