Extreme zooms and pans
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:02 pm
Since I'm doing this stuff right now, here's a nifty little trick:
You know how hard it is to zoom in extremely close to some object while doing a pan at the same time. The camera tool produces strange curves, so I don't use it for that. Instead I put all layers into a top group layer, set the origin point to where I want to center the zoom, and create the pan/zoom combi.
Sometimes this doesn't give me enough control, so I put that top group into another group, and use one for X movements only, the other for Y movements only.
But what if I have 2 objects of attention in a scene with extreme zoom ins and outs? Guess what: I just repeat the described process, only to set the origin point for the second object to the second set of group layers. I start with the first zoom and pan with the bottom group layers, then leave that alone and do the second zoom/pan with the top layer group.
You know how hard it is to zoom in extremely close to some object while doing a pan at the same time. The camera tool produces strange curves, so I don't use it for that. Instead I put all layers into a top group layer, set the origin point to where I want to center the zoom, and create the pan/zoom combi.
Sometimes this doesn't give me enough control, so I put that top group into another group, and use one for X movements only, the other for Y movements only.
But what if I have 2 objects of attention in a scene with extreme zoom ins and outs? Guess what: I just repeat the described process, only to set the origin point for the second object to the second set of group layers. I start with the first zoom and pan with the bottom group layers, then leave that alone and do the second zoom/pan with the top layer group.