From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
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Changing the focal length and zoom
From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions Using Photoshop and After Effects
Changing the focal length and zoom
- Besides changing the depth of field, we can also adjust other aspects of the camera itself. You could treat this like it's a fixed prime lens, or as a zoom lens, and both will behave very differently. Let's go ahead and select this first camera here, and I'm going to press command D to duplicate it. That's control D, and I'll rename it zoom lens. This way I've got both cameras available in case I change my mind. Let's twirl that down and we're going to make some tweaks. With the camera selected, I'll open up the camera options here and add a key frame for zoom. What I'd like to do is start in a little bit tighter on our subjects. As I adjust this, you see that the lens transforms. That's pretty cool. You might need to tweak the focus distance if you zoom the camera. Now I'm going to go to the end position here and zoom out a little bit to show more of the scene. So in this case, this is sometimes referred to as a zolly,…
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