Okay, let’s take a look at the first item.
This is a vintage Indonesian instant noodles.
It’s the purple edition which includes chopped peppers and stringy onions.
If I depackage the item
And that’s how I ended up getting my left buttcheek slapped by Jennifer Love Hewitt.”
“Ah it all makes sense now.
The cucumber.
The restraining order.
So square up.
2, 3, 2.
Drop guard.
And take a fat one on the chin.
It’s crucial that you get rocked real hard on the chin.
This is the only way you can prove to your ashamed parents and unimpressed girlfriend
that you’re a real man.
The point of those examples is that pretty much every type of content creator could use
a good picture in picture effect.
And not only is the one I’m going over today the best one out there for Final Cut Pro,
but it’s also budget friendly and it’s so, so easy to use.
The plugin is called FCB’s Picture in picture effect from Mr. Dylan Bates, The Final Cut
Bro.
You just apply it to the clip that you’d like from your effects browser.
And look at this.
Bing.
Bang.
Boom.
Not only can you quickly adjust the size with the onscreen controls, but you can move it
anywhere you want on your screen easily, and you can even fine tune the position of that
clip in your picture in picture.
It’s the simple things like this that make editing so much easier.
And even though that alone makes this plugin worth it, especially considering the inexpensive
price tag, the plugin also gives you tons of ways to customize it to fit your style
and brand.
Take this specific example, which could be used if you create gaming content or something
similar.
Let me run through the plugin and show you how to make something like this.
This first section lets you make it so your picture in picture animates in or out, at
whatever speed you’d like.
So you can go from your main shot to having that main shot on another clip, without ever
having to set keyframes or anything.
Section 2 is all about adjusting the shape to fit your style.
So you can change it to a square, have more rounded corners.
Adjust the size of the inside shot.
And ‘extend video edges’ is cool because it mirrors your shot in the picture in picture
so you have a little extra room to zoom out of that inside shot.
This also makes the animation in and out smoother looking in my opinion because you don’t
see the black bars as it’s scaling from 100% size down to the size of the picture
in picture.
Just a heads up that if you zoom out too much though, the mirrored edges will be too visible.
And all of the rest of these parameters are the same thing as the on screen control sliders
here.
Section 3 and 4 are your borders.
This is where you can customize the effect to fit your brand and style.
Just click your color palette and select whatever color you’d like.
You can even use the dropper to select a specific color on your viewport, which can come in
handy.
You can adjust the thickness of that border.
The offset is essentially the size of the border, in a way.
So for a different look, I could make this a little bigger than the shot, and fade the
inside a bit.
And this results in a really cool and unique look.
And if you want, you can toggle on the second border in the 4th section, maybe unlink the
color to the main border, and then change that color to a new one.
I’ll adjust the offset of this border, and now we have this cool tube looking border
around our shot.
And of course, you can play with the fade parameters on this border as well to give
you different options.
Section 5 is really cool.
You can make it so your picture in picture has a background of your choosing.
So for example, I could use the awesome plugin, Keyper, from FX Factory to cut myself out
of the shot.
Or you can use a green screen and green screen yourself out if you have that.
Make sure to place Keyper, or the keyer for the green screen, before the picture in picture
effect so it affects your shot first and that will allow the picture and picture effect
to be applied over top.
And look how cool.
We can change the color of this background with some grain applied for texture.
What’s really awesome is the fact that you can hit this drop zone, select a video or
picture in your browser and have that be your background for an even more customized effect.
So if this was for gaming content, I could take my pretend gaming logo of a wolf, place
the built in blobs generator in Final Cut underneath and change the colors.
Make a compound clip of these two by selecting them and pressing option G. And then in the
Picture in picture effect, click the drop zone button and select that compound clip
either on your timeline or in your library and hit apply.
Make sure to switch the type from color solid to dropzone.
Then just resize and reposition.
And maybe toggle on the source drop shadow to add a shadow behind you.
And now you have a really professional looking effect that’s personalized to your brand.
And this was pretty damn easy to set up.
The last section, section number 6, is your drop shadow.
This places a realistic looking shadow behind the picture in picture to help give more depth
to your effect.
You can then adjust the distance, blur, and angle of the shadow how you’d like.
This plugin is so solid and best of all, it’s affordable.
At the moment it’s only $25.
And I also got you guys a 10% off discount code to make this $25 plugin even cheaper.
Have a great rest of your day guys!