A Guide To Seamless Smooth Zoom Transitions In Premiere Pro

in today's video we're going to be talking about zoom transitions so whether you're in fake new york and las vegas or you zoom out of that area and decide hey i want to take a little google earth trip to zoom into the real time square in new york city or to do a transition back from times square to my edit bay here in austin texas the concept behind how to do these kind of smooth trendy seamless transitions is the same and that's to solve the fundamental video editing challenge of real estate obviously i don't mean this kind of real estate in fact that wasn't a real sign it was just masked over uh what i really mean is when you zoom out in premiere pro how do you fill in this real estate well the solution is somewhat easy to implement once you understand how it works imagine this is your full frame that you have available to fill your clip with right to demonstrate what i mean here are two shots edited together with a zoom transition now let me play that again but i'll stop it at the transition point and it's right here that we can see the solution to our quote-unquote real estate conundrum if you can't see it yet let me elaborate this way to fill this empty black void of trendy transitionness what we do is replicate the video frame so it surrounds that clip next we want to make the edges of our main center clip seamless so we'll do a mixture of rotating and flipping the duplicates in a way that mirrors the sides there is now double the amount of space to scale your clips without revealing any black outline and this setup may look odd at first but what sells the effect is motion blur and the speed at which you zoom in or out now that we have a basic understanding of how these zoom transitions work i want to show you two ways in which i would go about creating a smooth seamless zoom in and zoom out transition inside premiere pro the first way would be to build your transition manually from start to finish which i am going to show you in a second or if you want to save time what you just witnessed was the amount of time it took me to apply a smooth zoom in and zoom out to the clips that you saw at the very beginning of this video utilizing my preset pack all together there's 70 different transitions in that preset pack six of those are zooms that's all i kind of want to plug about my preset pack if you want to learn more about it it's in the description below i just wanted to offer an option to those of you that wanted to get these kind of effects into your edits as quick as possible but if you want to learn how to do it yourself let's dive right into it for this we'll be creating a smooth zoom out transition here and a smooth zoom in transition here a lot of the steps for both of these transitions are going to be similar so i'm going to primarily focus on showing you the steps when i'm zooming out and then if there are any differences i'll show that to you with the zoom in transition now if you're curious as to how i made this clip all i'm doing is using google earth studio to create this camera movement from one location to the other if you're interested in a more in-depth video about something like that let me know in the comments down below because this google earth studio clip already has natural zoom built into it i'll also create a second example showing you how i would keyframe a stationary clip let's start with the sequence settings this transition is possible with any resolution but if you're following along my sequence settings are 4k uhd with a frame size of 3840x21 and a frame rate of 23.976 if you're using any other settings than this the numbers for your position scale and anchor points will be different than mine also make sure that your clips are the same frame size as your sequence if they're not just scale them to where you need them to be and then nest them then you can continue to follow along i'll start here by moving the playhead to the edit point where i want the zoom out to occur holding shift i'll hit the left arrow key 4 times to go 20 frames to the left split the clip hold option on mac or alt on windows click and drag the clip to the layer above we don't need this duplicate just yet so i'll highlight the top clip right click and unenable i will repeat these same steps for the clip that we're zooming into move the playhead to the center go 20 frames to the right by holding shift and hitting the arrow key four times split the clip hold option on mac or alt on windows click and drag to duplicate right click and unenable now you may think in order to get a look like this we need to copy and paste nine versions of the clip position rotate and then nest that whole sequence but thankfully we can accomplish this same look with only one clip we're gonna start with this zoom out bottom clip in the effects window find replicate and put it on the clip next find mirror and apply this effect four times to the clip last search for transform and apply that to the clip in the effects controls window under replicate type three and we're getting pretty close to the look but now we need to achieve that seamless edge on the middle section as a visual demonstration of how to use these four mirror effects to achieve that seamless edge i'll move the reflection center to the middle of the frame and overlay a protractor png file that's right we're getting back into grade school math jokes aside watch what happens when i rotate the reflection angle 90 degrees this allows us to take the reflection center and position it at the bottom seam if i undo that and rotate it another 90 degrees to a total of 180 degrees we end up on this side allowing us to adjust the center to the left seam hopefully you're catching on that if we start at zero degrees and go in intervals of right angles or 90 degrees we'll be able to create a seamless mirror edge on all four sides of the clip so on the four mirror effects we're going to go in intervals of 90 degrees our first reflection angle is 0 degrees our second is 90 degrees our third is 180 degrees and our fourth is 270 degrees i'll toggle the effects off for the bottom three our first reflection angle is zero degrees click and drag the x parameter until you create a seam on the right side and for me that happens to be two five five nine theoretically i believe this is supposed to be two five six zero but that creates a slight gap so two five five nine it is toggle the 90 degree mirror on this one is different in that it's a horizontal mirror so we need to manipulate the y parameter moving the reflection center may seem confusing at first but you'll know which way to go because if you try and adjust it the wrong way like say i adjust the x nothing happens if i try and adjust the y up i start to see black underneath the clip so i know that i need to adjust this one down to create the bottom seam at one four three nine toggle on the 180 degree mirror and adjust the x to 1280 toggle on the 270 degree