[Greg Gesch]

What Dave says is very true, however to your door question – you can use a camera or not. Make your layers 3D, move the lower layer (the one your zooming into) back in Z space. Use a camera – or parent both layers to a 3D null then keyframe the null’s Z position ( and X or Y if necessary); the top layer moves forward leaving you with the other layer filling the frame (you might need to scale it up to fit).

[Greg Gesch]

Hi, that clip is a beautiful example of the editor’s art. I’m not sure what you mean by duplicating the video layer and zooming in? You can mask out a section of the image (say a doorway) and zoom through it to see another clip. Since you know the look you want you would need to experiment and see what works. There is a lot of skill that has gone into that clip (one of the great strengths is the use of, and matching of, colors).

[Greg Gesch]

Hi Robby, it sounds like you may have made the Element layer 3D, the layer should be 2D.

[Greg Gesch]

Hi Sahil, the links didn’t work for me but it sounds like you mean a whip or swish pan. This is a very simple way to do it though there are more advanced tutorials around as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYkq82bC_Q

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[Greg Gesch]

Hi Max, a particle system will do that sort of thing. To quote Kevin Camp in another post:

create a new solid and add cc particle world. in the particle settings, set the particle type to textured square, and then in the texture settings select your GIF as the texture layer and set the texture time to birth. a little lower in the particle settings, set the birth and death color to white (this will prevent particle world from tinting your images).

There are quite a lot of tutorials about CC Particle World which could give you the basics.

[Greg Gesch]

Hi Sander, try moving your Current Time Indicator along slowly and stop often – check the Wiggle Speed in your effect settings is increasing evenly. Going from something like 2 to 30 in a short amount of time might be your issue?

[Greg Gesch]

Hi, you haven’t accidentally made the layers into guide layers?

[Greg Gesch]

Hi Ryan, put the cloud layer underneath the masked layer – the masked areas let the clouds be seen through the top layer.

[Greg Gesch]

Hi James, the sample tutorials on this page are excellent and should help:
https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/visual-effects-for-directors-sample-clips.html

[Greg Gesch]

HI, or you can pickwhip the solid’s position to the text’s position. Then they are locked together in the original text position.