through floor
Hey, guys, I hope you're all having an amazing day. Today I'm going to teach that through
the floor foreground wipe you saw in the beginning of this video and maybe you've seen in some
other people's films like Sam Kolder and Brandon Li. If you know another film or video that
this effect was used in, she me a comment below. First, though, if you're creative and
you're into videography, photography and just creating in general, then consider subscribing.
I do tutorials, I give tips, I have reviews and I have some my films on this channel as
well. This effect can be used in a variety of ways. You can use this for real estate
videography, maybe to go from one room to the next. You can use this for commercial
projects as well as travel videos, obviously, like you've seen. So with filming, you'll
film both shots moving in the same direction, which for us is down. Basically, you're executing
to smooth jib shots with that first jib shot going all the way down to the floor and that
second jib shot starting as high as possible and then moving down to whatever framing you'd
like. A little side note when you do the jib shot, slow your motion down when you get a
couple inches off the floor. I'll talk about why we do that later in this video. If you
can find something in the foreground that will block the camera in either shot. When
you are, say, coming down to the floor or starting at the ceiling, that'll make the
shot look a little bit better. But don't fret if you guys only have a flat floor or a flat
ceiling. I've actually created a Photoshop image that you guys can download in the description
below that you can use when you're editing so it looks like you're going through a floor
with the first shot.
Find the point where you started to slow down your gimbal movement. Press m on your keyboard
to set a marker at this point. This will be the spot where we will use the transform tool
to digitally bring that first shot up. We slowed down at the end because we will digitally
be moving it up at a similar speed to the first part of that clip. The reason we shot
so wide is so we can scale our shot bigger in post. This will give us room to move that
clip up, press the transform tool and the key frame button at the point where that shot
starts to slow down. Then go to the end of the shot and drag the clip up a ways. You'll
have to play with this to get the speed correct. You'll want to match the speed with the first
part of the clip as best as possible. Next. Drag your PNG image of the floor over top
of your clips. I designed this PNG with pipes originally, but I realized I didn't like the
look of the pipes as I went past it, so I uploaded the better, newer version in the
description below. Scrub to the section of your first clip where your shot starts to
get slower and right about here is where you will introduce the floor scale the PMG image
up a so you don't have any edges showing and press the keyframe button at the beginning.
Drag the floor image straight up out of the frame using the second shot to decide where
you want it to be out of the shot. Since we press the keyframe button at the beginning
of the PMG image, there's no need to press it again at this end point because it's already
saved. After this, you'll need to speed up that first shot so it moves in accordance
with the floor.
This definitely takes some time to make it look natural. I don't think I was able to
make it look natural, but if I spend more time on it, I could have made it look a little
bit smoother. Just have some patience on this and don't be bummed if you need to press,
reset and play with the speed and positioning of both clips again to get it right. The next
thing we're gonna do is position that second clip so it shows up on the floor image wipes
up to reveal the bottom. You'll notice that since the floor wipe doesn't fully cover the
frame and allows for both clips to be seen during some frames in the shot. We will need
to mask out the top half of the second shot since we have now placed it above the first
shot in the timeline. Think of the timeline like stacking pictures to see the bottom picture,
we will need to cut out a part of the picture above it. So what we will do here is use a
graduated mask in the effects window, place it on that second clip and adjust it so the
top half of that shot is cut off. Do so by moving these circles around. Since we don't
want the graduated mask on that second shot the whole time, we will press the keyframe
button and drag the amount down to zero. Once we wanted to fade out after this. Now to work
on the piece de la resistance, which are the sound effects. I added Hip-Hop song in which
I added a small room audio effect to play it off like it was playing in the room this
season.
I also added an effect that would make it sound like we are going down and away from
the source of music by going to pan clicking mode and create space. From here I press the
keyframe down where I wanted the source of the sound to start and I dragged it up to
it. Sounds like we're moving away.
I also added a muffled effect, so it sounded like we're going through the floor and the
music was being muffled in some other sound effects I added were kind of machinery type
sound when we were passing through the floor. Ambiance from a hotel lobby. Footsteps and
a whoosh sound for when we pass through the floor. And that about wraps it up, guys. It
doesn't look perfect, but this was my first time creating this effect and I hope it gave
you a general sense of how you can create it yourself. If I tell you something today,
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