-Yannick,
I think I need to fart.
-Not in the car, Jordy,
-Okay, can you pull over then?
-I can't do that.
I think the car might explode if I slow down.
-Damn it!
Then there's no other way but to jump on the roof of the car.
[Dramatic music]
-Jordy, be safe.
-I will.
[Dramatic music]
[Jordy groaning]
[Music level increases]
[Farting sounds]
[More farting sounds]
[Cinecom's intro music]
What's up everyone! My name is Jordy for cinecom.net
and welcome to Copy Cat Friday.
A weekly series where we recreate an effect from a film or music video.
And Yannick is the one who still believes farts are funny.
It wasn't me, true story!
[Yannick]: -It was your idea, Jordy!
First up a big shout-out to our sponsor Rocketstock, who came out
with a brand new video pack called Lucent Precise.
This pack consists out of 110 super sharp lens flares
that were all captured using super-fast Zeiss prime lenses
going from 16 to 85mm.
We actually used several of them in the intro and they came out pretty nice!
To find out more, click the first link in the description below!
Now jumping on the roof of a car is dangerous,
which is why we're going to fake it!
And of course otherwise we also wouldn't have anything to explain.
The idea actually comes from various sources.
Standing on a riding car is seen in many Hollywood action films,
such as The Fast And The Furious, Marvel's new Black Panther
which many of you guys actually mentioned on Instagram.
Now, I actually got this idea from a suggested video
that popped up on my Youtube's home page.
And I thought by myself
I need to recreate this!
[Inspirational pop music kicks in]
-These right here are c-stands,
and we're gonna use them to hang up the... green screen!!!
I just skate-boarded.
[Music fades back in]
-Catch!
-Ah!
-Sand bags, guys.
You always need them, they're heavyweights.
-Yannick, catch!
[Music]
-Jordy, catch!
-Yes!
Now, when we are going to film the car driving, there's going to be a lot of shake
in that shot, and we're going to have to match the motion...
...of that shakiness with the car, which is going to stand still.
So, that is why I'm going to add some tracking marks
to the window of this car, right here.
And you can always add a couple of more points in here, because after...
...you've made your shot and in After Effects you're noticing that...
...some of these tracking marks will not do its job as you were hoping for,
then you always have kind of a back up to use another tracking mark.
We first took the shots of the actual car driving.
And then we took the matching green-screen shots.
And that allowed us to first draw the perspective of the driving car
with a water marker on our display.
And this helped us to create the exact same camera angle on the screen-green set.
A second thing that you need to pay attention to is the lighting direction.
Remember the angle of the sunlight in your driving shot,
so that you can position your green-screen car in the same way.
Important is that this shot is super steady,
so you wanna film this from a tripod.
And to make it even more realistic that I'm crawling on a driving car,
we had Lorenzo, who's doing an amazing internship here at cinecom,
blowing wind with a leaf blower.
[Leaf blower sound]
-Windy! baggy baggy windy!
-Yannick, catch!
These are the only two shots that you need,
which you can already import into After Effects.
The driving shot goes first in a new composition.
With that layer selected, open up the tracker window.
Now, last week we've also taken a look at the camera tracker,
which will analyze and track the movement of the camera.
In this case it's different. We wanna track the motion of an object.
So what I'm gonna do is click on Track Motion.
And then you have to enable to track the position, rotation and scale.
Very important!
That'll give you two tracking points which we're going to position on those window markers.
And you need to have at least two marks, because only then After Effects
can calculate a change in position or rotation.
Once they're in place, just hit the Track Forward button and wait it out.
If your tracking points go crazy, then...
...try changing the size of your tracking points.
Once the tracking in complete, I head over to the menu, click on Layer,
New, Null Object.
A new layer will be added to your composition
and it actually doesn't do anything.
But we're going to use it to store this tracking data in it.
So, from the Tracker window
click on Edit Target and choose that null object.
Then you can hit Apply and press OK.
You will now notice that this null object will stick to the window
And that means everything went like it should.
-Yannick, catch!
And then you wanna add your green- screen shot on top in the composition,
take the pen tool from the toolbox and draw a rough mask
around the window and a portion of the green-screen.
Then I head over to the Effects Library and apply the Key Light effect to that clip,
which allows me to remove all the green.
Heading back to the layer, I press the T button on my keyboard
to change the opacity to something around 50%.
And now I can see through that clip,
which makes it easier for me to match it with the driving car.
You can now re-scale, position and rotate that clip.
Once it matches perfectly, I'm changing the opacity back to 100.
And now the only thing left to do is to make sure
that the clip stays on the same position.
So with the Whip tool in your layers,
I can drag and connect it to the null object,
which holds that tracking data.
And that's all you have to do!
Now just apply your favorite color grading, some Lucent Precise lens flares
and you got yourself an action hero film!
And that was it again, guys. Thank you so much for watching,
thank you Rocketstock for the support today,
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But, most importantly,
stay creative!
-Jordy, catch!
-Ah!
Ah!
-Ha, ha, ha!