[Yannick speaking inaudibly]
Yes, that part was in reverse
because today it's all about reversing time and about the new movie sensation
TENET
Now like I said last week
we always do a meeting in the beginning of the week to see what we are doing for Copycat Friday.
But this week we knew what we were doing, we were doing TENET.
So it was more of a meeting to see if we understand the movie
And Christopher Nolan did it again, he blew our minds like ...
for real...
I - I think Jordy is brain dead.
But is there really one person who gets the clue of the movie?
If you do let us know in the comments below because
we don't!
We really don't get it.
Now we do have an idea for the reverse time effect.
When scrolling through Instagram we came across the newest video of Kevin Perry
where he spilled some chocolate milk.
With time control he then reversed it all and cleans it up
And this inspired us.
We also had to do something with controlling the time and reversing it, but
With our own Cinecom twist, of course.
That's right Yannick. Jordy today will be throwing balls at me.
No sexual pun intended,
but he will also be controlling time and reversing the ball back to himself to throw it endlessly at me.
But how did we achieve this effect?
Well first things first, we need two actors, an extra person to help, and a ball.
But of course you can throw with whatever you want except for knives.
Seriously
don't throw knives!
Then let's take our tripod and place our camera on it.
Make a long shot, medium shot, or whatever you want.
Just make sure that both actors are in it.
Now for the acting we need to time everything just to make it ourselves easier in post
and to make it look more realistic.
First we will give ourselves some bleed in the beginning.
Let your actor play their part for 10 seconds or so,
then let one person throw the ball and hit the other one on the hat.
The other person can overreact and fall to the floor.
Now, it's time for the third person to shine.
Let him pick up the ball that is probably laying off screen and he needs to throw it back at your throwing actor
but while he is doing that the throwing actor can do a movement indicating of reversing the time
selling the effect even more.
Now that the ball is back at the throwing actor
he can throw the ball again
but this time the receiving actor doesn't need to act because he'll be removed in post
which will become clear later on.
And this you can repeat as much as you want
but this is also where timing becomes really important.
Try to make every throw and reverse the same length.
It doesn't need to be exactly the same
but try to keep it more or less the same so it will look better for the effect.
And then you can just throw all of this together right inside Premiere Pro.
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Why is your hair looking all crazy?
SHUT UP LORENZO!
In Premiere Pro you can place your shot in the timeline.
Now go further in time and look for the point where your throwing actor starts his time reversing movement.
Here we need to start to time reverse.
So let's make a cut here and duplicate the layer behind the cut.
Right click on the duplicate and look for the speed and duration option.
Select that option and in the new pop-up menu, you can choose the reverse speed option.
Press OK and now the top clip will play in reverse.
However, what first was the beginning is now the end due to the time reverse.
So to keep a smooth transition between the two
go towards the end of the new clip with the playhead and drag out that clip to the right.
Again make a cut where your playhead is and align the new clip with the first cut.
And this will give a smooth transition between the reverse speed and the original speed.
Next up, we only need the part of Lorenzo to be in reverse.
So we are going to select the top clip and draw a rough mask around his half of the screen.
Now, you will probably see that your timing is off.
Well, you can do two things one is to speed ramp your reverse clip.
You can make it go slower or faster to match the timing of the ball going back.
However to do this you need to shoot in a higher frame rate which not all cameras can do.
So as an alternative you can try to match your current clips.
Take the top clip and set the opacity to 50.
Now drag the top clip to the right and match the two balls.
Then extend that top clip to the left and with the arrows go back in time in your timeline
and look for that one frame where the two shots perfectly align.
Really pay attention to your actor and his movements
Once you have that one frame, move the cut of the bottom clip with the rolling edit tool to your playhead
and also make the top clip shorter, beginning where your playhead is now.
Of course set the opacity back to 100.
And this will leave you with a matched clip and a smooth transition.
Then for the second row go further in time and look for the point where the ball is mid air.
Here you can make a cut in the top clip. Undo the time reverse effect,
move it up one track and again set the opacity to 50.
Then you know the drill - match the two balls.
Move the new clip to the left and match them both.
Once you have that again go back in time
and look for that one frame where Lorenzo aligns perfectly in both clips.
Now, trim both clips from track 2 and 3 to your play head
and this will again create a smooth transition between the two clips.
And this you can do endlessly.
♪
Hey guys, future me right here.
So I know the studio looks kind of different because Jordy decided to renovate it
mid Copycat,
which is really strange.
So as you saw in our little sketch I catch the ball at the end of the video.
So how did we do this? Well, that's actually fairly easy.
Look for a point in your clip where you want to make a jump cut.
If I can give a little tip:
Make sure you have a position that is fairly easy to recreate again.
Once you have this you can just go back to your scene and just continue from there on forward.
Catch the ball and throw it back.
Are you done now Lorenzo?
Not yet...
You have to wait a little.
Once you have that just go back into Premiere Pro,
make a simple jump cut as you can see right here
and now for the ball, the original we removed, I replaced it with my new ball.
This is because it's more realistic if I can interact with a real ball.
Once the ball is replaced
you can add a little time remapping here and there to make sure both clips are in sync again.
And that's it.
Lorenzo, these cubes are going to hang themselves, you know?!
- You can continue it's fine. - Come and help, come on!
Time for a Yannick's Fun Fact Fountain.
Did you know that Christopher Nolan is a huge fan of practical effects?
For TENET Nolan only went for real effects
refusing to use any green screens in the production of the movie.
And this is of course unsurprising.
He really loves practical effects
and he will only use digital work when absolutely necessary.
And that was it for today guys.
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you Storyblocks Video for the support and like always
stay creative!
It's our 80s karaoke.
♪ Whoa, here she comes ♪
♪ She's a man eater. ♪
♪ I'm, just dying in your arms tonight ♪
♪ Do you really want to hurt me? ♪
♪ Take on me ♪