Hey guys, I’m Tom from HitFilm
Today's effect is inspired by Dr Strange’s vision of the future as seen in Avengers:
Infinity War.
The majority of this tutorial can be done using Hitfilm Express and Pro, with the addition
of Mocha.
The Mocha HitFilm pack is now 50% for the first 20 people to use the link in the description.
We’re starting off in our composite shot.
I’m going to make a duplicate of the footage, Ctrl + D, and rename this “Head”.
Apply Mocha, and in the Controls panel, ‘Launch Mocha UI’.
Now in Mocha I’ll hold Z to zoom in and space bar to move around till I have the required
area, then Crtl + L to activate the X-Spline tool.
Draw around the collar and when comfortable, track.
Might need some work between the in & out outs, so stop to adjust.
Name this layer, Collar Track.
When complete, we’ll need another layer and for this we’re just going to make a
shape to cover the head motion- they’ll be no need to track as we’ll tackle this
with a key once back in HitFilm.
To save our collar track, we’ll select the correct layer & go to the ‘Export Tracking
Data’ tab.
Ensure that the format is set to ‘Transform Data’, and I’m going to save this as ‘Collar
Track’.
Then save and close.
Back in HitFilm we need to import this data, by going to the import switch we’ll find
‘Composite Shot’.
Click this & find our tracking file.
Once imported, HitFilm automatically creates a composite shot.
Find the Point Layer and we’re going to cut this into our main composite shot.
Now with our assets.
Let’s also go to the control panel for our ‘Head’ layer and down in Effects, we’ll
open the Mocha tab, select ‘Apply Matte’.
If we now turn off the layer below we’ll see Mocha has given us our main tracked plate.
Switch the Head layer Off & Turn the Footage below back on.
Lets key out the green.
First, I’ll select our viewer window & press ‘R’ for a rectangle mask placing it edge
to edge of our subject.
In Effects window, down into ‘Keying’ we’ll grab Chroma Key and apply to our layer.
Use the eyedrop to select our green screen, adjust the settings until happy with the results.
For more on keying, please check out the card onscreen now.
With our key done let’s turn our Head layer back on & copy, paste the key to this layer.
Now we need to speed the footage.
Select both clips by holding the Shift key.
Right click and go to Speed/Duration, make sure the lock is active and type in new speed.
Mine is about 20 seconds and want to make it about 8.
Hit OK.
It’s a little different for our tracking point.
Open the layers tab and go to transform, revealing our tracking keyframes.
Select all of them, now while holding Alt drag them to match with the timing of our
clips.
Zoom in on the timeline to double check.
Now our Subject is keyed & roto’d, lets get into the fun stuff!
In our effects window go down to Generate, find ‘Clone’ and apply to our Head layer.
Set the number of clones to 8.
Position Offset to 0, 0.
Blend Mode to Lighten & Time offset to -0.08.
If you now jump ahead in the time line you can already see this is the base of our effect.
Add a small Heat Distortion and scale down to 32, adjusting the distortion, Bias & Diffusion
strength to something that you feel fits.
In the Animation drop down bring the wind speed to 25 & noise to 0.25.
Turn off the Head layer for the time being.
To get the trails, I’ll go through my timeline and select points to where I’ve paused & bring
my Clones from 8 to 1.
We can do this by selecting our layer and going to the keyframe icon on our timeline.
The longer you leave a higher clone number, the longer your drag effect becomes.
I have here a image of the Eye of Agamotto Necklace.
I’ll drag this into the composite shot, rename it ‘Necklace’, mask around it.
Once complete, we’ll position it primarily using the anchor tool to help align with our
tracking point.
Feather and add a curve to help it blend into scene.
Once aligned parent it to the collar track.
Duplicate the Head layer renaming it ‘Clean Collar’ and remove our effects but Mocha
& Key.
Place this layer over the necklace, but under the original Head layer.
For the Time Energy, let’s start by right clicking going to ‘New Layer’ and select
Plane, we’ll name this ‘Energy’.
I’ll switch it off, just to see what I’m doing, and mask the area we want by using
the Freehand Mask Tool.
Turn back on Feather by 350 but bring Expansion to -200.
Under Generate, apply Fractal Noise, changing the type to Whisp and Interpolation to Linear.
Drop down the Appearance tab and change the colour 1&2 to shades of Green.
Keyframe the scale to increase over the period of the shot.
Lets add a Vortex Displacement from the Warp drop-down.
Under Centre we’ll use our necklace layer and adjust so it fits over.
Set the Radius to cover our subject.
Adjust the Depth.
For added effect- keyframe the angle and the start & end of our sequence to unwind.
Add a Glow with intensity of 1.4.
In the layer properties set the Blend to Add.
For additional detail, I duplicated this layer naming it ‘Highlights’ & added a curve
to bring out wave lines.
To add some detail around the Necklace, duplicate our Energy layer, renaming it to ‘Eye Glow’.
Now, in the Warp dropdown of our effects window we’ll apply Polar Warp and change the Range
Absolute till it circles the necklace.
Adjust the center to overlay our necklace.
Adjust the Start and End radius till it wraps around.
Parent this to our Necklace layer.
Wouldn’t be a visual effect without a lens flare.
Add a New Plane and apply ‘Light Flares’.
Set blend mode to Add.
Centre to use our Necklace layer.
I used the preset ‘Green Circles’.
Then finally Offset the Pivot Position.
Add your background layer, composite, grade and there you have it.
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