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- Hey guys, my name's Matty,
and welcome to another Little Pro Tip,
and today we're gonna be talking about a super cool effect
that works really well with drone footage,
but also with other clips.
It's called the Vertigo Effect.
Oh and if you're wondering who won the 300K giveaway,
I'll announce the winners at the end of this video.
But first watch this, and then we'll get to the winners.
So the Vertigo Effect
is this weird, trippy, surreal effect
that brings a lot of attention to your subject.
It's almost warping or distorting the background.
It's a really cool look.
Now there's a few different ways of doing this,
and I'm gonna show you the proper way,
but then also the easier, more quick, fast way
of doing it with drone footage.
Essentially what's happening in the Vertigo Effect
is that the camera is being moved closer to the subject,
but at the same time there's a zoom going on.
So you're actually zooming out into a wider focal length.
And it doesn't really look like the camera's moving
because the focal length is changing
to keep that same framing.
But what really changes
and causes this weird, trippy, surreal effect
is the relationship
between the foreground and the background.
The distortion or the compression.
And because of the compression,
you're getting this cool look.
So the first and proper way of doing this
is to use something like a slider,
or you could even use a gimbal or a glide cam,
but it's a little bit trickier
because you you need to be zooming at the same time.
So as we're dollying close to the subject,
we're also zooming out on the lens at the same time.
And in this case we're starting with a 35 mil
and then we're zooming out to 16 mil
as we get closer to the subject.
I think the best way is to keep the framing
as close to the same as possible from beginning to end,
but you can also play around with this
and have a little bit of a zooming effect at the same time
while this Vertigo Effect is happening.
Super easy to do with a slider or a dolly,
but it's a little bit harder to do
with something like a gimbal
because you're gonna have to have a motorized system
to actually do the zoom for you
while you're dollying in with the gimbal,
so that's gonna be a little bit harder.
But it's really easy to do
with a dolly-slider type thing like this.
It's an awesome way of just getting the viewer's attention
and showing that something's gonna happen.
One of the best examples of this
is in Jaws, which I can't show,
but watch Jaws and tell me if you can find
the really cool Vertigo Effect scene.
Okay, so how the heck do you do this with drone footage,
because you're obviously not gonna be zooming in and out,
you would need a massive drone system for that.
Well, it's actually really easy,
especially with 4K footage.
All you actually need is a clip that's going forwards
or backwards, if you like,
but forwards works really well.
And then you're just gonna do the zoom in post.
You actually don't need to change the focal length.
You can just zoom into your footage
and that's why the 4K footage works especially well,
because you're not going to be losing too much detail.
All right so we have this drone footage here.
We're just flying straight forwards,
and what we're gonna do is just got to the end of the clip,
and we're gonna put a Key Frame on the scale at 100.
Then we're gonna go to the beginning of the clip
and we're gonna zoom in.
The more you zoom in, the more trippy the effect gets,
but you don't want to overdo it at the same time.
You can play around with the amount of zoom
to get different looks,
but here is the before,
and after.
Boom, super easy, like crazy easy.
This is like the most simple thing,
but it's a really cool look
that can just add that wow factor to some of your clips.
And you can do this with any clip, really,
it doesn't have to be drone footage.
For example, this glide cam shot, I'm moving forwards.
Now this is 1080, so you're losing a bit of that quality,
but you're doing the same thing.
You're digitally zooming out
while the camera is moving forwards
to keep that same framing, and cause that trippy effect.
It's such a cool effect, but don't go overboard with it.
Just like with the trendy transitions,
if you use it all the time, people are just gonna get bored
and it's gonna be really lame.
Use it at key moments
that you really wanna draw the viewer's attention,
or cause some sort of disruption
to just really get the attention of the viewer.
That's the big key with effects like this
is know when to use it and when not to,
especially when not to.
All right, that's it for this Quick Little Pro Tip,
the Vertigo Effect.
Super easy, super quick and super cool.
I'd love to see what you guys do with this effect,
so if you're using it in your videos,
tag me on Twitter, or on Instagram,
and I'll check those out.
I can't wait to see what you guys come up with,
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All right, that it for this one.
Have a good one.
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