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  • long pullback

    Posted by Rothermel on December 27, 2005 at 6:49 pm

    just curious how everyone else goes about this. i want to make an extremely long pullback in my main comp. should i precomp the main comp and make its comps width and height really big, so that i can pull back my camera in z space a large amount?

    Jonathan Miller replied 20 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Chris Smith

    December 27, 2005 at 8:19 pm

    I assume you are doing a pull back to frame something in particular? I don’t understand why you would need to incease your comp size to move the camera back. You comp should generally be your output size for your medium.

    Having hard time understanding the purpose. If it were a real camera, you wouldn’t need to shoot a higher resolution format just to dolly the camera back.

    Chris Smith
    https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

  • Rothermel

    December 27, 2005 at 8:39 pm

    i want to be able to pullback like 4000px. the camera will go off screen if your comp is 720 x 480

  • Jonathan Miller

    December 27, 2005 at 9:25 pm

    I agree with Chris, not too sure where the problem is here.

    Have you places items in 3D space, added a camera and moved the camera along the z-axis?

    Your Comp should remain at whatever size your final, rendered movie needs to be at. When you move layers or cameras around inside, say, a 720×540 comp, you’ll always see a 720×540 cropped view of your little “world.”

    If you need to pull way back and still have a graphic, movie or PreComp’d animation fill the frame, then any of those specific items will need to be wide and tall to begin with.

    Is any of this helping?

    Jon

  • Rothermel

    December 27, 2005 at 9:30 pm

    ya i guess thats just what i was getting at… just needed to make sure there wasnt a different way.

  • Jonathan Miller

    December 27, 2005 at 10:00 pm

    Cool. Just want to make sure you get it to work.

    Jon

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