• Adobe After Effects

  VFX – Smooth Zoom Effect

  Posted by Eran Kahan on May 22, 2011 at 9:42 pm

  I received feedback that the zoom at the end of my video clip isn’t smooth enough. Does someone know how to do it more smoothy?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16wX8qSn2I

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16wX8qSn2I

  Thanks!!

  Eran Kahan replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  May 23, 2011 at 6:27 am

  I used to get my smoothies at Jamba Juice… all jokes aside, for a smoother transition you can try a morph with your radial zoom on top.
  Here’s a simple morph method using stock AE plugins only:
  Use Mesh Warp.
  Set 2 layers in a AE comp- the “morph from” layer on top of the “morph to” layer.
  Start on the layer you want to morph from- apply Mesh Warp and set keyframe. Move 8 to 15 frames (or as many as you need your morph to be) and change transparency to 50% so that you can see the layer under. Use the mesh warp to distort the features of the top layer to match those of the bottom layer.
  Apply Mesh Warp to bottom layer and set keyframe at the end of the transition. Go back to the beginning of the transition and use the Mesh Warp to distort the bottom layer to match the top one’s features.
  Set transparency keyframes to animate the top layers opacity from 100% to 0 for the length of the morph.
  That’s basically it.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Eran Kahan

  May 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

  Thanks Man!

  I’ll try later your suggestion.

  Thanks!

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