In this tutorial, I show you how to accomplish a super long crash zoom during a time lapse. In this example, I used a wide angle lens to shoot a time lapse with my DSLR, then changed to a telephoto lens and shot another time lapse from the same location. I used Adobe After Effects to edit the two time lapses together. In my case I only had prime lenses so I could not zoom in camera, so all the zooming is done in post processing.

I made another tutorial showing a different technique to achieve this effect with zoom lenses here    • Time lapse super zoom tutorial (with ...