How to transition from fast moving road footage to a village seamlessly

Question

I have footage from a bicycle that I wish to transition to a village setting. The village will be a picture.

I was wondering how to do this seamlessly.

My original thinking was to use photoshop to blend the two elements together but only import the village photo into the live action footage.

I also planned to have momentary cuts in between the footage of local scenery along the bike trail so as to make a transition from from a movement onto the village photo to live action footage in the village.

My problem lies in how to blend the two elements together and start the picture off small and have it become larger and larger as the bike moves closer and closer - I should say that there is no such footage of an approach to the village on digital video hence why I am asking this.

If you are still reading this I thank you as I am an amateur and I'm sure this stuff is AE 101.

Thank you and, if not too arrogant, I eagerly await your response(s)!

RobShultz · Accepted Answer

You might want to look at point tracking with position and scale (depending on your footage) then you could make the picture (parented with a null object) a target layer and it would follow the scaling/motion of the shot.

As you probably have surmised it might be too much to get in to here. You may want to read this link.

Tracking and stabilization motion workflows in After Effects

A.I.1 · Answer

If you want the picture to start off small and then get larger the 2 options are:

1) You could keyframe the scale property with the village picture in a 2D layer (though that would probably be hard to get it to move towards the camera (get bigger in the frame) at the correct speed).

2) A better way would probably be to put the picture on a layer and make the layer 3D and create a camera layer and move the camera layer towards it. That should make it moving towards the camera at the correct speed easier I think. It might be hard to make it look realistic though. You'd have to rotoscope the person on the bike though unless it was shot with a green-screen type background.

An easier shot would be non-moving camera shot of the bike going into the distance and add an image of the village in the distance (sort of like a digital mattte painting) to the shot (not getting bigger in the frame) and probably create a mask to place and blend the 2 things in the frame.

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