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Capture A Digital Satellite Government Surveillance Shot

Capture A Digital Satellite Government Surveillance Shot

on Jun 20th 2011 with 14 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 34:08 min
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today’s tutorial is stocked full of all sorts of handy quick helpers as we talk about how to pull off a shot similar to the satellite perspective shot from the movie The Crazies. We’re going to talk about how to capture the best “satellite” looking images and finish by creating a digital style treatment…. Don’t look up! :)

Tutorial

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File size: 446 MB

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Adam Everett Miller is everettoptions on Videohive
 
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  • naftolimann

    First!

  • john

    great great tutorial
    tnx

  • http://commanderlewis.deviantart.com/ Commanderlewis

    Pretty useful stuff! Thank you

  • Anonymous

    I hate when people just say, “First!” Morons….

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/leonbenlolo Leon Benlolo

    I used several tutorials on this site to make this video of my holiday in Manicore, a small town in Amazon, Brazil
    http://youtu.be/Jcxb_7_su_Y

  • Samlam3797

    how do i watch after the ad in the middle of the vid? it just sends me back to the beginning! HELP please

    • http://aldo-benitez.com aldo

      download the video

  • Bboy

    I kinda saw this on youtube first, and did it myself before the tutorial was released. :P

  • filmright

    Is there no copyright problem with using the satellite maps?

  • chad

    Love the tutorial. Hate the lips sucking, smacking, juice sounds. Were you eating a steak while making this or something :) A little distracting as all.

  • mennoes

    Great audio! Were did you find it?
    And can I use it?

  • Audrey

    Hi Adam,

    First of all I’d like to thank you for making the tutorial, it’s obvious you put a lot of effort into making it simple and easy to understand for everyone. I have a question though — in the tutorial, you do everything in reverse order to what the preview video shows (i.e. start with close up, end far away). I understand you did that to demonstrate parallels between your video and the effect shown in “The Crazies”. But how would I go about reversing the order of my transitions so that it ends up like the preview video (start far away, end with close up) if I’ve already started the project while following your tutorial? It’d be a shame if I had to start again.

    Thanks!
    Audrey

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller
      Author

      To be honest… I think an easy option would be to Precompose your entire main comp, then “Time Reverse” it… Otherwise, you’d invert the layers putting the ones from the front to the back. Does that help?