r/Filmmakers • u/1120ml_ • 1d ago

Question How to get this effect

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u/ThePurpleSoul70 1d ago

3D Satellite data from Google Earth and Blender.

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u/Big_Jewbacca 1d ago

And a shit ton of rotoscoping. Back in the day it would have been done in flame.

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u/TheTurnipKnight 1d ago

Nope it’s an AI affect from higgsfield.

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u/NarrativeNode 1d ago

Correct. In this instance it's using the first frame of the real footage as an "end frame" in an AI video tool. Takes a few minutes to do. The transition to the real footage is rough, though, I'd have cleaned it up.

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u/ThePurpleSoul70 1d ago

I'm well aware. OP asked how to achieve this effect, and I gave them a valid answer.

I have a moral objection to use of generative AI, and so in good conscience I couldn't recommend the use of it to recreate the effect.

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u/qualitative_balls 19h ago

To me, vfx stuff is the only valid use of AI. I hate replacing anything within the frame that is supposed to be human. I don't want to see AI people... ever. I want to connect to real faces, saying real things told by a real person.

If it's some transition, extended landscape, added non human element, I don't mind too much. It just saves me time from having to do the effect manually which for this kind of thing is a bitch. Organic creatures / living things is more iffy though, I'd rather someone do that and spend the time to bring their vision to life properly

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u/Acrobatic-Oil-9378 17h ago

Eh, give it 10 more years and the haters will eventually give in. I only ever used AI for one shot that I filmed practically, really just expanding the detail of a prop for comedic effect to make it cartoony-ish. It was more of a last resort sort of thing.

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u/qualitative_balls 17h ago

Yeah I think sparingly, it does make sense like CGI does honestly. I don't want to see CGI humans trying to be real humans unless it's some kind of sci fi thing or supposed to be weird

But CGI is great for so many other little things and ai is great for the most tedious aspect of CGI, transitions, compositing, extensions, adding tiny things here and there.

Like there's a world in which it makes total sense for most of the bs stuff and we save our own efforts for real people, organic living things to make sure our vision is really being executed properly

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u/Grazedaze 13h ago

AI is a new tool, not a time bomb. Learn it or fall behind!

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u/ThePurpleSoul70 11h ago

You are a fundamentally uncreative person.

I don't need to outsource my creativity to a corporation or a machine. It's for the weak.

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u/elfthehunter 10h ago

I'm curious why you are attacking them for having a different opinion on ai? What makes you think they are uncreative? I'm not as convinced as they seem that AI will take over as much as they seem to imply, but I can understand why they might think it's the case, can't you?

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u/metal_elk 1d ago

Lol, moral objection. 🤦

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u/ThePurpleSoul70 1d ago

Something about that get your knickers in a twist mate?

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u/metacoma 1st assistant director 1d ago

Don’t feed the troll.

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u/metal_elk 1d ago

Lol, I know right?!

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u/metal_elk 1d ago

What you said made me laugh.

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u/ThePurpleSoul70 1d ago

"🤦" is the facepalm emoji, not the laughing emoji. Hope this helps

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u/metal_elk 1d ago

The "🤦" is cuz what you said is dumb. The "Lol" is the laughing part.

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u/PlanetLandon 1d ago

Many, many people have a moral objection to using AI. It is seen as extremely selfish.

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u/reddituserperson1122 1d ago

Why would it be selfish?

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u/f-stop8 22h ago

Eh, I'm not an Ai lover by any means but selfish...?

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u/PlanetLandon 22h ago

AI steals art from creators. If you use it, it means you don’t give a shit about the original artists.

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u/f-stop8 22h ago

I understand that. There's some uses of Ai though that's not exactly generative and hasn't outright stolen anything. Grammar and thought organizers and spreadsheet stuff. Those are just tools. I don't think selfish is the right word.

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 22h ago

It's fair use.

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u/PlanetLandon 22h ago edited 15h ago

What’s your point?

