How to make stationary video of performance more interesting...

Hi,
I need some advice from experienced FCPX users.
I was given about an hour of video of a performance involving a group of people singing with some dancing/movement. I am adding captions of the lyrics being sung because the audio captured a bit of room echo that made some of the words being sung less distinct. The video was shot on an unattended camera in a balcony overlooking the venue. So, I have sharp (HD) video of the performance, and the lighting is actually good. But the footage itself is a bit boring because the camera angle never changes, and the vantage point is distant enough that the action on stage only fills part of the frame, and there's a lot of extraneous space on all sides.
I tried using cropping in FCPX to zoom in on the action, which certainly gives me a tighter, more interesting view, at the expense of pixellation/blurriness.
I am still kind of a FCPX newbie and I'm wondering if I might do something with any of the other effects to make this footage more intersesting, calling attention to the action without degrading image quality.
Thanks in advance!

rebbi wrote:
… The video was shot on an unattended camera…
I tried using cropping in FCPX to zoom in on the action, …, at the expense of pixellation/blurriness.…
I'm doing this with some of my projetcs too: a 'general' cam, overviewing the scenery, but unattended.
Knowing this, I record in 1080; but I set up my project in 720 - which means, I can zoom-in by factor 3-4 without (almost) any loss! So, blurriness occur only when the cropping factor gets really high... under low light conditions, beyond 200% scale is not acceptable.
This way, I can perform cuts to 'two' angles from one cam: clip#1 shows a part of the stage on the left, clip#2 shows the right part; or, I do add a 'pan with grace' via Ken Burns.
What's really helpful in such situations is a 2nd ''free' cam - there you get close-ups, diff. perspectives, and 'neutrals' for cut-aways (faces, hands, feet, deco, lights). Knowing, this will be a single-stunt, I like to record before and after the show such stuff… Or, ask another person to take stills; any cheap photo/phone can take pics which 'fit' by terms of quality into any video. On a wedding I once had an 11y old assistent, who took (partly) surprising good photos! ...
May be, some other persons of the audience took stills, you can ask for? ...
Finally. why not faking it? Do you have material from any audition of the same show? Do you have a chance to record a 2nd performance, diff. place, diff. time? Just to get some 'intercuts'.....
Sadly forgotton film-theorist Лев Влади́мирович Кулешо́в 'invented' the socalled Kuleshov-effect: The audience does the 'montage' of a scenery in its head - two pics, totally unrelated, result in 'one'. Example extremé: you can do cut-aways to ANY audience-shot avail! Funny action+laughing people=one movie ... although the laughing people never saw the performance, nor shared the same room! (usual for audio: sit-com laughter from tape)
just as some suggestions....

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