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People are saying that I’m starting to look
like a mix of the Wolverine and Jim Carrey.
I really like that, they're both my heroes,
I’m not sure what you think what I'm starting to look like.
Should I grow my hair, shave my beard?
I don’t know, let me know in the comments below, guys.
Anyways, it's been a little while since Taylor Swift came out
with a new song.
And she did together with Brendon Urie from Panic At The Disco,
they came out with the music video ‘Me!’ and it looks awesome.
It has tons of visual effects in there
and both of the artists have a great inspiration on me,
so we just had to make a Copy Cat video of them,
where we recreate an effect from their music video.
However, the music video is packed with tons of 3D with high-end visual effects
that it's really hard to recreate.
So we decided to pick an easy one out
and that is where Brendon kind of jumps off his balcony, grab his umbrella
and then floating through the air.
So, for that we have set up a huge green screen!
This is probably the biggest green screen that we've ever set up on the channel
and I hear you guys thinking ‘Jordy, I don't have such a studio,
I don't have such a green screen, I can't recreate this effect!’
Well, no worries, because I want to focus this tutorial on something else,
which is an incredible green-screen trick
that you can even apply on like a medium shot green screen or whatever.
So, without further ado, roll the intro!
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Hey folks, it is Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Copy Cat Friday.
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-For this setup we are going to need a huge green-screen!
Yannick, catch!
Our green screen seems to be a little bit transparent,
you can see the background.
You’ll also run into this definitely if you're going to shoot outside.
A simple fix for that is to work with a black cloth.
[Yannick]: -Catch, Jordy!
-Like this one right here.
Behind me sits a green screen of 6x6 meters
that we've attached to the ceiling of the studio
and that is needed because Lorenzo is going to jump out of this elevator lift,
then grab this umbrella in the air.
Because he's making these big movements
we kind of need this big screen as well
to make him fit completely within the green screen.
If you're just gonna hang to just like fly through the air
then you can also work with a smaller, even a portable green screen,
because here you just only need to fit in yourself
and that’s like big movements and stuff.
Lighting out a green screen it's not always that easy,
because you want it to be lit evenly.
A very simple trick for that is just to work with soft lighting.
And because we have this huge fabric here we actually open up the dome in the studio
because we are getting very nice soft lighting from the ceiling through there.
Now if you're gonna shoot outside it may be best to wait for a cloudy day,
because the clouds are gonna function as a huge softbox for the sunlight
and thus you will have soft lighting over your green
and you will also not cast shadows of the subject on your green screen.
-So for this effect I need to be able to fly.
So, in order to do that, I attached climbing gear around my waist
but the problem with that was that the anchor point was right in front of me
and if I was attached in that point I would fall backwards.
So the next solution was to turn the pants around.
But then the problem was that I was constantly falling forward.
So the next solution was to use these camera straps
to attach around my shoulders,
so that the mounting point would be way higher, right around my shoulders,
and that made sure I was perfectly in balance.
-Lorenzo was hanging from a sturdy cord
because, obviously, we don’t want him to fall.
However the umbrella is not as heavy as Lorenzo.
So we can simply use some fishing wire,
just attach that to the umbrella
and this is not gonna be visible on your camera, and even if it will,
after we will pull the green key this fishing wire will just be gone.
And even if Lorenzo will pull too hard on the umbrella,
the fishing wire will just snap like that and we will still retain a natural motion.
We have our shots we can now bring them inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
And since we've already done so many green keying tutorials on the channel
I'm gonna go quickly over it and give some more time
to that nifty trick that I want to show you by the end.
With your clip selected start out by going to the Effects controls
and take the Pen tool under the Opacity
to draw a rough mask around your subject and the clean part of the green-screen.
Then go into the effects library and pick the Ultra Key effect.
With this we can select the green and remove it.
I'm gonna leave a link to an in-depth tutorial about green keying
in the description below.
Now we're left with a cable that is sticking out from Lorenzo's back.
In Adobe After Effects there’s an effect called Wire Removal,
but honestly, I'm not sure if it's gonna save you so much more time.
So we're just gonna adjust our initial mask to also cover up the wire
and then enable the animation for the mask path and adjust it over time.
If you might have an idea to speed up this workflow
of removing a wire in Premiere,
then I would love to hear that, just let me know in the comments.
So once you're done, you can take out your favorite background
to place underneath the clip.
I actually found a very nice sunset on Storyblocks together with an abstract visual.
I blended the two together and use that as my background.
One of the issues that we are running into now
is having a bright light source in the back
and we don't really see that come back on the subject.
We’ve got a hard edge
and we actually want to have the lights to roll over that edge.
And to a basic extent, we can actually do that inside Premiere.
To do so, I'm going to duplicate the green screen clip.
Hold down alt and drag it to the track above to do so.
You can now disable the output of the other layers for a moment.
On this duplication I'm going to apply the Paint Bucket effect.
Now start off by changing the fill to ‘Transparency’,
which means the entire keyed out subject.
Next it's gonna be important that you place your fill point on the empty space,
or else it won't add the outline to your subject.
Then change the stroke to actually being a stroke,
and as you can see, this creates a perfect outline around your subject.
However, we only need the outline.
So, from the blending mode, change it to ‘Fill Only’.
And there we go, we have ourselves a perfect outline of Lorenzo!
This already looks pretty cool, as well.
But for that highlight roll-off we're gonna do a few more tweaks.
The only thing left to do is change the color of the stroke to white
or maybe a gentle orange, depending on your background lights.
And finally the stroke width, which we are going to set to around 5.
And this is gonna be that edge light.
Now it's currently pretty hard, so I'm also gonna add the Gaussian blur effect
onto that layer as well,
and increase that a bit to feather the stroke.
We can now enable the other layers back.
And to make that stroke blend better,
we're also going to change the blending mode of the opacity to ‘linear dodge add’
or to ‘screen’, if you think that is too hard.
And there we go, we have the light roll off from the background!
Now, there's one last thing,
currently that stroke also blends into the background,
which shouldn't be.
The stroke should only be on the subject.
To do that I'm going to apply a second Ultra Key effect
underneath the original Ultra Key that was already on the clip.
From the settings we're going to use the Choke to crop into the stroke,
which will make the highlights roll off only on the subject.
And that's it!
-Lorenzo, what are you doing up there?
Come down, get back to work!
-It’s always the same here at Cinecom.
-I’m coming Jordy!
It’s gonna take a while, though.
-I hope you've learned something new today, guys.
Thank you so much for watching, thank you Storyblocks Video for the support,
and like always:
Stay Creative!
-This is the most difficult key I've ever done.
It's 4:30 now and I'm still keying.
All because of Lorenzo’s stupid curly hair.
Damn you Lorenzo and your stupid curly hair!
Still not working, so I asked Jordy for some help,
and now we’re two guys keying and still not working.