Change location of cropping panels in Ken Burns effect

Or take an image such as your first one, change the green and red rectangles so they look like what you want, open the Inspector and click this button:

Give it a name and category, and apply it whenever and wherever you want.

DC Steve wrote:

…It's easy to use the effect to zoom in on a face. However, if the image is portrait, the red and green crop marks are lined up vertically, making it difficult to zoom in on a face.

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excuse my ignorance, but to zoom-in, you simply use the handles of the crop-frame - however the two frames are arranged, nor their aspect-ratio (???)

… or am I lost in translation ? 😝

Iam not sure exactly what you want to achieve.

The green and red rectangles always have the aspect ratio of your project.

If you want to do some cropping to a different aspect ratio then you can use the Trim function.

If, on the other hand, what you want is for the green and red rectangles’ positions to start differently, there are options too. You may set one clip the way you want it, then Copy, and do Paste Attributes on other clips. You may also save a particular configuration as an Effects Preset for reuse.

No. Not sure what benefit it would be restricting the effect like that. It follows the aspect ratio of the project and placing the two on top of each other I would thing would make it even more difficult to use in such a constricted space.

You can still make it zoom it. Move the end position over the face and reduce the size.