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moving images?
Does anyone know how to make images moving from one point to another? I want to include stills into my FCP sequence, however would like them to have some sort of life by maybe panning of some sort. I would imagine the key frames would be the biggest tool. But i wanted to know if there might be another way to go about it.
Any suggestions or tutorials would be great!
best example….
Chris
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4 Replies
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it’s not too hard to do this in ae… if you want to animate a pan or tilt, key frame the anchor point. if you want to animate a zoom, key frame the scale. if you want to animate a pan and a zoom, key frame both the anchor point and scale…
there is however a free effect you can download called pan and zoom, from noise industries that does just what you are after and works in fcp, motion and ae.
you might just check that out. it does require the install of their free fxfactory.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Great Plugins Kevin, Thanks! However, since they worked so well for the zooms and pans. Do you have anymore insight on how to create motion in the image. for example..a photo with its background moving but the subjects are still fixed…
example
https://cinemotionfilms.com/cinemotion.html
Thanks!
hope to hear from you soon
Chris
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basically you’ll take an image into photoshop and start to separate it into layers…. separate foreground elements from the background, then fill in the holes in the background to some degree (use the rubber stamp tool, smudge tool and airbrush). you don’t need to fill in everything, just the edges where thr foreground was removed.
so no you’ll have a psd with two layers (maybe more, depending on how much separating you want to do). import that into ae as a comp and open that comp. make those psd layers 3d and create a new camera. select the foreground layer move it on it’s z-axis towards the camera. you’ll start to see that motion parallax look.
basically, you’ll just set the layers in z-space, then animate your camera. you can move the camera in or out, or animate the zoom. you can also animate a pan or pan and zoom which can be pretty cool. you could also animate blurs to create a rack focus, or use the dof in the camera.
i don’t know of any short cuts on this effect, it’s a bit of photoshop work, but then it’s relatively easy.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
thnx u r so kind and lovely like the cream fair and lovely
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