Camera plays an important role in making animated videos. It helps to achieve natural transitions and guides your audience from scene to scene. With the user-friendly Camera tool offered by Mango Whiteboard Animation Maker, you can create several camera movements, like zooming in/out, panning, resizing, and rotating the camera.

Move the Camera

1. Click the Camera on the canvas. The Camera will become active and the camera controls will appear.

2. Drag the Camera layer to the desired position.

Resize the Camera

1. Click the Camera you want to resize on the canvas.

2. Put the mouse pointer over any corner of the Camera layer. A double-headed arrow will appear.

3. Hold down the left mouse button and resize the Camera.

Rotate the Camera

1. Click the Camera you want to rotate on the canvas.

2. Hover over the rotation handle, hold down the left mouse button and rotate the Camera layer.

Note: Hover over any corner of the Camera layer and the rotation handle will appear.

Zoom the Camera

1. Zoom in

You can add a Camera to zoom into a small part of the canvas. It’s super useful when you want to focus on or present the important content to the audience.

To do so, you can add a new Camera, resize and place it to the desired location.

In the example below, the canvas shows a close-up of the beers.

2. Zoom out

Zoom out for a wider view of the scene.

Take a look at the example below:

Tip: you can press the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse to zoom in/out the canvas.

Pan the Camera

1. Click the Camera on the canvas. The Camera will become active and the camera controls will appear.

2. Drag and move the Camera layer to pan horizontally or vertically.

Take a look at the example below:

Change the Duration

On the Camera Timeline, drag the right or left edge of the block to change the duration.