How to zoom in exactly where you want in Premiere Pro

If you want to zoom in exactly where you want in Adobe Premiere Pro, there are two ways of doing it, depending on what you mean with “zoom in”.

How to zoom in exactly where you want in Premiere Pro

First, if you only want to zoom in the “preview” for when you are editing the project (so not the actual video), you can of course change the “Zoom level” at the bottom of the “Project” window.

If you have Premiere Pro 25.0 or newer (and I’ve done a separate video about the updates in that version here) you can actually place the mouse cursor wherever you want inside the “Program” window and scroll and now it will zoom in to that specific point in small increments.

(Previously, it was always zooming into the middle by default.)

Or, if you want the actual video to zoom to a specific point in your edit, you select that clip in the “Timeline” window, go to the “Effect Controls” window, click “Anchor Point” and move the little circle in the middle of the “Program” window to where you want to zoom in.

Then you create a starting keyframe by clicking the little stopwatch ⏱️ icon next to “Scale”, move the playhead forward, and then increase the number next to “Scale” to create a second keyframe.

Now, when you play it, it will zoom in to that specific point.

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