What is zoom and pan?
Also called: zoom effect, zoom in screen recording, Ken Burns effect
Definition
Zoom and pan is moving a virtual camera over a video: zooming magnifies part of the frame, and panning slides the view across it.
In a screen recording, a zoom brings a small control or a line of text up to a readable size, then returns to the full view. It is the main tool for directing attention.
A good zoom eases in and out rather than snapping, holds long enough to read, and targets what the narrator is talking about.
In Sceed
In Sceed a zoom is a block on the timeline with a target: follow the cursor, one point, or several numbered points.
How to zoom in on a screen recording →
Related terms
- Auto zoom
- Auto zoom is a recorder feature that zooms in on the screen automatically, usually wherever the mouse is clicked.
- Easing
- Easing is the gradual speeding up and slowing down of a movement, so it starts and stops gently instead of abruptly.
- Motion blur
- Motion blur is the streaking of anything that moves quickly across a frame, as a camera with an open shutter would record it.
- Resolution
- Resolution is the number of pixels in each frame of a video, written as width × height, for example 1920 × 1080.