Pan & Zoom effect in FCP 6

Hello everyone,
New to this forum and struggling with FCP to perform zoom and pan effect on scren cast movies.
Can anybody give me som tips and tricks on how you best approach this or recommend a good effect for it?
Thank You

Sorry Shane, with screencast I mean that I capture with IShowU screen movements with a Mov file as finished product. In my case it is about creating a software tutorial. Once captured I do the editing in FCP and I need to zoom in or pan to certain screen areas to focus on some functionality on the screen.
I have seen the tutorial before and Thank you for pointing it out, but that illustrate only a zoom effect, but I cannot find a way on how you easaly can move the screen from left to right , for example.
Roger

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