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  • faking camera depth movement….

    Posted by Erin Shelby on April 5, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    hi, I am trying to fake a camera dolly (close to subject, dolly away) with a character and a wall behind him. I have to use only scale, it’s kinda too late to use the camera (doh), I was wondering how it should work – like. should the background be scaling faster then the foreground? I can’t seem to get this right.

    -E

    Darby Edelen replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Richard Bachman

    April 5, 2007 at 8:53 pm

    I would think the further the object/layer is from the POV, the slower it would pan – lessen the contrast and blur it too since “it’s too late to use the camera” (I don’t understand why, but I’ll take your word for it.)

  • Darby Edelen

    April 5, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    [echo] “should the background be scaling faster then the foreground?”

    The background should scale slower than the foreground, the difference in speed would depend on the distance between the background and foreground as well as the focal length of the lens. The camera in AE would handle that for you, if you’re trying to fake it with scale then I guess you’d just tweak until you’re happy with the result!

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