The parallax effect is a mind-bending
technique that makes it seem like the
motion of the foreground in the
background are doing the impossible
If you want to learn how to do this effect
in Filmora
stick around, I'll show you how
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The parallax effect is a
very cool but easy effect to pull off
you're actually taking advantage of the
thing that your brain expects to see and
manipulating that for this effect
I found this drone footage of a mountain
range and it's just a simple drone
flying away from this series of
mountains this is something that our
brain is used to seeing it understands
when you move away from objects what
that looks like
the trick here is the depth of field
some of the mountains are very close and
some of the mountains are very far away
so you can do this with any particular
piece of footage that has some sort of
object as its center focused up closer
to the camera and a lot of things that
are farther away in the distance as long
as the camera is moving away from all of
them so let's bring that footage down
into our timeline and what we're gonna
do is right-click on it and hit crop and
zoom and then select pan and zoom now
what we're going to do is defy the way
that the drone is actually moving it's
moving away from these mountains so what
we're going to do is apply a zoom that
moves in towards that mountain range I'm
going to look at the first frame and just
get an idea of how much of this mountain
is centered in frame and then I'm gonna
use this slider to go to the end of the
shot and I'm gonna zoom in to a very
similar shot it looks like the beginning
the mountain is just touching the top so
in my final pan screen I want that
mountain to be just touching the top and
the width is a little tighter it's just
really on the right side of this
mountain and just before the snow starts
so let's go to the end and create a
similar thing let's shrink this down so
that it's just on the right side of the
mountain
and just before that snow starts
something like here now you can see
there's an arrow here I want to try to
keep these aligned as much as possible
so that it stays fairly vertical I don't
want it off to one side or another
I want it fairly vertical so that arrow
goes straight up that'll give us the
feeling that the object that is closest
to the camera is actually standing still
let's apply that by hitting okay and
let's take a look at our footage now
you'll see it feels like the main
footage really isn't moving away too
much but the background is spreading
open around us and that's because we're
kind of keeping that foreground in focus
and it feels like the background is
moving around us now one cool thing you
can do to make this effect seem even
more impressive is to right-click on
that choose speed and duration and then
increase the speed let's bring it up
three times as fast this will intensify
that effect pretty cool huh
if you want to learn some other really
cool effects that you can do in Filmora
check out this video here!
