Zooming out effects

Hi David, thanks so much for the reply!

It definitely sounds like it would work but i am a little unsure on how i would do it as you've explained. If you wouldn't mind mocking up something i would really appreciate it.

Thanks again

Hi Osman

You can control where an image zooms into by using motion paths to shift the image left or right, up or down depending on where you wantthe focus to be. Set the motion paths to animate at the same time as the zoom to get the effect.

Here is a quick example so you can see how it works.

@Blair - Nice effect w/Motion Paths. I was going that route until I saw your example

@Osman - Here's an alternative method to Blair's technique. I'm a fan of using Motion Paths but figured I'd show you another method just so you had some options.

Preview: http://articulate-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/forum-help/screenshot-zoom-test/player.html

Download source files: http://articulate-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/forum-help/screenshot-zoom-test/zoom-test_package.zip

And check out Joe Deegan's approach to zooming in on screenshots:

@David - I was trying to find that screenr of Joe's as well, but couldn't remember who had created it. There is so much useful information around sometimes its a bit overwhelming trying to re-find something to share with someone else

@Blair - You're so right about the increasing number of resources!

Someone asked about Joe's tutorial the other day so it was still fresh in my mind. I even found the one I did in response to Joe's. It's less about screenshot zooms than object zooms, but still using the motion path technique.

Thanks guys, I cant believe how good this place is, hopefully i can start contributing soon too.

Using motion paths definitely does the trick and looks very slick. Thanks Blair, David for the help and resources.

Also David, although the 'fake' zooming does have the desired outcome, i think i'll stick with using motion paths.

Thanks.

What I do is copy and paste the image on top of itself, crop to the part I want to "zoom" and then have that picture (which doesn't look like it is there) grow (then disappear). But it does get a little blurry sometimes.

Thanks for sharing my screenr David.  Was out of town last week and just catching up on this discussion now.  When I posted that screenr I got a wide response of alternative ideas that I summed up in the blog post How to Create a Zoom and Pan effect in powerpoint.  Hope this helps.

Thanks for the great ideas! 

Nice blog Joe (i'll be checking it out later for Moodle help!) but i have a quick question in response to David's "Parallel Proximity" effect screenr.

Is there a way to edit/use the end point of the animation i.e once all the components have enlarged/moved.

I would like this to be the basis for a new scene, but I'm unable to play around with it because in powerpoint i can only see the objects before the animation, not after.

Hope that makes sense!

The source files just open up a PowerPoint with Articulate information on it.  Are the source files available?  This is really cool!

@Kate - Which source files are you looking for? The quick ones I shared above are the ones used to create this sample.

If you're looking for the source files to the demo in the Screenr I showed, you can get those here. I haven't finalized that file to make it available in the downloads--not yet at least---but you're welcome to have it. I think I used some non-system fonts so keep that in mind when you open it.

If those weren't the files you're looking for, let us know and we'll round up the right ones.

Fantastic--thank you!! 

Cool! Glad those worked.

Did you see this template and the screencast:

These are great techniques.  They open up so many possibilities.  I have a similar question related to the techniques described in this post.  I want to take a piece of paper lying on a table, zoom it out to a view so that I can actually read the text on the paper.  To further complicate the effect, the paper has had a 3D effect applied to it so that its perspective is that of lying flat on the table.  So the effect would have to solve the issue of rotating the object (paper) and also correcting its perspective.  The final placement of the paper is a straight forward view large enough to see the text on the sheet of paper.  Any ideas on how to do such a thing?

I'm not sure it is possible to do something quite so complicated DIRECTLY...

But you could definitely do something with fades combined with motion paths and zooms.

I did something similar in the file I attached.

Basically, the object with the perspective fades away while a new flat object zooms with a motion path in. It definitley gives the perspective of what you are asking for. You can look at my timings etc. in the animation window. Because the new picture is larger, I also have a "fill with background" object in front of it that fades away.

Other than that, I don't think there is an animation that alters perspective.

Kayla,  thanks.  That would be an acceptable solution.  I will employ a similar technique to solve the problem.  I was probably thinking too literally anyway. 

i need to find the turorial i found i while back about focusing on one person at a time on the slide. please help if you know what i am looking for

Hi everyone,

I am working in storyline and attempting to use the zoom effect.  I have watched the tutorials, but as I follow along, my zoom region is grayed out.  I have tried clicking on the object I want zoomed in on, not clicking on the object, but the result is the same.  My zoom is always gray.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Pamela

if its the zoom image, you need to ensure you have inserted a large enough image to be able to zoom it

The image is 335 x 200 pixles.  Is this too small?

I just enlarged the image to amost the size of the slide and the zoom region remains greyed out.

May help if you can include a screenshot, I have not seen this before 

Phil,

Here is a screenshot as you requested.  I hope you can help me figure this out.  It is driving me crazy. 

Pamela

Hi Pamela, helped a lot, you cannot use zoom region on a layer, you can click on the image then clcik on picture tools (or double click the image) and choose zoom image off this menu instead

Hope this helps