Learn the basics of Pan and Zoom in this After Effects tutorial! Knowing how to navigate around the AE workspace is a must for any designer so Noble Desktop has you covered in this video!
Learn the basics of Pan and Zoom in this After Effects tutorial! Knowing how to navigate around the AE workspace is a must for any designer so Noble Desktop has you covered in this video!
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Zoom Tool
- Look for the magnifying glass icon, located on the top left of the toolbar. This icon activates the Zoom tool.
- Alternatively, press Z to use the Zoom Tool. Holding a shortcut key down will let the user toggle between tools rather than selecting and committing to a new tool each time.
- Click on the Composition window to zoom in. More clicks mean the tool magnifies more.
- Clicking Cmnd + (Mac) or Ctrl + (PC) will also zoom in. The comma keyboard button works as well.
- Cmnd - (Mac) or Ctrl - (PC) will zoom out. Use the period keyboard button alternatively.
Pan Tool
- Look for the hand icon near the Zoom tool. This icon is the Hand or Pan tool.
- Use the shortcut key H to activate the tool as well.
- Once the Pan tool is activated, click and drag on the Composition window to slide around the interface. Use this tool and Zoom out to better visualize objects that are too big to fit in the Composition window.
Video Transcription
Hey, guys. This tutorial, as the title says, is a zoom in hand tool tutorial, and we're gonna be just moving around in our project window over here where you can see all these graphics so we can take a better look at things. We're going to be using the Zoom tool to get a closer look and also zoom out so you can see the whole Project Pan tool we're going to be using to slide around the project window to hone in on certain details.
So Peninsula are the basic navigation tools and after effects. If you're not familiar with the terms, they're going to be how you find your way around the visuals of any given project. So on to the project itself. No external files here. We're just going to be navigating around whatever project we have open. So the first thing to do is, well, where are the Pan and Zoom tools?
And you'll find them up here. See these? So the hand tool or the pan tool is the hand and the zoom tool is a magnifying glass over here. By the way, the shortcut key for both of these. So the hand tool is each in the zoom tool is Z and you can also hold down the Z key and keep holding to toggle the active tool to the Zoom tool.
So like in Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, if you're familiar with those, so you can hold down spacebar and command control basically instead of clicking on the new tool and having to manually switch back each time. Like this, you can just hold down Z or H and you can snap back and forth to your previous tool the moment you stop holding it down.
You can also zoom in using the period key. So like this. Well, there we go. Control command plus minus also works. So I have a picture I'm going to be going to control. And plus, we're going to see those pixels. If I want to zoom out, I do control or command minus or I can also use the comic key on my keyboard comma period.
There we go. So like I mentioned, the pan tool shortcut is H, which I'm going to be hitting right now H from a keyboard. So by the way, the error so pan tool, you click and you drag. So what I'm doing right now is that I'm holding down on my left mouse button with the hand tool pan tool activated.
And that's what's letting me do this holding shift well lets you pan around even faster. Like I mentioned, pressing and holding h will let you toggle to the hand tool. If you're using a tool like wrote a brush which we have tutorial about, it's it involves these the set of tools over here it won't work but for most things it works pretty well.
So like before I'm going to use the comma key and I'm going to hold down H to reset things. So yeah, that's how you pan and zoom around in after effects. Use these tools to hone in on details and of course just general and navigate around a project window. Sometimes objects are too big to fit in the project window.
Like I'll show you like my four graphic over here. Okay. Actually, I'm holding on to my old graphic. Like, my floor graphic over here is bigger than my window suggests. So if I want to see how far off it goes, I would zoom out to, you know, see the entirety of this graphic, like I mentioned, panning and zooming out to see the entirety of an object is helpful.
So yeah, this has been surpassed since for mobile desktop.
