in this video i will show you 10 visual effects for music videos in under 10 minutes
in this show we look at visual effects from hollywood blockbuster films
music videos or viral videos and try to recreate them welcome to vfx explained
all right hey what's up ladies and gentlemen my name is ines aleya in this video i want
to show you 10 simple but amazing looking visual effects let's go by the way if you enjoy watching
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one of these it would be much obliged i actually tested everything on music videos that i have been
working on let's start with a simple effect and that everyone can do but it instantly changes the
entire dimension of your video and it's as simple as using the mirror tool in any video editing
software in this case i'm using premiere pro you can use this to get some abstract looking shots or
you can even flip your horizon upside down and create some kind of inception look which gives
your video a sci-fi feeling and a very futuristic feeling i like the vibes you probably know that if
you follow me already but yeah it's a simple and cool looking effect the next effect that always
wows your audience is when you're working with elements so while i was working on some music
videos i was actually using these head elements to fake a drone shot we had this shot from an angle
you can either do this with a real drone which it is in this case but actually if you have a
360 camera you can fake a drone shot and then use these head elements to make it look like it's an
actual futuristic drone chasing someone looking for evidence or just targeting the enemy
i actually also have a video on a 360 faking the drone shot but it's
as simple as putting it on a lot of poles and just putting it straight up
so when we're talking about hut elements these are really cool another thing that is
really cool and just fascinates everyone every single time and probably yourself as well when
you're doing a barbecue or a campfire you're going to get lost in the fire and that's just
because there's something mesmerizing about fire it just looks cool so applying fire to
your shots is instantly going to increase the production value and it's pretty easy to do
i also have a tutorial on how to apply fire to your scene literally taking it from this to this
which is insane and i've actually used this exact technique in a recent music video i was creating
and we got this as some final results another really cool effect is applying overlays on your
shots and they all help to build your story now before we go to the next shot i quickly
wanted to thank xp pen they actually provided me with this amazing tablet where i can draw with
a pen but i can actually see what i'm drawing on so i have two choices when i really want to
be detailed i can look down and really see all the details of what i am doing with this tablet
but i can also use it as a regular tablet and the price quality is just insane so they provided me
with two tablets this guy is called the innovator 16 by xp pen i will link it below it's a really
amazing tablet and we also have the deco 03 which basically is a tablet that you can use without the
actual monitor built into it which in my opinion is really worth it when you're doing rotoscoping
work or when you're doing matte paintings or maybe when you're getting wrist pain because if
you have an office job and you're always sitting behind your desk using a mouse is actually not
the best thing you can do for your movement it's actually not made to actually hold the mouse so
when you're holding your hand in a more straight way like when you're using a pen it's going to
be a lot better for your joints so that's also something to keep in mind when you're
using a tablet it's actually healthier for your hands anyway back to the video let's talk about
overlays overlays are such an underrated aspect of video editing because it's kind of simple and
so easily overseen because you can literally use it in conjunction with blending modes and
just applying some overlays on your footage but it conveys a story it really tells the story of your
music video for example when you have a higher up camera and you're looking down you can now maybe
add an overlay and turn it into a security cam or maybe it's shot at night and it's more of an army
type of story so maybe you need a night vision and so you can really adapt all these overlays
which i've actually used a ton of times for example when you're at a party you're doing
a barbecue and then you want to kind of film the vibe a little bit of that barbecue and you want to
have it that kind of amateuristic feel to it then you can use overlays like these that will show the
audience that someone else is actually recording in your movie so it's not really a dop filming a
cinematic shot but it's just showing a story of a character that is actually filming something
anyway when we're talking about overlays we should also be talking about transitions transitions are
a really fun way to keep your video dynamic and keep your audience attention so when you have all
these flashing images and flashing transitions it gets really hard to not overdo it but you really
have to use it in order to help your story when for example you're going from one scene to another
you can for example do a quick swipe or you can do a flash or maybe you're switching to a
security camera you can use a glitch transition so this really helps the story but it wouldn't
make sense if we switched to a security cam and you would have a light leak for example
the next effect is one of the most popular visual effects shots you will see in any movie
ever and it's so subtle that you will probably never really pay attention to it
when you're shooting on location you never have control on how the sky will look so oftentimes
the sky doesn't look that interesting and that's why your shot doesn't look cinematic
you might have a white sky a cloudy sky or a blue sky but you're not looking for a blue sky
you want to create a little bit more depth in your scene so you want to add a few clouds in there
maybe a sunset and that's when you want to do sky replacement i've done a few tutorials on these
one of which is for premiere pro and one of which is for after effects you have the
easier route and the more advanced route so if you want to go and check those videos i will link them
up here and also in the description so yeah sky replacements don't underestimate them another cool
effect is color change there is something about the color change that just has that kind of trippy
feeling to it and when we're thinking trippy we're thinking music videos so what better opportunity
than just swapping the colors in your music videos that's at least what i thought when i
was working on this music video i thought it would be so cool if this car actually moves and you can
do this with a few methods but the best method that i found was actually with a plugin called
composite brush composite brush is a plugin from aescripts.com and it works for adobe after effects
you can simply click on the effect and then just click on your color and change it to whatever
you want it's so easy to use i never really got into using the effect but it's so straightforward
um that and i really enjoyed working with it and it allowed me to change my course very easily
so yeah it's really worth it so next up it's not really a visual effect but it is a visual
effect because we're going to be using it a lot to just make your shot a little bit more dynamic
when you're filming a shot on a tripod it's often a little bit boring because there is not a lot of
movement going on if there is a lot of movement in your shot it's okay if you have fire going on
or you have a lot of action going on with a lot of actors that's fine but if you have one actor
one tripod a boring background then it's going to get very boring to watch that shot so we want
to apply some fake camera shake on top of that tripod shot footage and it's going to look a lot
more interesting all of a sudden because there is life to your shot you brought life in your video
and i often use this effect as well to kind of hide imperfections and visual effects
or to give it a more real or a more amateuristic look which is what i'm going for to enhance my
story and then of course last but not least is applying some cinematic bars it really does
change the composition and it just looks a little bit more cinematic and a little bit more high-end
in production quality i don't know what it is about black bars because in a sense it's not
logical because you're literally cutting parts away from your video and not showing as much as
you should be showing but in the other hand it's also elegant and it just looks really cool so
yeah so i noticed that inyas only covers nine out of the ten visual effects tips to improve your
music videos so i will add the tenth one myself and this may not be the biggest tip you will get
but it's really an important one and it is to not reinvent the wheel what i mean with that is that
you don't have to create every effect yourself you don't have to reinvent a whole new kind of music
video if you find a nice effect that you really like just learn it make it your own and use it
don't waste hours and hours and hours on an effect you want to create if you can just use 20 minutes
and copy it from a youtube video that basically gives it for free like this channel there's a lot
of things you can learn on this channel and it's all freely available for you so why wouldn't you
use it just just use it and continue watching this video maybe click on another video as well
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