Zoom in for details - make it quicker?

Hello everybody, 🙋🏽‍♂️

I really need your help. I tried to find the solution online, tried to find a solution myself, but I couldn't.

I am using FCP for tutorial purpose, and sometimes I want to zoom 🔎 into a zone of my screen to make it larger. After a few sections, I want to go back to full height / width.

I know I can use ken burns, or use the trim (or crop I forgot) feature, but it takes quite some time to every time create the right keyframes, zoom in, re-create new keyframes etc.

❓ My question: is there a simpler way, by just dragg- dropping for example an effect, or even better a title ( or adjustment layer) onto part of the video in order to make it zoom?
Ideally I would have a couple of title, such as "Zoom top left", "Zoom top right" , .. and I could just drag it onto my video to quick add a zoom-in > hold > zoom-out effect.

Or maybe I could create something in Motion?

Any help would be great,
Many thanks

Keyframing the Scale parameter is all you need to do, simple, quick, easy.

But what you see done in most professional tutorial videos is being done with ScreenFlow. I use it for many years now with my software training videos. It retains the resolution of your image while zooming in a way FCP can't do.

Thank you for your reply.

You're right about screenflow, that's also a good solution, however it only work for screen capture, not for actual camera shot videos.

Keyframing the Scale parameter is all you need to do, simple, quick, easy.

I agree, probably that's the best way.
Another question: I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts.
When I try to just Opt + K (default for adding a keyframe), it somehow doesn't apply the keyframe to my Transform parameters.
What am I doing wrong?

I think it only works in the keyframe editor. Right-click a clip in a Timeline, Show Video Animation.

Yes it seems like I first have to open the editor, then select the track I want and then only I can press Opt + K.
And back to my original concern, If i want to create an overall (for example Transform + Crop) keyframe, it's not just 1 click solution anymore.

But anyways, I guess that's the only solution for now. If anyone has another solution, I am curious to know.
Thank you