The parallax effect is one of those trippy
mind-bending effects that you can do
easily in Divinci resolve and
you see it in movies, TV shows,
and travel videos. And did I say
it's easy, like it's super easy.
So let's get into davinci resolve and
I'll show you first if you're new here,
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we're in DaVinci resolve,
the first thing you need is a clip.
So this clip has to either be
moving in towards a subject,
moving away from a subject. So
we see this clip right here.
It's moving forward towards this tower.
So the thing to be aware of with this
is that we can't actually move out from
this clip. You can't like zoom out
and make this weird parallax effect.
With this clip you're supposed to
like zoom in on it. Problem is,
it's also zooming in. So if
you add two zoom effects,
you're just going to get like a super
zoom and no parallax. And that sucks.
So we need to reverse
the clip. And to do this,
I'm going to actually jump in fusion.
You can totally do this in the edit tab,
but I like the spline better
than the curves in this.
So that's the literally the
only reason why I'm doing that.
So we jumped into the fusion tab.
So what we're going to do first is we're
going to actually re-time our speed.
So we're going to hit control space and
the select tool is going to pop up and
we're going to type in time and
it's going to pop up. Just hit add,
I'll add it right there,
click on your time speed node,
and then go right here to this
transform and it's just going to add it
downstream. Again,
what we're going to do is we're going to
hit time speed and then we're going to
click on the inspector tab right here
and we see that it's moving onetime speed
forward.
So all you're going to do is put a minus
there and it's actually just going to
reverse the time speed. So now
that we have this going backwards,
we can now push in on the frame to
make that parallax effect. To do this,
we're going to click on our transform
node. We're going to add a key frame.
Make sure your play heads also on zero.
Were going to Key frame on center.
So hit this diamond and
then on size centers,
the position and size is the zoom.
Now we're going to go all the
way to the end just like this.
And we're going to zoom in more on this
clock tower and just reposition it.
You want to be aware of this initial
frame. So mainly this is the center,
so we're going to still have it be
the center and have it be off-center a
little. So now when you play it,
you start getting this like warping
effect as if the world is coming in on you
and you're just focusing
intently on this tower.
But we can bring this one step further.
We can make it a little more smoother
and a little more just mind boggling.
So we're going to go over here to our
spline and this is the reason why like it
is I can toggle things on,
toggle things off and I can see every
single one of my nodes in one place.
So we have our transform.
So I just turn them on and I go over
here and I hit the zoom button and this
ultimately just reframes
everything to where I can see it.
So now I'm going to do is
I'm just going to drag this,
make a box it and hit F and that's going
to add some curves to the whole thing.
F is like easy ease and after effects.
So now I'm going to click off and I want
to actually make this curve a little
more. So I grabbed the handle, I
move it in and grab this handle.
I move in like that so it's more gradual
up here I was making the zoom happen a
little faster than the speed.
So now I'm going to toggle the spline
off and I'm going to pull this down right
here and we'll just run
through and see what we got.
You can also do this in camera.
You can move closer towards an object
while at the same time zooming out or
moving away from the object while
zooming in. But that's, you know,
that's a little harder if you
can just have a shot like this.
And zoom in also looks
really great. So there it is.
There's the parallax slash vertigo
effect individually resolved.
Let me know in the comments below.
If you guys would like a basic intro
to fusion, I can totally do that.
It'd be sick. Just let me know if you'd
be interested in that. But as usual,
the video on the top is all about the
differences between the free version and
the paid version of DaVinci resolve.
And the video on the bottom is a video
that YouTube thinks that you would like,
but until the next one, peace
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