Animating a Zoom Effect with Layers in PS CS4?

How'dee all...
I'm hoping that this is possible and that someone might be able to enlighten me as to how I would go about doing it...
I have a Panoramic that I put together of a Manhattan City Scape that consist of 2 rows of 32 images set at a Portriat format.
What I want is to take the Panoramic that I have and fit the image centered on a canvas equalling that of my flat screen tv, that being 1920x1080 with black filler at the top and bottom of the image area.
I then want to, or atleast was hoping to save "Layers" with each layer zooming in by a percentage of say 103% (for example)... Until eventually that final layer would consist of a fully zoomed in view of the center portion of the panoramic at full resolution. Ultimately I want to burn the final images to a DVD for playback on my Flatscreen showing the entire Pano Zooming in to its center...I was thinking that I could maybe assemble all the layers into an .AVI or something.
"I hope that you all can understand what it is I'm attempting to get across to you. And I look forward to your help with this..."
Jim...The Toxic'One...

If you get things into layers you can select "make frames from layers" and then choose animation. This should get you started anyways.

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