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  is this a camera zoom or other trick?

  Posted by Milton Hockman on May 9, 2007 at 2:43 am

  I see on HGTV, Design Shows, Auto DIY Shows a tv this effect alot and want to know the proper way to achieve it.

  A close up of an object is on screen and then a 10-20 frame fast zoom out that shows the rest of the scene.

  Is this effect usually done by speeding up an existing camera zoom on the clip? Or are people using a resize effect to be zoomed in close and then zoom out with keyframes? If the latter, how do you not have pixelization on the zoomed in part? if it is the former, how do you get the sped up zoom to look smooth? i tried with our footage in house and it looks bad like a sped up clip.

  thanks.

  Grinner Hester replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Grinner Hester

  May 9, 2007 at 1:50 pm

  It’s usually a motion effect on a jib shot. Hand held is too shaky to pull this off nicely and they don’t tote dollys on tese kinds of shows.
  You’ll find running it at 100% then to 1000% then back to 100% produces nice results.

  

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