zoom (magnify) in video editing - newbie

[ben410]

I hope someone is willing to help me. At my wedding, I played a practical joke on my guests when I had my sisters drop the (fake) wedding cake. I have a good video of the reaction of the guests. I would like to buy some software where I could zoom in on the reaction of various guests, make separate clips of all of the various close-ups of their reactions, and then splice them all together into a big clip. Can anyone recommend some software to me to do this? I have no experience in video editing. Thanks for your help. Just fyi, some of the guests are moving and I would like to be able to keep the "zoomed" focus on their individual faces while they are moving (as opposed to just zooming in on the general area in which they are moving). Thanks!

[budwzr]

Sony Movie Studio.

No software does this automatically. Like a paint program doesn't do the art, it just provides the tools. You have to learn little by little.

You can't really just zoom in on a face without doing some compensation before hand. That being something like a photo enlargement. The pixel resolution has to be upsampled.

Like a Ken Burns Effect.

And the way you track your crop box needs to be keyframed. That's an animation. So there's your two buzz words to look up. Keyframing and upsampling.

Come back for more help if you get stuck.