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Can you copy a Zoom Region?
I'm working with a course where I would like to have "the same zoom" on multiple slides. I found how to change the zoom speed, but I don't find anything that tells me the zoom size and position. I also don't seem to have functionality to copy and paste a zoom region from one slide to another. Is there anyway, other than eye-balling it, to make identical zoom sizes on multiple slides? The timing will be different, but I want the size and placement to match.
Couldn't agree more! Would love to see this copy Zoom region feature in the next update!
Hi everyone, In case you haven't already, you can raise a feature request. Let's up the numbers here! https://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request
I have raised a feature request for this
Substantial pain point, we want to control zoom regions like shapes and be able to copy and paste. 9 years is way, way too long. Frankly, I am surprised at some of the functions that you haven't been able to implement, I'm guessing this is a really hard one to do for some reason, or there are just too few of us who need to use it.
Disappointingly Articulate is also very tight-lipped about the whole thing and has not explained why they have completely failed to address this issue. Personally, I would feel less annoyed if they explained themselves.
Hi folks, if you want to add the same zoom to a number of already developed slides, you can try this trick. (Yeah it's still a faff, but it's easier and more accurate than doing it by hand). Please let me know how you get on.
- Apply the zoom to the first zoom slide as normal
- Duplicate the slide
- On the duplicated slide delete all of the objects (Except the zoom)
- If you want to use this zoom over several slides, duplicate this slide again once for each zoomed in slide.
- Copy all of the objects from each of your non-zoomed slide(s). and paste them into each of your new zoomed slides respectively.
- Delete the non-zoomed versions of your slides.
- If necessary, redo the zoom timings on all of your zoomed slides.
- The zoom on the first slide needs to start a fraction of a second or more after the slide starts (this is if you want to animate the zoom-in).
- Set this zoom to play until the end of the slide (So it does not zoom out).
- On your interim zoom slides set the zoom timeline so that it starts at the very beginning of the slide and stays there until the end (So there is no zoom in/out animation).
- On the last zoom slide make sure that the zoom completes at an appropriate time on the timeline before the end of the slide. (So it zooms out ready for the next non-zoomed slide)
- If necessary rename your zoomed slides back to their original names for your TOC.
I can't believe this relatively simple request hasn't been implemented after NINE YEARS of asking. I also put in a feature request. Come on, Articulate! This would save your customers thousands of hours of tedious workarounds.
Limited resources, also I imagine there are just too few of us who want the feature.
They prefer to spend their development time on exciting new tools, and are not interested in improving stuff they have already finished. I guess that 'Improved zoom' is not as exciting to market as 'New AI features', even though both will save tons of development time for their customers.
Zooming on a software simulation is painful. Are there any updates on whether this will be an enhancement in the future? Even if copy-and-paste is impossible, can we at least get the Size and Position numbers for the zoom box? I can then match the numbers on every slide.
Apologies for the rant - this is taking far far longer than it should. I'm beginning to believe that Articulate have no interest in making their customers' lives easier, as long as a tool works they don't care that it wastes developers' time and money fudging things that should be easy. Why? Because it is not a shiny brand new tool. Rant over.
No, the best way I find is to build once then duplicate the slide
