have you ever wondered how your favorite youtubers and filmmakers make something
that's seemingly boring looks so cool and their cinematic sequences like when it
seems like things like speed up and slow down and whip all over the place well
today I'm gonna teach you exactly how that's done first I think we're gonna
need some music studio Dunna s do you think we could get something I don't
know a little groovy kind of funky
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awesome thanks what is up people my name is Dunna and today we're gonna be
talking about two really popular techniques that are used in filmmaking
you see them a lot on YouTube and a lot on like Instagram stories we're talking
about speed ramping and whip transitions and if you combine those two techniques
you can make pretty much anything seem exciting so I'm not gonna make you wait
anymore let's get into it okay so first things first you have to understand what
a whip transition is one of the coolest things about the whip transition is that
you don't really need any editing skills to make it happen it all happens inside
the camera the idea is that when you point and focus on something and then
you whip the camera away because of how fast you're whipping it a way you're
gonna get motion blur so what you do is you focus on what you want to focus on
and then as you're whipping it away that's where you're gonna make your cut
and then in the very next shot you're gonna make sure you whip in in the same
direction so that in the blur that's where the transition is going to happen
now you don't need to actually add any like effect transitions in Premiere or
in Final Cut you just need to make a cut where it happens and the blur will be
the transition it looks something like this
now there are some people out there
who are really really good at this and you have to kind of plan everything out
because you need to know which way you're whipping out which way you're
whipping in so that when you make those transitions
make those cuts it's gonna all make sense and snip together well so for
example between clip 1 and 2 and gotta make sure at the end of clip 1 you're
whipping left and then on the intro to clip 2 you're gonna have to whip left
again so there's a lot of planning that goes into it but one thing that I notice
that's kind of cool is if you just kind of do a crazy whip all over the place
and not in one direction you can clip all of those together and you don't have
to worry too much about having specific directions and planning it all out so if
you don't know where that specific clip is gonna go in the scheme of things
you're kind of covered because it's just like one big crazy blur now before we
get to the speed ramping cuz most of that actually happens in the computer
we're gonna have to get some shots so like I said before you can take anything
that's just like kind of boring and normal and turn it into something that
seems exciting with the music and with the transitions so what I want to do
today is take my bookshelves at home that just have like some books and some
plants and some decorations and try and make kind of a cool sequence out of
those guys so let's get some shots
now let's start down here I've got this
shelf that has a bunch of like camera gear on it but I need to get the scene a
little bit more lit up to start with so I grabbed my little aperture light and
some gaff tape and I'm going to tape it up underneath and I've got the orange
gel on it to kind of give the scene a little bit more of a warm look just like
that so there's a lot more like light on the scene now so make sure your scene is
looking at how you want it to a couple of things you want to make sure is that
when you're doing this you want your shots to be as smooth as possible when
you're actually in the middle focused on the object itself to make things a
little bit more smooth I'm going to actually shoot in slow motion so I'm
gonna be shooting at 120 frames per second if you're not sure how to do slow
motion properly there's a card up in the top corner go check that out it'll be
really helpful if you already know how to do that I'm shooting in 120p and
also you'll notice I have the strap on which I don't always have but it's gonna
allow me to create some pressure against my neck and that'll keep things a little
bit smoother as well the third thing that I've done to make sure that things
are going to be and smooth is actually switched cameras
so this is my a6500 and I'm filming this with my a6000 to make things
smoother I switched cameras the one that's on the tripod doesn't need to
have stabilization because it's on a tripod so I'm going to get some shots of
these guys to start with and then I'm basically just going to move around the
living room and get some more shots of everything doing it all the same way
so as you can see I look like a complete lunatic and the footage on its own
doesn't look very good but once we put it together I promise it'll look good so
I'm gonna go around the living room and just get a bunch of shots of a bunch of
different things and then we'll cut them all together one thing to note is that I
find I get better results generally if I set my camera in a manual focus I focus
on what I'm gonna do and then start whipping it around and make sure that I
just keep kind of landing back in that same spot and then that way I'm
guaranteed to have my subject in focus when I actually get to the point where I
want it to be in focus
alright I think I have enough shots of everything so let's
head into the computer and I'll show you guys how to do there speed ramping part
okay so the first thing that we need to learn about is how to put together that
whip transition so let's hop in and we'll do that first so first and
foremost as is the case with any sequence that you're gonna build we're
gonna need to pick the clips so I've got three clips here that all go into each
other the second step after you've chosen your clips is to cut them where
the blur happens so where the whip actually happens so we're gonna go
through and do that so you can see with this one I whipped in from the left side
and then I whipped out upwards so we're gonna go right where we
see it starting to blur and hit my right arrow to go frame-by-frame and pick a
nice spot I'm gonna pick right there cut it get rid of that first part I'm gonna go find
