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Jordy here for Cinecom.net and welcome to a brand new episode of
copycat Friday now in this weekly series
We recreate visual effects from famous films and music videos this week
This week a lot of new music videos came out and interesting enough
We found three videos that all have sky replacements and these were baila. Baila. Baila from ozuna
Undecided from Chris Brown and jumping on a jet from future
It's like the name of the effect says we're going to replace the current sky in error shot with a different one in order actually
Five different techniques to do that all of them have a different purpose and were all inspired by the music video as mentioned before
Let's start off with the most easy
One of all simply film your subject and make sure that there's plenty of sky visible to make it yourself
Easy film all of this from a tripod if you want to make it yourself hearts
Then you can go handheld in Adobe Premiere Pro with that shot into your timeline and now we're going to make that sky a bit
More interesting. So go ahead and jump onto the interwebs and search for pictures of anything that you want to get up there
for example the moon or other planets
If you are creating something
For the public or commercial work that make sure that you have the proper license to use any of those images and import your photos
Into Premiere Pro and drag them on top of your timeline with it selected head over to the opacity
Property and then click on the pen tool to draw a mask around the planets finally change the blending mode of the planets to screen
And perhaps decrease the opacity
To make them blend even better scale and move the planet into the sky where you want it to be and that's it
Now you can also add more elements to the sky and of course design something that looks unique and since we were on a static
Tripods you could also add one of our three handheld camera preset stewards. I'll leave a download link in the description below
So if you did move to your camera, we're going to have to jump into After Effects and track the motion there
It is best to track a trio in the background or anything else that is far away in the distance
You can then connect the planets to the tracking data and have it move with your camera move
You can find a tutorial and how tracking works inside After Effects as well in the description below
So that was the first sky replacement for you at elements to the sky to make it more interesting
The next technique is something that we didn't see in the music video is but it just looks cool
So we just had to add a few lists as well for this one. You'll definitely need to film from a tripods
Make sure that it's during the day and that there aren't too many details in the horizon
We have a strides building which is gonna make it easier then stop recording but to keep your camera on that
Tripods wait until the night falls and then make that same shot again and Premiere Pro these two shots lay on top of each other
With the top one selectively head over to the epatha the property take the mask tool and to draw around to the horizon
Which is the building in this case, you know have a daylight shot with an evening sky
You can also swap it of course and maybe edits that to the beat of your next music video
Sky replacement number three if you can find yourself a blue sky
Then you are lucky because this is the sky replacement that could give you the best results in from your pro
I'm going to search for the ultra key and drag that to the clip with the color picker from the effects
I select the blue sky to remove it use these settings below to further tweak your peeing if you change the outputs to alpha Channel
You can see the mask everything white is what you're going to see and the black will be removed now
Just go ahead and place your desired sky finita clip
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You could use the metric to color greater shots to make it match better with the sky
For example make it darker add some contrast and change the white balance to blue to make it seem more like a night scene
If your sky is not so blue in other words the weather is bad
You can also just film against a cloudy sky I pay attention in your shots that you have a clear difference
Between the white or gray sky and everything else in your shots in the dhobi Premiere Pro
We're going to start off by searching for the curves effect and drag that to the clip
You can also use the curves from lumetri if you like
Both are the same the top right of the curse represented the highlights
So by adding a point a little down on that line and pushing the upper parts to the left
We're going to make their gray sky even whiter the more contrast that you can get the easier the sky
Replacement will go next up first for new luma key effects and drag that to the clip as well lower the threshold
Until your subject or your Rison is not skied out anymore. And then you can increase the cutoff to remove the sky now
You're probably gonna be left with a white border around
Yourself and it's just very hard to get rid of that with a luma key
But we can fix that apply the ultra key effects to the clip as well not going to use the keying option in here
But we are going to scroll down and look for the matte cleanup properties from here
We can choke the luma keying or feather the edge finally place your favorite background clip underneath that clip again
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The next sky replacement is going to be a green screen which you can do inside or outside
That doesn't matter what is important though is that your green screen is going to be lit
Evenly, you don't want to see any wrinkles and you don't want to see any shadow
so that's why this portable green screen is ideal because it's tightened within this frame and that way it's always
Wrinkle free now the idea is to kill yourself
Completely out and put yourself into a different backgrounds. Now what is important though?
Is that your lighting is going to be somehow the same as the background and we're going to work with the Northern Lights
Which will fortunately didn't see when I travel to Iceland. So that's why we're going to fake it to tape
The Northern Lights is something bright in the sky
So that's why I'm going to step forward and become a silhouette an angelic right here is going to shine this
green tinted light unto my face
which is the
Reflection of the Northern Lights like before film from a tripod now Jenna get shining green light until Lorenzo's face
But because the luminous level between the lights on my face and a green screen in the back is so different
It's actually not going to be a problem in Premiere Pro when using the ultra key
You don't only select the green color in your shots
But also the luminance and saturation level of that green
selection silhouettes is also something easy to key because you have this big contrast between the subject and the green screen very important is that
You know upfront what your background is going to be see you where the light comes from in dead
Backgrounds and to recreate it in front of your green screen
So after you pull the key go back into your opacity property siggi pen tool and mask away anything else from the scene?
You might want to add a Gaussian blur effect to the subjects to make it appear a little bit out of focus
Because it's it's closer to the lens
And that was it again, thank you all so much for watching thank you story blogs for the supports and like always
Stay creative. Yeah
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