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Creating a zoom within a wide scene

Creating a zoom within a wide scene

- [Presenter] I'm going to show you how to take custom masking a step further and create a cool zoomed in scene effect or like this. Okay, so what I have here is a regular screen capture. I'm going to pop open this group here. On this bottom track, I have a regular screen capture and on the track above it what I have is a duplicate track that has been masked and zoomed in. Showing the mouse actions up close and personal. So let's reconstruct this in this second section here. If I disabled this bottom layer, you can see I have an identical track with a custom mask that I created earlier. So I'm going to enhance this a bit. I'm going to move it here to the middle of the screen so it doesn't get the edges chopped off of it. And now I'm going to add a colored stroke around the mask to help separate it from the clip below. I'm going to go to annotations, choose shapes and I'm going to find a circle here, any color is fine, I'm…

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