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Hey guys, my name is Jordy from the YouTube channel Cinecom and this is not a usual episode.
We've actually partnered up with LG UltraWide, and, together with a bunch of other creators,
we are making an educational series called 'LG UltraWide Class'.
Now, we are kicking it off as the first contributor with this tutorial video,
on how to recreate 4 transitions from the Sherlock Holmes series
in Adobe Premiere Pro.
There is a link in the description below to the LG UltraWide YouTube channel,
and if you subscribe to them, you will see the next tutorials coming from other creators
to you very soon.
The series Sherlock Holmes is famous for its amazing visual storytelling,
definitely their transitions are often quite simple yet amazing.
In the first transition we see Sherlock sitting in the car.
The right side fades away and then also the left side.
So, we've recreated that.
Here we have a shot of Lorenzo cracking the next case in his car.
And also a shot through the window which represents his view.
We're going to dive into Adobe Premiere Pro,
where Yannick is going to show you guys how to recreate that transition.
You're gonna start off by placing the shot of the car on the bottom of your timeline.
On the point where you like the transition to start
you add the second shot on top of that clip.
We're going to draw a mask on this clip that goes right next to the chassis of the car.
So, we want to see the layer below.
And that's why I'm going to disable the output of the second layer.
But I keep that clip in there selected.
Then you head over to your Effects Controls and under the opacity click on the Pen tool.
This allows you to draw a mask around the chassis of the car.
Once you're done, you can enable video track #2 again to reveal what you've just created.
Under the Mask Properties you might want to feather it a little bit.
And, if your shot wasn't perfectly still, we'll have to animate the mask
with the movement of the car.
To do that, enable the Mask Path animation.
Now you can move forward in time and adjust your mask where needed.
Finally, go back to the opacity and change its value to 0 in the beginning of the clip,
Then go a little bit forward in time and change it back to 100.
And this already gives you the first half of the transition.
The second half is super simple.
What you want to do is select the upper clip, hold down the Alt key
and drag it to the track above to make a duplication of it.
This also duplicated the effects and everything with it,
so, we're going to remove the mask from it and reset the opacity back to a fixed 100.
Then just trim the clip a little bit and add a Cross-dissolve transition
to the beginning of the clip and that's it.
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Many of the transitions in Sherlock Holmes are created using masks,
so, a lot of the stuff that we've just seen will come back.
The next one is where Sherlock bends over to a car window.
He goes from an interior shot to an outside shot,
And this is created by first filming your actor bending over in the first scene.
And you can already place this shot on the first track in your timeline.
Then have a second shot of the same movement
with an actual car in the foreground.
Place this in the track above.
What you want to do now is match the position of the two clips.
The easiest way to do this is by decreasing the opacity of the clip on top.
You can now see through it, which will help you to reposition
and scale it using the Motion properties.
You can also nudge the clip forward or backwards by holding down the Alt key on your keyboard
and then just using the left or right arrows.
Try to really match the two clips so that it seems like one fluent movement.
Once that is done, set the opacity back to 100
and take the Pen tool again to draw a mask around the hood of the car.
Enable Animation and move your mask over time.
If everything went well the transition should already work,
but we're going to fine-tune it a little bit more.
And, since there are two different scenes,
you can give two different color gradings to it as well using Lumetri.
But I'm actually going to start with the first one
and copy its Lumetri effect to the second clip.
They will now have the same color tone,
which is good for when the hood of the car starts to reveal itself.
From the Lumetri effect on the second clip,
I'm going to enable the Animation for all the properties that I want to change.
If you're not sure which one, you can enable all of them.
Then move a little bit further in time and change the Lumetri settings
to the color grading that you would like to see in your second scene.
And now the transition is much more fluent and natural.
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Next up is the Pass by transition.
You take a panning or a sliding shot of your subject
with some kind of a foreground to have a better sense of the movement.
I'm going to actually shoot this against a dark background.
So, in my second shot I'm making sure there's also a dark foreground object.
Here I just had a black jacket laying over the red fridge.
Make sure that both of the movements are somehow at the same speed.
In Premiere Pro you place the first shot on the second track
and the second shot on the first track, like this.
We'll then draw a rough mask on the upper clip in the dark area.
Make sure to feather the mask a bunch as well.
Then, like before, animate the mask path to reveal the clip below.
And once that is done, you might wanna nudge the clips a little bit
to get them into the right spot.
And as a final touch, you could also use Lumetri to have the dark areas match
in deepness and color tone.
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And that brings us to the last transition, which is for once not a mask.
We have one shot of an open door,
but I also pay attention to the left side of the shot,
and make sure that there is a straight vertical line.
Then we take another shot of a door opening,
and it's important now that the side of the door matches with the position of the window
from your first shot.
In Premiere Pro the first clip goes on top and below that, the second shot.
Like before, I decrease the opacity of the layer on top
So that it can match the scale and position with the one below.
Reset your opacity back, and what I'm gonna do now
is duplicate the top clip.
On that duplication I will add the Crop effect.
With the effect selected
you can now visually move the right side to where you want the door to open.
Then you copy the value of the right property, add the Crop effect to the second layer
which is the same clip, and then paste the value in the left side's attribute.
Now select your upper layer again and animate the right property
to follow the door as it opens up.
And just like we've seen previously,
you can duplicate the bottom layer to the top,
trim it and add a cross dissolve to let it fade completely into the next shot.
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And those were the 4 iconic transitions from the Sherlock Holmes series.
As part of the LG UltraWide class,
I'm going to leave you with a short life experience as a YouTube creator.
I used to focus a lot on the numbers
and the keywords that I should use to grow my audience.
But I've stopped doing that, as it was not only exhausting me,
but also it didn't have much effect.
So when I gave up on that, I started to focus solely on the creative process.
I would only create things that I would love to work on,
videos or topics that come straight out of my heart.
And even without realizing it our channel was blowing up.
And I believe that goes for anything that you as a creative person create.
In the first place, always do it from the heart,
and focus on the production of your film project rather than on the outcome.
So, thank you so much for watching, thank you LG...
...for letting me be part of this educational series
and I look very much forward to what follows next,
and if you do too then make sure to check out their channel as well.
And as always, remember:
stay creative!
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