- Hey, everyone, it's me Hallease.
Endeavoring to persevere, so sorry that this mic
is kind of here, I just wanna make sure
that whether I'm looking at the computer screen
or looking at y'all, you can hear me, so (laughs).
What do people usually say?
What does Peter Mckenna say?
Smash that like button.
I don't know, anyway.
In this video I'm just gonna show you
a quick tutorial of how I achieve
the overall aesthetic of a lot of my films.
It's actually very simple.
It's a combination of presets
that are already built into Premiere and adjustment layers.
And it's kind of the same aesthetic
I used on my veta video from yesterday,
which is how I wrap my headwraps,
so without further ado, let's just get right on into it.
This is really easy.
I really like using these presets
because it kinda gives your videos
this sort of film look, like makes them
kind of have this appearance that they naturally,
that you actually went out and shot them on film,
which I didn't do that.
I have the project from yesterday.
Gonna go ahead and open it.
I would show you the pretty opening Premiere thing
but it's on my other screen down here
so you can't see it, I'm just recording on this one,
sorry about that.
Again, we're working through the kinks on this,
so church pray for me, alright.
At the end of the day, you're getting a tutorial, amen.
Alright, so here we go (chuckles).
Okay, so here's my project
and down here is my timeline.
This was the other cut I did promotional purposes.
We don't really need that anymore.
Let me go ahead and re save this actually,
while I'm thinking about it, hey that.
How about tutorial.
(mellow music)
Is that how you spell tutorial?
You know sometimes you look at a word
and then you're like you've seen it so many times
you're like, is that how you spell it?
Like really though, you know?
So here is the finished film that y'all saw.
As you can see it has the bars,
it has those like film bars on there
and all of that and it's got like, yeah,
this sort of like film kind of grain look to it.
They way I achieve that is very, very simple.
We're gonna get rid of it.
So this is what the actual footage looks like.
You know, so if you go to your project
and you click on your sequence,
excuse my messy project.
I usually actually like to have it
a lot more organized than that
but it's fine because this was such a quick video.
But, yeah, click on your sequence,
make sure it's highlighted, and then head up
to file, adjustment layer.
And it's gonna bring up some adjustment layer settings.
1920 by 1080 is what I shoot most of my videos at.
23.9 is what I shoot most of my videos at.
Square pixels, yeah, hit okay
and then you have this adjustment layer
that pops up and we're gonna go ahead
and call this bars and color,
we're gonna go ahead and call this bars and color grading.
So when I click on this layer,
everything that I do now to it
as far as color grading and effects go,
it will impact everything below it,
which is the cut of the film itself.
So the first thing I wanna do is
add my color grading, quote unquote.
If you go to your lumetri colors,
oops, which are all over here.
If this panel doesn't pop up for you,
go to window and it is right there, lumetri color
and that'll make it pop up for you.
So, yeah, you have this show up
and I'm not gonna really mess
with the basic color correction
because I more or less like the way
all of this looks, I don't really need
to mess with the color temperature or anything like that
because I tried to make sure I shot it,
you know, to where the whites are white
and the blacks are black and all that kind of fun stuff.
What I am gonna mess with is this creative,
the next one down and here is my secret sauce,
if you will, about how I get my films to look like films,
as much as I can within the budget that I have
and that is I use the Kodak 5218 2395
and Kodak, if y'all don't know,
is a film company, they're still around,
kinda sorta, maybe, and this is basically a preset
to make your stuff look like Kodak film.
So I put that on but usually when I put it on,
it makes it a little too intense for me.
I don't usually like it to be
at 100% intensity or you can up it
and that's like super, ooh, super film, you know.
I don't usually like it to be that high,
I usually keep it around 60%.
That's where I just like to have it.
So I'm gonna turn it off and you can see
that's what it added and then another thing
I also add is I add a little bit
of the faded film to it as well, about 20% usually.
So we see that kinda gives it, I don't know,
that just kinda gives it that sort of grain look,
just a smidge, just a smidge,
it's funny because it's just like film
with its imperfections look a little,
it just looks more natural, I don't know,
I don't know, comment below how you feel about it
but that's how I feel about it
and that's how, that's literally it.
