I was sitting here drinking coffee in my office the other day and I had a great
idea for a trick in filmora that I want to teach you!
What the hell was it...?
You know I really should teach people how to do that flashback memory effect in Filmora
Oh, right! That's what it was!
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If you want to learn this trick in Filmroa9...
*Second Voice* "Stick around, I'll show you how!"
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What you want to do is find two pieces of footage and bring them
down into your timeline one piece of footage is gonna represent your present
time what's happening now and the other piece of footage is gonna act as your
flashback memory let's start by adding a few more tracks to our project I'll
click on the track manager and I'm gonna add four for now that should probably
get me through it now let's grab this first piece of footage where I'm just
talking into the camera right-click on that and select copy put your playhead
back at the beginning of your project select the second track right click in
there and hit paste that will give us an exact copy lined up right on top of our
first let's find the section where you start thinking about your flashback and
let's split the upper duplicated piece of footage there I'm gonna go ahead and
delete the beginning part because I won't need that and in the upper left
let's go to the effects tab in the search bar let's type in water this
water effect has a really cool ripple effect that it adds to the project let's
bring that down and drop it right onto the upper duplicate piece of footage you
can already see it begins to distort that piece of footage now we want this
to transition in so in the upper left let's click on the transitions tab and
in the search bar let's type in dissolve bring your dissolve down and put it
right on the beginning of your transition piece of footage now you can
stretch this out as far as you want in order for it to look good to your eye
but as you can see here it'll slowly start to introduce that ripple effect
the next thing we want to do is grab our second piece of footage that memory
flashback and let's drag that up into the track above these two I'm going to
also the dissolved transition and bring that
down to the beginning of this track and I'm gonna stretch it out a bit the only
thing you want to be careful of is make sure you don't drag the transition pass
the ending point of these other two tracks or this one won't be fully opaque
before these ones disappear so anywhere up to this point is fine but don't take
it past it or you'll get some dark areas in your footage after the other two
disappear let's take a look at that you can see
the ripples start to come in and then it transfers over to my memory piece of
footage now I want this memory footage to feel a little bit different so I'm
gonna left click on that down in my timeline and in the upper left under the
color tab I'm going to change the LUT that I'm going to use on this to a black
and white you can use whatever you want it's just something to help
differentiate what's happening now and what was happening in the past and now
you can see this effect take hold when you want to come back out of your memory
into present time all you need to do is right-click on that select copy select
the track above these three and hit paste make sure these are lined up
together and let's shrink that down towards the end and in the upper left
let's grab that water effect one more time and bring it down onto our footage
we'll also need something to transition back into I'll just take the piece of
footage that I used at the beginning for now copy that go to the top track and
select it and I'll paste that up there as well that'll give me something to
transition into make sure you add the dissolved transition to the beginning of
this footage but again make sure the dissolve does not extend past where your
other footage ends that should be about right now you'll be in your back memory
you'll start to see that same wiggle pattern and it'll transition into
present-day this is a really simple trick that you can make seem even cooler
by adding some audio effects to it I used a little bit of wind chime as it
changed over and I put reverb on my voice using Reaper digital audio software
If you want to learn more Filmora tips tricks and techniques
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Peace!