{
 "slug": "zoom-through",
 "name": "Zoom through",
 "category": "transition",
 "group": "Motion graphics",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The viewer flies into the product, and the next scene starts from inside it.",
 "use_when": "From an overview into one feature; the punchiest change in a montage.",
 "phrase": "the dashboard card scales up past the edges of the frame, blurred at the midpoint, and the next scene grows from small behind it",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Put motion blur on the one or two fastest frames only; blur on every frame multiplies the render time.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on motion graphics"
  },
  {
   "text": "Land the peak of the move on a whoosh or an impact.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on motion graphics"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "shape-morph",
  "sfx-on-the-peak",
  "crash-zoom"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair field notes on motion graphics"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "crash-zoom",
  "name": "Crash zoom",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Crash zoom",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/07a-crash-zoom-in-v2-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/07a-crash-zoom-in-v2-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/07a-crash-zoom-in-v2-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/07a-crash-zoom-in-v2-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/07a-crash-zoom-in-v2-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 10.08
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/zoom-through",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/transition/zoom-through.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: the dashboard card scales up past the edges of the frame, blurred at the midpoint, and the next scene grows from small behind it",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot. Cut: the dashboard card scales up past the edges of the frame, blurred at the midpoint, and the next scene grows from small behind it",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The dashboard card scales up past the edges of the frame, blurred at the midpoint, and the next scene grows from small behind it.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The dashboard card scales up past the edges of the frame, blurred at the midpoint, and the next scene grows from small behind it. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}