Motion smoothing - music video

[Mazpig]

Hi
First post - Hi from Scotland :beer:
I'm a Newb AE 6.5 user editing a video for my band
http://www.azurehalo.com/AzureHalo-Box.wmv
Whats the best way to do smooth fast camera zooms?
I use a camera pulling back from a box and zoom into
another box with only one second or so duration.
It looks twitchy to my eyes so I wondered if theres a way
to smooth/blend frames?
Any feedback on the vid most welcome.
Thanks in advance
Mario

PS: We used JVC GY HD100 camera for shoot - Normal DV and it still looks
more like film than video :love4:

[surf]

give some mass to the camera, s it should accelerate, and brake

[oneinfiniteloop]

Right click on the keyframes that start and stop the camera move, and then go to-->Keyframe Assistant-->then add an Easy Ease In to the first keyframe, go to the last and add a Easy Ease Out. This should help, if you need to edit further, you need to open up those keyframes in the timeline (click on the layer and hit U, the uberkey) and then use the bezier handles to smooth it out further.

[kai]

You could also use frame blending. Look it up in your manual. As easy as clicking a button.

[Matt Grunau]

you can also use a degree of Wide Time, which will play "X" amount of frames before and after your position in decreasing opacity. In other words, if you enable wide time, and you pick to have 2 frames before and 2 frames after, if you are on frame 10, you will see a very light "onion skin" frame 8 (low opacity), a slighly more opaque frame 9 as well as a slightly opaque frame 11 and very light (low opacity) frame 12.

If you only chose to have one frame before and one after, then you would see a round a 50% opacity frame 9 and a 50% opacity frame 11. You can also change the blending modes of those frames as well for some interesting results.

If you are shooting interlaced, there is another way you can do it as well.

[MrPolarBare]

If you are talking about really fast dynamic zooms, then should do it all in AE, not in your camera. You should take two shots. One will be your far away shot, and the other will be your close-up shot. Then animate the scale of the far away shot. Have it scale all the way up to match the close up shot, then switch to the close up shot. While animating the far away shot, you should also put a "radial" type of blur on it while it is animating to get a cool motion blur type of effect.. You can use the Radial Blur in AE, or you can look elsewhere and get a plugin like Trapcode's "Shine".

Also, as a sidenote, you might want to convert the "far away" shot into a 3d layer, and animate it's positional values for the zoom, instead of animating it's scale values (it will give you a more accurate looking zoom effect).

Also note, that this effect looks better, the faster you animate it. If you do a somewhat slow zoom, then this effect could look bad.

Mike McLin

[MrPolarBare]

Nevermind.... Obviously you are talking about moving around After Effects cameras, and not real world Cameras.

Minunderstood :)
Mike

[Matt Grunau]

Nevermind.... Obviously you are talking about moving around After Effects cameras, and not real world Cameras.

Minunderstood :)
Mike


That was good info none the less. May help me out with something I have been thinking about.

[Mazpig]

Thank you for all the info !
I had tried editing keyframes but it still looked too uniform.
I'll go try these out .
And thanks Mike... altho you "misunderstood", your answer
helps me with other AE stuff I'm learning .
:dankk2: