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PowerPoint 2010, for all that skeptics say, is a unique piece of software in its new avatar. People use it more for creating slideshow and presentation, but dig a little, and you may be in for pleasant surprise at what else you can do with PowerPoint 2010.
For our online video works we frequently use PowerPoint 2010, and in many cases our clients can barely recognize that parts of a video are made with it. In our course to learn making training videos, we have modules that deal exclusively on how to make video from PowerPoint animations, and also doing it by animating clip arts.
We already have several video tutorials in this blog on PowerPoint to video, and some that are frequently seen by the viewers are as under:
Zoom And Pan Of Still Image With PowerPoint 2010
In 2 earlier tutorials we have dealt on doing Ken Burns Effect with Vegas Movie Studio and Camtasia Studio. In this video tutorial, we will take a look at how to do zooming and panning to still image in PowerPoint 2010. Watch the video below that describes doing it.
The main points to remember for doing the zoom and pan in PowerPoint are as under:
- The still image has to cover the whole of work area which usually is 7.5 inches in height and 10 inches in width.
- To select the portion to be zoomed in, the use of cropping is necessary. The cropped portion will then have to be enlarged to cover the entire work area with the same aspect ratio.
- The pan effect between any 2 images is brought about by the push transition. The push transition can be made to effect from all 4 directions, top, bottom left and right.
- For showing the zoom-in effect, 2 images are used. The first is the original image, while the second is the cropped image. The reverse happens in case of zooming out. Since 2 images are used, thus the zoom-in and zoom-out effects are not as smooth as in Vegas Movie Studio or Camtasia Studio.
But for the minor blip at sl.4 above, the zoom and pan of still image in PowerPoint 2010 do come quite well indeed. Refer the 2 images below for visual illustrations.
Zooming done in PowerPoint 2010 by cropping and enlarging portion of still image
'Push' transition being used for pan effect in PowerPoint 2010
This article of July 26th, 2010 is authored by Partha Bhattacharya, who runs this website. Partha also creates video-based e-learning course for clients, and when time permits, writes guest articles for selected sites.
