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  • The best way to “zoom” into an image?

    Posted by Jaime Lackner on June 28, 2005 at 6:27 pm

    Hello,
    I have this huge still frame of a person standing on a building pretty far away.
    The idea is that this person says something, then we quickly zoom into that person.
    Which after the zoom we quickly go into video of that person talking.
    So I am going from a large still to video.
    It’s almost like when the viewer is looking at a window on a building outside, then there is this quick zoom blur thing, and all of a sudden your inside the building.
    I am wondering whats the best way to conquer this?
    Should I use spiral blur and just scale up the still and video?
    to make it look like we’re going into it?
    Or should I use the camera?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks
    Jaime

    Jaime Lackner replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Aharon Rabinowitz

    June 28, 2005 at 6:45 pm

    I don;t see th piont in using an AE 3D camera. It’s going to be harder to match.

    Just zoom in, and parent your video to the picture that you are zooming so that you can crossfade. Also, turn on motion blur, and myabe select your scaling (zooming) keyframes and use the keyframe assistant called Exponential scale – which fixes the scaling issues you get on a massive scaling.

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  • Jaime Lackner

    June 28, 2005 at 7:06 pm

    Awesome! Thanks so much!
    I’ll try that.
    Jaime

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