Add a camera move
Moves are ready-made camera motions, like Focus in, Depth rise or Whip pan, that you drop on the timeline. Each has a strength, a speed and finer settings.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Video editor
- Pro
- Zoom & Motion
- Moves
- 1Move the playhead to where the move should start.
- 2Open Zoom & Motion › Moves in Pro, and pick a move.It drops at the playhead and opens its settings. You can also press + on the timeline and choose Motion.
- 3Drag its block on the motion lane to move it or change its length.
- Strength
- Between the gentle and the bold version of the move.
- Speed
- How long the move takes. It resizes the block.
- Blur on fast moves
- Blurs the picture while the move is fast. Turn it off when text must stay readable.
- Follow cursor
- Aims the move at the pointer, so it stays near the middle of the picture.
- Press on click
- Every click presses the frame in and lets it spring back.
- Reverse
- Mirrors the move left to right.
- Aim it
- Nudges held for the whole block: position, tilt, zoom, rotation and softness.
Read next
How the video opens and closesChoose how the recording arrives at the start and leaves at the end: Rise, Fade, Scale and more, or None to start on the first frame.KeyframesSelect a zoom, a move or a crop and press K to add a keyframe at the playhead. Drag a keyframe to retime it, and click it to choose how it arrives.How zooms moveFeel sets the motion every zoom inherits: its curve and how long it takes to arrive and to pull back. You can also zoom only the screen and leave the background still.
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