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- What's up everybody?
Peter McKinnon here and welcome back to
yet another Two Minute Tuesday.
So good to have you here
and see all of your smiling faces.
Today is an interesting day, folks.
Today we are talking about how you can
make transitions in camera,
completely bypassing post-production,
not needing to use PreMirror, Final Cut,
whatever you edit in, you don't need it.
You can do transitions with your camera
while you're shooting
so that when you start editing your final piece,
be it that it's a vlog or a video or a short film,
you can integrate these little gems.
I've been using them for a long time,
not everybody picks up on it, some people do,
I just blew Jesse's mind when I showed him last night.
He was like, "I didn't even know you were doing that.
That is super cool."
You guys are gonna love it.
So, let's throw two minutes on the clock.
I'll do my best to stick to it but ha, no promises.
Alright, so let me explain what this is exactly.
You guys know transitions as something
to tie two clips together.
That might be a crossfade,
whatever kind of effect
you can use in Final Cut or PreMirror.
I've talked to guys how to do different versions of that
like an actual masking clip
where something goes by the frame
and it reveals the frame underneath it.
You guys have seen the, (blows air)
the spin transition,
sound effects included.
I've talked to you guys how to
punch into something that's dark
and then coming out of another dark area
to kind of make a seamless clip
when it's multiple shots and you've just transitioned them.
What I'm gonna teach you today
is how to make those transitions in your camera physically.
You're gonna be holding the camera,
hang on.
Okay, now this will make it easier.
So you take your camera and you're physically
gonna be making those transitions,
up and down, left and right, horizontal, vertical,
really, really fast to create natural motion blurs.
Now you don't have to limit this
to just going back and forth, up and down,
I get crazy with it.
I straight up shake my camera around
and it looks absolutely insane.
It would not be usable footage
but when you take that clip, the right part of that clip,
and when you tie that between two normal clips
that are moving fast, whatever, to fast-paced music,
it feels like a seamless, completely animated transition.
So if you have a car moving really fast
and let's say you whip pan out of it,
and then you wanna whip pan into the next scene,
but you tie those together with
this crazy clip that you just made,
it looks awesome!
Here's a few examples of me doing that
in that little short film that I made about Kenya,
let me see if you can catch them.
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Alright, so as you can see,
I used it quite a bit there
coming into the clothes, on the clothesline,
I used it in the marketplace,
I used it right before the bird flies away off that tree,
and it's very seamless, it's very subtle,
but it feels really organic and natural.
So, we're gonna head downstairs,
we're gonna shoot a super basic B-roll sequence.
Now, we're in the middle of nowhere,
there's no fancy footage to be had.
We're literally gonna go walk on the street,
just shoot people getting into cars,
walking by cars, me walking around the roads,
some flags, some smoke coming out of a chimney,
very basic B-roll stuff.
I'm gonna show you what that looks like normally
and then I'm gonna show you what it looks like
with these crazy, kind of, self-made, in camera transitions.
So here is some B-roll without it.
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Yeah, so, not bad, right?
Looks good, typical vlog sequence,
but here's that same B-roll segment
with these transitions now that we made in camera.
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It just looks so much better!
It's so easy to do.
When you're shooting,
get crazy with it,
back and forth, up and down,
crazy little cuts,
bring it into post,
find the right in and out,
thread them together,
then you have beautifully organic, natural transitions
that you can't just download.
You can't buy these,
you can't apply them through your editing software,
they're made by you, and it's unique,
and it's a really, really fun way
to kind of spice up your edits.
I guarantee you you guys are gonna love this,
I use it all the time.
Look how pumped I am!
I'm super pumped on this.
I'm pretty sure I blew the two minute timer on that,
I'm sorry, I'm not sorry.
It's kind of our thing, isn't it?
Doesn't matter, hit that like button if you like this video,
smash it if that's, you know, something that you're into.
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and!
I'm gonna show you this little janky setup we got here.
Hang on.
Alright, check this out.
So we got the 1D on the Gorilla Pod
on top of the garbage can
on top of the nightstand
with the ice bucket sandwiching the road mic
so it's kind of boomed,
cause if it was up here, it would just be too far away,
so we boomed it down.
A pack of filters and the charger for the 1D X
sandwiching it together.
We got the headphones,
this is kinda what it looks like from behind the scenes,
and then over here,
we've got, obviously, we've got the lamp on,
a little bit of ambient light,
hidden down here we got that little M9 aperture light
which is just an absolute lifesaver
cause for these specific reasons
is why I keep it in my camera bag.
We moved this light over
so that it kind of just casts
a little tungsten onto the wall,
obviously moved this dresser out,
and then, oh yeah, all of our stuff's on the bed,
didn't want that in the shot.
But that is essentially our little makeshift hotel studio.
And yeah, I think it worked out pretty well.
So, that was my view.
Oh, also.
Thanks for your help. (laughs)
- Oh, dude, anytime.
Every Tuesday.
- It's not every Tuesday, that's not true.
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