Everyone Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal. You've probably seen a lot
of filmmakers creating these little montage sequences with lots of cool
seamless transitions, right and I've made tutorials on seamless
transition packs.
But how do you make them yourselves without using plugins?
And that's what I'm going to show you in this video.
Going to focus on one type of transition the swish pan or what
people call the whip pan just using three different effects inside of
After Effects and better yet to save you time.
You can save it as your own template so you can use this template over
and over again just replace your footage and you have your whip pans.
.So I've included the project files in the description box below and you
can follow along step by step. Also shout-out to Envato elements
for during this video you can get 70% off your first month of unlimited
creative assets and I'll tell you more about elements later on in the
video, but for now, let's go ahead and jump into After Effects and get
started.
So here I have three motorcycle shots in my composition and there's just a
basic simple cut between them.
But let's add some dynamism by creating our own swish pans or whip
pans from scratch.
So to make our first swish pan between the first two Clips here.
We need to first create an adjustment layer.
So go up to layer and select new and then adjustment layer and let's drag
this adjustment layer down on top of shot two and one. Next what we need
to do is apply a distort effect.
So from effect and presets search for transform and it's underneath the
distort folder and is drag and drop this onto the a layer and now we
need to keyframe the position in the direction
we want this whip pan to be. So if you wanted to go from left to right we
can keyframe the horizontal position if we want it to go up and down we
can keyframe the vertical position.
So in this case, let's do the down movement.
So just select the starting point here make sure that you have the
adjustment layer selected from effect controls select the stopwatch to
begin animating.
In the position and from here, we can move to the ending point of our
transition.
Let's say around here.
This is where we can then move the vertical position if I click and
pull it down.
You can see how it starts to move down.
You can also enter in any value that you want.
Let's say we want it to be around 6,000 now if we select the
adjustment layer and hit you on the keyboard, this will reveal the
keyframes.
So now it'll just be a Basic movement up and down and the speed of this is
controlled by the value of the position.
So if you ever want to change the speed for it to be a little bit
slower, let's say you can right click edit value and then because we're
using the vertical we're going to edit the Y coordinates here.
So if we wanted to make this just 3,000 you can see that it's a bit
slower and it actually doesn't fully go off the frame.
So in this case, we want it to be faster and let's edit value and
let's bring this back up.
To around 6,000 again.
So now we have our two points and we want to make it so it's a little bit
smoother from the get-go.
So let's go ahead and select these two keyframes and let's make these
easy ease keyframes.
So it's a little bit smoother.
And there we go.
It's smoother.
But now I need to create repetition.
So as the slides down they'll be repeated frames of the same video.
So to do that we're going to select the adjustment layer and from effect
and presets search for cc repeat tile.
Some people call it repeat tile or reptile.
And all you have to do is just drag and drop this on the adjustment
layer or double click to apply it and from here.
We want to move to the Last keyframe and to bring the footage back up.
So it's in frame.
We need to use the expand up parameter here.
So as I click and drag to the right you see nothing happens because we
have to keep clicking and moving.
It's actually easier just to type in the number here, but you can see as
I click and scroll to the right.
It starts to reveal the footage here, right and you can see here.
This is the repeating line.
So as I scrub through you can see that the footage Age is repeating
itself, which is already a pretty cool effect as is but because we
want it to end where this second shot is fully in frame.
We need to make some adjustments here.
So this is where we can go back up to position and we can position this so
that way it'll be fully in the frame at this last point.
So just like that.
So now if we play it back you can see that it's a nice smooth sliding
transition and from here you can see Would already looks pretty good.
You could actually use this as its own transition.
But if you want it to have more of that whip pan swishing look you need
to add some motion blur.
So to add motion blur here you're going to select enable motion blur
and then select motion blur for the adjustment layer.
So when we select that now let's play this back.
So you can see it has a little bit more blur on it but there are some
black lines here.
If you're trying to create a film strip slide effect.
You may want to keep these black lines in between because it kind of
looks like a film strip.
But if you want to get rid of them, this is where we need to pre compose
these layers so hold shift and select shot one.
So you have adjustment layer one shot to and shot three all selected then
right-click and select precompose and we can call this.
Whip pan down hit.
Okay, and now you can see its own comp double click to open it up and
you can see all the layers are in this new comp and what we need to do
to get rid of this black line is actually select these two shots
command C or control C on a PC to copy it then go to Transitions and
hit command V to paste and then we just need to drag these layers down
below this composition and now you can see it filled in the black lines
with the footage beneath.
So let's just play this back to see how it looks.
All right, it looks a little bit better.
But you can see that the footage beneath doesn't have any blur on so
to fix that.
