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Project with a lot of Photos
I ‘m working on a project that has a lot of photos in it. I have no problem creating file pans in FCP or AE but the push in or out slides across is a little old, I’m looking for a way to “spice it up” a little bit or basically do something a little different. The project is a historic piece with old black and white pictures. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
PHIL
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5 Replies
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Here ya go-
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=21&postid=855717&pview=t#headfrom over on the Broadcast Forum.
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One technique I’ve seen recently and looks good, is an artificial 3D layering. Whereby the centre of interest of the still is masked out and put on a layer closer to the camera than the backround. Pseudo 3D movement can then be fudged.
Alan
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Alan,
do you have any pics or Quick times of this technique?
Matte,
thanks for the link.PHIL
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Alas, sorry no.
But think about a series of cardboard cutouts placed at different distances in front of the camera.
I’ve done a bit in Cinema4D and AfterEffects.
The most time consuming thing is creating the masks – which I did in Photoshop.
Alan
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If you do wind up doing a lot of boring old pans & zooms, you might find the plugin I developed for a recent long-form historical doco useful. It helps getting pixel velocities uniform and does synchronized eases on zooms & pans, which is a pain in FCP. Unfortunately, it won’t do the 3D parallax layering for you, though that does sound cool. It’s called Pan Zoom Pro, you can get a demo to play with here: https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/index.htm#pzp.
Cheers,
John
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