Man, that sun is hot!
Ow!!
*sizzling*
*muffled screams*
*panting*
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Let me show you what i did here
I actually filmed the scene using my iPhone of me
just sitting on my deck on a hot summer day. The sun wasn't even
in the shot but i pretended like it was just up over my shoulder in the corner
knowing what i'd be able to do with Videoleap in the edit
i poked up in the corner acting like i burnt my hand on the sun and i even
pretended to pull that sun out of the sky
once i'd filmed that footage i opened up the video leap app
clicked on the plus sign and easily found my footage to add
right into my project video leap puts that footage
right in the main track and that's where the fun begins
in the main menu options directly below you'll find the
effects feature clicking on that opens up a new tier of options and the very
first one is lens flare a simple tap on the lens
flare icon adds a lens flare right into the project wherever the
playhead is located but you also have the option of holding your finger on
that layer to either move it around in your project or you can drag it down
to the trash can to delete it let's move this over to the beginning of
the project now you'll notice these red circles in the preview window letting me
know my lens flare track is active and that i can do
even more with it by touching anywhere in the screen
i can slide my finger and move that lens flare wherever i want it to be
i can also put two fingers on my screen and pinch
outward to stretch the size of that lens flare
once i get it to the size i like i can slide it up into the corner where i had
pretended the sun was when i filmed the first part of this
effect that i want to tackle is pulling that sun from the sky so i
scrolled over to where i reached up into the corner and found the spot
right where it looked like i was touching the sun and beginning to pull
it down towards me once i had that spot located
with my playhead in position i went down to the lower right just
below my main footage and tapped on the diamond shaped icon
this is actually video leap's keyframing feature
if you don't know what keyframes are they're like little markers which tell
the software to remember the information about whatever track or
feature you're using at the point where you add that keyframe
so right here i just told video leap hey remember that the sun should be up
in the corner at this point the next thing i did was to scroll
forward to where i had moved my hand in front of my face
pretending to have that sun between my fingertips
i left the playhead right at this point and added another keyframe but i didn't
leave the sun up in the corner i just touched my
finger to the screen and dragged my lens flare sun down to where
it looked like i was holding it between my fingers i
also pinched two fingers together on the screen to
shrink the size of the sun as i pulled it down towards my mouth
now here's where the true power of these keyframes really becomes evident
by scrubbing through the timeline you can see
video leap automatically fills in all of the information between these two
keyframes moving the sun down into position of the
next keyframe and shrinking it along the way to the
size i had made it once it was in front of my face now you
probably noticed along that path that the sun didn't always look like it was
in between my fingers so the way to deal with that is by
adding a few more keyframes along the way
i found a spot somewhere in the middle use two fingers on my timeline
to stretch it out and give myself more space to work with
and then i just tapped on the diamond to add another keyframe
while that keyframe is still red letting me know it's active
i just drag the sun over between my fingertips
now it looked much better but i still had the ability to slowly scrub through
and locate any spots where it looked like the path of the sun wasn't
quite following the path of my hand here i could simply add another keyframe
and adjust it once the motion of pulling the sun down
to my face was pretty smooth i had to make it look like i was
actually putting it in my mouth and swallowing it this is a very similar
technique using the keyframes but as i pretended
to put the sun into my mouth i not only added the path
of motion to my lens flare sun but i pinched my fingers together
with each keyframe to make it look like the sun was getting
smaller and dimmer as i tossed it into my mouth
once i got to the spot where i had closed my mouth completely
i just tapped on the split tool to slice my lens flare track
right at that point grab the extra lens flare footage by tapping on the purple
bubble to activate that section and then i just held my finger on that
segment and dragged it down into the trash can to delete it
nice and easy once the extra footage was gone i just tapped on the purple bubble
above the lens flare section that i was keeping
and i added another keyframe to get that sun looking like it was going
right into my mouth i used two fingers to pinch and stretch the track out so i
could do one more thing in my head i figured as the sun went
into my mouth it probably needed to look like it was being snuffed out
so with the playhead in place i tapped on the animation option which gives me
other options to add an effect to the beginning
the end or the beginning and the end at the same time so i chose to add
animation just to the end tapping that gives me my
animation options and i chose fade out now i'm scrolled in very
closely but you can see an animation has been added to the end of my lens flare
you can also see there is a fader that's now
present below the main footage this controls how long or short you want that
fade to be as i dial that back you can see the fade
at the end get shorter now as i scrub through the
