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The first thing you want to do is find a
piece of footage to use in your project in this case I found a piece of footage
that's just a couple of people lying on the beach kicking around in the surf now
what's really important is you choose something that the sky is absolutely
separated from any motion in the shot their legs are down below and at no
point does that motion cross the horizon line and up into the sky if it did we'd
have to use masking features to cut that out and I want to keep this nice and
simple today so as you can see this is a nice stable shot the camera doesn't move
the only thing moving is their legs in the foreground so what we want to do is
take a snapshot of this footage anywhere along the timeline now the next step is
a trick that I showed you recently in the glitch effects tutorial we're going
to use Affinity photo to do a little work with this image let me just find my
image and bring it into Affinity photo now as I've told you recently Affinity
photo right now is free to download with a 90 day trial so that you can start
using this software today what you want to do is over in the left choose the
selection brush tool and I'm going to choose this sky
now you can see it's sort of cropped the line around here it's automatically
found this easy spot to delineate there's a little problem over here on
the rocks let me solve that I'll shrink down the sides of my selection tool and
I'll choose subtract up in the upper left that will allow me to pull away
this section and get it right back to that / Eisen line once I've done that
I'm gonna go up to the layers tab and select new layer that will give me
another layer in my project that I can control over here on my right
just like in Fillmore when you add another track we're just adding another
layer on top while this is still selected but we're on the upper layer
let's go up to the color selection choose the picker and let's choose
something in a green I'm gonna use a very standard chroma key green and see
if I can put that in now that my color is set to green I'm gonna go over to the
left and grab the paint can tool and drop green into the upper section
completely turning that into a chroma key area now if you look this is only in
that upper layer if I turn off the original layer you'll see I've created a
green screen custom mask let's leave that background layer off and export
this mask into our project make sure you export as a PNG file so that the bottom
half will remain transparent and we're done let's go back into filmora
and let's import that mask let's bring that down into a track above our main
footage and stretch it all the way out the entire length of this track now if
you see we're exposing the layers underneath but we're masking out the sky
but there's another trick we need to do here we need to bounce this footage
which means send it out at a high resolution can bring it back into our
project if we didn't and we tried to chroma key out this green it would just
expose the sky of the track below we actually want that green mask
incorporated into our footage so we'll take this entire track with the green
sky masked out and export it so we can bring it back in now when you do this in
your settings make sure you go for a very high resolution
and bit ray I'll send this out at 80,000 kbps the audio doesn't matter because
I'm not using any of the audio from this track let's export that and then let's
bring that back into your film or a project I can get rid of these two
tracks there in the project and bring the new footage down let's put that into
the second track and leave a track below it open so that we can do another trick
next as you can see now I have my footage incorporated with the sky masked
out now I have a couple different options of what I can bring down just
some different images that might look cool in the sky I've got some stars
falling I can bring that down and if I put that in a track below my main
footage you don't automatically see the stars showing through but if you
left-click on that main footage in your timeline go up to the chroma key tab
activated by putting a check in the box and making sure that you use the key
tool to grab the exact green you'll see the sky is now replaced by these falling
stars now you can control the edge thickness and dial this in a bit if the
horizon looks a little bit rough or you need a better feather on it but it's
fairly convincing and you can do this with anything you want to put into the
sky such as fireworks in this case the fireworks are a little bit low I'm gonna
lock that main footage click on the firework track down in my timeline and
up above I'm going to left-click in the preview window and raise those up so
they show where I want them to yeah that's a little bit better
pretty cool huh if you want to learn more filmora tips tricks and techniques
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