mirror and adjust the y to 720. we now have those beautiful seamless edges so before i move on i'm going to copy all of this information to the zoom in bottom clip right click the clip we've been working on hit copy right click the zoom in bottom clip and click paste attributes make sure each parameter is getting copied and hit okay now if you're only looking to do the zoom in transition all you need to do is follow the same steps i did for the zoom out clip but build them here on the zoom in clip now i'll show you how to keyframe the movement of the zoom out and then show you how to keyframe the zoom in first make sure you're working with the transform effect and not the motion effect because these have a lot of the same parameters people sometimes get confused i'll go one frame in from the edit point and toggle on animation for my scale next i'll hold shift and click the left arrow to go 15 frames to the left and create another keyframe for a zoom out scale the first keyframe up to 300 percent i'll open the scale up so you can see the next step highlight both keyframes right click ease in right click again ease out this gives the velocity a smooth exponential curve i like to take this movement a step further by pulling the handles for the keyframes towards the center like this next add motion blur by deselecting use composition shutter angle and you can add more motion blur by raising the shutter angle to a total of 360 but i think that's a little too much so i stick to around 180. now i'm gonna move this keyframe over one to the very edge of the clip wow it's almost like i'm a superhero flying off into the other new york video editing it's the coolest all right just like before we're going to apply these same concepts except in reverse for the zoom in transition toggle on the scale start at 100 go 15 frames to the right and scale up to 300 highlight both keyframes right click ease in right click ease out pull the handles of the keyframes towards the center deselect use shutter angle and change it to 180 degrees and now it looks a little something like this so cool right let me move on to why i had you duplicate the clips to that top layer if i zoom in on the program monitor and enable the top clip hopefully you're seeing that difference in quality from when the top clip is on and when it is off the reason our bottom layer looks lower quality is because it is it's zoomed in 300 percent so to fix this we put this second layer at 100 to maintain quality throughout the transition if that kind of doesn't make any sense let me showcase to you what i mean copy the transform effect from the bottom layer and paste it into the effects controls of the top layer next we need to adjust the ratio at which the zoom occurs so instead of starting at 300 we change it to 100 and instead of zooming out to 100 we need to zoom out to a third of the size or 33.3 percent if i move the playhead to the middle of the zoom out and turn off the bottom layer you can see that this top full resolution clip is taking up the middle while the bottom lower resolution clip is used to fill in all of that negative space around it thus helping us maintain a higher resolution throughout the zoom transition again for the zoom in portion of this let's repeat these steps but reverse the keyframes so copy and paste the transform effect from the bottom clip to the top clip and on the top clip you start at 33.3 percent and zoom into 100 the next effect i like to put on top of all of this is this kind of lens bending so as you're zooming in and out it kind of like opens up or like like you're pulling on the frame physically to do this go to your project bin in the bottom right click the new item icon adjustment layer hit ok right click the adjustment layer and go to speed duration here we have time code and i want to make it 30 frames so this is hours minutes seconds and frames in order to make this 30 frames i'll put 30 in the frame slot hit okay center the playhead between the two clips of the transition and add a marker hold shift tap that left arrow key three times to move the playhead 15 frames and drag and drop the beginning of the adjustment layer snapped to the playhead i also like to click the center marker and with the adjustment layer highlighted add another marker onto the layer this way if you accidentally adjust or move the layer you can always snap the middle of it back into place now go to your effects window and search for lens distortion apply it to the adjustment layer toggle animation on for curvature and create keyframes for the beginning middle and end go to the middle keyframe and you can curve the frame negative however much you want but let's go to negative 50 to start and again highlight them all right click ease in right click ease out pull the handles towards the center to mimic the movement that we have on the other keyframes now we have this cool frame bending effect as we zoom i'm just going to hold option on mac or alt on windows click and drag this to the zoom in portion to duplicate it above my zoom in transition now again the google earth clip doesn't need any zooming in or out because it already has natural zoom built into the clip so i have a stationary clip here that i'm going to substitute in to showcase how i would keyframe the second half of the zooming out or zooming in first thing to address is that we're not going to be doing any more of that seamless edge replication on this clip because it's going to be filling the entire screen throughout the transition for the transition where we zoom out go to the effects search for transform add your transform effect to the clip toggle animation on for scale start at 150 go 15 frames to the right and scale down to 100 and now i'm going to sound like a broken record highlight those keyframes ease in ease out pull the handles in deselect use comp shutter angle and switch that shutter angle to 180. looks really cool to me again things are pretty similar for the transition where we zoom in to be honest for this particular case i could keep this transform effect on throughout the clip but i'll redo it here just for those of you that are only doing a zoom in add the transform effect to the clip and toggle the animation on for skill at the end raise it to 150 go 15 frames to the left and scale it down to 100. highlight those keyframes right click ease in right click ease out pull the handles in deselect use comp shutter angle switch shutter angle to 180 and here's the final results to all four transitions if this video was helpful don't forget to leave that thumbs up my hope is that you now have the skill set to create your own seamless zoom transitions or if you want you can download my own presets remember that link is in the description below until next time my name is javier mercedes and i hope you're out there living a life of abundance bye

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Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 30 2022