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Fly through / Zoom out transition.
I’m trying to replicate that typical super fast zoom out (or zoom in) transition where
the camera appears to zoom out of a shot creating a radial blue and then it ‘settles’
into a new shot.The way I’m trying to do it is by using a tunnel effect such as in the example below:
The example below is too slow in speed to create the desired effect but you’ll get the idea.(It’s the bottom left clip – Click to view it)
https://www.artbeats.com/prod/product.php?pg=1&id=251Anyways, I was thinking of using a tunnel matte and compositing it so that it starts to
‘tunnel’ or ‘radial blur’ my first shot giving the overall effect I’m trying to achieve.Does my method sound like a good method of doing what I want to do? Also, how would I create
such a tunnel matte? Or maybe could I purchase one from somewhere? Has anyone seen any mattes
like that around the net that maybe I could download?-Frankie
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Use multiple layers of fractal noise set to look like clouds. Layer them in 3d space and set the blending mode to taste, or you could use unmult to remove the dark areas. Animate the camera to fly threw them, or animate them to fly towards the camera.
You could also use a gradient wipe with a duplicate of the fractal (you will have to have it in its own composition for it to be used as a gradient) as the source gradient, and make the transition deteriorate the clouds away.
Hope this helps.
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When I think of the typical zoom transition, it’s just that without clouds. I did an example, is this what you are talking about:
https://sugarfilmproduction.com/zoom.mov
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Chris – Yes! That’s exactly what I’m talking about.
Did you use a mask for that like what I’m trying to do or was it more a
scale and radial blur?-Frankie
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Thanks Ryan,
Will give that a try.
-Frankie
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Question: Can you do that transition with zoom out only?
The other thing I’m trying to do is exactly that but only by zooming out.
So the shot zooms out and the new shot appears. Should look like the camera
is travelling fast backwards to reveal new shots.-Frankie
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No masks, no radial blur. Very simple:
Animate the scale from 100% to an extreme close-up of where you want to zoom to. Animate the anchor position as well so it zooms into where you want it to go. Make sure the animation is extremely quick over a few frames. Animate the opacity from 100 to 0 over a few frames in the middle of the zoom so it transitions to the other layer.
Turn on motion blur. However the default setting of 180 is pretty mild so change the comp settings to something higher like I used 220 in this example.
Don’t worry about zooming into something too close because the smear of the motion blur hides the lower res.
The key to these transitions is nice and quick, too slow and the effect is blown.
The other key is to match things in the frame that seem logical. Like in my example I zoomed into my wife’s face, then transitioned to another picture of her with her eyes roughly in the same place. If you just arbitrarily zoom between to unrelated shapes, the effect isn’t as seemless.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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