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Did you know that Adobe recently updated their icons?
Well they did
and we ask ourselves why?
Apparently there was an issue of keeping all the logos apart mistaking one for another.
So they rebranded it making it more impossible to keep everything apart.
Great job Adobe.
Hey guys Janak here for Cinecom.net
and welcome back to another copycat Friday.
The best thing that will happen to you on a Friday.
Wheew
And today we have something super awesome for you in store.
This 3d smartphone effect from eduard_ov
I think you pronounce it like that,
but besides his name this effect is s u p e r cool
and to be honest everything he makes is awesome.
So look in the description below to find the link to his Instagram and enjoy his creativity.
Go check it out!
Okay, now let's start the montage.
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Now when studying the effect you can see that the insides are of course made in 3D
and we even know how he made it.
In Cinema 4d because he mentioned it in the text.
but you all know we are 3D noobs
and that's why we found another way to recreate this.
The practical way.
That's right!
We are going to replace a 3D background in the smartphone with a real background in the same style.
Of course, this will look a little bit different because it's not 3d, but it comes really close.
So first things first
let's make that background!
As you can see we already made the setup right here with some old computer components.
We have a graphic card and whatever ...
And yeah, that's it for the setup.
It's just a mishmash of components laying on the table.
And then we have the lighting.
But the lighting is something for our intern Jelle.
It is his last day here and I pressured him to do the explanation here because
we want to give him the complete Cinecom experience.
So Jelle, it's your turn.
Hey, what's up, everyone?
So Yannick made me present this part.
So let's start to recreate the look in the video.
We added some neon lights.
We have a light with a red filter a light with a blue filter
and then we also have these two little Ameran lights from Aperture
to recreate this look.
So now that the lighting is okay, we needed to prepare this scene for filming
and afterwards tracking it in After Effects.
So we added some tracking markers on the corners to make sure that they are clearly visible while filming
And also that there's enough contrast between the background and the marker itself
because that makes it easier to track in After Effects.
So we got our lighting we got our tracking markers, now it's time to film this scene.
We use our camera and to keep everything as simple as possible
- you can do whatever you want -
but we made a left to right movement
and we made sure that the tracking markers were visible at all times.
So now it's time to film our second shot and for that we will be using this tripod right here.
First we need to mount our camera on top and then we will film ourselves
holding our phone while making this same movement,
the same left to right movement we made before.
Now keep in mind that the camera movement and the cell phone movement need to be exactly the same
so we need to time them.
And then the last thing that's important is that we need tracking markers on our phone
while making the movement and you can just find them on the Internet.
Thank you Jelle!
You did a great job and that on your last day.
Too bad because if I knew it earlier, I could have stayed home for Copycat
and you could do the presentation and everything.
Now before we can start with the post-production I of course first want to talk about Storyblocks Video.
The best online stock library you are going to find.
They have a huge variety of assets that keep on expanding.
From beautiful stock clips in HD and 4k resolution to easy to customize After Effects templates.
Storyblocks Video is the perfect editing companion.
If you need an extra shot
well Storyblocks will help you with that.
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Now if you want all this help and more you just need to pay one single price per year
and then you can download as much as you want.
You can even download the entire library.
So don't waste any time and go to the first link in the description below.
Let's fire up After Effects.
And the first thing we are going to do is place our smartphone shot into a new composition.
Then we are going to planar track the smartphone screen.
And the best way to do this is with the Mocha AE effect.
So look for that in the effect library and drag that to your smartphone clip.
then go into the effects control panel and press on the Mocha logo.
This will open up the Mocha window the place where we are going to track the screen.
Before we can create our tracking spline always make sure that you are in the beginning of your timeline.
Now select the X-spline tool this pen looking thing right here
and create a rectangle spline around smartphone screen.
This needs to be detailed.
Next select planar surface and also align this with your smartphone screen.
Then last enable the perspective tracking option and then it's time for the tracking.
So hit that analyze forward button and let Mocha do its thing.
When it's done just save your Mocha file and close the window.
Now we are back in After Effects and let's go into the effects control panel.
Here you can open up the math property and click on the create AE Maksk button.
This will transform your track spline into a tracked mask.
Super handy, however, you still need to invert that mask to cut away everything inside the phone.
Next up is the tracking data
So open up that property and hit the create tracking data button.
And guess what?
This will create your tracking data.
Normally you now have five points on your smartphone clip.
One in each corner of the phone screen and one in the middle.
This is your tracking data in the form of a corner pin
and also what we need to parent our fake 3d background to
which brings us to that fake 3d background.
We want to place this inside our smartphone and to do this
we need to stabilize it because we want that clip to be fixed around the center.
This way the clip will align with the smartphone but with the camera movement we did
it will alter the perspective and make it look like the insides of the smartphone are 3d.
So first things first
let's stabilize the background shot.
Bring the shot into your comp and select it.
Then go to the tracker panel and here we are going to select the track motion option.
Now adjust the track type from Transform to Perspective corner pin.
This will give us four tracking points and you can set these on the tracking markers from our background.
Once you placed your tracking points hit analyze forward and let After Effects do its thing.
But I need to warn you
it can take a while
so be patient.
Now once it's done you don't to apply it or anything else.
The clip already has the tracking data which you can see right here
To use this data we need to add the CC Power Pin effect to the same clip.
Then we need to parent the power pin effect to the tracking data.
So open up the property values of the tracking points and the power pin effects.
We are going to parent the top left property of the power pin to the top left writing point and so on
until everything is parented.
What you now will have is a warped clip which is way too small.
That's why we need to enable the unstretch option from the power pin effect.
This will place our power pin points on the edge of the screen scaling the clip
but also keeping the clip stable in the center.
We are almost there guys so stick by me!
The next step is pre-comping our background clip
and you can choose move all attributes into a new composition.
Now we are going to use the tracking data of our smart phone to place the background in that smart phone.
So select the smart phone clip and go into the Mocha effect properties.
Wth the tracking data options you can set the export option to corner pin
and the layer export to the background clip.
Then hit apply, export, and
B O O M !
Your clip fits perfectly in the smartphone.
And that's it.
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And that was it for today guys.
I hope you learned something new.
Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you Storyblocks Video for the support and like always
Stay creative!
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