From the course: After Effects Guru: Time-Lapse 3D Motion and Compositing

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Editing of HyperZoom

Editing of HyperZoom

- So now that we understand what HyperZooms are and how to shoot them, let's dive into actually how to edit them in After Effects. Okay, so for this example, we have a shot of the Washington Monument, nice wide shot here, and we're going to be zooming in to our close up shot over here, which I already imported. And we're going to go ahead and drag this into our comp, right over our wide shot. So now we have our close up right here and our wide shot underneath. Let's go back to our close up and let's scale down on that. And we can see them both in the scene. Very good, now the trick here is we want to match up these two shots as well as we can. So we're going to go ahead and scale down and try to put it over it. There we go. And then we're going to click on this top layer and we're going to go to Opacity, which is "t" the shortcut. And 50%, just so that we can see a ghosted image and we can align it up perfectly. Now, most of the time, we'd be doing this in 4K resolution. For this…

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