With The Rise of Skywalker coming out, I wanted to finally make a video tutorial
using Filmora to show you how you can use the powers of the Force
Today I'm gonna show you how to crush a can
I should have shown you how to shave!
So the first thing I did was I actually set up my shot I can't stress this enough
the most important thing is understanding what it is you think your
shot needs to look like and then arranging it beforehand so that you're
not just filming a bunch of stuff and hoping it comes together so I set up
this very low angle shot across a table with the camera focused in on this
aluminum can so there's the can and the camera is focused on the can I'll just
scrub through quickly you can see I took position here and I made sure I stayed
to one side I knew that I was gonna split this film somewhere between myself
and the can and the first thing I did is I took a couple of passes thinking what
might it look like if I was gonna reach out use the force and crush the can and
you can see a couple different ways here that I tried doing it
closing my fist hauling it vertically horizontally and I just did it at
different speeds to because I didn't know which one would make the most sense
so that's the first part with me reaching out acting like I'm using the
force and the can is just there front and center with the camera focused on it
I then went around to the side and came back to that can I reached over and I
crushed the can a little bit and I tried as hard as I could not to move that can
I really wanted to stay in the same position but not only that I made sure I
pulled my body back enough that me being anywhere near the shot didn't affect the
lighting didn't affect the reflections in the can because you would see it as
this thing crushed down I then reached in and I gave it another slight crush
and I did the exact same thing I just walked away a little bit and I let that
exposure and ISO settings close in but what I had set for me in the background
and I did this in stages I just kept reaching in and grabbing the
can and trying not to wrinkle the tablecloth and then get everything to
sit perfectly and I did probably five or six different crushes where I reached in
crushed the can and then moved away and that was my final shot with the can
completely crushed down now once I had that put together I went back
I picked the forced movement that I wanted to use I'll split that here I'll
get rid of the beginning now I'm gonna take that intro section and I'm gonna
slide it up into another track now let me go over to where I did the can
crushing motion I want to first find a point where the can is just sitting by
itself and I'm gonna split my footage right there now I want to stretch my
footage out so that I can really see this frame by frame because I'm gonna
steal a few frames from here let's left-click and hold and stretch this
footage out dragging the timeline out so that we can really get this down to
frame by frame and I just want one frame of this can sitting there so I'll move
one frame ahead I'm gonna slice that footage again and that's the piece that
I want to keep I can actually lose the piece before it I'll delete that and
then I'm gonna move forward and find the next "Crush" position... this is kind of like
a stop-motion animation where you're making a slight adjustment in what's in
front of you taking one still frame and then moving ahead changing it slightly
and then taking basically another photograph but because I was actually
filming the video I'm finding those sections in those individual frames that
will make it feel like a stop-motion animation alright I make the next brush
I move away I let the camera adjust and I'm gonna split it again right here let
me stretch this out I just want to steal one frame I'll move one frame forward
I'll slice that again and now I can delete the section in between I'm gonna
put the auto ripple on and it'll remove the space when I delete this section now
let's move forward to where we have the next crush section here's another
question I made the camera lighting has adjusted I'm gonna stretch that footage
out all the way so that I can see individual frames move one frame forward
and I'm gonna slice that again and now I'm gonna lose that middle piece in
between and let's move forward to the next can crush section
let's slice that footage I'm gonna take one frame slice again delete the piece
in between cuz we don't need that anymore let me find the next and what I
think is the final can crush let me slice that let me stretch this footage
out let me move one frame forward add one more slice and lose that footage in
between now if you see what I've got here is these individual frames that you
will see will make it look like let me scroll through this it you can see this
can crushing down it's not perfect and we're gonna make some adjustments to
that but you can see that can crush down now here's how we put these together and
I'm going to show you this a little differently than I have in the past
sometimes we've used masking features to apply a mask over one section and split
the footage but I'm gonna show you another way to do it as well so here's
what we have the footage on top is me doing the motion and the footage below
of those frames of the can being crushed I'm gonna select all of these in the
bottom and move them over I'll turn off the auto ripple and I'll left-click and
hold it slide all these over what I'm gonna try to do is line up these
segments so that when I close my hand the can begins to crush let me find it
in here it's right about there now what I can do is I can actually add a marker
so I know where I'm bringing these pieces to and to do that just up under
the preview window you see this little marker sign if I click on that it'll put
a marker right in this timeline I don't need to use any of the labeling for
right now I'm just using as a reference point of where to bring this footage to
and I'm gonna try to bring these so they all start right over about the beginning
of that marker now you can't see the can crushing because I have the full frame
of me doing my force maneuver on top but let's fix that and we'll do this without
a mask watch let's left-click on the footage let's choose crop and zoom and
in the crop window what I want you to do is click on the ratio and choose custom
now we're not going to change the height but we're gonna change the width of this
piece let's grab the right side of this because that's how I set this up I'm on
the left I'm gonna grab the right side left click
and hold and drag this over just to the other side of that can and I'm going to
click OK now if you notice it's now Reese entered me back into the frame
that's not where I want to be so I'm going to left click up in the preview
window and I'm gonna slide this over so that it lines up with the left so now
you'll see it's that original footage of me making the forced motion with nothing
on the right but where this cam footage comes in you can see it crushing down
now one of the problems we have right here is on this section before the can
crushes it's black so the way we're gonna solve that is I'm gonna turn off
the main footage I'm gonna come over to justice can shot the full can shot that
I have right there and I'm going to take a snapshot of that particular segment
and I can do that by just clicking on the camera icon underneath the preview
window I can left-click on that bring it down into my timeline into the bottom
section and I'm gonna put that starting from the beginning and stretch it out
all the way to the point where it meets the can crashing so now when I turn the
other footage back on it'll look like I'm sitting there with that can but this
is actually half of the shot which is just a still image of the can on the
right and as I move my hand and crush it you'll see the can crushes down now
there's a few things I did in here that I want you to be aware of if you look at
it I can actually see some of the lighting is different in the frames and
that's important that you want to make sure that you can't see these two being
separate images you want them to blend together this one here I can see the
line can you see how it's separated so there's a few things that we can do here
we can click on that frame we can go up in the upper left and choose color and
we can adjust that frame a little bit it seems a little brighter
let's back the brightness off just a touch maybe around 9 is 7 or so is a
little bit closer so you don't see that line as much and in this final section
bringing up the contrast seemed to help on the last one let's try a similar
thing I'm looking at the background now maybe around 13 maybe some of the
brightness can be played with to get it to blend a little bit better now you can
tweak these a bit and get them per in my final version I actually removed a
couple of frames to get it even shorter but you can see right here what happens
the can is just sort of sitting here and when I crushed my hand that stop-motion
animation happens and it seems like I just crushed that can now I use things
like layered audio effects in dramatic music to really help sell this effect
and I'm gonna cover that in another video
but go ahead and try this yourself and let me know how it works out and don't
forget to click on this video over here to learn more film or tips tricks and techniques.
Peace!