3D Camera over image

[girlwithamoviecamera]

Hi guys,

I'm about to start working on a documentary that will require a lot of screencaps of web sites (text + image, they contain no flash animation or video) and scanned newspaper and magazine articles.

I really liked the flying 3D camera effect used in this video (German TV program):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUMgbQINEHM

They used dramatic zoom in effects over web pages (fx starts at 00:24); I understand YouTube has crappy image quality bc of its compression methods but from what I see there seems to be no significant image quality loss during the zooming in.

A couple of questions:

– Do you know of any good online tutorials for 3D camera flying (that would produce similar effects, with the camera constantly in motion, even when hovering)?

– I have already saved tons of web pages with the Mac freeware Paparazzi. How would I go about zooming into part of images (like the YouTube video) without significant image loss? The AE animations I would do will eventually be paired up with interviews shot with a Sony EX1 (1920x1080 pixels)

Thanks!

Elena

[aryk]

I do this stuff everyday. Im sure in your example they used after effects for the motion, as I do. To do the constant motion while hovering, just animate the position of the camera while keeping the camera's point of interest centered on the portion of the webpage your are focused on.

[btownproductions]

http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/adobeaftereffects

I find that is one of the better sites for AE tutorials, I know there are a few on there for animating a camera along a path and panning/zooming images. But I'd start with making sure you have the highest-res image you can get to avoid getting bad image quality when you zoom.

[girlwithamoviecamera]

thanks guys.

i will try this on monday and post the results (if they're not too shabby)...

cheers,