We need to fake it we need to go up to effect controls and search for
gaussian blur and drag and drop it on the first shot.
And if we increase this you can see it just kind of makes it look
generally blurry, but because the position is changing vertically.
We just want the blur Dimensions to be vertical and that makes it a
little bit more realistic but let's keep increasing.
Let's say around 150.
I think that looks pretty good.
You can play around with this value until it looks right even 167 s
better so then you can just copy this effect by hitting command C or
control C on a PC go to shot number two and command V to paste it.
So now it looks a little bit more realistic.
So let's play it back.
And so that is the whip pan down.
What if you want it to be left to right?
So let's move on to this next transition between this shot of him
right in the motorcycle.
It's kind of a medium shot to this wider shot.
So once again, let's go up to layer.
Let's go to new adjustment layer and let's bring this adjustment layer up
to the very top and this is where we need to duplicate shot number two
and bring it up because it's also involved in this next transition.
We need to pre compose as well.
So just go up to edit and duplicate and this is where we're going to
drag this layer up.
So it's also a part of this one.
But because we added the gaussian blur or the gaussian blur you need
to delete this now and hit delete and then also we want to move this over.
So it's only a part of this next transition so that way it's not
affecting this transition at all.
So So we can move this layer just around here.
Okay, so now from adjustment layer to we can once again go up to effects
and presets and search for transform and let's drag and drop this onto
the adjustment layer and from here.
We need to choose our starting point.
Let's say we want it to start here then select the stopwatch next to
position and let's move where we want the transition to end.
Let's say around Here and because we want it to go off to the right.
This is where we're going to move it off to the right.
And once again, you can choose your speed by changing this value.
Let's say we want it to be 10,000 hit return and then from this layer
select you on your keyboard to reveal the keyframes.
And now you can see it just pushed off to the right and to make the
keyframes more smooth.
Just lasso and select them right click.
Keyframe assistant Eazy-E's or press F9 on your keyboard.
So now it's more smooth.
The next step is to add the repeat style or the reptile effect.
So let's go to the last keyframe go up to effects and presets CC repeat
tile.
There it is double click to apply it and from here.
We want to expand left because we want this footage to be revealed.
We won't actually see anything until we get closer up to 5,000 but we
need to keep pushing this over until it fills up the frame and you can
see that the repeating line is here and we need to adjust the position
now, so this line is just off frame.
So we need to push this.
Just slightly until we get the full frame and View and there we go.
So now once again here is the shop.
Now we need to add the motion blur.
So once again select motion blur here and this is what it looks like.
And now we need to pre compose like we did before.
So let's collapse this layer and let's select this adjustment layer
and hit shift and select shot to and then right-click and pre compose and
let's call this whip pan right and hit okay.
Once again, we need to double click to open this up and copy these two
layers here hit command C or control C on a Mac.
Go back to the transitions layer hit command V or control V to paste and
then just move these two shots beneath the whip pan, right?
And just like before we want to add the gaussian blur so we can go to
shot.
Number one.
We can copy the gaussian blur that we applied before by hitting command C.
Go to this first clip here and then go up to effect controls and hit
command V but this time because it's side-to-side Movement.
We want it to be horizontal and let's go ahead and copy this one more time
command C or control C.
Go to the shot number three this one right here.
Let's see how it's not blurred behind this pre composition.
So when we go to effect controls and paste it command V V you can see, it
just looks a lot more seamless.
So here's the final result here and it looks pretty awesome.
And you can use this technique in any direction that you want.
You can even change the horizontal and the vertical position to make it
go off into a corner of the screen depending on whichever direction
that you want.
And this effect can be really cool to add to any Montage sequences that
you are doing.
Now.
Let's say you wanted to save this as a template so you could just go up
to file and save as And when you open it up, let's say you wanted to
replace any of the footage you can actually go and select whatever shot
you want to replace right?
Click and reveal layer Source in project.
And then from here from the project panel, you can right click and you
can replace the footage with a different file so that way you can
then use whatever footage you want in this template.
So you would just go through all the shots that you have here shot number
two.
Replace the footage shot number three replace the footage and that's how
you can you know use this template over and over again, and then you
just go up to file and save as a different project.
So let's say you want to pull this entire sequence into Premiere Pro.
What you can do is take this transitions composition which has
all three of them in here and you can pull After Effects over and when you
have Premiere Pro open, you can just drag and drop this transitions.
Into the project panel here and it will pull it in as its own comp
that's dynamically linked and you can right click and create a new
sequence from the clip and now we'll have the sequence here in Premiere
Pro that you can then render out and add to your video and that's all
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