project you can see the sun actually fade out as it goes into my mouth a
couple of last minute adjustments to the end and i've got it looking pretty good
the next major effect that i needed to create was me
spitting the sun back into the sky after it burned up the inside of my mouth
so i found the spot where it looked like i was just starting to spit something
out scrolled over to the effects option
again and added another lens flare i repeated the exact same
steps i had done earlier only in reverse this time i pinched my
two fingers together on screen to shrink that sun down
and moved it right over to my lips i also added a keyframe right here to let
video leap know that i wanted it to remember the size
and location of that lens flare sun at this point in the timeline
then i scrolled forward to the spot where i thought the sun should be
right back where it started in the corner and i just added another keyframe
then it was just a matter of keeping that keyframe activated
stretching the sun back out and moving it back up into the corner
this was a lot easier than the first step because i didn't have to follow my
hand at all i just spit that ball of flame right
back up into the sky now while i was busy completely over
acting sorry hollywood i thought about how i could use even
more of video leaps features to really take this effect to the next
level my first thought was that if i had actually put the sun
in my mouth the world would have gotten quite a bit darker with no sun up in the
sky so i scrolled back to the point right
where my mouth closed around my lens flare sun
and i hit the back arrow in the lower left to back out of the lens flare track
options whenever you need to get back to the
main menu use that left arrow to back out of the options that you may be in
i then scrolled over to the filters tab and added a filter
right at that spot clicking on the presets options gives you
access to a bunch of filters which allow you to completely
change the look of your footage the fx1 filter gave me that dark dreary
lack of sun look that i was going for next i just added a fade in by clicking
on the animation option and chose the in option and then
selecting fade in now i only need this filter to
last as long as the sun is in my mouth and i showed you how to splice that
footage earlier but another option is to pinch
and shrink your project view find the end of your track or effect
press and hold your finger on the end of it and drag it back
to shorten it one really cool feature is video leap actually
vibrates when you've reached the start point or endpoint of another track
letting you know you're in perfect alignment i actually wanted this to
start a little past the point of where i spit out the sun
so that i could add another fade out as if the world
slowly got brighter as the sun shot back into position
to do this i click the animation option selecting
out for my fade out and then choosing fade
out got me exactly what i wanted a quick dialing back of the fade length with the
fader underneath to get the timing right and now it's really beginning to look
like i brought sunshine back to the planet
there was another part of this effect that i needed to address next and that
was where i had pretended to reach up to touch the sun and i burnt my
finger so i scrolled back in my main track
found that spot where it looked like my hand had
made connection and i used the track options menu below
to find the split tool and slice that footage right there
next i found the spot where it looked like i was jerking my hand back away in
pain and dropped another slice using the
split tool right at that point while i had that very short couple of
frames that i had separated out still selected
up in the preview window i pinched my two fingers on the screen
and spread them outwards to zoom my footage in
ever so slightly i repositioned myself just a touch so that my body position
made sense and now when i touch the sun the footage
actually looks like it jumps out at you for just a couple of
frames the next thing i did was to use the main menu below to find another
effect right at that spot but this time i chose
the glitch feature and selected the etch option this effect
reminded me of how a television looks when the signal gets fuzzy or scrambled
and i thought the idea of a mini solar flare from me touching the sun
made a lot of sense here the density option put a fader on screen which
basically allowed me to pull back the intensity of this glitch effect
i like this look so much that i even added the same effect to the area where
i reached up and pulled the sun out of the sky
next i just needed to add some audio effects to bring this whole thing home
in the audio tab of the main menu video leap now gives you options to access
music sound effects and loops from both the video leap library
as well as my favorite asset house story blocks
using the search bar option i was able to find a sound that i wanted
listen to it quickly to see if it would work and then a one-click download put
that audio effect right into my project where the playhead
was located adding a music bed to this project was
just as easy with a lot of amazing tracks and artists to choose from
once i had my audio tracks in place the volumes where i liked them and
everything tweaked where it looked pretty convincing i just clicked on the
export button in the upper right shows the resolution which i should
mention goes all the way up to 4k and the frame rate of my final export
and clicked save video leap not only saves your
final export to your phone in the gallery but it saved every step of my
project along the way as i made each individual
change right up in the projects tab so i can
easily come back and work on it some more or create an entirely new project
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