An easy way to do this is to place the video event on its own track and use Track Motion (the track header) to place/frame the image to where you want - then use the event's pan/crop to zoom in.

Keep in mind that Track Motion affects the entire track and any other video event that you put on that track will also be affected by the Track Moton's framing, so that track may possibly only have the one video event on it. At least there's no shortage of tracks in Vegas Pro.

EDIT: Picture-in-Picture as suggested by 3POINT is an easier solution.

So, I've got a couple of videos playing at the same time (screenshot). I want to zoom in my face (guy on drums), but when I use pan\crop the whole video starts to shift all over the place and its size changes dramaticcally. I need the size to stay the same ofc. I've been searching for the solution but there aren't any! Help ;)

excuse me, could you explain to me what I should do with these two tools step by step? I do not know exactly how they work 😅

With PiP/Crop, add those video FX to the video event (drag and drop or via the FX icon on the event) and then use the FX window's controls (location, angle, scale, etc) to position the video where you want it. And/or with the Video FX window, you can also use the corner nodes of the image in the preview window to size as well as the L button on the mouse to position the image. Then use the event's pan/crop to zoom as desired.

The best way to learn is to add the FX and then play/experiemnt with it - it'll functions will become self-evident very quickly.

There's a lot more detail about the PiP FX in Vegas Pro's user manual - Help menu / Contents and Index / search field type "Picture in Picture".

With CropFX you can crop away unwanted parts of the videos and with PictureinPictureFX you can resize and reposition the videos. With the pan/crop tool you can create a zooming effect with setting two different keyframes. Important is that pan/crop is first in the FXchain followed by CropFX and PiPFX.

@sash-h I'd go with @Dexcon version, no need for Crop (& adding Crop just crashed my Vegas twice)

Add Picture in Picture, & position it roughly where you want.

Open Pan/Crop, turn off Lock Aspect Ratio of you want a shape that's not 16:9 Landscape.

Use the pan crop selection to create your shape, then if needs be reposition Picture in Picture,

Turn back on Lock Aspect Ratio, this will keep the shape you chose, you can then position & zoom the Pan/Crop selection as you wish dragging the slider along the timeline, each change in position/zoom will create a keyframe.

There's also Sync Cursor at the start of the keyframe timeline, this will hook that keyframe cursor with the one on the main timeline.

wow, bruv. thx for the video!

But the problem is, on sony vegas 18 i dont have this function where you can grab the corners of the video and change it in real time. When i add pip, it opens a window, and i can change some options there but the changes are only visible, when i close this window 😢. So I need to edit a part of the video, and the whole video was positioned via pan/crop, and if I gonna move this slice using pip it will be very difficult to keep the size with the rest of the project. If I understood it all correctly

ok so apparantely i stumbled upomn another problem. When I use pip, the picture in preview has no interactive elements to drag. Ive just watched a video on sony vegas 16 and the guy had this feature. So does anyone know how to activate it?

@sash-h, Sony's last version was version 13. Versions 16 and 18 are Magix versions. And, yes, the functionality to click and drag on the screen the points and position is still available in all newer verisons. The biggest question, if you're not seeing that, is what video card and driver are you using?

@sash-h, Sony's last version was version 13. Versions 16 and 18 are Magix versions. And, yes, the functionality to click and drag on the screen the points and position is still available in all newer verisons. The biggest question, if you're not seeing that, is what video card and driver are you using?

nvidia 1650
the drivers are updated to the newest.

ok, i solved it.
I had the acceleration of the gpu enabled and as soon as i desabled it - I have them corners)
Cool.
Now back to zooming.

yesss!
I solved it. PIP reallt did the trick, thank yall!