See this example. It was created with Photostage's "Zoom" Animation, and involves cropping a still stock image close up for the start of the zoom, and less of a crop with a different height and width ratio at the end of the zoom, then a second slide with the same Zoom Animation but set to keep the zoom fixed at the end point of the first slide from start to finish of the second slide. The nice thing about Photostage is it's just a simple box selection to choose the start and end points--all the transitioning between them is automatic over the time you set the slide to. Very fast. The problem with Photostage is all the bugs that make doing other simple things very tedious, like text slides where the editor box is so tiny you can't read it, inexplicably rebuilding its entire cache on every undo action, and fixing everything to a predetermined slide width so timing to audio can get very difficult. Besides that I am not a fan of NCH's sales practices. When I downloaded Photostage early this year, you could do video in the free version, which I am using. Now you have to pay for the "pro" version to get that. They are all about upsell, upsell, upsell, not about fixing basic usability issues to justify their premium prices.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0yjalxudngi5rxc/Photostage-Crop-and-Zoom-Out-example.mp4?dl=0

The only way I've figured out to mimic this in Kdenlive so far is two iterations of Transform to reposition, resize, and effectively crop the image from one keyframe to another over a few seconds, then hold on the second keyframe for a few additional seconds. Is there a better way to pull this off? Or is there other software than can do what Photostage did in as user-friendly a way as Photostage's Zoom Animation selection boxes?