hey what's up ladies and gentlemen I m Ignace Aleya and today it's another
tip trick Tuesday alright so in today's tip trick Tuesday I will give you three
tips to instantly make your videos look more creative and a little bit more
thinking outside the box so this is ideal for music videos or like these
abstract videos really interesting in fact that we're gonna see right now in
Adobe Premiere Pro so let's jump into it alright so here we are in Adobe Premiere
Pro and what I've done is I found this video on the pixel video website it's a
free stock footage website where I kind of find images or videos whenever I need
them and I will drag my video only into a timeline here so what we have is
essentially an aerial video of an overtop City of course the video quality
isn't the best but I didn't have time to shoot something my own from the
licensing here in Belgium for operating a drone are crazy it's literally crazy
what they're actually expecting from you as a drone operator because you're
essentially playing with a toy and you have to have the same knowledge as an
actual pilot that actually operates a real airplane so that's crazy in my
opinion but yeah therefore I can't use drone anymore so well not as often at
least so yeah we have this video here and what we'll do is just instantly go
to effects and search for the video effect distort and then here we have
mirror so right here if we apply this to our video nothing will happen but what
you can do is play with the refraction and with the reflection Center and your
reflection angle so right here if you don't do anything but you will play
around here with the first value here you actually bring it in here and what
you can do is just divide the initial value to 960 and well if you divided by
two it gets to 960 and then you have a perfect mirrored video and instantly
that creates a much more interesting video to look at it looks pleasing to
the eye and yeah it just looks very attractive in my opinion and definitely
because we're working like with a symmetry kind of way
and it kind of blends in yes smoothly here of course you can also
play with the angle if you want to you can change it to like minus 90 and then
you have this kind of effect which is also pretty cool but as you can see you
can do a lot with just the mirror effect just play around with everything here
maybe to 180 and then you can like move it up or this one is also pretty cool so
180 we have here so let's use this for now and actually it takes the people a
little second to see what's going on oh yes it's a city here but it's kind of a
kind of dreamy version of a city which is pretty cool okay so we have a black
and white video doesn't matter if it's black or white or if it's a core video
but what you could do to make it a little bit more exciting is apply a
color correction effect tint to your video and this basically changes your
video to black and white but if you're going to play with the black and the
white color you can actually create some creative results for example you want to
have red shadows red dark shadows and maybe we want to go for a yellow color
here or maybe for an orange tone and then you get this kind of effect which
is really cool maybe more yellow or you want to go for purple even and then you
get these kind of things which is really cool you can also go and do the blue and
then you get this kind of result which is also really exciting yeah so you can
really play around with everything if you make it darker you'll see the
differences here so I like this right here I'm going to keep it as it is right
here and what you can do now is just play around with this either you apply
some text to it
I'm going to choose the font lado and then maybe go for a heavy font and make
it white make it a little bit smaller and just widen it up a little bit here
now we can jump into the window essential graphics panel if we see it
right here and we can go into edit and just Center my text and there we go so
now we have something like this which looks immediately like I'm going to do a
live set on stage so looks really cool okay so these are two tips to instantly
make your video more exciting but I'm going to show you one more and this one
is actually really cool because you can make it even crazier by just using
shapes to actually show your video and yes I know I'm sweating here it's super
hot in here I have this ventilator recently I bought this because I
couldn't handle work anymore but right now I'm recording for you guys so
unfortunately if I would have this on you would here in endless buzzing which
is not fun for you guys so that's why I'm sweating okay alright so continuing
with the video I'm just going to quickly delete the text here and what I'll do is
go for a shape can also import shapes you can go in Photoshop and make
triangles which are really cool or you can just create a shape here a rectangle
shape and let's create a rectangle and you can also rotate it 45 degrees so we
have a diamond and then reposition it wherever you want maybe in the center
and there we go we have it nicely in the center and we can actually use our
mirror to kind of eyeball the center here so that's also really cool okay so
we have our shape in the center here and what we want to do is just make it as
long as your video so right here we'll start and shift it over so 5 seconds a
little bit over 5 seconds long and now we have the shape but what we want to do
is actually bring this on the top layer so we have our original video volt alt
and drag it up so we have a duplicate of that video and then the shape now click
on the second video and go to effect and go to keying so that should be right
here okay and we're going to use a track mat key and this is something very known
in After Effects but if you're using Premiere Pro only you might not have
here of this effect but if you apply this to
your video you can use that shape as a reference to play your video through so
you can also do this with text for example which I'm going to show you a
little bit later but you can go over here and choose alpha matte because
we're using an alpha but if you would have like an image where the background
is black and the yeah the shape is white you would use aluminum at so in this
case alpha matte works great now we're going for a matte here we want to look
at video three so that's where the shape is so we want to select a video three
and there we go now we have that shape on that position but of course you don't
see it because the background layer is exactly the same thing so what I'll do
is lower the opacity to something like 10 or maybe 25 you would actually still
zero see your video but the outer video would come true and that's just a very
pleasing effect especially for music videos or something like that another
thing that you could do is go and apply a transform here and between these
effects so transform that's under distort transfer where do I see this I
don't see it quite okay here we go distort transform and we're going to
apply that to our video here and we're going to bring it all the way on the top
here before the mirror even and just scale it down here so now we're scaling
down our video to fit in here and as you can see that that way you can get some
more yeah so more details in your shape so yeah there we have it and of course
if you want to delete the shape what you can do is just write something like I
said
which is what you should do by the way if you enjoy watching this video or my
other videos I have plenty of videos which you can go and check out but right
here we have our text and if we're going to Center this we have now our video
playing through the text so that's really cool
in my opinion and of course you can disable the other layer if you want to
you can also play this on top of another video or whatever all you're using is
essentially using using your video and just playing a true the top layer right
here so it can be text it can be shapes it can be whatever so that's basically
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