- Today we're talking about an awesome effect
that you can get using your drone,
it's called the Vertigo effect.
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So essentially this effect is a push in and pull out
at the same time.
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It comes from the Hitchcock days
when he made a movie called Vertigo
and there's a specific shot that people always reference
where the camera is physically moving in and zooming out
at the same time.
It's called a push pull or a dolly zoom.
So essentially how this shot works
is that your camera is physically moving a dolly move
forwards or backwards and then the lens itself
is zooming in or out
so you're pushing forward with your camera
but then zooming out
and what happens is there's a perspective shift
and it gives you that really kind of cool dramatic effect.
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Now you might be asking,
well, how do you do this with a drone?
Because our drones don't have zoom lenses.
And that's because what we're doing is
we're kind of faking this effect.
So when you do a proper dolly zoom or Vertigo effect
you're essentially changing the perspective
and when you're using different focal lengths
there is a perspective that changes in the background.
The overall image will look flatter
the longer your lens is
that is just something that happens with lenses
when you go at a longer focal length
the image will flatten out
so your background gets closer
and all the individual features look flatter.
So when you're zooming and dollying
between a wide and a long lens
you get that cool perspective shift
where you're actually seeing the curvature of everything
in your footage on the wide lens
and then it transitions to being very flat.
Now to emulate this effect
we can get something that's similar
but it's not gonna be the same type of dolly zoom.
Basically what you're doing is
you're physically moving the camera forwards or backwards
and then in post you're zooming in or out of the foot
and this works with your drone if you can shoot at 4K.
So the beauty of shooting
at resolutions that are higher than HD
is that you can punch in on your footage
and not lose resolution.
So if our timeline is an HD timeline
and we're shooting 4K footage we can punch in 200%
so that gives us a lot of range to zoom in on the footage.
So to create this dolly zoom effect using a drone
and not zooming your lens
what you're gonna do is you're going to, first,
get the drone up in the air
and you're gonna fly forwards or backwards
and I highly suggest moving faster rather than slower
because when you fly faster
the effect will be more prominent
and it will be more dramatic.
Okay so now you got cool footage of either
flying forwards or backwards
let's bring it into the editing software.
I'm using Final Cut X
and what I can do is zoom in on this footage
so this shot in particular I'm flying towards the coast line
so what I want to do is start zoomed in at 200%
and then as the drone flies forward
I'm gonna zoom out to 100%.
You're gonna key frame that zoom
so it's going to gradually, over the course of the shot
as the drone is moving forward, you're zooming out,
and then that's how you create your dolly zoom effect.
You're doing it all in your post software
by zooming in on the footage itself.
And that's it, it's super simple to create a dolly zoom.
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Now personally I don't like to stop there
I like to do other things with the dolly zoom
so one of my favorite shots to do
is fly the drone towards a subject or away from a subject
but also be rotating around the subject.
The trickier move to do
you have to be flying in two different direction
forwards or backwards
and then left or right at the same time
but what happens is you get this parallax shift going on
in the background as you rotate around a subject
and then you're adding that dolly zoom on top of it
so you get this really cool dramatic effect
that looks really unique in your footage.
So guys I highly suggest you check out the dolly zoom effect
play around with it yourself
go fly a few different scenarios
so fly forwards, fly backwards,
try to do some additional movements
with the forwards or backwards
maybe go up, or down, to the side,
play around with the different ways
that you can move a drone in the sky
but one of the things you gotta remember
is that to get this effect you have to move forward
while zooming out or move backwards while zooming in.
That is the key to get the dolly zoom.
And last, make sure you just try different speeds,
do it slow, do it fast,
and find the speed that works best for you
and what speed you like most
to get the effect that you like.
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