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

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Shooting to create a HyperZoom

Shooting to create a HyperZoom

- Now that we've gone pretty in-depth with zooming and motion, let's talk about HyperZooms. This is where we are going to use two different shots shot at the same time. One close up and one wide, and zoomed from one to another in After Effects. It creates an amazing transition effect that can help you really fly through your scene, and even tell a story if you plan it out well enough. One of the first strategies you want to do when shooting a HyperZoom is make sure that while we're shooting our actual time lapse, we're using two shots. We're shooting one shot, I have some examples right here I'll show you of Quebec, or Quebec, that we shot last year. And as you can see here is our closeup shot. And at the same time we also ran a shot right alongside it, a wide shot. And we made sure to match almost all the settings, everything we could. The only thing that was a little bit different would've been how the camera treats a wide angle lens versus a telephoto lens, and the difference in…

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