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Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Copy Cat Friday.
The series where we copy an exiting effect from a popular film or music video
and show you guys how it was done.
But today is a little different,
we're taking a look at Youtuber Zach King.
Who actually built his audience through Vine,
a social platform which has unfortunately shut down a couple of years back.
Here you would share small video clips with the world.
For most it was just recording and publishing,
but Zach King usually spent hours creating mind blowing tricks.
And in one of his more popular Vines he cracked open an egg
and a little chick dropped out of it.
Now, we didn't had a little chick, so we tried everything possible
to catch a big chicken.
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You wanna place your camera on a tripod. This is very important.
First we filmed the chicken drop on the table from a little height.
We're using a green screen in the back and that is going to help with two things later on.
It's important that the chicken sits completely within that green screen.
Like you might have seen in our previous video
where we travelled a camera through a mirror,
you could also print out several papers with a green color
and use that as the green screen.
Once you've got that shot, don't touch your camera,
let it film and just prepare for the second shot.
That way we're sure that the two shots we're making, are exactly the same.
In this second shot you wanna crack open the egg.
Make sure that you're holding your hands above the same position somehow,
as where the chicken fell.
And that's all you need to do.
Now, let’s bring all of our shots into Premiere Pro.
Let’s start with the shot of the chicken.
Set an in point just where it's falling and drag that piece to your sequence.
Under Opacity I select the Pen tool to create a mask around the chicken.
In the first frame when the chicken is falling,
I only mask its legs.
Then enable keyframing for the mask property
and move one frame forward.
Adjust your mask to that it's showing more of the chicken,
move one frame forward again and expand the mask.
Now the chicken reveals itself rather than suddenly popping into existence.
Now let's remove the green.
From the Effects library I locate the Ultra Key effect
and drag that to the chicken clip.
With the color picker I can select the green and use the controls below
to fine-tune the keying.
When that is done I select the first shot where Yannick is cracking the egg open
and move that below the chicken clip.
If everything went well, you should already see that the two clips are blending together.
If you would still see your mask, perhaps increase its feather
to remove the edge.
Then align the two clips so that the chicken will apear just as the egg is falling.
I'm decreasing the scale and re-aligning the clip.
If you would use a little chick, you can skip this step,
but a grown up chicken is a little too big for the egg.
And that's why I created a keyframe for the position and the scale.
move a couple of frames forward and reset those values,
which will create its default keyframes.
Now we have an animation where the chicken fastly grows.
As a final touch, I would like to match the color of the chicken
more with the inside of the egg.
Using Lumetri I'm adding yellow to the chicken
by moving the temperature slider to the right and the tint to the green side a little bit.
You might need to change the exposure and saturation also.
You can use any control in here to match the colors.
Then, form your Effects Controls open up the Lumetri effect
and create a keyframe for every property that you've changed.
Make sure that you're in the beginning of the clip,
then move a couple of frames forward
and reset those values to create a default keyframe again.
And that's it! Another great effect that we can add to our portfolio website.
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Thank you all so much for watching,
and stay creative!