Zoom, Magnify, or Highlight Screen Recordings - Premiere Pro

in this video i'm going to show you how to zoom in zoom out highlight as well as magnify your screen recordings using premiere pro if that's what you came to learn let's hop right into it before i begin i just want to mention that sometimes it may be easier for you to zoom in on your screen using your operating system so i don't know exactly how to do this on windows but if you were on mac if you went to your system preferences and accessibility and go to zoom there's a whole bunch of parameters here where you can set it up so you can zoom in on your screen so like right here if i hold ctrl on my keyboard and zoom in on my mouse it allows me to zoom in on my screen there's also that picture in picture style so i could zoom in here and kind of do this thing so that's just something to take into consideration where if you are looking to zoom in during a screen recording or if you're doing something live and you want to zoom in maybe look at a way to do it within your operating system because that may be faster than having to zoom in or magnify and post with that being said let's move into premiere pro the simplest way that i can show you to do this is a jump cut to go straight into the action so on the clip right here what i'm going to do is go to my razor tool click that and find where i want it to zoom in so maybe about right here create a cut and then make a second cut at the end of the clip where i want it to go back to the regular screen size and on this middle clip what we want to do is highlight the clip and go to your effects controls window if you don't have your effects controls window up just go to window effects controls and i'm going to adjust my scale and position what i like to do is just click and drag on the numbers right here on the position the left number is your x-axis and the right number is your y-axis so i'm just going to move that middle clip over and scale it in so the outcome looks like this where it starts out big then it cuts to the action and then cuts right back now the other way to do this is to actually animate instead of jump cutting to the action we want to animate and zoom the camera in now we're going to be manipulating or keyframing the motion within your effects controls window and we want to move the playhead to where we want to start the zoom in so right here and i'm going to hit this toggle animation stopwatch on the position and scale now i'm going to go forward 10 frames you can make your animation however long you want to i just find that 10 frames is a happy medium so i'm going to hold shift and hit right on my keyboard twice so 1 2. what that did was skip many frames now what we want to do is zoom into the subscribe button and center it right now we have an action that looks like this subscribe notification bell all and now we want to zoom out so with the playhead at the spot where you want the zoom out to start hit these two buttons right here on the position and scale so click this one and click that one then again i'm going to skip 10 frames so hold shift hit right twice and now i'm just gonna hit this button and it will automatically go back to this full screen where you had your position in scale by default so the whole action looks like this zoom in subscribe hit the button all zoom out pretty cool right well in some cases this may not be what you want to do instead of zooming in like this and taking up the whole screen you might just want to magnify this part of the screen so it gives the viewer a reference of where you're at on the screen so the first step to doing that is duplicating your clip right here on the layer on top of it i'm going to hold option on mac or alt on windows and while i'm holding that modifier key i'm going to click and drag this clip above it at this point i want to look up the crop feature within the effects window and drag that onto our top clip now in your effects controls for the top clip i'm going to click on the word crop that will bring up these little handles here in the program monitor and i'm going to click and drag these handles to where i want to magnify to and to give you a reference if i unenable this bottom track that's what it looks like now what we're going to do is scale in on this cropped clip the same like we did with our first example so i'm going to make sure that i have my top clip highlighted go up to motion look at where i want the position and scale to start so click these two go 10 frames in and scale this in as you can see we kind of got that magnifying effect already taking place i'm going to go to the end here and that's where i want it to go back to normal so i click my add remove keyframes go 10 frames in and go back to reset so it looks like this right now subscribe notifications all back down so that's a basic way of doing this but we can make it look so much better i'm going to make the background track a little bit darker and i'm going to do that with opacity if you hit these arrow keys it will take you exactly to your keyframes what i want to do is go to my first keyframe and go to the track below it and hit opacity to start my toggle animation on my opacity now because i know that it's 10 frames i'm just going to go 10 frames in i'm going to maybe go to 40 so i'm gonna go back to my top clip hit the little arrows right here now that i know that i'm on the exact spot where it's going to start to scale down i'll go back to the bottom clip hit the opacity go 10 frames and restore this back to 100 so it looks something like this it goes up and goes back down now personally i think that's enough to really accentuate that magnification of this section but there is some other things that you can do to make it look even cooler like if we go back to our effects and if we look up blur we could do something like gaussian blur and put that on our bottom track and follow these same keyframes so as the opacity gets darker we're going to keyframe in blurriness on the gaussian blur make sure that you have repeat edge pixels on and then go to the end and as the opacity gets brighter we restore the blurriness back to zero so now we get something like this where it comes up you see the action of subscribing hitting the notification bell and it goes away one last thing that you could do is add a drop shadow because this is kind of a white on white magnification so in the effects i'm going to look up drop right here is drop shadow and drag that onto our top clip this will follow the same premise as what we've been doing where you want to animate it in and out along the same keyframes as your other effects adjust the parameters on the drop shadow however you want to for me in this example this is how i'm going to do it but the big thing that we want to keyframe though is the opacity of the drop shadow so as the clip scales up we go from 0 to 100 opacity and as the clip goes back down we go from 100 to zero opacity there's a lot of cool effects going on here and to be honest you could take this even further by not making it a linear movement of it popping out from the screen it's completely up to you in your creative preference how far you want to take this but for a basic tutorial like this one i think i'll leave this technique here because i want to show you one last tip of highlighting areas of your screen using shapes within premiere pro what we're going to do is go over here to our toolbar and you could do the pen tool but if you click and hold on the pen i'm going to go to the rectangle tool and just click and drag a rectangle around this section so as you can see that makes a little graphic clip here on the timeline and if you wanted to treat this square like a kind of highlighter effect just go to the opacity of the graphic take that down a little bit so you can see through the shape and then highlight the clip hit command d on mac or ctrl d on windows and that will automatically put cross dissolves so it fades in and fades out that effect another cool way to do this though is instead of making a highlighted box go up to your shape layer in the effects controls and i'm going to unclick fill and now i'm going to click the stroke what i might do is have my opacity go back to 100 so we have this little square right here you can change the thickness of the stroke with this number and you can also change the color of it but i like this green and one other thing is instead of doing this cross dissolve what we could do is go back to our effects window and look up wipe put on like barn doors as a certain type of way of animating it on so there's some options if this video was helpful don't forget to hit that thumbs up and i dare you to click one of the videos over here i double dog dario okay 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: 8min 39sec (519 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021