Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Two completely different things people mean by zoom in Premiere Pro, and you need both. Zooming your timeline so you can see your cuts, zooming into the picture itself, and the adjustment layer method that lets you copy a zoom onto any clip in your sequence.

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What You'll Learn
Zooming your timeline in and out with the plus and minus keys
Fill Frame and Fit to Frame, and the difference between them
Scaling a clip manually in Effect Controls under Motion
Keyframing a zoom with the stopwatch so it animates
The pro method: a Transform effect on an adjustment layer
Copying a zoom onto other clips by alt dragging the adjustment layer
Building adjustment layers in one click, including one per clip and one per cut

Chapters
0:00 Two kinds of zoom
0:16 Zooming your timeline
0:32 Fill Frame and Fit to Frame
0:49 Scaling a clip in Effect Controls
1:05 Keyframing the zoom
1:25 The pro way: adjustment layer and Transform
2:01 Copying the zoom to other clips
2:21 One-click adjustment layers with Shortcut
2:54 Free footage with Sourcer
3:12 Thanks for watching

Links
Shortcut, free: filmit.io/shortcut
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Filmit Studio, free app that installs them both: filmit.io
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