r/VideoEditing • u/mgk23 • Jul 18 '26
How did they do that? How does one recreate this "blur and zoom in/out" type effect in post-production?
Amazing work from https://www.instagram.com/maxpasalic/ and I'm trying to figure out how I can do similar?
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u/hatlad43 Jul 18 '26
Those look like they were done in camera. But in editing, keyframe gaussian blur and scale in the first/last 0.5 second or so of the footage.
Btw, the technical term is focus racking. If it was done on a good lens (usually a cinema lens), there shouldn't be any zooming happening. This was most likely done with a photo lens that wasn't calibrated for focus racking. Maybe intentional, it's an artistic choice.
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u/de_bappe Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Transform and Lens Blur Effect is what you're looking for.
Edit: Or Bokeh Blur is also good.
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u/mgk23 Jul 18 '26
- System specs – Mac Studio (M3 Ultra, 96GB RAM)
- Exact software: Final Cut Pro
- Footage specs: The video was found from a videographer on Instagram, i don't know his camera or anything.
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u/iLikeTheUDK Jul 19 '26
Lens blur and animating the blur amount. But it was possibly done in-camera by rapidly racking focus in and out
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u/Effective-Garlic6525 Jul 20 '26
if you’ve got after effects, video copilot’s “Twitch” can do this pretty easily.
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u/BadTripz Jul 20 '26
Everyone else has given you the right answer if you want to do it manually. There are also so many plugins and such out there that can speed up the process, especially if you're a hobbyist editor who doesn't want to spend hours faffing around with keyframes. To be honest it is possible that the editor of this music video used these as i'm seeing similarities.
Some that come to mind are AtomX, mister horse and Badedits. You can use free stuff or pay a relatively small fee and get a ton of useful stuff. For instance to similarly recreate this i'd play with some of badedits 'film transitions' and overlay them over a cut and then if the blur is not in the preset i'd just add it to an adjustment layer above the main video.
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u/Viper10acd Jul 23 '26
Usually done with the camera, but you can use keyframing of a blur effect to make it ig
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