Zoom/ Pan Timelapses

[MadSteezin]

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.

 

[Galin]

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.

 

[Ryanvdonk]

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.

 

[MadSteezin]

Yeah I was worried about the quality when he said zoom in 120%. But thank you both so much!

 

[connoroh]

And for best best best quality you best use a DSLR with a intervalometer.

 

[Jeff_Lo]

this is very true, otherwise it will come out all sorts of distorted.

 

[attitashfreestyle29]

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