In Resolve, import your media (still or video clip), and place it on the timeline. But presets, when used correctly, can increase the efficiency of your workflow.

Since the DSLR uprising, the term preset has carried negative connotations of quick color grading presets that tend not to look great.

We simply activate the tool in the inspector, and Resolve will add an automated zoom to the image. Thankfully, in Resolve 14 we can use something called Dynamic Zoom to do this. If you do this often enough, I’m sure it’ll shock you how many hours you’ve spent animating a slight zoom into a still - or even into video footage. Of course, to keep things looking energetic, you’re going want to animate movement to these stills. If you’re a wedding videographer or photographer who offers the full range of video and photography packages, you may find yourself editing stills into the video. For example, setting keyframes so that an image will pan or zoom in takes perhaps 30-40 seconds too long. There are countless editing tasks that eat away at our precious time, even though the operations themselves are relatively small. Whoever implemented this should (get a ******* UX award and then) take a good, hard look at how Adobe has managed the timeline navigation, with modifier keys across most of it's media apps (as a matter of fact, everyone should take that look, because it's quite perfect).Working with stills in your video project? Check out DaVinci Resolve 14’s dynamic zoom tool to add some life to your images. Then opt+scroll zoom again and then the view jumps on the playhead aaaand you start over. So at the moment it takes a click (ON TOP!) of the timeline (to place the playhead), then press opt and scroll, then the whole timeline view jumps so the playhead is centered (why, why is this important?) and then you discover you wanted to zoom somewhere a tad left so you cmd+scroll to the side a bit. This is rather (well, forget rather, it's super) inconvenient, becuse the playhead is SELDOM where you want to zoom at - usually onto some keyframes and such.

This zooms in and out of the current playhead position. Brad Hurley wrote:If you have a mousewheel, try pressing the option key (alt key on Windows) while scrolling the mouse wheel.

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