KEYFRAMES – TURBULENCY – VELOCITY - 8 bit ALPHA CHANNEL Rendering- I know what you
thinking. What on earth man? These funny Words, are exactly the reason why you’ve been avoiding
motion design and animation! We all have been there BUT, fear not, dear viewer, because
im gonna explain everything from the beginning. At the end of the day its just making things
move… Hey Guys,
Welcome to our channel, the No 1 place for people who love Design, Art and everything
Creative! You are watching Dantier and Balogh’s channel, my name is Laszlo and, I do graphic
design and illustration. In this video Im going to show you the easiest
way to animate graphics in premiere pro – this will require little to NO prior motion knowledge,
just have a simple piece of graphic, adobe premiere, and an open mind.
THIS is the animated piece that we are going to build and we are going to use adobe premiere
pro in its purest form. NO PRESETS, NO DOWNLOADS, NO FILE EXTENSIONS.
NO BULLSHIT. SO you wanna learn how to animate in premiere
pro? Let’s jump straight in!
So to kick things off let’s open up premiere pro and put the design together in its static
form, just so we know what we are doing; let’s open up premiere pro, and I would
say work on top of something which will resemble your future motion graphics’ native environment.
Like if its going on your Instagram, make a square shape for example. I am going to
use this on all of our youtube videos to ask people to join our creative crew, so im just
gonna open up last weeks video as a test canvas. Ok our graphic is going to have 2 lines of
text – join the, THEN creative crew– and in the background I wanna have this little
ship wheel I have designed in illustrator. Im gonna rotate this little wheel in a sec,
so naturally a circular piece of graphic would be ideal if you are following along this tutorial,
but, you can use anything you want…you’ll see in a sec
First of all let’s drag n drop in my graphic onto this timeline here on the bottom right
- When you drag and drop a static image onto premiere pro’s timeline, its automatically
creates a 5 second long sequence for it, which is ideal to me, but if you wanna have a different
length, feel free to adjust this by draggin your graphic by its edges.
You know what, let’s click off the video layer, by hitting this little eye icon – ok
then go to the graphics panel and let’s put in our text.
Im writing Join the with my script font – and then creative crew with a simpler one – I
wanna create a sense of hierarchy here -creative crew is the important phrase, so this needs
to be the most legible part of the design, while the script font and the ship wheel are
secondary elements, playing onto this whole nautical visual idea. Yeah –
Ok, make sure that all 3 bits are the same length and they are perfectly aligned on the
timeline, then let’s edit the ship wheel a little. First of all I want to take the
opacity down a little, so make sure you got your graphic selected on the timeline, then
open up effect controls here on the left, and after clicking off this little timer,
im taking the opacity down from a 100 percent to, I dunno 60? Or maybe 70 percent. Now this
still doesn’t solve my overlapping issue with the text on top, so im gonna create a
quick mask on it as well: I click on this little pen tool on the opacity
panel, and on the canvas I take a good quarter sized bit out of the ship wheel. Literaly
4 pen points joined up in the end click click click clicks – this masked out EVERYTHING
I didn’t want to mask out so tick off this little Inverted box under the mask – like
sooo and lets take the mask feather up a little lets say to 200 or so points, to make this
gradient effect a bit softer on the edges .
You guys ok so far? -NOW we built a basic sense of hierarchy in the design SO finaly
– FINALY we get to start animating! First a wanna make the wheel rotate in a random
manner. To do this we gonna scroll up in the effect controls panel here in the left and
play with the rotation on this little secondary timeline. Now if you have never played around
with animation before, this can get a little tricky, so let me take it slow.
So here on the rotation panel as you can see the setting is on zero at the moment. Now
– when you hover over this number, you see how your cursor changes onto this hand with
the arrows pointing to the sides? Now hold down left click and see what happens if you
start scrolling to the side. Huh? HUUH? These are the values we are going to play
with. Now to tell the program at what point you want what degree of rotation to happen,
we are going to put some keyframes onto this secondary timeline. These keyframes, are essentially
recording fixed points in time, so the actual rotation is going to happen between two keyframes
with their recorded rotation values…... Let me just show you
Lets say we want to start the movement on zero degrees, so we hit the little timer at
the very beginning of our timeline – this creates a keyframe- this little diamond here.
Now you wanna move the time marker along a little lets say to the end of these 5 seconds,
and then you wanna change the rotation value to 90 degrees. If you put in this value manually,
it will automatically add another keyframe to where your time marker stands. Now if you
hit the spacebar to play your video, you will see the graphic rotating inbetween these little
diamonds. Just like that. Now you can move these keyframes around by
dragging them wit hyour mouse if you wanna play with time - for example if you want your
animation to speed up a little, you gonna put the keyframes closer together, while if
you want to elongate things, naturally you wanna set them wider apart.
