Apply Ken Burns Effect
– How Do I Pan and Zoom in Video Easily?

• In the start dialog in Movie Studio Platinum, open up a new project.
• Drag & drop the video into the top track. 
• Press the spacebar to play back the video.

During playback a red playback marker will move across the project window to display the current position. The playback marker can be moved to any position by clicking the timeline above the track section. This lets you navigate through your video.

• Click the text object in the track to select it.

You can now edit it and apply effects and templates.

Movie Studio Platinum delivers a ton of pan and zoom templates that you can use right away.

• In the Media Pool, open the "Effects" tab and select the "Size/Position" effect under "Movement templates".
• Scroll down to view the templates for the video zoom effects.
• Place your mouse cursor over a zoom template to open the little pop-up window.
• In the pop-up window, click the button in the middle with the right-facing arrow.

A preview of the template will appear. This way you can try out and play around with different video zoom effect templates.

• To apply a template, in the pop-up window, click the button on the left with the downward-facing arrow.

The template will then be applied to the selected object in the track. After applying a zoom effect template, several light squares will appear at the lower end of the Media Pool. Here, you'll find an additional timeline with keyframes, which can be used for applying the zoom effect from the effect template in a precise way.

To modify zoom speed, change the position of the keyframe in the timeline. When two keyframes are moved closer together, the image between them speeds up.

• To make the zoom in even faster in your video, drag the right keyframe more to the left.
• Or, for a slower zoom effect, move the two keyframes further apart.

Some templates ("Zoom linear") affect the entire video object. This means that the speed of the zoom effect depends on how long the video is. The zoom effect lasts longer in longer-length videos than shorter ones.

To edit zoom in video and adjust speed for the effect templates, cut the video into multiple objects and apply the template to one of the short sections.

• Place the playback marker at the beginning of the part you want to cut and press "T" on your keyboard.
• You can easily move the cut point afterwards to make the object with the zoom effect longer or shorter. By moving the cut point, you're either slowing down or speeding up the video zoom effect.

Movie Studio Platinum enables you to create your own pan and zoom effects. This means you don't have to depend on effect templates. You can define a section of the video to zoom in on or zoom out of.

• Select the video in the track that you want to apply the Ken Burns effect to.
• In the "Movement effects" section, open the "Camera/zoom shot" effect.

Now, inside the thumbnail, you'll see a frame with a dashed line. This frame indicates the section that the software will zoom in on or out of. You can shrink the frame and move it to any position in the image.

• To shrink the frame, move the orange-colored handles until the desired size is reached.

The aspect ratio remains in proportion, so the image section can be displayed in fullscreen without black borders.

• To move the section in the image, click inside the section and move it to the position where you want the zoom effect to begin or end.
• To make sure everything looks ok, click "Preview" in the dialog to only view the image section than contains the effect. To edit zoom in your video, click on "Edit".

Then define whether you want to zoom in on a video, or zoom out of it.

• In the effect dialog, click the option "To section" to zoom in on video, or "From section" to zoom out.

This will place a second keyframe at the end in the bottom section of the dialog. The zoom shot will then be applied to the entire video from beginning to end. You don't have to cut the object if you want to modify this – simply move the keyframe on the right further to the left instead. This will make the pan and zoom shot shorter and faster.

• Play back the sequence and if necessary, modify the section and keyframe further until you're satisfied with the results.

Movie Studio Platinum includes a virtual mixer that offers a wide range of options for professional audio editing. It essentially allows you to mix different audio tracks together and adjust their volume. So if you for instance want to combine background music with the sound of the original video recording and perhaps add a voice-over too, the audio mixer is what you need.

It's great for editing single audio tracks too. Before, we looked at how you can use the peak meter display for identify clipping.

Every project track in the mixer contains its own volume fader. Master volume can be set in the "Master section". The master section includes two faders for adjusting levels for the left and the right channel of the stereo master signal separately.

To combine several audio tracks or videos from different sources with one another, first move all videos and audio objects one below the other on a single track. By holding down the shift key, you can adjust the videos horizontally so that the cuts don't get mixed up.

You should now have all acoustic recordings from the same source lying on their own dedicated tracks – for instance the original video sound on track 2, background music on track 3 and a voice commentary on track 4. Or in the case of multiple videos, assign all videos from camera 1 to tracks 1 + 2, videos from camera 2 to tracks 3 + 4, and so on.

• During playback, follow the peak meter display in the audio mixer. You can check volume for any track and for the overall output in this way.
• The "FX" buttons are located above on the channel strip. Via these buttons you can access all the track-based editing effects – for instance, a compressor and an equalizer.
• Via "Mastering" on the right you can open the effects for the overall sound. Here, you'll find a limiter for preventing clipping. The limiter analyzes signal peaks and eliminates distortion by bringing any levels set to over 0 db down to 0 db. With the "MultiMax" multiband compressor you can split the frequency spectrum into three ranges. Use this to keep all deeper sounds uncompressed and work only on higher frequencies by using precise compression to give them higher volume and more presence.

The effects in the audio mixer offer many options for volume and sound optimization and are another great feature in Movie Studio Platinum zoom video editing software.

To finish, you can export the project together with the video zoom effect:

• To export a video file, go to "File" > "Export movie" and select an export format in the sub-menu, for example a "Quicktime Movie" (MOV) or "MPEG4" (MP4).
• To render the video directly to your smartphone, upload it to a social media platform or burn it onto a disc via the Options in the upper right-hand corner of the program. Here, you will see the interface for burning discs as well as the dialog "Finish movie".