Zooming to the top center means setting the Y coordinate to 0, and using the input width divided by the current zoom ratio, divided by 2 (the middle point). Lets adjust the x and y coordinates to zoom into different areas of the image. You can tweak the 0.001 zoom factor to make the zoom effect faster or slower. zoompan=z='zoom+0.001':x=0:y=0 this is the actual zoompan effect that we are using, zooming into the top left corner (0,0).scale=8000:-1 this is optional but without this you may find that your zoom effect is very jerky, this helps to smooth it out.crop=1200:670 then we crop to the desired size.scale=1200:-2 here we are simply scaling the image to the desired width according to our final movie size which will be 1200圆70.

You may notice there are quite a few different options in this command. So the simplest version of the zoom effect is just to zoom into the top left corner (0,0).

The zoom effect uses basic X and Y coordinates to define the zoom point.

Makes the image a bit more dramatic and you can tweak settings such as the duration, the zoom amount and the zoom point. Lets take this static image:Īnd lets apply an FFmpeg command to turn it into a video with a slow zoom effect:

We have an article on turning static images into a slideshow if that's what you need to create.īut how can we make these slideshows a bit more visually appealing? One way would be to apply a Ken Burns style effect which pans and zooms an image to slowly focus on a certain point. A common operation in FFmpeg is turning static images into a slideshow, displaying one image after another.

Ffmpeg scale