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Jordy here for cinecom.net! And you guys seem to love our previous copy cat Friday
where we recreated a magic trick from Zach King.
It broke our channel's record in terms of views and likes within the first seven days.
So lets do that again!
This time, we're going to copy some money.
A different technique then poofing a chicken out of an egg.
Today it all comes down to timing.
Here's how it goes!
First up, you wanna make sure that you're filming from a tripod.
You'll see in just a minute why we're doing this.
The part where we copy the money is just one take.
But at the point where you smash the first bill into the laptop screen,
you freeze.
Someone else takes the bill out of your hands and pastes that same bill into a word processor.
Of course, this is something that you need to prepare a little bit upfront.
Then you just pursue your acting, like you're copying the money inside that word processor
and, as you wanna take the bills back out of your screen, you freeze again.
This is the same method, let someone else help you here.
You do that one more time and then bring that whole shot into Premiere Pro.
Now it's just a simple matter of cutting out the parts where you where sitting still.
Super simple!
However,
you'll notice that's actually not that simple to get a seamless cut.
In other words it's super hard to sit perfectly still.
If you move a little, there will be a jump cut.
We've found out that it's easier to mask this jump cut by moving fast,
just on the point where you wanna freeze.
When putting the two cuts together, it's then also normal that you move.
In Premiere Pro, there's also another great technique to mask that jump cut.
But we'll dive into that by the end of video.
First up I would like to show you guys how we've done the second part.
So after I've copied my money, I suddenly receive a Skype call from Yannick.
And this is no magic, that was a real Skype call on that moment.
At a certain point, Yannick would extend his arm outside of the screen to steal the money from me.
And just as he does that I freeze again.
He's not actually taking my money, but he has his own bills laying in front of him,
which he takes.
Now, during that whole time I sit still.
And after Yannick did his act and stealing celebration, he comes to me and closes the laptop.
You can also take it away,
but a closed laptop gives some more idea of where it was standing.
Again, I stay freeze,
and Yannick will now sit behind the laptop and while swinging his arm in an arch
he grabs the money from my hands.
At that point, I move again and I can now show my reaction to Yannick.
This is pretty hard tough, as it's a long time that you need to sit still.
So you might wanna practice this several times.
Alright, let's bring everything inside Premiere Pro now, the editing goes a little bit different here.
The first part is the same tough.
You just cut out my freezing, and this will result in the laptop begin closed
and Yannick suddenly standing there, of course.
So I'll move that second shot to the channel number 2
and trim the first clip longer so that it comes underneath the top clip.
Now I disable the second video channel, but keep your clip selected.
Under the Effects controls, Opacity, you then take the Mask pen tool
and draw a line just next to the laptop screen.
here's where the arm will come out.
The rest of your path can be rough,
just make sure that you're splitting the screen in two.
Then enable video channel number 2 back
and if everything went well, the effect should look like this.
And we're almost there!
To take off the edge of that staticness of the tripod
and to mask our cuts a little, we're going to add fake camera movement to it.
Like we've shown many times before,
just select all your clips, right click and nest or group your clips.
On that group I then drag the fake camera movement preset from Jarle,
which I'll also leave a link to in the description below.
And now the shot looks a lot more dynamic,
plus we can focus less on those cuts.
By the way guys, would you like to see our own fake camera movement pack?
Well, that might be a great idea for next Tuesday.
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