Tutorials

Try these first.

Beginner Tutorials

These ones include extra steps for people who are still unfamiliar with ZS4.

Medium Tutorials

Tutorials which are more advanced than beginner.

Advanced Tutorials

These tutorials assume you know your way around ZS4 somewhat.

Simple Chroma Key Tutorial

Here's a short introduction to the chroma key effect.
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Scrolling Flower Tutorial

This tutorial is an example of a simple pattern, created using one of the pattern effects.  Here we will take a picture (feel free to use this one) and make it scroll by repeatedly. ...read more
 

Chroma Key Tutorial

Because ZS4 can export video in Motion PNG format, a lossless format which stores transparency, it is a good idea to save your footage with key to import into larger ZS4 projects.

In this tutorial we shall do that using a person in front of a greenscreen and a chroma key. You can download the video clip here (4mb). This was saved (with ZS4) in mjpeg format, so you may not be able to play the file back with wmp, but you should be able to import it into ZS4 to use in this tutorial. ...read more
 
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