Frequently, when viewing documentaries I see the filmmakers shooting closeups of images in books, or pictures etc. The camera will zoom in, out, or pan, tilt, or whatever. How is this done? Is the camera being held by some sort of device held overhead and focusing down on the material that is laid out on a table? How is the material kept perfectly flat if the image is being shot from a book? Or is the material held against a wal and being shot with the camera being on a tripod? Thanks for any input on how this is done.
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j1clark@ucsd.edu
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These days most such things are scanned 'flat', then a program such as After Effects is used to perform various operations on the image. The 'Ken Burns" effects, are popular and have been implemented in a number of consumer type applicaitons.
A step up from such 'canned' effects would be the one were image appears to have some parallax as the 'tracking' motion runs across the still. This requires 'cutting out' people or objects in the image, then 'filling in' the background where the cutout occurs, then using 'paste board 3-d' motion key framing in After Effects to get the desired visual.
robster180
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You can do the Ken Burns effect in your editing app. Just scan your photo in larger than the res of the film and move/scale the image around in Premiere or FCP. Make sure you set your keyframes to Easy Ease.