Now as a beginner motion graphics designer, it makes life easier if you start and end
a sequence with the same keyframe values. So im gonna put a keyframe of zero at the
very beginning as well as the very end of the timeline, then I put a few random ones
in the middle,to create a perfect loop of a wheel seemingly spinning at random, as if
its going wild like the sea – with a circular design you can havea lot of fun here making
it go crazy – if you are using something else, I would use the effect more sparingly…
yeah OK so let me just select these keys hit delete
to start over – ok lets put one of zero degrees to the starting point, then move along
a bit and slide it in one way, then a little more to the other way, now back to the left,
now right again and so and so, only to finish on the value of zero, for a perfect loop.
By the way You don’t have to rely on your mouse here, you can click the number and type
in the value you want at any given point. Lets hit play on the video and see what we
did – yeah so far so good! Now I want to add two more effects to my graphic
– one for the whole thing to appear in the video, and then another at its end to make
it disappear. I want to apply these two effects to my text as well as the ship wheel, so first
im gonna group this whole thing. To do that im gonna select all three graphic
parts on my main timeline, then right click and create a subsequence. This has created
its own little timeline which you can find here in the project folder. With one click
you can rename this, and drag n drop it in place of the separate graphic bits. Those
you can delete now. If you put your original video footage back you can see how everything
is there, while on the timeline you should only see two pieces of content.
Now we can apply some transition effects to our title graphic as a whole. So this is what
im gonna do, im gonna open the effects panel – here in the middle - and in this search
bar im gonna look for the turbulent displace effect – here it is under distortion – now
single click on this one, and you drag and drop the effect onto your newly made sub sequence.
If you did it right, now the graphic should look a little wonky. So let’s fix it;
We need to go to the effect controls again, and scroll down until you find the settings
of this turbulent displace effect. Now again, using different keyframes, we get to have
a lot of fun with these settings, so I encourage you to play with all of this settings and
see what they do to your design. Im going to change the amount to a thousand,
the size to 5 and the complexity to I dunno 3 at the beginning of the sequence, to get
this slightly grainy, slightly watery effect. I put a keyframe on the amount for the beginning,
the nmove along a second or so, and change it back to zero.Like that. But again, theres
like a million settings here, so see what works for your design – you know what im
gonna pump up the size for example, to get MORE of this water splash kind of effect.
Looks alright dontcha think? Now im not sure I like the harsh beginning of this effect,
so im gonna take the opacity of the whole graphic down at the start.
This what im gonna do – im gonna go up to the opacity settings, and put a 100 percent
opacity keyframe in place at the exact time when the turbulent effect reaches its completion
and then I go to the beginning of my timeline and there I put the opacity down with a keyframe
of zero percent. Just to soften this whole thing on the eyes a little bit.
By the way if your computer is struggling with the playback and starts acting up, at
any point , just go up to sequence and render the whole thing by clicking on render in to
out. Another thing that I think could look pretty
cool if we zoom into the graphic ever so slightly as its happening – again, you guessed it
– with some keyframes. We gonna use the scale option here on the
time line. Lets put in a keyframe just to record the graphic on its 100 percent value,
then lets go to the right and blow it up to , I dunno maybe a 105? Small one onto the
very left, bigger one onto the very right of your timeline, render and lets see what
happens…….Do you see it? Its very very subtle – only 5 percent growth after all,
but I think it makes a big difference. Oftentimes less is more when it comes to movement. Remember
that. Pretty cool – I just wanna add one more
transition -one more the simplest one I promise, then we can save this out and call it a day.
I want my graphic to disappear once its complete in a cool way, , and im gonna use the gradient
wipe transition to do that. So we go to the effects panel once again, type in gradient
, it should come up here at the bottom and again you take this and drop it onto your
graphic – make sure you drop this onto the END of your sequence though. This little brown
bookmark should come up now Lets play it with some video under it- ah scuse my nose, lemme
fix that o k awkward – so hit play. And voila!
Pretty cool! Now before you go, you need to know how do you save this out. Two way you
can do this – either just keep the premiere pro project file and call it a day, in which
case you can copy and paste this subsequence onto OTHER premiere pro files in the future
OR You can save this as a transparent piece of
video - that you can put on top of any other video file:
TO do that You need to go to file – export - media and the format you need to change
to quicktime. The other thing you need to change is here in the middle bit, switch the
video codec to animation. Scroll down and make sure its set to this
bpc+ alpha setting – and here at the bottom the only thing you should be sure of is the
render alpha channel only is NOT ticked. Again. Make sure its left empty. OK? Don’t ask
me what any of these settings mean cause I don’t have a clue either. Anyway. Hit export.
And that’s that! Huh yeah I KNOW I KNOW – KEYFRAMES PK. THEY
CAN BE INTIMIDATING at first sight. JUST LIKE WHEN YOU START USING MASKS IN PHOTOSHOP – OR
THE PEN TOOL IN ILLUSTRATOR – IT TAKES SOME TIME AND PRACTICE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW
THESE TOOLS WORK - BUT IF YOU KEEP AT IT, YOU HAVE A LITTLE PLAY AROUND WITH IT AND
SEE WHATS POSSIBLE, YOULL PICK IT UP IN NO TIME.
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