Dynamic Zoom and Pan – DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

in this lesson I'm going to show you how

to use DaVinci Resolve dynamic zoom I

have two pictures here from unsplash.com

I'll provide the link in the description

section so first of all let's bring in

this picture if you play this because

this is just a picture that goes on for

six seconds it's you know nothing's

going on it's kind of kind of boring the

pictures not boring but there's no

action

there's no animation so to increase the

interest in this imagery we can add zoom

and also panning over to the right side

is the inspector if you don't see the

inspector it's because it's hidden you

have to click the inspector up here to

reveal it okay and let's go over here

and activate the dynamic zoom let's play

it and it looks like it's going away

from us it's zooming out from us so

that's the default as you notice here

because the original picture is not

sixteen by nine which is this resolution

over here at my frame we have to zoom in

to fill up the black spaces on the sides

so let's go here to the zoom which is

under transform and just drag this to

the right until we fill up all the black

bars on the side okay so now let's play

that again

so it's zooming out yet we'd never see

the black bars because we are zoomed in

enough to hide it so the reason why

DaVinci Resolve added this dynamic zoom

is to make it easier to add zoom and pan

to your shots otherwise you'd have to

use the normal way of doing it which is

adding keyframes and that's a little bit

more clunky if we go over here we can

change the view to show the dynamic zoom

frames so what's happening is the green

box the green rectangular box is when it

starts and the red box if you can see

the red outline

here is when it ends we went from a

smaller view zoomed in and ended up with

the larger view zoomed out so that's how

that works

if you don't change the position of

these boxes it's simply a zoom out next

let's double click the dynamic zoom over

here to bring this up now we can see

this button here swap that means

interchanging the green and the red

boxes so we swap them let's click that

and guess what will happen we're going

to zoom in now go back to the transform

so now we're zooming in because we

swapped those boxes

it starts out from afar and comes in so

that's how easy it is to change the zoom

in and zoom out now this control here

dynamic zoom ease linear ease-in

ease-out ease in and out this controls

how fast the zoom works if it's linear

it means it's changing its zooming in at

a constant rate it's not accelerating

it's not decelerating okay and if we go

ease in it slowly starts and then

accelerates quicker and of course ease

out is the opposite way it starts off

quicker and then it slows down and ease

in and out means it will start off slow

and in the middle start accelerating and

then start slowing down again these are

really my new changes and I normally

just keep it at linear next let's add a

panning effect let's activate the

dynamic zoom view okay right now the

green box is selected and to select a

red it's kind of tricky if you click

here it's still on the green box but if

you click here still on the green box

but you have to select one of the points

of the red box right here one of the

corners now the red box is selected and

then we add the panning element by

dragging this left right up or down

let's drag it to the left so we're

zooming in on

then and the sky and also part of the

trees over there and finally let's add

the default transition I like both of

these let's do ctrl T to apply the

transition default transition alright so

we've added dynamic zoom added some

panning to it and also transitions let's

play this from the beginning at

fullscreen ctrl F to get to full screen

and play so this looks much more

captivating than just still pictures or

a still video this also works if you

have a still video meaning a video

capture of something that's not moving

okay so that's it