Jordy here for Cinecom.net and welcome to another creative Tuesday.
Today, there's no sponsor because I'd like to give some attention to trees but more about that later
because, first, I'd like to start with the first visual effect that is super easy and super fast
and can be done completely inside Adobe Premiere Pro.
Starting off with the invisible effect.
Film yourself on some location with a green screen.
We are filming in a forest because we like trees and make sure that the camera sits on a tripod
because when you get your shot, you move out of the frame and take an empty shot.
In Premiere Pro, place your empty shot on the bottom of the timeline
and on top of there goes the green screen shots.
With your top clip selected, head over to the effects controls and under 'Opacity,' click on the 'Pen' tool.
You want to draw inside the green screen to isolate that.
When you're done, search for the 'Ultra Key' effect and drag that to the top clip
and use the color picker to remove the green.
The keying itself doesn't have to be perfect.
Then right click on this clip and choose 'Nest' to group it into a new sequence.
And that's because we are going to add the effect called 'Texturize' onto the first video layer.
You know, through the options of this effect,
we can assign 'Video 2' as the texture layer which is the green screen shot.
We can now disable the output of that track as we don't need its output anymore.
And as you can see, that reveals yourself as something transparent.
However, we see this green–magenta edge around the tell lump and that's something that we'd like to get rid of.
To do that, hold down the Alt key and drag the empty shot or the bottom layer to the top to duplicate it.
With the top clip selected, head over to the Effects controls and remove the texturized effects from it.
Then change the blending mode under 'Opacity' to 'Color' and that's it.
Here's the scoop guys: the big corporations – they don't want us to plant trees,
and that's why we have to go invisible.
We did it. Now let's plant some trees.
Oh Jordy. I hurt myself planting a tree and now I've got a wound.
Well, no worries. With Premiere Pro, I can give myself of the power of regeneration.
Since Premiere Pro doesn't have a tracker, you want to film your hands or anything else and keep it super still.
And that's all you need.
In Premiere Pro, place that clip in your timeline and look for a stock clip of some wounds
which you can place on top of that.
Using the 'Mask' tool, you can draw around the wound to cut it out.
Position it to the right spots and, with 'Lumetri,' we can color correct it so that it matches better with our skin.
If you did move in your shots, you're gonna need to animate the position property
so that it follows your movements.
Or if you know how to use After Effects, of course, that program has a built-in tracker.
Then right click on this clip and choose 'Nest' to group it into a new sequence.
We have to do this in order to make the next effect work which is 'Roughen Edges.'
Apply it to the nested sequence.
Now increasing the border value will bite into the wounds and make it disappear.
So you can already go ahead and animate that value from zero to when the wound is gone.
Now within the 'Roughen edges' effect, I'm going to take the 'Pen' tool to draw a mask around the wound
but this time a little bit closer in to it.
After that, I feather the mask so that the wound blends better with the skin.
This is essentially the effect.
That was a close one.
Now at this rate, I can never plant 20 million trees.
So here's what, guys, I'm gonna take my fast arm-swinging ability.
That is also something that I can do.
Alright, this one is super easy and super fun to make.
What you want to do is film yourself on a tripod as you just roll your arm.
Then stand really still on the same spot as someone else changes the shutter speed of the camera.
You want to get a slower shutter speed so that you introduce more motion blur.
Then just roll your arm again for a very long time.
In Premiere Pro, you place the normal shutter speed shot on the bottom of your timeline
and the slow shutter speed shot on top of there.
With the top clip selected, take the 'Pen' tool under 'Opacity' and draw a mask around your arm.
You want to feather your mask a bunch to make the two clips blends better together
and of course use 'Lumetri' to decrease the exposure
because shooting with a longer shutter speed also makes the clip brighter.
Finally, take the 'Rate Stretch' tool and speed up the clip and that's it.
Alright, let's do this.
Yeah, this is very better.
Oh no! I've been planting plastic trees the entire time guys.
No worries, guys, I can give myself laser eyes to burn away all the plastic trees.
So we can start again and use real trees.
For this, you'll simply need a shot of you acting like you're shooting lasers out of your eyes.
That's it.
In Premiere Pro, I'm going to search for the 'Lightning' effects and drag that to the clip.
I only need one straight line, so I'm going to change the amplitude to 0 and the branching as well to 0.
Next, make the line a little bit wider through the 'Width' property.
And, of course, you can also change the color to something else that you'd like.
Now it's just a simple matter of animating the starts point and the ends point
so that it follows your eyes and that the laser shoots.
Now it works best if you keep the animation short and make it go really fast.
To top it off, you can add an overlay effect to the video such as debris or smoke.
You can find such overlays on stock websites such as Storyblocks video,
and although they're not sponsoring today,
I do like to mention them as it's a service that I can highly recommend.
I'll leave a link to it in the description below.
Basically, you just add such an element on top of your video,
change its blending mode to either 'Screen' or to 'Add,' and then reposition them.
That's it.
I got laser eyes. Let's get rid of them.
Alright and now let's plan some real trees.
As you guys have probably seen, a lot of YouTubers are raising money to plant trees.
Now, it's a fundraising that YouTuber Mr. Beast has started and he wants to plant 20 million trees by 2020.
So there's not much time left.
Now that's a lot which is why that we're all helping to achieve that
because, in the end, it is not going to be an achievement for Mr. Beast
but rather an achievement for all of us.
For Humanity.
For every dollar donated to the Arbor Day Foundation will plant one tree.
So even one dollar is already making a difference.
Simply click the first link in the description below or go straight to teamtrees.org for all of the information.
Thank you so much for watching and, as always, stay green.
Faster.
Here's what I have: a fast-swinging arm. I'm fast, man.
I can see Trump doing this saying, like, "Hey, I'm gonna do a charity thing. I'm gonna plant trees.
I've spoken to a plastic company. No worries, guys. The taxes will just raise a little bit, but it's okay."