Hello everyone today I’ll show you how to
fake the Mavic 2 Zoom dolly zoom feature on
your Mavic 2 Pro and get the dolly zoom effect
in 10-bits.
One thing to keep in mind is that since we
are faking this by digitally zooming in the
picture, we will lose the picture resolution,
but our shot will be in 10-bit which is a
nice trade-off.
It’s best if you do this for projects with
final resolution of Full HD and not 4K.
To sell this effect the best, you’ll need
a foreground subject and a distant background.
We will use this beautiful church with this
mountain range and a little town in the background
for this example.
Here’s a little diagram to better explain
what we’re doing.
The dolly zoom effect you see in movies is
done by going towards the subject and then
zooming out your lens while you’re doing
it to widen the field of view.
The subject stays roughly the same in the
shot, but you see more of your background.
The DJI Mavic Zoom widens and narrows the
field of view with an optical zoom, but we’re
gonna have to do this digitally.
Now to take this to our example, we will film
this with the Mavic 2 Pro which doesn’t
have the feature to zoom in the lens so our
field of view will be the same.
So we will fake the zoom effect by flying
towards the church and digitally zooming out
the shot in Premiere.
When filming your church, it's important to
keep it nicely in frame and fly towards it
on a smooth path.
Once you film it, jump into Premiere.
Create a new 1080p sequence and drop your
shot in it.
Since DJI didn’t release an official DLog-M
to Rec709 LUT before the release of this video,
I’ll quickly correct the shot with Lumetri
Color.
I'll use my own custom DLog-M to Rec709 LUT
which you can download in the description.
Then we will choose from where we want to
start zooming out.
We will go into the effects panel and click
on the Scale stopwatch to set a keyframe.
Then we will go to the end of our shot and
set the scale value to 50.
Premiere will automatically set a new keyframe.
Then we can smooth out the transition by right
clicking on our keyframes and setting Easy
In and Easy Out.
And that’s it!
We have successfully made the dolly zoom effect.
As I said, you can reverse this by flying
away from your subject and then instead of
digitally zooming out, digitally zoom in your
shot in Premiere.
Thanks for watching and goodbye!
