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Zoom/ Pan Timelapses

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MadSteezin
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How do you create those timelapses where it either zooms in or out or pans around? Obviously you slowly zoom in/out but i don't know how to do it without making it look all sudden.
May 2 2008 10:27PM
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Galin
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you do it in post
you've gotta have a program like premiere, final cut, or vegas (not sure, never used it, but im sure you could do it). You zoom in on the clip say like, 120% then set a keyframe in the beginning of the timelapse. Then at the end of the clip you set a keyframe for 100% zoom. That's about it for zooming.
For panning you just zoom in say 120%, no keyframing unless you wanna do a zoom and a pan in the same shot. Then you keyframe the position. Pretty simple.
May 2 2008 11:08PM
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Ryanvdonk
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yep, pretty much, make sure when you capture the timelapse on your computer, you use the highest quality setting, so you cant tell it's zoomed.
May 2 2008 11:24PM
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MadSteezin
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Yeah I was worried about the quality when he said zoom in 120%. But thank you both so much!
May 3 2008 12:01AM
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connoroh
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And for best best best quality you best use a DSLR with a intervalometer.
May 3 2008 1:16AM
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Jeff_Lo
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this is very true, otherwise it will come out all sorts of distorted.
May 3 2008 6:02PM
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attitashfreestyle29
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you don't zoom when ur filming if you have vegas which is what i use then u just go to the crop feature thing and zoom in at the begninning of the clip and keyframe then have it normal at the end so it'll slowly zoom ouit
May 3 2008 10:46PM
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