Walking around and through a “paused” video clip.

[Vince Becquiot]

Although I haven’t seen the particular clip you are referring to, this usually does not have much to do with Premiere. These type of effects often involve hundreds of small cameras recording one frame each, either at the same time, or with a tiny delay around a person (seen in the Matrix). Specialized software is then used to interpolate the frames and recreate the scene in this sort of paused state.

People have also used a combination of rotoscoping and even 3D modeling to achieve a similar effect; either way, it is extremely time consuming.

Vince

[Zvi Twersky]

There is another way to create this kind of effect, depending on the type of quality you want and of course, is also can be time consuming.

This way is to export the frame you want to “walk around” as a still image into photoshop. Then you can create layers from the various objects in the image. The more layers you create (the more you break up the image into layers) the more of a 3d effect you can have in after effects, or whatever editing software you will be using to “stroll” around the image via a camera.

Here is an example of an image I took and made just 2 layers from the foreground and background:

https://gat101.co.il/movie.wmv

both layers move a little and the background blurs a little at the end.

Of course, since this is only 2 layers, I don’t have much 3d to play around with, but you get the idea.

Another thing to remember when dealing with an image. An image is a 2d layer. Even when you seperate it into layers like mentioned above, you are not making the layers 3d, rather just using the layers to stimulate 3d… giving an illusion of 3d.

If you REALLY want to get crazy and create the best 3d illusion you can get, you would need to recreate or redraw on some of the layers and I’ll explain:

Imagine a photo of 2 tress, one in back of another but slightly showing. You want to create a 3d illusion of a camera panning or dollying around the trees. Now if you just create 2 layers, you only have the front tree and half of the second tree, so even if you start moving the first tree as we “go around” it, the second tree would be cut… so what you can do on the half tree layer (in photoshop) is to “recreate” or “draw” the second half of the half tree in its own layer. You can do this in many ways for instance with cloning or painting.

Then, when moving around the first layer, the second layer will be revealed and of course it won’t be cut, giving it a true 3d effect.

There is software that can also take images and try to create 3d images out of them so you can rotate it in full 3d and it won’t be just a line when you rotate it 90 degrees. I wasn’t so pleased with the results of these programs though.

So have fun and good luck!