Hey what's up you guys and welcome back to Gal today we're going to be breaking
down five cool music video effects for you using Premiere Pro and if you guys
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you're notified when I publish new tutorials each week for the first music
video effect I'm covering how to create an animated letter box as seen in the
music video Old Town Road by lil nas X now I love this effect and it's pretty
simple to do so let's go ahead and jump in what we want to do is create a color
map first to create the letterbox so go down to new item then go to color mat
and it will automatically choose the width and the height of your current
sequence that you're working in so hit OK and then you can choose the color in
our case we're going to choose black that's typically the standard color for
a letterbox and then hit OK and then we can name this letterbox then hit OK now
we're going to drag and drop the letterbox
on top of the video here in the timeline now we want to go to the time in the
playhead where we want this black box the letterbox to completely disappear so
we're out the three-second marker that's a good amount of time for the animation
but first what we need to do is create a mask using the effect controls so we're
going to go up here underneath opacity and select this four point polygon mask
and we're going to get rid of the feathering so we don't want any
feathering and we're going to invert it and now we can use this zoom level here
and go to 25% and we're just going to move this rectangle to go beyond the
frame here so I'm just going to quickly do that so this is the point that we
want the animation to stop now we want this to start out completely black so to
do that we're going to hit the stopwatch here because we want this to be the
keyframe of the last point of the animation at 3 seconds right so now
let's move this playhead back and then this is where you're going to click on
the mask name here and then we're going to bring these down we're going to bring
this down to the center right because it's animating from the center outwards
towards the top and the bottom and you'll have to play around with it
until you get the alignment right unfortunately Premiere Pro doesn't have
an easy way to align masks right now I hope that they do this in the future so
it's completely straight but for now we just have to wing it and now let's zoom
in let's say around 100 percent and let's make sure these lines are straight
here let's get this 75 percent there we go
and now I'm just going to bring these lines together like they're overlapping
completely I'll do it on the other side here too and then we'll just zoom out to
make sure that this is in the center it looks about right
now if we click outside of this mask you'll see that there's a slight sliver
now to get rid of that all we need to do is on the video clip is right-click and
select apply default transition and then this is a cross dissolve so you can make
it shorter or longer I'm just going to make it slightly shorter and now when we
play this back there's our animating letterbox it's
that simple and because the crosses all we don't see
that sliver in the beginning and for the second effect I'm showing you how to
create a film overlay as seen in troye sivan bloom music video where you can
see loss of film burns and textures and that 4:3 aspect ratio and same with
Miley Cyrus's recently music video mother's daughter you also see this
frame that's happening even though it was shot on a sixteen by nine likely 4k
camera if not higher and you'll also see film overlays and textures used in
famous music videos by Lana Del Rey as you see here summertime sadness there's
lots of texture and grain so for this film overlay effect I'm using film
overlays from a smashworkshop they're pretty cool you can import them as a
folder of asset so they have film burn loops they have textures they have super
8 loops and frames so there's this HD frame overlay I'm just going to drag and
drop it on top and you can just kind of see what it looks like so this is
actually a real film overlay now if we wanted to replicate the effect that we
saw in Miley Cyrus's music video as well as troye sivan's we want to Center this
now if we center it and we move this over you can see
that there's a little disconnect here and we need to scale it down just a tad
bit here to give it more of a frame look so to fix this white gap here what we
can do is we can also add another color mat on top just like we did with the
letterbox so let's go ahead and let's create a new color mat and hit OK make
sure it's black and let's go ahead and drag and drop this on top now what we
need to do is also create another four point polygon mask and then we can
invert this and now what we're going to do is just place this mask around this
area here so we can just see the rounded edges like so we'll just make a few more
adjustments we'll get rid of the feathering as well we don't need any
feathering and let's just get this just right so it looks like it's in the
center here and we can click away just to see if it looks right all right cool
so that looks pretty cool now the next thing we want to do is we want to add in
some texture and some burns so I'm going to move these layers up because we want
