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smoothing out a zolly move
hey guys,
i shot a zolly move but we did not have a follow focus unit with us the day of the shoot. so we did it by hand and it is extremely jerky. just wondering if you could take a look at this footage and tell me if there is anyway FCP can smooth out the jerkiness of this move:
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zolly move? I thought the spelling of this was a typo in the title, but then you use it again in the main message. What on earth is a “zolly” move?
Ohhhh! I had to google it. I’m not used to that term. You young kids and the urbanization of the smash zoom.
No way you can smooth that out that I know of. Not with FCP, AE or AVID or Motion. That is something that you need to practice over and over to get right.
AFAIK
Shane
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Curious shoot. Seems that the guy is sitting in the very dolly.
Not sure if would work, but I would try the SmoothCam applied only to the “z” axis: Scale Smooth.
Translation and rotation: 0.
The face of he guy should be in the center and keeping the same size. I think is a good reference for the filter.
The first few seconds, when he is looking to the left, may complicate things,but when he look at the camera, I think could work.
rafael -
this was the best attempt out of 15 tries. we had to move on… i was hoping could come good out of it. we were watching it on the 2.5 lcd screen of the camera too because campus does not have an external monitor for the 7d.
for starters i think a follow focus would have made it so much smoother than trying it with our wrist. but for now, i think i might just abandon the shot and go with the slow dolly move we did without the zoom. we used the za za slider from dvxuser.com for this (which i built) so no dolly rental was used. -
I think that to get that shoot perfect, is very difficult whatever the camera you use.
The problem, I think,is the ZA-ZA (I have one but I have no idea was call like that).
There are few brands for sale, but I think they have a common problem: the distance between the tracks is too narrow. No there are some models with a crank that seems works better, but even in that case, as Dave say, you have to practice with the crank to do it properly.
Anyway, as I said, I think that shoot is perfect for SmoothCam.
Rafael
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