Today I want to show you how to take a simple piece of footage
And turn it into this
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I'm gonna move a little bit
slower for you today so you can follow exactly through this process to start
what I'm gonna need is actually six tracks so I'm gonna go down to the track
manager open that up and I'm gonna choose to add five more tracks into our
project now you'll see why I'm doing this I've got this piece of drone
footage I want to bring that down into track number four this is going to be
our main footage I found this piece of footage free on pixabay.com but it's
kind of cool the take off of that throne is a little bit weird so let me just get
rid of that I'm gonna clip the beginning I don't quite love the colors of this
one it feels very much like a piece of video so let me left-click on that go up
to the color tab in the upper left scroll down to 3d lut and I'm going to
load one of my personal Luntz that I gave away called the naturalizer I'm
also gonna bring the saturation and the brightness up just a bit maybe to about
17 just to make that footage pop a little bit more now when I get to about
the point that I think I want the text to come in I'm going to split this
footage and I'm gonna move that section by left clicking and holding and
dragging it down into track number one now the reason I did this is I want this
piece of footage to change a bit so there's things I'm going to add to it
the first thing I want to do is add my text and I'm gonna add that right where
that split starts in the upper left I'll choose the titles tab and under titles
I'm just gonna grab the default titles and bring that down into the track right
above my main footage track number five let me stretch that out so it's equal
and if I left click on that in the upper left I can adjust this titling I want it
to say Los Angeles it defaults to the Roboto medium font but I want to change
that I'm gonna use the Abril fat-face font
and I'm going to increase the font size let me get it up to about 105 we stretch
that out a little bit now I want to Center this so if I left click on it
move it in the upper preview window you'll see a center green line shows up
right when I nail Center I also want this to sit right about on the horizon
so let me put it right about there now that text doesn't look bad but you can
see it kind of gets lost with the background and we really want this text
to pop out so here's a cool trick you might want to pay attention to because
you can use it in a lot of different situations back under your media tab in
the upper left in the drop down you'll see an option for sample colors grab the
black and bring that down into track number two right above the second half
of that footage and let's stretch it out so it covers the whole thing now right
now you might be looking and saying well what does that do it just turns my whole
screen black but if you double left-click on it and in the upper left
in the compositing tab if you dial that back to above maybe 35 or so what it
does is it darkens out that footage a bit it makes it less prominent this is a
trick I do a lot when I want to pull back the background and have the
foreground track really pop forwards now that looks better but the text isn't
quite popping the way I wanted to so let me double left click on that text down
on my timeline and I'm gonna choose the Advanced tab and if I scroll down on the
Left you'll see I have an option to add a text shadow let me tick that box and
you can automatically see some shadowing shows up that's probably a little
harsher than I really would like it to be I'm gonna change the angle of the
shadow by clicking on the shadow option and move it to the other side and then
I'm gonna scroll down and I'm gonna pull back the opacity of that a bit so it's
not quite as strong below that I'm gonna open up the blur and that will give it
less of a harsh line and make it just feel like it's throwing a shadow back
onto the background perfect let's choose OK and the next thing I
want to do is I want to add a very specific animation to this so while I'm
still in this text tab in the upper left I want to find the round zoom out
animation that gives this a kind of cool introduction
another piece of text I want to put on top of this so I'll go up to the
upper-left choose the titles tab again and I'm going to use that same default
title and bring that down as well this is the part where I wrote the greetings
from I want this to feel more like it's handwritten so I'm gonna go down and I'm
gonna find Segoe script and I'm gonna put that at a very slight angle and I'm
gonna bring that up to the upper left I don't really love the color white so I'm
gonna do this in the upper left I can choose the text color option I'm gonna
choose more and pick a really bright yellow that I think might be good for
this effect I also want it to pop a little more so I'm gonna open up the
Advanced tab again and I'm gonna scroll down on the left and choose the text
shadow option again let me change the shadow so it's to the left just like the
text below let me pull back the opacity so it's not such a strong effect and I'm
gonna tighten it up so the distance isn't quite as far and I'll click OK now
this last track number three I want to do something slightly different because
this is a postcard I want to add a border to it and actually make it feel
like a postcard so in the upper left under effects I'll click on included and
I'll search for border let me bring that border down into this track number three
right on top of this black track and see how that does a really cool border there
now if I double left-click on it I could adjust it and make that border size
bigger or smaller or blur it out a bit or I could even pull back the opacity if
it was too strong or change the color but I actually want that pretty harsh
line with no blur and the size said it about three seems to do pretty cool
things now there's one other trick that I'm gonna do right now if I started
playing this when it hit this change it would just be a really harsh transition
so I'm gonna stretch out that main footage a bit so that it overlaps
slightly and in the upper left under transitions I want to find the dissolve
transition I'm going to bring that down and put it right at the end of this
track and have the dissolve start right about where the other tracks come in one
other thing I want to do before I forget is in this greetings from section I want
to make it look like it's actually being written so if I left click on that track
and choose advanced and in the animation section I want to find the typewriter
effect now if I've done this right as this starts to play it should come
towards the portion where we want it to change and it will slowly dissolve into
these other pieces pretty cool huh now we have that cool-looking postcard
effect and with a little music under it it'll really come together if you want
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