A lot of people have asked me how to do the Mirror Trick in Filmora
You know the one where it looks like the reflection is actually talking in a
different way than you are... almost like it's a different person
I actually don't know how to do that effect.
Do you?
Yeah I totally do I can show you how!
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The real trick to this effect is learning how to set up your shot, and what I mean by that
is if you look at the picture up in my preview window here I've created a
layout for this particular effect where I had myself on the left and I had the
mirror set off to the right in my bathroom there's actually a little
medicine cabinet nuke here that has a very intentional vertical line that I
wanted to take advantage of so setting this shot up this way was really
important to what I'm gonna do next so what I did is I started to read my line
and I made sure I turn to the mirror and interacted so it absolutely seemed like
the reflection in the mirror was me standing in front of a mirror talking
but if you look I really tried to make sure that I never crossed that center
line I kept myself on one side and I kept the mirror image on the other now
when I got to the point where I wanted to talk to the mirror and have it talked
back to me in a different way I actually turned and I asked the question and I
stayed very still here for a minute as still as I could and I waited and then I
spoke the response line back in the mirror and then I waited trying to hold
that same pose and get back to where I was then I spun back and gave my
response so this was one continuous shot that I started from the beginning right
to the end now the reason I left these big spaces in here is very intentional I
found a spot right before the response started right where my facial expression
started to change can you see that happening I'm pretty still and in my
eyebrow start to raise I got right to that point and I split that footage and
then I went to the point where I spun my head
so take a look at me on the left and watch for right when my head starts to
turn right about there and I split the footage one more time I don't know if
you realize this but if you grab your footage you left-click and hold you can
actually lift up and bring it up into another track another track will be
created now what I want to do is get to the point where I spoke and I turn to
the footage in my hair just stopped moving and that's where I want to
introduce this second piece of footage they're a little bit off but they're
pretty close and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna introduce a mask onto the
upper section of footage and I'm gonna separate these two because right now
with this being on the upper track all you see is that upper piece of footage
and it blocks out everything in the track below so from here let's go up
into the effects tab and let's go down to the utility section on the lower left
now see here where it says image mask I want you to left-click on that drag it
down and put it right on top of your upper track that is now applied to mask
to this track and you may not be able to see it because these two pieces are very
similar you can almost see the circle here let me turn off the other track let
me click the eyeball now you can see the upper track has been masked so that only
that circle is allowed to show but we don't want a circle we actually want to
separate it down the middle so the way we're gonna do that is double left click
on that upper track let's go over to the video section in the upper left click on
that tab and down at the bottom you'll notice that video effects now has a
check mark on it and that's because we added that mask now as I scroll through
these preset masks you'll see the circle is the one that's selected but I
actually want to use this other mask over here double left click on that and
it applies it so it's set off to the right everything to the right this
checkerboard pattern is what will show through everything black is what will be
masked off now what we can do with this X section here is control where these
lines are if we move this over to the right we can line that up pretty much
right with my little cabinet line over here and I'm only using the right side
of this footage in the upper track let's turn the lower track back on now
can you see what's happening we're looking at the left side of the bottom
track footage and the right side of the upper track footage so when I get to
this point it looks like the reflection in the mirror does something on its own
but the next thing I want to have happen is the bottom track I want to be able to
turn back to the camera so once this upper track is done seeing its response
right about here I'm gonna take the lower track and I'm gonna slice that
footage and get rid of this end piece right here now let's go back and grab
our other footage that we snipped right about where my head turned and slide
that over now what will happen is it looks like the reflection in the mirror
stops talking and then I spin my head now it's not completely smooth can you
see the changes in here they're a little off I can spot the change if you just
look on the left I can spot that change where that splice is so now I want to
see if I can try to smooth these out a bit let me start with this lower one I'm
gonna expand this footage so that we can see it I'm gonna start a little later in
this head turn let's start right about there and I'm gonna slice this footage
one more time down below I'll eliminate this middle section and I'll slide that
back over another way you can do in that is just click on the space and hit
delete on your keyboard it'll move you over or turn your ripple delete on which
is the link chain up on the left let me see if that's a little bit smoother it's
just a little bit off but I think I can take care of that with a fast dissolve
I'm gonna go up into my transitions tab and I'm gonna search for the dissolve
transition if I start to type di yes it shows up let's bring that down into this
section between those two pieces of footage click on the end and bring it in
and make it very quick dissolve right here can you see here I'm gonna just
shrink this way down just a very quick dissolve that goes from this footage to
the other you can just barely see it but I want to help splice these footages
together so they make a little more sense when we play that in real time and
see if it's a little smoother to get real speed you don't notice that
splice quite as much if we dissolve between it now also up here where this
goes from me sitting still let me find right where my eyes go up
right above there I'm gonna splice this one more time and just lose that
beginning section and I just want to go to the point where my eyes open up and
I'm gonna put a very slight dissolve at the beginning of this as well so I left
click on that dissolve drag it down to my top footage you shrink it so I can
see the whole dissolve and let me pull that way way back I just want a really
quick dissolve where it just immediately dissolves in my eyes open up see it's
very quick it's going from the original footage to the new one but it's so fast
and it starts at the motion that helps it sell that effect
now let's shrink it down and take a peek and see if it's noticeable I can smooth
that out a little bit and I can also find a little better spot to transition
but just play with that until you get it where you really like it for me a lot of
the trick is being able to stay very still the least amount of movement you
do in between these shots the smoother it'll feel if you want to learn more
Filmora tips and tricks, make sure you check out this next video coming up right here!
Peace!