So there's this new internet challenge called the invisible box challenge.
And the idea is that there is this invisible box on the ground...
...that you put your foot onto it and you kinda walk over it.
It's really cool though.
Now, Yannick was saying to me that he was pro at this trick. So, let's check it out.
-Yannick, Are you ready?
-I'm ready.
-You're going to do the invisible box challenge like a pro.
Alright, guys, let's check it out.
-Jordy, look what I can do!
Whatup guys, Jordy here for cinecom.net...
...and welcome to the first Copy Cat of 2018.
This is the first of 52 episodes...
...where we breakdown the effect or technique from a popular film or music clip.
Today we'll be having a look at the invisible box challenge.
A new internet hype that is for once not stupid,
like the cinnamon or choking challenges we had before.
In fact, I love the invisible box challenge!
-Invisible box challenge.
There's a real box right here, but it's invisible.
It's not so easy though. And that's why we cheated with some editing tricks,
and here's how we did it.
First of all, the filming.
To make it a little bit more realistic, you wanna walk around with your camera handheld.
Film your subject in an empty space.
This is exactly what magicians do too.
They might say that there's nothing up their sleeves, but in reality...
...they're just making you confused.
Now while you're filming your subject,
you also wanna point your camera to someone or something else.
I pointed it to myself, as it seems like I was talking to the camera.
But that was all put in scene to cover up the magic.
Because I needed a swipe back to my subject.
After that swipe I put my camera into a tripod.
This right here is the Benro Aero 7, which is a great tripod...
...and we actually have a dedicated video about it...
...which you can find a link to in the description below.
With having my camera on the tripod,
I also make that same swipe movement again to Yannick,
who's wearing an awesome jacket.
And now the magic trick begins.
Yannick has to stay on his point,
so I'm laying some bricks in front of him in the form of a little stair.
Then I move back out of the frame and let the camera roll
while Yannick performs his magic walk.
Don't touch the camera yet,
keep it rolling while you move everything away out of your frame.
You wanna have an empty shot as well, which we're going to need inside Premiere Pro.
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Now let's take all the great footage that we've just shot...
...and swing that into Adobe Premiere Pro.
We have a shot of me talking to the camera,
which swipes away.
A pure transition shot on the tripod, a shot of Yannick walking up the bricks...
...and a completely empty shot.
We'll first drag the clip of Yannick to video channel 2.
With the clip selected, I head over to the Opacity property
and click on the Pen tool to create a mask.
Around the bricks I then draw a mask.
And first you can do this very rough.
Once your mask is done
you wanna go into its settings and decrease the feather to around 5.
Also enable Inverted, which will leave a black hole where the bricks were.
And now what I'll do is drag the empty shot onto video layer 1.
And this layer will reveal itself through that hole,
but because the bottom layer is exactly the same but empty,
it seems like we've magically poofed away the bricks.
Now, we've drawn that mask roughly, meaning we'll see it overlapping with Yannick's foot.
So the next thing we'll have to do is animate the mask Path.
Enable the animation toggle for that property, which will create a keyframe.
Then adjust your mask over time
so that it flows with the movement of Yannick's foot.
And this is something you have to do because we've been filming from above,
meaning we have some perspective.
Once that is done, your magic trick should already work,
but some people might not believe you because of the shadows down here.
We're using an empty space to fill in the mask, which didn't had any shadows.
-Jordy, look what I can do!
-Ok, now you're just exaggerating, Yannick!
To bring back the shadows I first wanna clean out the hard mask...
...which we created first.
For that I take the empty shot and place it on layer 3.
I click on the circle under the opacity to create a rounded mask.
You wanna change its position and size to cover up where the bricks where.
Then from the mask properties increase the feather,
which is going to make that first mask less visible.
Then for the last step, I'm placing Yannick's clip on channel number 4.
Here I also navigate to the opacity property and click on the circle mask.
This one I'll reposition underneath the shadow of the bricks.
And this means that we're not showing the shadow of the bricks,
only the shadow of Yannick walking over those bricks.
And that's all there is to it.
The final steps are to match this shot with the previous handheld shots.
So I'm going to select everything in my timeline, right click and choose Nest.
This will group all of those layers together.
Before that clip, I insert my shot where I was talking to the camera.
I trim this clip right on the point where I'm fastly swiping my camera.
Then I cut to the shot we took of swiping on the tripod.
This is just a small piece, but will connect the two shots around it.
Looking at the result, it somehow works, but not exactly.
We went from a handheld shot to an instant tripod shot.
So what I'll do next is head into my effects library...
...and navigate to the Fake Handheld Movement folder.
This is actually a preset pack that we've created ourselves,
it's free and you can find a download link to it in the description below.
Now, drag any type of handheld motion you want onto the nested sequence.
This already looks a lot better, but there's one last thing missing.
We're still going too sudden from a swipe to the tripod shot.
So I'm going to go into the effects controls,
locate the Transform effect, which has been applied through the presets.
I'm moving the clip to the left through the anchor point property of that effect.
I create a keyframe for that value in the beginning of the clip
and then I move a couple of frames forward and move the position of the clips...
...through the anchor point to the other side of the canvas.
One more time, a couple of frames forward and now I reset the anchor point value,
which will automatically create a keyframe.
This adds a little bump into the shot, making that swipe appear more natural.
And that, my friends, is how you can impress your friends...
...with the ultimate invisible box challenge.
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But now it's time to go inside, because it is cold outside.
And by the way, stay creative!
-Yannick!
Where have you put that invisible box?
Seriously dude, It's not funny if I would trip over it!
Where did you put it?
Yannick, seriously dude, come on.
See? I tripped over it!
What are these bricks doing here, by the way?
Where is that invisible box?