That's kinda the tutorial (laughs).
The way to do the bars, these cinematic bars
that you usually see, let me turn this off,
so you can see the whole thing.
And, oh by the way, that's the title safe, title safety.
If you're putting graphics,
you usually wanna have them inside
this second box here but that's more for like TV and stuff,
it doesn't really apply to the internet anymore.
It doesn't really apply because we have the internet now
but I still, I don't know, I'm old fashioned I guess.
Anyway, now let's add those bars at the top and bottom
of our clip, so what you're gonna do now
is you're gonna make sure your adjustment layer
is still highlighted and then you're gonna go
to your effects panel, mine is here in the left hand corner.
If, for some reason, yours is not
where it needs to be, window, effects.
That's where you can find that
and then you're going to go to the crop tool.
I usually just type it in because it's faster
than trying to find it and then I'm gonna
drag it onto my adjustment layer that I've made
and now we're going to go to our effect controls panel.
If you don't know where that is,
again, window, effect controls.
Make sure this is highlighted
so the effect controls for whatever is on this come up here.
As you can see our lumetri color,
you can see it here as well what we did, right?
You're gonna go to the crop tool
and for the top and bottom,
I usually have it at around seven percent.
So you see seven percent top, seven percent bottom.
Boom, so now we went from this to this
and we have that cinematic look.
So, yeah, that's how we go from this to this
and something I like to do is,
so I can play a little bit.
Cool, something I also like to do, though,
is I like to give, I like to like have the bars
sort of lead in a little bit,
so they're not there in the beginning
and then they get you in the mood
to be in a traditional film environment
but on your phone or tablet or wherever you watch my videos.
So I like to have the bars sort of just
come into the frame and that's just simple keyframing.
Really easy, so we're gonna go to our crop
and we're gonna, let's take off this,
zoom in over here, let's take off this cross disolve
so that we can always see me.
Alright, so we're gonna go back to our crop
and remember we have it at seven percent here,
we're gonna put a keyframe like,
I don't know, like a couple seconds in,
you know what I'm saying, and we're gonna
hit our keyframe, our little stopwatch
is just like a keyframe indicator,
and then we're gonna go back to the very beginning
and hit it again but this time
make sure that for the front, it's zero.
And I'm gonna hit play.
Look at that, schwalla.
Now, something that I think will be super cool
if Premiere ever adds this, is motion blur.
Right now you can't really get that.
And motion blur is just an effect
that just, whenever you're doing
these little makeshift graphics in Premiere,
it just kind of gives it a little more
like natural, just kinda like finesse, you know,
like smear, think about like smear, you know.
So it's not like pixel, pixel, pixel, pixel moving,
you know, it just gives it a natural sort of finish.
Can't really do that in Premiere yet.
I heard maybe that they might could possibly
maybe do it one day.
For now if you wanna achieve that
you have to do it in After Effects
but what I do still like to do though
is ease in and ease out of things,
which, again, is usually a lot better in After Effects
but you can still do it here in Premiere
and it just gives, it just makes the animation
just a little bit more smooth, you know,
so you wanna ease out of this.
It's opposite of what you would think
and ease in to this and so now.
Again, it's a minuscule difference
but I see it, I see it, you know.
That's it, that's how I, that's a video.
That's a video, that's a tutorial.
So there you go, go ahead and save that.
Export, or close, anyway.
So, yeah, that's it, that's how I achieve
the sort of like cinematic look, if you will,
of my films when I choose to call them films, you know.
Sorry that my lighting is also not ideal,
again, I'm in a new coworking space
so I'm just trying to figure it out.
Anyway, that's neither here nor there,
you don't need to know all that.
So, yeah, if you enjoyed this video, you know,
like, share, subscribe and things like such as
any other tips and tricks you would like me to show you
in Premiere, just in editing in general, let me know.
I do like doing this, this sort of like
producer's commentary and whatnot, so, yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow.