Essentials Mode: Slide Background Pan & Zoom

• Slide Background Pan & Zoom
• Pan & Zoom Collection
  • Pan & Zoom Category

Slide Background Pan & Zoom

Every slide in Slider Revolution has a background, usually an image, a video or a color, behind the layers placed on the slide. The Slide Background has its own animations, separate from the animations of the layers.

Layers and backgrounds are animated in the Module Editor. Essentials Mode is one of the two ways to animate them there, where animations are picked from ready-made presets instead of built keyframe by keyframe.

For the slide background, Essentials Mode has three tabs. Transition sets how the slide's background replaces the previous slide's background when the slide changes. Pan & Zoom scales and moves the background image while the slide shows.

Filter adds a visual effect, such as grain or blur, to the background while the transition plays.

This article lists every preset in the Pan & Zoom tab, with what each one does and the settings it offers.

The transitions are in Slide Background Reveal Transitions, Slide Background Motion Transitions and Slide Background Distortion Transitions, and the filters are in Slide Background Filters.

The animations for added layers are described in In and Out Animations and Additional Animations.

To find the presets, go to the Module Editor and select the Slide Background, the last row of the Timeline. Then, in the Right Sidebar, click the Animation icon ¹ in the Mode Switcher to enter Animation Mode.

The Transition, Pan & Zoom ² and Filter tabs are at the top of the sidebar. The Pan & Zoom tab shows only when the slide's background is not a video.

The tabs show while Essentials is chosen with the switch at the bottom of the sidebar.

Applying a preset follows the same steps in every collection, described in Animation Essentials Mode. Clicking a preset tile opens its configuration panel, where its parameters are set before Apply adds the animation to the slide background.

Pan & Zoom Collection

The Pan & Zoom collection holds fifteen presets that scale and move the slide's background image over the length of the slide, and one preset, None, that removes the move.

The move runs for the slide's duration, and at least 2000 milliseconds. The same presets are available to Image layers in the Additional collection, described in Additional Animations.

Pan & Zoom Category

The Pan & Zoom category is the only category in the collection, and holds all sixteen tiles.

Pan & Zoom None

Removes a Pan & Zoom move added to the slide background earlier. Clicking the tile applies it directly, with no configuration panel.

Pan & Zoom Zoom In

Scales the background image from 100% to 113%, centered on the slide.

Parameters:

• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate. The panel opens with no curve selected.

Pan & Zoom Zoom Out

Scales the background image from 113% down to 100%, centered on the slide.

Parameters:

• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate. The panel opens with no curve selected.

Pan & Zoom Pan

Holds the background image at 116% and moves the visible area across it from one side of the image to the other in the chosen Direction.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The direction the visible area moves across the image.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate. The panel opens with no curve selected.

Pan & Zoom Zoom & Pan

Scales the background image from 107% to 121% while the visible area moves across it in the chosen Direction, from 12% to 88% of the way across.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The direction the visible area moves across the image.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate. The panel opens with no curve selected.

Pan & Zoom Corner Push

Scales the background image from 100% to 119% while the visible area moves from the center of the image into the chosen Corner.

Parameters:

• _Corner: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right. The corner the view moves toward.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate. The panel opens with no curve selected.

Pan & Zoom Breathe

Scales the background image from 100% to 111% over the first half of the move and back to 100% over the second half, centered on the slide.

Parameters:

• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Sweep

Scales the background image up to 117% while the visible area moves to one side, moves it across to the other side, then scales back to 100% as it returns to the center. The movement runs along the axis set by Direction.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The axis the visible area moves along.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Tilt Drift

Scales the background image from 109% to 117% while it rotates from level to 1.6 degrees. The image is scaled enough to keep its rotated corners outside the slide.

Parameters:

• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100%, and how far it rotates, by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The values in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate. The panel opens with no curve selected.

Pan & Zoom Arc Swing

Moves the visible area across the background image in the chosen Direction, from 12% to 88% of the way across. The image scales from 104% up to 120% at the middle of the move and back down to about 109% at the end.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The direction the visible area moves across the image.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Push & Settle

Scales the background image from 100% to 124% over the first half of the move, then back down to about 119% over the second half, centered on the slide.

Parameters:

• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Pull Back

Scales the background image from 124% down to 104% while the visible area moves from 80% to 15% of the way across it, along the axis set by Direction.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The axis the visible area moves along.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Glide By

Moves the visible area the whole way across the background image in the chosen Direction, while the image scales from 121% down to 112%.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The direction the visible area moves across the image.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Float

Moves the visible area back and forth near the center of the background image in five short moves along the axis set by Direction, while the image scales between 108% and 114%. The move ends at the center.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The axis the visible area moves along.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Corner Arc

Scales the background image from 100% up to 121% while the visible area moves most of the way toward the chosen Corner, back toward the center, and then into the corner.

Parameters:

• _Corner: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right. The corner the view moves toward.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100% by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The scales in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.

Pan & Zoom Tilt Sweep

Moves the visible area from 25% to 75% of the way across the background image in the chosen Direction, while the image rotates from -1.4 to 1.4 degrees. It scales from 110% to 119% at the middle of the move and back to about 114%.

Parameters:

• _Direction: Left, Right, Up, Down. The direction the visible area moves across the image.
• _Strength: Subtle, Medium, Strong. Multiplies how far the image scales above 100%, and how far it rotates, by 0.55, 1 or 1.7. The values in the description are for Medium.
• _Duration: Whole Slide, Half. Whole Slide runs the move over the slide's full duration. Half finishes the move halfway through and holds the last frame.
• _Easing: Smooth, Snappy, Back, Bounce, Elastic. The acceleration curve of each step of the move. With no curve selected, the move runs at a constant rate.