- Hey guys, how's it going?
Let's say you're filming a music video
or a short film and you need a trippy, cool effect
and you like symmetry as much as I do,
well I got a quick little pro tip for you.
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Mirror image, now this one's pretty simple
and it's really easy to actually do
and it's a very very stylized look.
Like very stylized.
But it adds that wow factor to your footage
and it's this cool mesmerizing look
that you just, you just wanna keep watching
because it's so trippy and it's just like
it almost just draws you into the image
because it's just so symmetrical and so perfect looking.
I find that this kinda thing works best with drone shots,
especially ones that are going just straightforwards,
just flying straight, no panning and tilting,
all that stuff kind of messes with it too much.
Just a straightforwards going shot, those are the best ones
but really this effect works with any footage,
but I do find that it works best with kind of
big landscape shots that just, it feels right.
And this one's so easy to do you don't need
any extra plugins, you can do it all straight in Premiere
or I'm sure you can do it Final Cut Pro too
I just, I don't use it.
But you can definitely do all of this straight in Premiere
you don't need anything extra.
So let's take a look at how to actually achieve this look.
So we have our drone shot here, but really like I said,
you can use any clip.
And then you're gonna go into the effects
and you're gonna choose mirror and add it to your footage.
Boom, done, insane, it looks so good.
Oh wait, yeah it didn't do anything yet.
That's because we need to change one number,
that's pretty much all you have to do.
Is you're gonna change this first number,
I think it's defaulted to kinda the size of your footage
and you're just gonna half
whatever number you have in there.
So if you're bad with big numbers, take that number,
put it in a calculator, divide it by two
and then replace it with that new number.
Yeah, super simple.
Now we have the effect going on which is super cool
and it was that easy.
You literally just add one effect, change one number,
boom you're ready to go.
But there's actually a lot more we can do also with this.
First off, we can use a horizontal flip,
so if you wanna play around with the look a little bit more,
get a little bit of a different look,
take a horizontal flip effect
and put it before the mirror image and boom,
right away it drastically changes the look.
And then also if you just wanna have it upside down
for whatever reason, you just wanna make it even more trippy
you can use a vertical flip again before the mirror effect.
And then what if you don't want the mirror image
to be going vertically, you want it to go horizontal?
Well again, super easy we're just gonna change
the reflection angle to 90 degrees and there you go.
And again, we can change the look of this
using the horizontal and vertical flips.
Yeah, there's a lot of different really cool effects
you can do with just these really simple plugins.
And if you wanna go even trippier like kaleidoscope trippy,
like crazy symmetry, what you do is add that normal mirror
and then you're gonna duplicate that
and do a 90 degree mirror and then you get this
really crazy trippy look.
And yeah again, you can change this up using the horizontal
and vertical flips.
There's just a lot of different looks you can do
with just one video clip and using these different effects.
Now obviously you can't use this effect all the time,
it's just not gonna work in most of your videos,
but there is a time and place for this look.
And sometimes you're just gonna have to play around
with different looks to get something new,
to get a different feeling or a different reaction
out of you or your audience.
For example I was watching a movie,
I actually forget which movie it was,
but there was kind of an intro sequence
where they had these car shots driving through
a neighborhood and instead of just having them normal
they just flipped them upside down.
It right away made this like weird, quirky,
like right away I was like, "Whoa what's going on?"
it completely got my attetntion.
So there is a time and place to play around
with these kinds of different effects,
like with pretty much anything you do not wanna go overboard
or it's just gonna kill the effect.
All right there we have it,
a quick little pro tip on this super cool, trippy, weird,
I don't even know what to call this effect.
This symmetry effect mirror image.
I really enjoy it, I really like it
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