Hey guys, what’s up.
My name is Serge, and in today’s video,
we’ll learn how to do the floating head dance effect,
inspired by some recent TikTok videos.
Let’s jump right into Final Cut Pro and get started.
Skim your clip, and place your playhead
on the frame you want to use for a floating head.
Press M on your keyboard to add a marker here.
Without moving your playhead,
add a freeze frame here by using the keyboard shortcut Option F.
Select your freeze frame clip,
and drag it up one layer in your timeline.
When you do this,
you actually remove that frame for your bottom layer,
so we need to add it back.
Select the start point of your second clip,
and ripple trim it out one frame
by using the comma key on your keyboard.
What we need to do next
is isolate just the head on our subject.
Select the freeze frame clip,
open the effects browser,
and from the Masks category, add a draw mask to this clip.
In this example, my subject has dark hair,
against a white background,
so I’ll use a combinations of the draw mask
and a luma keyer to better isolate the hair,
but you might be able to get away with just using a mask.
I’ll zoom in on my viewer window,
change the shape type to B-Spline for nice rounded corners,
and add control points to outline my subjects head.
When I get to my subjects hair,
I’ll just add control points around the outside
and make sure all the hair is inside the mask.
Click the first control point to close the mask.
Hold down the option key,
and drag up on your freeze frame clip to make a copy of it.
Make sure it lines up directly above the original clip.
Select this top clip, and press V to disable it for now.
Select the bottom clip again,
go back to the effects browser,
and from the Keying category, add the Luma Keyer.
Switch to Matte view, and adjust the luma sliders,
until the subjects hair is mostly white,
and the rest of the frame is completely black.
Switch back to Composite view, re-enable your top clip,
and to make things a bit easier to see,
disable the bottom video layer.
Adjust the control points go your top layer,
and move them into your subjects hair
to remove the light background.
You may have to adjust the luma sliders
of your middle layer to better isolate it.
Once you’re done, re-enable your video layer,
and combine the top two freeze frame layers into a compound clip,
with the keyboard shortcut Option G.
Move and ripple trim your compound clip,
until the end of it lines up with the marker you made at the start.
Make sure the compound clip layer is selected,
and with your playhead on the marker,
in the video inspector,
add keyframes to all your transform parameters.
Move the playhead back about one or two seconds,
click the Transform button,
and use either the the onscreen controls,
or the transform controls in the video inspector
to move the freeze frame clip off screen.
Let this clip render out, and here’s what we have so far.
Move your playhead to the next frame you want to use,
and repeat the previous steps.
So add a marker,
make a freeze frame clip,
and layer it above the video clip.
Replace the frame you just took out.
Add a draw mask, and outline your subjects head.
Make a copy of your freeze frame clip, disable it,
and add Luma Keyer to your bottom freeze frame.
Re-enable your top clip, and adjust the mask.
Make a compound clip, and animate it with keyframes.
Do this as many times as you need
for a cool floating head effect like this.
I do realize this takes quite a bit of time,
but as you just seen,
the finished product is well worth it.
If you enjoyed this video,
or would like to learn other effect seen on TikTok, or anywhere else,
let me know in the comments below.
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you back here next week.