♫ I need to know everything,
who and the what,
and the where.
I need everything ♫
♫ Trust me,
I hear what you're saying
but act like it's new what you're telling me ♫
I'm Curious George
I hop in the Porsche
It's 500 horse
I'm ready for war
I'm coming for throats
They turn to a ghost
I need to know everything
I need to know everything,
Who and the what
And the where
I need everything
Trust me,
I hear what you're saying
but act like it's new what you're telling me.
I'm Curious George
I hop in a Porsche,
it's 500 horse
I'm ready for war,
I'm coming for throats
They turn to a ghost
I need to know everything.
What's up you guys?
And welcome to CopyCat Friday.
The new year and the same old Cinecom.
That's right, we aren't changing.
It's like they always say,
never change a winning team.
And this team would like to wish you all a very creative 2020!
And to start with this creativity,
let's do a super cool fact from our favorite rapper Travis Scott.
or even better, the rapper collective Jackboys.
Where Travis Scott is a part of.
They are currently releasing a lot of videos
and one effect is really standing out in one of them.
Of course I'm talking about the light trail effect,
or you can also call it the slow shutter speed effect.
Which is quite simple but really gives you an awesome result.
Okay, enough talking.
Let's start with creating our set.
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The effect is super easy to make.
Basically what you have to do is just lower the shutter speed of your camera.
I have mine set to 1/40 of a second.
And then just film the lights in the background
and move your camera around to get these beautiful light trails.
That's why we have the headlights on for the cars.
We also have some lights in the backgrounds.
Which is gonna give these beautiful light trails.
So it's super simple? Yes.
However, not all cameras are able to go to such a low shutter speed.
Some are just able to go to 1/30 of a second, which isn't gonna give you the same results.
So that's why we are going to take a look at 3 alternatives to get some kind of a similar effect to it.
And the first one is by taking photos.
Every camera can go to a lower shutter speed in photo modes.
So what you just simply do is set your camera to burst mode.
Set a low shutter speed at around 1/40 of a second, just hold that buttom
and just start shooting photos.
Is that simple.
Then inside Premiere Pro you simply put all of your photos next to each other,
and you can set this to 2 frames per photo.
Hit play and that's it. Super simple.
Now maybe that is too much work for you,
or you are working with existing footage.
or with stock footage that just doesn't have that slow shutter speed.
Which is just shot at a normal 24 or 30 frames per second.
Well, then Yannick got a great solution for you as well.
Now we have 2 techniques to fake the entire effect.
One in Premiere Pro, and one in After Effects.
For both techniques you can use normal footage.
Of course, it is best that you have light sources in the scene
because these light sources will make the effect more distinct and awesome
Now let's start with the first one in Premiere Pro. As this will be the easiest one.
Just place your footage in the timeline and duplicate it 5 times.
Then select the duplicates and nudge them one frame to the right.
You can do this with holding Alt and pressing the right arrow button.
Then again select the top four duplicates
and again nudge them one frame.
Now do this again for the top three, the top two and then the last one.
When doing this you will create a stair of clips.
Then the last thing you can do is change the blending mode of every duplicate to lighten.
And this will already leave you with the lightrail effect.
In the beginning of this video I told you "we aren't changing".
So you can guess what time it is.
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If you need stock clips they have it.
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And you can even find slow motion footage on there.
But they don't only have stock clips.
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And they have some awesome motion graphic clips and transitions.
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Now for the two last effects we are going to need After Effects.
Just place the footage inside your composition
and the first thing you want to do is slow down that footage.
Right click on it, go to "Time" and select "Time Stretch".
In the new popup window you can then change the Stretch Factor to 1000.
We are doing this because we are adding the force motion blur effect later on
and this effect needs some data to work with.
If you would add the Force Motion Blur to a clip without animation it would do nothing.
That's why we are animating the time to give the Force Motion Blur some data to work with.
Now because we are slowing down a clip with only 30fps the footage will look very choppy.
That's why we need the next step. Adding frame blending.
To do this, right click on the clip and go to frame blending.
Here we can choose the frame mix option.
With this option After Effects will calculate all the missing frames due to slowing it down
and make it a little bit less choppy.
Next we are going to pre-comp the clip and select the option Move all attributes into the new composition.
We are doing this because we need to speed up the clip again.
So, right click on the clip, again choose Time and then Time Stretch.
However, this time you can select the Stretch Factor to 10%.
And this will cancel out the slowing down which we did before.
Now that we have the normal clip again we can add the Force Motion Blur.
Drag it from the Effects library to the pre-comp clip.
Then in the effects controls you can adjust the samples to 255
and the shutter angle to something around 1000.
Whatever feels right to you and that's really it for the effect.
Okay, that was it.
Super easy and fast.
And that means there is still time for a Yannick's Fun Fact Fountain.
Did you know that Travis Scott really hates Sour Cream?
He even gets nauseous from it.
And also, did you know his real name is Jacques Webster?
Or ist it Jake ... Jaque ... I don't know but it was a smart move to go for Travis Scott.
Sounds a lot cooler than Jacques/Jake/Jaque
But that was it guys, thank you so much for watching.
I hope you learned something new.
Thank you Storyblocks Video for the support.
And like always stay creative!
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