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How on earth do they do that?
Hi,
If someone can watch the following video clip, it’s more than words to show what iam trying to do.
The movie is fast moving, sometimes slow (even stops) for a few tenth of second, then goes on fast again, sometimes so fast you can’t predict what the next tenth of second is going to be like, it zooms in, zooms out, sometimes plays reverse, the camera changes angles, shouts succeed each other seemlessly.
Give a look: centrobec.ca/fast_movie.html
I was trying to do that for a looong time, i still don’t even know where to start from.
Anyone has an idea how such a thing can be done? a special plug-in? how to synch the sound with the image this way, but most of all how to get this shaky, trembling, and fast moving rythm to the image?
Thanks a lot for detailed answers, if anyone knows a tutorial would be very appreciated.
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I looked at that clip, I don’t think their is any special technique other than creative editing. You have to create markers in your comp that match the beats of the music and then cut to those markers in an editing program. Quicker edits create a faster pace. The jump cuts can be done by removing a few frames (maybe 10 or so) at a time from a piece of footage that is zooming and put the left over frames together and hold for a slong a s you need.
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ok so im not the best with AE, but im assuming each clip (each angle) was synced with the audio layer via hand-to-eye keyframing or trapcode sound keys, than once the layers were made into 1 comp for final composite, they coulda used the wiggler for various properties like on the position and scale.
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I didn’t watch the entire thing but I don’t see any trick in there other than a cut.
To me it looks like Handheld DV they did a tri-tone tint to. Then just edited it fast. Not even very well to the beat. Whenever it looks like it has ‘zoom animation’ if you look at it they just looped (via edit) a zoom out shot so it looks like some scale effect.
First of all don’t do this in AE unless you want some pain because it’s not an editor.
Second, go to your NLE and lay the track in the auido channel and put your finger on the ‘marker’ button (‘m’ in FCP). Hit play and tap to the beat through the whole song. Now you have snapping points at least for downbeats. Edit to these or halves and quarters for faster cuts.
So go shoot some aggressive home video with fast zooms and shaky camera, lots of snap pans and such then edit it fast to music.
Chris Smith
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Just looks like a combination of shooting style and good editing. There are a few camera start-stops in the middle of zooms or pans that can give that jerky result in camera, as well as simply cutting out frames and adding slow-mo to play with time. Not so much an AE job as an edit job.
Chris Tomberlin
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The most interesting thing was the pan using multi images and matching them up.
This definitely has to be done with an NLE and then finished in AE.
Not a very good edit though.
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