Zooming on hardlocked overlay photo

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I have a photo that I want to include in a video. I want to place it in the lower fourth the of the video. Then I want to zoom that photo into a portion of the photo, without changing the size or location of the original photo. I know that involves keyframes, but I’m having trouble with it. Can anyone help me?

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Hi @carrot761. Easy method:
Photo selected, add 2 filters Size, Position & Rotation.
Select the 2nd filter and position the photo in lower fourth.
Select 1st filter, cursor at start of animation point.
Activate the keyframe timer.
Position cursor at end of animation. Zoom in and position the photo. A keyframe is add.
(While creating the zoom, you can disable the 2nd filter).

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@SergeC solution is good. If you only want to keep the image centered while zooming in and not worry about re-positioning you can instead:

  • add Size, Position & Rotate
  • adjust initial size and position
  • make a note of the Position and Size coordinates (Shotcut has a Notes panel you can use for this.)
  • use keyframes to animate the zoom in using the Zoom parameter or mouse wheel
  • add a Crop: Rectangle filter
  • set the Position and Size using the noted/pasted values
  • set its padding color to transparent
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That worked like your video shows, but by the time I had the zoom where I want it the grab button for panning the photo was off screen. Question. What is the technical signifcance of have two of the same filter? Just curious.

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Bruce Simon WHS CO 1940
Bruce Simon WHS CO 19401920×2699 595 KB

I’m wanting to have this photo in the lower left of my video and zoom and pan to show Mr. Simon in the photo close up.

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2 other ways to move:

  • change the parameters using their numeric field
  • read and follow this message that appears whenever the Size, Position & Rotate filter is selected that lets you drag from anywhere inside the rectangle control:
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Thanks for that tip. It will come in handy.

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Using both your suggestions and SergeC suggestion I have it working. I still don’t know the significance of two filters of the same type, but it works. Would like to understand that, though. Thanks so much.

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The first filter is used to zoom your image. The second one is used to prevent the zoomed image from exceeding the desired limit at the bottom of the screen.

Here’s a demo.
Note that, as suggested by @shotcut, I used a Crop: Rectangle filter instead of a second Size, Position & Rotate filter. It does the same job, but it is known to be less of a resource hog.

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Thank you for that suggestion. I’ll try it.