Adding some cool effects using the Crop and Speed tools
I know you must be excited to add some cool effects so let’s just jump straight into it! The first thing we’re going to do is select the video clip called Travel 06 on our timeline and then click on the Crop tool. Clicking on it will bring up the Crop and Zoom window, which looks like this:
Figure 3.11: Crop and Zoom window
For this chapter, we will only use the Pan & Zoom feature but will come back at a later chapter to also make use of the Crop feature. At the top left, you can click on where it says Pan & Zoom, which will change the window to look like this:
Figure 3.12: Crop and Zoom – Pan & Zoom
As you can see on the viewport, it gives us a Start (green) and an End (red) box in the preview viewport and also some additional tools on the bottom right:
Figure 3.13: Crop and Zoom options
The tools in order...