Today, I'm going to show you
how to create a picture in picture effect
using a circular mask.
Let's get started.
So here inside a Premiere Pro,
I have my talking head on video
layer two,
if I turn off this visibility..
You can see
I have a screen recording underneath
and you can see it has a nice 3D effect.
If you're wondering how I did that,
you can click right up here
to watch the tutorial on
how to add a basic 3D effect
to any screen
recording that you're working with.
So definitely check that out.
So the important thing here
is that the screen recording is on video
layer one or whatever video
you want to be in
the background is on video
layer one
and the talking head is on video
layer two.
Now we need to create a mask over my head
and then reposition it
in the corner of the frame,
whichever corner that you want.
So, for example,
we can go to opacity from effect controls
and select Create Ellipse Mask.
After you do that,
what you can do
is then reposition it
by just clicking
and dragging it over the head
and to make it a perfect circle,
you can click on one of the points here
and press shift,
and it will create a perfect circle.
So make it the size that you want
and then you can reposition it
over my head.
Now, when we click off
over here,
you can see there's
a little bit of fuzziness around that.
If you like it, you can keep it.
I personally like a hard edge,
so I'm going to take away the feather
and bring it down to zero.
So now there's no feathering
and then you can click on motion.
And this brings up the transform control,
so I can just click on this
and bring it down in the corner,
for example.
And from here,
I might want to scale it down
just a little bit until it looks right.
So let's say here looks good.
Now what if you want to add
a cool border around it?
Well, this is where we can use
the essential graphics panel.
But first, let's create a shape
so we can go down here into our toolbar.
And if you click,
you can select the ellipsis tool.
So let's go ahead and select that,
and then we can just click
and drag
and also hold shift
to create a perfect circle.
And then what we can do
is, first of all,
you can see it created a graphics layer
in the timeline,
so we can drag this out
to the duration of our timeline
and then we need to place it
behind the talking head.
So we need to bring up the talking head
layer above the graphic.
So that way it's behind,
and then we can lasso and select
both of them and bring it down.
So video layer three and video layer two.
All right now we need to center it.
So that way it's
perfectly behind our talking head.
So select the graphic.
And then from a central graphics
here with the shape layer selected,
we can
then use the position controls
here to move it into place
until it's centered.
Now, it may be a little bit too
thick at first.
So what we can do is
we can use the scale to scale this down
until you get the right width
that you want.
So I think here's about good
and I think that that looks centered.
If you want to choose the color
of the circle,
you can always go down to appearance
and click on fill
and you can change your color,
so there's a few more things to do.
But before we jump into it,
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go ahead and jump back into the video.
All right,
so we added some style to this already,
but let's go ahead
and add a little bit more.
What about a drop shadow?
So all we can do to simplify
our timeline is
we can actually select the talking head
and the graphic layer
so you can select both of these layers
and you can control
click on it or right click
and you can select Nest
or I created a keyboard shortcut.
By the way,
if you go up to Premiere Pro,
you can go to your keyboard shortcuts
and here you can go and search for Nest.
And I set a custom shortcut alt
plus end or if you're on a Mac option and
so you can set that
custom keyboard shortcut.
So now with both of these clips selected,
I can just press option
and and it will bring up
the nested sequence option
and I can call this circular mask.
And now
it took both of those two layers
and it nested it into one layer.
So now we're just working with one layer.
So this when I double click on this nest,
both of the graphic and the talking head
are within that nested sequence.
So now what I can do
when I go back to demo is
I can add an effect directly
just to this one layer
so I can go up to effects
and search for drop shadow
and I can drag
and drop this onto the circular mask.
And then
this is where I can play around
with the parameter,
so I'll adjust the distance here.
You can see the shadow just down here.
I'll add some softness to it
and maybe increase it that way.
You can see it a little bit more.
So now when I turn off the effects,
you can see the before in the after.
So it just add some nice style.
So I highly recommend
adding a drop shadow
and here is what it looks like.
So it's really easy to do and.
And it's easy to stylize this
in the central graphics panel,
and let's say that you need to move
my head on the opposite side,
but you want to flip it.
This is what you can do.
You can go to effects
and search for flip.
You know, find horizontal flip
if you drag and drop this onto
the circular mass player that we created.
It'll flip me to the other side.
So if my head is blocking
something on the other
side of the screen,
you can use the horizontal flip.
So that way
I'll be on the other side
and I do this a ton in my own videos.
So that's how you create a picture
in picture effect using a circular mask.
Of course,
you can use a different type of mask
like a square mask,
if that's more of your style.
But this is the style
that I've been using personally
in my own videos as of late.
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