the burns and the textures to be within so let's go ahead and just double click
and we can play this back you can see this is some texture here some film
grain so let's just drag-and-drop this underneath and we need to add a blend
mode so select it then go to effects and let's choose screen to get rid of all
the black so now we have some texture and now we can also add in some Burns so
while this is plain we can roll this back and we can add in a burn so here is
a couple burns let's double click to show this one the ones pretty cool
there's also this burn effect here so if I take this down drag it down here we
can apply a multiply effect and so then it kind of looks more cool here like
that which is pretty sweet I can add in a different burn there's
this burn effect and for this one we can also add a screen to get rid of the
black like so so you know these textures are only so long but if you wanted them
to repeat you know you can take this one hit alt/option key drag and drop it
to duplicate it and with this frame and the color matte to the color matte you can
extend out as much as you want as much as you need it to but for the frame
overlay you also have to hit alt/option to click drag let go to duplicate it and
then you can roll it back and then you can just take these two as well
hit alt/option drag and drop them over to duplicate it as well and then you can
just align everything here like so and you can just repeat these overlays
throughout the duration of the music video that you want and in the third
effect I actually haven't seen this effect specifically done in any specific
music video but it's a filmstrip overlay effect so it's similar to the one before
but instead we're actually going to use a 4:3 aspect ratio so to start we're
going to create a new sequence in a 4:3 aspect ratio we're going to go to new
sequence and we're going to create 960 by 720 and you'll see that that's in
a 4:3 aspect ratio and we'll just call this film strip look and hit ok so now
you see it's in a 4:3 aspect ratio so I'm going to take this clip here of this
guy opening his eyes drag it into the timeline keep the existing settings and
we'll just have to reposition this in a second and then we're going to take the
second one of the guys singing with the microphone here so we'll just drag and
drop this down here as well now we're going to reposition this down in the
frame so we're just going to scale this down like so and same with this one
we're gonna scale this down so we can see his microphone and frame so just like before
we're gonna take the frame overlay and we're gonna drag and drop it on top we
have to scale this down to see it so now because this is a filmstrip
we're going to make sure that this fits in that 4:3 aspect ratio so now we have
the filmstrip look right now the next step is to duplicate this frame so we're
going to alt/option click alt/option click like so we can even select all of
them the alt/option key and drag it over so now we have this loop here but now
I'm going to drag this up I'm just going to take these layers up like so and what
we're going to do is fit this video frame inside of that first frame here
like so just like that and now I'm going to duplicate this I'm going to click alt/
option again drag this up I know I'm going to move the position up so it's in
the second frame right here like so and I'm going to duplicate it one more
time and I'll drag this one down so it's in the bottom frame here like so so now
we have them playing in a filmstrip like this which is pretty cool let's do the
same thing quickly with this second video clip
now it's out of super 8 loop on top of this frame overlay so we can choose any
one of them I like this one here so let's just drag and drop this on top and
now we have to rescale this down as well so it fits in the 4:3 aspect ratio then
let's hit screen and now it looks like an actual film strip which looks pretty
cool so right here actually at this moment when it there's a transition we
can actually cut this we can take this clips and we can hit shift to select all
of them and drag this over and then we'll bring over this clip of the man
singing so as soon as that burn happens you get that transition here which looks
pretty cool now if we want to add some more texture we can certainly add some
texture as well so you can go into the texture loops and say this one's pretty
cool we can go ahead and drag this down here and we can change this to be a
screen so now we have some texture there to bring out some of the color with this
singer part of doing music video is to bring out color as well what we can do
is use lumetri color so we can go down to the looks and we can choose maybe
this Kodak look and we can decrease the intensity a bit bring out some of the
vibrancy and then we can also use curves to bring out some more contrast so now
that looks so much better in through the before and after and then we'll just
copy this clip hit command C on a Mac or ctrl C on a PC and then we can select
all of these other Clips here by holding down shift and then right click and
paste attributes so we're going to paste lumetri color and so now all of them
have this more rich color texture so this next effect is from a logic music