Edit: when are dipshits going to learn that I can’t read their message to me if they immediately block me after they post it?

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 22h ago edited 21h ago

My point is; since it's legally fair use, the people calling "selfish" are being silly. That's nonsense.

The fact that it is legally fair use literally means that it is *not* "stealing" as you have incorrectly stated.

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 22h ago

I'd love to see you try to do it with Blender and Google Earth data. See how valid that answer is, lol.

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u/FlarblesGarbles 21h ago

That doesn't change a single thing about what they said.

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 21h ago

If you like to fail, I guess it doesn't.

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u/FlarblesGarbles 21h ago

That isn't a response to anything I said.

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u/Duc_de_Guermantes 20h ago

Lmao, you talk about AI like it's the cambodian genocide or something

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u/Ill-Combination-9320 20h ago

Utter woke nonsense

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u/queenkellee 18h ago

I went to your profile to block you and see you have listed "future oscar winner" on your profile and decided to just tell everyone that instead.

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u/bking editor 1d ago

Make sure NOT to ease the camera move at the end. Otherwise it might feel smooth and natural instead of the jerky, abrupt look in the reference.

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u/FrogginJellyfish 1d ago

Possibly CGI transitioning into a real footage?

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u/InternalConfusion201 19h ago

I mean you can see the cut clearly 😅

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u/yellowsuprrcar 1d ago

higgsfield AI

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u/Tramagust 1d ago

Yep this is AI. Possibly first frame last frame control. You can see it morph into the real footage 2 seconds in.

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u/rtbchat 1d ago

Ypp! Everybody is doing this.

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u/1120ml_ 1d ago

Do u think the first frame is a frame of a drone footage?

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u/lemonstone92 23h ago

Maybe, some people I've seen just use a screenshot from Google maps

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 21h ago

No it's a Higgsfield preset. It generates the high elevation footage. This is really easy.

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u/etiennesurrette 19h ago

highsfield AI earth zoom out

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u/SwamiVivekamunund 1d ago

It is from Higgsfield AI. You can try with Google earth studio and a drone shot but I don't think it'll be as smooth as the AI version unfortunately

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 22h ago

It's AI. If you do it any other way, you're bringing a knife to a drone battle.

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u/HolymakinawJoe 1d ago

I'm sure kids will be able to do this on their iphones next summer.

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 21h ago

We're doing it on our phones now. This is a Higgsfield preset.

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u/-Epitaph-11 21h ago

It’s currently an AI trend from one AI website. It’s basically all AI. That’s it.

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u/_-Thanasis-_ 17h ago

You can either use Google earth studio and then blend your footages. An other way would be to just use ai like some other people have already suggested

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u/ccminiwarhammer 20h ago

Other people in this post are commenting with bad things about AI, and honestly I’m scared of it too, but it’s here, so either use AI or be left behind by those who do.

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u/SpeakerUnusual7501 11h ago

Right? It's amazing how timid and unadventurous some of these anti-AI "creatives" are. As they say, fortune favors the bold.

The bright side is it means they're taking themselves off the playing field. Less competition for us.

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u/CaliWeedNet 1d ago

Get a drone, go to location, shoot it.

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u/Domi4 1d ago

Or intercontinental ballistic missile.

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u/userunknowned 1d ago

Sorry. Sorry. Get an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, go to location, shoot it.

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u/lemonstone92 1d ago

Most people I've seen use AI for this

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u/legarth 1d ago

Not sure why people are down voting you. This is 100% certain AI generated (the zoom part only)

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u/theangryburrito 14h ago

Google veo 3 will do this really well if you give it the final shot of the actual people.

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u/maxrivers100 12h ago

They use a website called Higgsfield.ai, one of the effects is to have a zoom into earth. Just take a screenshot of the first frame of the video and put it into the effect and it’ll make a zoom into the frame shot

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u/legarth 1d ago
  1. Pick transition frame. 2. I2V, Crash zoom LoRA. 3. Reverse result and stich with original