the end of it where it whips up use my right arrow to go through and left arrow
to go back until I find right about there I think will be a good spot get
rid of that okay and then the next clip so this one's gonna come in from the
bottom so find a spot here, maybe right where we can start to see it
make a cut and then when it whips out to the left make another cut right about there this one's gonna whip in from the left so we're
gonna find a spot here right as it passes that other plant so you can see how blurry it is while the whip is
happening so we're not gonna be able to notice when the transition happens
because it's all just gonna be such a blur and then finally we land on there
and we can kind of just cut it wherever to end our sequence so it's gonna look
something like this
and so if we want to take that kind of to the next level what
we can do is I've already picked out three little woosh sounds that we can
put in there as well I'll put one of the start one where that second transition
happens and one where the third one happens and we've got this
looks pretty good okay so that's the basic
whip transition no speed ramping used there that's all at full speed not in
slow motion or anything like that so now we're gonna get on to doing the rest of
the clips that are actually shot in slow motion and we're gonna be speeding them
up in certain places and slowing them back down in other places so again step
one is to choose all the clips so I've literally got all of the clips that I'm
using all on a timeline here and what we're gonna do is just go through all of
them like we did in the last part pick spots where we blurred it in
and where we blurred it out just get our clips first so a step one is to
trim up the clip so that it's blurring on the way in blurring on the way out
okay so I've made all my selections I've left myself a lot of space on either
side and the whole whip so before when I was just doing purely the whip
transition I was making the cut where the blur looked the best but in this
case I'm just leaving as much of the whip on the in and the out as possible
because we're gonna be speeding that part up it's not gonna matter that much
what we're looking at the blur is gonna happen regardless so now what we're
gonna do is actually go in and do the speed ramp part so we're gonna take the
first clip and I'll use that as an example so all these are in slow motion
so they were shot on 120 frames per second and we're playing back at 24 so
it'll look something like this and
that's the part that we want so if you right-click on the clip at the very
bottom of the menu it might not be visible in my screen right now but
there's something called show clip keyframes and then we're gonna choose
time remapping and speed and what happened is you'll see on the clip
there's a new line so what we want to do is go to the point where we want the
speed ramping to stop and we're going to command click that's on a Mac and I
assume it's control click on a PC but if we command click it makes a point then
we can drag this line up the part that we want to be sped up we're gonna drag
it up to about a thousand percent and we're gonna zoom back in on this and you
see these two little handles right here we're gonna drag one of them to the
right and it's just gonna make the transition smoother so we're going from
this fast line a thousand percent speed down to its normal hundred cement speed and then
what we can do is we can fine-tune this where we want it by dragging it back and
forth pretty good we've got this crazy whip and then
and then what we want to do is the same thing when we want to start whipping it
out so you can see where I'm starting to move away from in the camera there
that's where I want the whip out to happen so I'm gonna make another point
command click then I'm gonna drag the line up afterwards back to a thousand
percent I'm gonna drag the right one out a couple and then we should have a crazy
whip out so the whole clip looks something like this and then we just
need to apply that to each one we can cut where the whip is depending on how
much of that whip we want in and out so I'm going to go through and do that to
each of these for now
okay so I applied the same concept to each clip there was
one in there where I felt like because it's in slow motion and it's just a shot
of like an adamant object I felt like it was going on for a little bit too
long so the nice thing about slow motion is that if you speed it up a little bit
as long as you were steady enough with your shot it should still be okay so I
sped that up from 100% which is SuperDuper slow motion up to like two
hundred and fifty percent which is still technically still motion but a little
bit less so the transitions are looking pretty good as is but what I want to go
in now and do is just kind of trim them up and this is where if you were editing
them to music you could be trimming so that some of the cuts are happening on
the beats of the music and make it a little bit more intense it's something
that you got to do a lot of practice with and you get better at over time so
we're just gonna trim these up and then we're pretty much good to go
so there it is we can go back in and do some more fine-tuning if we wanted if things
weren't looking quite right or once we get the music under there we can go back
in and adjust so that everything is looking just
perfect but for now I think all the edits are looking good and hopefully
you're understanding the idea of speed ramping so again like we did with just
the regular whip transition you can add some sound-effects under there whooshes
and stuff like that sound really good if you add those in there it'll add a
little bit more to it it'll make you feel like you're really part of it
throw some epic music under there and it should turn out something kind of like this
so that's it that's how you take almost anything inanimate objects like plants
and books and make them look really exciting combining the whip
transition and the speed ramping technique is gonna allow you to get this
fairly easily it's a it's a really simple concept that's really really
effective I hope you learned a lot out of this if you have any questions about
this make sure to let me know in the comments below I'd love to have
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