OT: 3D Effect

gdstaples wrote on 12/31/2005, 1:01 AM
I was watching a golf show this evening and noticed that in a couple of jump back scenes in a players career they would cut to a photograph that looked 3D. The camera would then push in and down within the photograph. The people in the foreground would remain stationary but their position relative to the people and objects in the background would change relative to the camera movement as if it were a live video shot.

How is this done?

Thanks,
Duncan

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Spot|DSE wrote on 12/31/2005, 2:11 AM
Is this the effect (sort of) that you're talking about?
If so, look at www.dolish.com and click on the Gallery. There is a reasonable tutorial there. This can somewhat be done in Vegas, but you need a true 3D compositor app to do this well.
If all you want to do is take a still shot, cut out the subject, and move the background ala a camera pan, you can do this using Bezier mask and background pan movement, with even a slight Spherize to look like a fisheye/superwide lens.
I think Edward Troxel has a tutorial on how to do this in Vegas in one of his newsletters.
gdstaples wrote on 12/31/2005, 11:28 AM
Spot:

The two scenes near the end with the guy chasing the girl riding the statue and the pullout from the golf ball looking background thing is what I was talking about.

Duncan
gdstaples wrote on 1/1/2006, 10:35 AM
bump
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/1/2006, 12:12 PM
That particular shot is fairly easy in Vegas, especially with bezier masks.
Use the Bezier to key out your subject from a shot, and either use the original background or a new background.
Then use pan/crop to zoom in on one, while zooming out on the other. To make the effect even more interesting, use 3D track motion on either the foreground or background.
I could probably put together a veg in a coupla minutes if the above doesn't make sense.
gdstaples wrote on 1/1/2006, 12:29 PM
No I understand - makes perfect sense. Essentially creating a mask for the foreground subjects and applying different transitions to the foreground and background independently.

Thanks,
Duncan