video you can see that there is a video within another video screen on
this is done by masking or using green screen effects so that's what I'm going
to show you how to do in this next effect the easiest way to do it is to
film whatever object that you have or let's say you have a room full of
screens I'll put a green screen saver on that screen or put you know some sort of
green paper on top of that screen so that way you can key it out so what
we're going to do with this clip it already has a green screen this is just
a stock video clip and you guys can use other different types of stock video to
achieve this because we're going to go to the effects and we're going to search
for ultra key and I'm going to double click to apply to the clip and then from
the effect controls we need to take this dropper tool and select the green color
here and then what you can do is you can go into the Alpha Channel and make sure
that everything looks good you can see there's still some gray area here so we
can do is we can go down to matte cleanup and we can play around with the contrast
here to get rid of that so now it's a perfect key we can take it back to
composite now we need to place a video inside of here so just drag this a video
clip up to video layer two and then we can go into our stock video here and
I'll take the dancer clip and just drag and drop it down here now we can scale
this to be within this video frame which is pretty cool and so that is the final
effect on how you do that and lastly but certainly not least I'm going to show
you how to create hand-painted elements on top of video as you see here in Bruno
Mars famous video so let's go ahead and jump on in so I use the handcrafted
smash pack part of smashworks of course you can use tablets and create your own
animations but that takes a ton of work so what they've done is they've made a
whole pack of these little illustrations that are animated that are hand-painted
you guys can overlay I mean they're motion graphics templates so you'll
install them in your essential graphics panel and they appear like this if you
need to install them you would just hit this little install motion graphics
template button in the lower right hand corner and so then what you can do is
you can just drag and drop them in so the first thing that I use just one of
there transitions here so if I just drag and
drop this on top of the timeline it'll just take a second to install and you
can kind of see all the different transitions and elements that are within
this motion graphics template so the first one that I use is number nine if
you'll just select this and then you're going to go up to edit here and just
type in number nine so from here you can change the position on the color I like
the yellow color so I'm actually going to keep it but if you need to change it
you just select that and change the color here to speed this up what you can
do is see how it's a little bit slow for my liking so once it gets down to the
full color bleed I'll just cut there and what I typically like to do is I hit R
for the rate stretch tool to speed this up I'm just going to speed this up just
by dragging it and now it's quicker and then what I can do is to the moment that
it starts to bleed back down I'll just cut there so I'll go back to C for the
cut tool then I'll hit B for the arrow tool and it'll just close that gap there
so then it starts to go much faster and you can also speed this up again here
you can hit the rate stretch tool R on your keyboard and speed that up a bit so
then it goes down like that so then here is where you can start to play with
different elements right so you know if he's kicking here let's say we wanted a
bubble to have him pop right here with his foot we can find one of those
elements here so we can drag down hand-painted elements too just take a
second to import so number seven is a good one where it pops
so we'll just go ahead and hit number seven and then what we can do is reposition
this to time with his foot there and now we just have to align it with the time
so when his foot comes up there we want it to pop so here in the timeline what
we can do and this is one of my favorite tools hit alt/option and then use the
arrow tools the little arrow bracket tools to move this until it is at that
right moment when he kicks it starts to pop now if we wanted to duplicate this
to have the the bubble pop here when he kicks his
leg right here we can just duplicate this by hitting alt/option clicking and
dragging and then we can move this bubble element down to when his foot is
here so we can move this down and then to the left a little bit more and then
we just play with the timing again so he kicks it right there is when we
want it to pop so we're gonna hit alt/ option and use the right bracket and
let's see if that looks good yep so all I did was then I just duplicated
these elements I also went in and found different elements they have lots of
lines and you can start to build really cool animated sequence like I have over
here in the final product where there's a bunch of overlaid elements and it
creates dynamism just like you saw in that Bruno Mars music video and yeah
that is how you do these music video effects I hope you guys enjoyed it if
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