I know I’ve been gone for a while,
but there’s a good reason.
I’ve been building a new studio!
It’s not quite ready, but there’s one thing I do want to show you.
If you look behind me, you’ll see two doors.
They’re not just any doors.
Watch what happens when I go through one of them.
Let me show you again.
One more time, but this time watch this.
Aha! Gotcha!
Get out of here!
Now, let’s go back to the old studio,
and I’ll show you how I did this in Final Cut Pro.
Hey guys, what’s up.
My name is Serge, and welcome back to my channel.
Today, I’m going to show you how I filmed
and edited the cool magical door effect you just seen,
and it was actually pretty simple.
For filming, I set my camera up on a tripod,
set everything to manual,
and controlled my lighting as much as I could.
I started filming,
and walked through the doors behind me a few times,
filming each take at least a couple times,
just so I had lots to work with.
I also made sure to film just the room for a few seconds,
without me in the shot,
just so I had a clean plate to work with.
To edit this effect,
let’s import this clip into Final Cut Pro,
and make a new project.
Grab your clip and drop it down into your timeline.
If you need to straighten or re frame your shot,
now is the time to do it.
This way, you don’t have to repeat these steps f
for every clip after you cut it up.
Same thing goes for any color grading or color corrections.
Once your clip looks the way you want,
it’s time to start cutting it up.
Find the take you want to use for your first shot,
go back a few frames,
and use the keyboard shortcut Option Left Bracket
to trim the start of your clip to your skimmer.
Skim ahead to where your subject just starts opening the first door,
and press M to add a marker.
Find your next take you want to use,
and place your skimmer on the frame
where the second door just starts to open.
Press Command B to blade your clip on that frame.
Grab the second part of your clip,
and drag it up above your timeline,
linking up the start of it with your marker.
What I also found worked good in my example,
was lining up the audio waveforms
of the door closing in both clips.
Next, to blend our two clips together,
we need to add a mask to our top clip.
Press Command 5 to open the effects browser,
select the masks category, and grab a Shape Mask.
Add this to your clip.
Move the mask over to the left side of your screen,
resize it, and add a bit of feathering
to blend any edges between your clips.
Move your playhead to where your subject is just about
to get cut off by the mask, and blade your clip.
Select the second part of your clip,
go to the video inspector, and delete the shape mask.
Repeat the same steps for your next scene,
so find a frame where the first door just starts to open
and add a marker.
Skim to where the second door just starts to open on your next take,
and blade your clip.
Drag the second part of your clip above your timeline,
and line up the start of it with your marker.
To add the same shape mask as before,
select your previous clip with a mask,
and press Command C to copy it.
Go back to your top clip,
and press Shift Command V to paste attributes.
De select everything except for the Shape Mask,
and click the Paste button.
Move your playhead to where your subject
is about to get cut off my the mask,
blade your clip,
and delete the mask in the second part of your clip.
In our next scene,
our clones are going to interact with each other,
so we’ll have to use a slightly different method.
We’ll start off just like before,
by placing a marker where the first door just starts to open,
blading our clip on a frame where the second door starts top open,
and lining up the start of our second clip with the marker.
Now, to time the interaction between our clones,
we need to be able to see both clips at the same time.
To do this, select your top clip,
and in the inspector window,
bring down the opacity slider to about 40 percent.
Use markers to mark the action in your two clips,
and line them up for perfect timing.
Add a shape mask to your top clip,
and this time, use the green control handles
to stretch it out to cover the entire frame.
Grab the middle handle,
and move this mask over to the side of your screen.
Move your playhead to a frame where your subject
is about to be cut off by the mask,
and in the video inspector,
add keyframes to your mask’s transform and feather parameters.
Move a few frames ahead,
move your mask,
and bring down the feather amount to zero.
Bring the opacity of your top clip back up to 100 percent.
Now, we have a few frames toward the end of this effect
where the two clones actually overlap,
so we’ll need more precise masking.
For this, we’ll use a draw mask.
Move your playhead to the frame right before your clones overlap,
and add a marker.
Hold down the option key,
and drag up on your top clip to make a copy of it.
Make sure it lines up perfectly with the clip under it.
The reason we do this is sometimes
if you blade a clip in a middle of a sentence,
you get a bit of a stutter in your audio,
so, we’ll just use the audio from our bottom clip,
and use the top one for video.
Trim the start of this clip to your marker,
and trim the end to right where the first door is just closed.
Bring the volume all the way down in this clip.
Go to the video inspector, delete the shape mask,
and add a draw mask to your top clip.
Add control points to draw a mask
around the part of your subject that overlaps,
which in my case is just my hand.
Add a keyframe to the control points in the inspector.
Go back one frame,
and move your control points to follow your subject.
Repeat this for every frame in the top clip.
The last thing we need to do is disable the shape mask
in the second half of out bottom clip.
Like I said before, we don’t want to blade our clip in the middle of a sentence,
because it might effect our audio,
so we’ll just keyframe our shape mask.
Place your playhead at the end of your top clip,
select the clip under it,
and add a keyframe to the transform parameters of your shape mask.
Move your playhead ahead one frame,
and resize your mask to cover the full video frame.
Another thing I did to my example,
was add the night crawler effect at the end to make myself disappear.
If you want to learn how to do that,
let me know in the comments below,
and if there’s enough interest, I can do a video on that.
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you back here next week.