Smooth zoom effect?

[benjamint91291284]

How can I achieve these smooth zoom effects seen in this video?

They start at 0:40, theyre like really smooth zoom transitions

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[foughtthelaw · Accepted solution]

this looks like it's using some of the Red Giant Universe plugins, specifically chromatic aberration, to create the odd bulging lens effect and they're probably just adding a few scale keyframes to enhance that effect. the keyframes clearly have a pretty heavy ease and in most cases it's either easing into an increased bulge and scale up or easing out of a decreasing bulge and scale down. There isn't really that much of a transition on these shots either. it's more a matter of timing out the animation around the edit to make it feel "right"

the "smoothness" you're looking for is probably mostly due to keyframe easing. I typically use a tool like Flow to keep my eases consistent