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What inspired me to do this tutorial..
Have you seen the movie Snatch directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Brad Pitt as a hard nut pikey boxer?
I have seen it several times now; it is one of my personal favourites when it comes to gangster movies, 10 out of 10.

Every time I have watched this though film I have always wondered how the title sequence was created at the
start of the film, it is truly an amazing effect where the camera seems to zoom in on certain elements of the sequence
and then zoom back to reveal a new scene, it is well cool.

This had got me baffled for ages, I was determined to figure out how it was done, so one day I decided to load up my Adobe Premiere Pro software and give it a go. Once I started to play inside Premiere Pro I was surprised to find that creating a very similar looking effect is really not that difficult, so here’s what I did.

My Method
PLEASE NOTE: FROM NOW ON I WILL PRESUME THAT YOU ARE USING THE TUTORIAL FILES THAT YOU DOWNLOADED FROM MY SITE, THESE CAN BE FOUND ON THE DOWNLOADS PAGE, THIS WAY IT WILL BE EASIER FOR ME TO EXPLAIN AND YOU SHOULD FIND IT EASIER TO FOLLOW ALONG.
1, When premiere pro loads you will need to import the downloaded tutorial files, to do this right click in the projects window and choose import. Now browse to the location where you saved the files too, select them then click open,they will now open up in the project window, your project window should now look like the image below.
2, Now the first thing to do is to grab Scene_01 from the project window and drag it to video track 1 on the timeline, we shall work on this file first. Now scrub your CTI scrubber on the timeline to a point in the clip where the guy is just about to move his hands away from his head after putting his shades on, it is roughly about 7 second/9frames, this will be the first frame we will grab.
TIP: WHEN YOU GRAB FOOTAGE FROM THE PROJECT WINDOW TO THE TIMELINE YOU WILL NOTICE A RED LINE ABOVE THEM, THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT DV 720/576 CLIPS. IF YOU HAVE PLAYBACK PROBLEMS PLEASE RENDER THEM OUT BY HITTING THE RETURN KEY THEN THEY WILL PLAY SMOOTHLY.
3, Now we have to grab that frame from the timeline, please make sure you do not move your CTI scrubber once you have located the frame. Now, with the timeline highlighted go to File/Export/Frame, when the export window opens click the settings tab. Make sure the add to project option is ticked, now click the Keyframe and settings tab and make sure Deinterlace Video Footage is also ticked.
TIP: TICKING THE OPTION FOR DEINTERLACE VIDEO FOOTAGE IS NOT ENTIRELY NECESSARY WHEN YOU ARE USING THESE TUTORIAL FILES, BUT IF LATER ON YOU USE YOUR OWN MICROSOFT DV CLIPS THEN GO TO GRAD A FRAME AND THIS IS NOT CHECKED THEN THE GRABBED BITMAP IMAGE WILL NOT LOOK RIGHT, IT HAS LOTS OF HORIZONTAL LINES ALL ACROSS THE IMAGE, THIS CAN BE FIXED IN PHOTOSHOP LATER USING THE FILTER/VIDEO/DE-INTERLACE COMMAND BUT IS BEST TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT CHECKED TO STOP A LOT OF HASSLE.
4, When you have set up your settings click ok. Now give your file a name, I called mine shades, you will now see the grabbed bitmap in the project window, see image below.
5, Now hold down the control key on your keyboard and click and drag the shades bitmap from the project window, pressing the control key will allow you to do an insert edit in the timeline. Making sure the control key is pressed all the time, drag the shades bitmap to the timeline and insert it where the CTI scrubber was left, now release the mouse button, your timeline should now look like the image below.
6, Now click the bitmap image in the timeline so it is highlighted, then click the effects controls tab in the monitor window, now drop down the twirly where it says motion and click in the box to the right of where it says scale, enter a value off 150. see image below.
7, Now hit return, as soon as you do you will see the image zoom in in the program monitor window area. Now right click the grabbed frame on the timeline and choose Speed/Duration and type in 200 next to where it says duration and click ok, a value of 200 will be 2 seconds. See image below.
8, Now, in the space that was created by the frame been reduced in size, right click in the area of the timeline and choose, Ripple Delete. See image below.
9, Now for the tricky part, select the video footage to the left hand side of the grabbed frame on your timeline, you should still be in the effects control window at this stage. Drop down the twirly next to where it says motion and scrub the timeline all the way to the right, now click the stopwatch for scale to create a keyframe, enter a value of 150 and hit return, it should now look something like the image below.
10, Now, still working in the effects controls window move the CTI to the left 5 frames by using either the left cursor key or the step back key in the program monitor window, then enter a value of 100 and hit return, this will scale the video back to normal, your effects control window should now look similar to the image below.
11, you now have to do the same with the video clip to the right of the grabbed frame but do it the other way around. So select the video footage to the right of the grabbed frame on your timeline, and still working in the effects control window drop down the twirly again and using the CTI locator scrub back to the first frame of that clip and click the stopwatch, then type in a value next to scale of 150 and hit return, see the image below.
12, Now frame forward 5 frames again either by using the right cursor key, or the step forward key in the program monitor window, then click in the scale box and now enter a value of 100 and hit return. This will zoom the video back to its original scale of 100. Your effects control panel should now look similar to the image below.
13, Now press the return key to play back what you have just created should see it zoom in very quickly at the end of the first video clip, then it will play the grabbed frame, then at the end of the grabbed frame it will zoom out very quickly thus creating a very cool effect.

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