Welcome to Copy Cat Friday, guys!
My name is Jordy for cinecom.net...
...and this is a series where we recreate a popular film technique.
Today, however, I totally forgot about Copy Cat, so...
...I'm sorry guys, but no episode today.
[Car horn sound]
-Oh, look! It's Yannick over there!
-Hi Yannick! -How can you forget Copy Cat?!
-You fool!
-What did you just say about me?
-You know what?
Look at this!
It's Yannick!
Take this, Yannick!
-Damn you, Jordy!
-Look at him!
[Cinecom Intro music]
So, I guess I accidentally did create a new Copy Cat Episode.
This was actually inspired by Zach King.
He used to perform this trick to get into a taxi.
I rather do it to tease other people by turning their car.
You know? It's really fun on a highway, you guys should definitely try it there.
[Highway traffic sound]
-No, jordy! Don't do it!
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So here's how we did the car trick.
First of all, you wanna film everything from one fixed point...
...with your camera on a tripod.
While your camera is rolling, you need to film three different shots.
The first one is a complete empty shot.
The next one is the driving car...
...and you might also wanna film when the car is being dropped back down.
And finally is yourself picking up that car.
And for this you'll need a matching toy car.
Important is that your distance towards the camera...
...is at the correct distance so that your toy car seems to have the same shape.
Now there're two ways of doing this trick.
The first one is where you wanna grab the car,
but stop your movement just on the point where you wanna pick it up.
Someone else puts a toy car in your hand and you play your act further.
We've explained this technique in-depth in another Zach King tutorial...
...where we show you guys how to copy money.
The other technique is where you hold the toy car in your hand,
but kinda cover it up, like a magician.
Just as you wanna pick up the car, you reveal it in your hand.
This comes with a little more work in post-production...
...but we'll show you guys how it's done.
With every car comes a driver, so that's why...
...I'm aso cutting out Yannick right here...
...from this miniature picture...
...so that he can fit in that car.
[Yannick screaming]
Now let’s bring our shots into Adobe Premiere Pro.
Place your empty shot on video track 1,
the shot of yourself picking up the car goes to track 2...
...and the shot of the riding car on video channel number 3.
First of all, you'll need to mask out the driving car.
With the clip in your upper track selected, head over to the effects controls...
...and under Opacity click on the Pen tool.
This allows you to draw a mask around the car.
In the beginning this can be just a very rough mask.
From the Mask Path property,
we'll enable the animation and adjust the mask over time...
...so that it follows the car.
Then find the point where your hand is just about to grab the car.
You probably need to nudge the car shot to match it with your hand.
And what might help is to decrease the opacity of that layer...
...to reveal your hand underneath.
And this way you can perfectly match its position.
At this point, you wanna add a cut into the clip of the car.
And delete all the rest after that cut.
Because first up, we'll need to make sure that our hands come in front of that car.
So what I'll do next is duplicate the clip of myself...
...to the upper track.
With this duplication selected I head over to the Opacity property...
...to grab the Pen tool and draw a mask around my hand.
This time you have to be more precise...
...and you do wanna cut off the toy car as well.
You'll notice that the mask doesn't do much,
which is because of the same video layer on track 2.
So what we'll need to do here is make the mask from the car bigger...
...so that it covers up my hand from the layer on the bottom.
You can draw this very rough and even outside of the shot.
Just make sure it doesn't cover up your shoulder or any other body part.
We're almost there, guys. On the end of your animation,
you wanna add a cut into the shots of yourself.
We'll delete everything on the right,
resulting back into the original shot that we had before.
-It's Thursday evening, guys, and that means tomorrow is Friday.
That means we have to shoot and edit the Copy Cat Friday episode...
...plus "plublish" it as well in the evening...
"plublish"...
Publish it in the evening,
And I'm opening up this red paint bucket right here because...
...yesterday I ordered a red miniature car,
but this right here is what was sent to me.
It's not red, so...
...we have to start working!
And this is all about the details.
There we go!
And this is how you transform a non-red car into a red car.
Without Premiere Pro magic.
Dropping the car back on the street is a little bit more simple.
It actually works the same way as popping a chicken out of an egg,
like we've also done before.
So I'm going to go fast over this.
Like before, you wanna have your empty shot on the bottom,
the car shot on top of that and then yourself on track number 3.
Draw a mask in the shot of yourself around the area where the car is going to be.
And animate the mask from the car.
This should already reveal the car underneath.
Then cut out the car from its shot with a mask again.
And this one does have to be more precise.
As the toy car fades away into your mask,
you wanna reveal the real car.
So, a little before you wanna enable the animation for the scale...
...and position of the car shot.
Reposition and scale the real car...
...to align it just underneath the drop of the miniature car.
Then go a little bit further in time and reset those values to create default keyframes.
Finally you wanna add some motion blur to the real car...
...to make the drop seem more natural.
Since we have created a mask, we cannot do this with the Transform effect,
unless you nest the clip.
So, what I'll do in this example is add the Directional Blur effect to the clip.
Change its properties so that it matches with the movement...
...and animate the blur length...
...to let it fade out when the car hits the ground.
And this should already give you a proper result.
But if you like, you can also add a little bump into it when the car drops.
For this you wanna duplicate the car and adjust your mask...
...so that it sits only around the chassis.
As for the original car clip, we'll adjust the mask in there as well,
to take a bit more off the roof.
Else that roof will be visible when doing your bump.
Now when the car drops, the chassis of the car moves a little bit further.
You can also animate that through the Position.
After a couple of frames, bring it back to normal position.
And this way you'll have a little bump when it falls down.
After this, make a cut when the car starts moving,
and remove the mask from the right part of the car clip.
Otherwise, it'll move outside of the mask.
When this is done, you'll probably notice that you're missing a shadow.
So I move everything up...
...and duplicate the car shot on the second layer.
Remove the mask and make it start when the car hits the ground.
Even when I was writing the text for this tutorial video,
I had some trouble wrapping my head around these masks and layers.
But that's just how compositing works.
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-There's a car!
Yannick over there! Hi Yannick!
Damn it!