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- I think this will work just fine
for a Drone Boomerang.
I just realized now
that I totally forgot my drone.
What?!
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Okay.
That wasn't a pain in the ass at all.
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Okay, it's...
Found this on the roof.
It's a little bit windy right now
probably because we're on top of the roof,
so that might affect the outcome
of set Drone Boomerang,
but it should be good.
We're gonna get the drone in the air.
Get the shot first.
Then go back into post and show you some magic
on how to make this look just super fun.
Who doesn't wanna do a Drone Boomerang?
I am not even sure I told you guys
what a Drone Boomerang is.
You guys know what a Boomerang is.
It's like when you're on Instagram,
you select Boomerang,
and it's like one of these things.
That's pretty much all they're used for,
but my friend Kraig Adams started doing them with his drone
where you would just send it up into the air
and Speed Ramp it
and bring it back down.
It just looks so much cooler.
So, that's what we're gonna attempt to do here.
And then show you guys the proper settings
for Premiere and Final Cut,
so you can get them size just right
for your Instagram,
and then boom!
Boomerang has just became cool.
Okay, now we're ready to fly.
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Hopefully that worked.
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Alright.
To the studio.
That's the ticket right there.
What's up everybody?
Peter McKinnon here.
Welcome back to the original studio
and welcome back to yet another Two Minute Tuesday.
So great to have you here
and see all your smiling faces.
Hope you guys enjoyed the intro.
It's been about four hours
since I shot that.
Now it's time to go into Premiere
and show you how to loop them together
and get them on your Instagram,
so you are making dope Instagram Boomerangs tonight.
Let's roll that intro.
Oh, we already rolled the intro.
What?!
Okay, let's throw two minutes on the timer.
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And get started.
Not that we're gonna stick to it or anything.
If you're new around here by the way,
Two Minute Tuesday is the show that never takes two minutes,
was supposed to take two minutes,
but never takes two minutes.
Now that's a thing about Two Minute...
It's the fact.
Whatever.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Okay, so what is a Drone Boomerang?
It's basically just a Boomerang.
We've all seen Boomerangs before.
My friend Kraig Adams,
this guy here,
another YouTuber and creative out of New York City,
Brooklyn I believe is where he lives,
he made one of these Boomerangs.
I saw it online and thought,
"That is so cool!"
So I was talking with him and I was like,
"Do you care if I teach that
"because I think my audience would love that?"
Sometimes teach tutorials,
they're not specifically to dive
into the depths and complicated nature of software,
or sometimes they are,
but sometimes it's just a good idea,
and sometimes those good ideas are really simple and basic,
and you think to yourself,
"How did I not think of that?
"That's so cool.
"That's so much fun."
Whatever drone that you own,
it's actually pretty self-explanatory.
All you're going to do
is start with a pretty dead center
and fly it away from you.
Away and up, whatever.
You can tilt the gimbal.
Try not to actually tilt the gimbal
as you're flying it.
Pre-set it
so that by the time you get to your B point
it's already pointing to whatever it is
that you wanna be seeing.
Now I just did this quickly on the roof of the office.
Obviously the better the landscape,
the better these are gonna look.
The more unique angles,
the cooler these are gonna look.
If you're in the middle of a forest,
and it shoots way up through the trees,
way into the sky,
that would look really cool,
then it comes right back down.
Or a soccer field.
Or in the middle of the mountains.
I'm gonna start doing these everywhere I travel,
so I can make a little collection
of travel Drone Boomerangs.
I think that would be really, really fun.
But for this tutorial's sake,
I just did it on the roof at the office.
So once you fly the drone all the way out to the B point,
it doesn't matter if you come back
all the way to the exact line,
you just gotta get the drone back safely,
so you can get the memory card.
All you gotta do is boomerang it out,
and then from there all you're gonna do
is just reverse the clip,
duplicate it,
and it's gonna follow that same clip back,
so you don't have to worry about flying it back
exactly the way it flew out.
One thing I would say is that
the closer to your face you can start,
the more fun it is.
I was probably a little too far away,
but if you have a nice portrait of your face,
and then shooo...
It just shoots out into this massive land.
That is way cooler.
I would have liked it to have been closer
when I shot it,
so that's tip number one.
Tip number two:
if it's windy outside,
it's going to move that line,
from point A to point B,
that line is going to waver
because the wind's obviously gonna push the drone around.
You can see that in the one that I made.
The less windy,
the better your Boomerangs are gonna look.
Or you could just do it 16 times
until you got it right,
whatever floats your boat,
in this case floats your drone,
flies your drone.
Shut up, Peter.
Okay, open up Premiere.
Let's learn how to do this.
I don't know why I'm wearing this hood,
but a 112 degrees Fahrenheit today,
which is 45 Celsius,
it's just disgusting,
but color pops with the background,
for the video,
also I put some rings on mid-video just in case
for those who are gonna comment and be like,
"7 minutes 36 seconds,
"rings appear on right hand.
"Continuity error."
Okay, check this out.
This is pretty easy to do,
but there are a couple things
that I think will help you guys out,
so check this out.
Fire up Premiere Pro.
Here is an example of the Boomerang
right on the timeline that I've already done.
Go ahead and play that back.
You can see
whoop zooms out
and whoop zooms back in.
I could probably do a happier color grade,
so it's not as dark and dull,
but go ahead,
set your in and your out points for your drone shot
that you are happy with.
Obviously this drone shot keeps going,
but I don't need to boomerang that far
because there's just nothing else around this little town,
so I just need to come out and back in.
Doesn't need to go so far,
but maybe that's what you wanna do
if you're in a really dope landscape.
So, drag that onto the timeline.
Like so.
You can go ahead and select,
and head up to Effect Controls,
and enter that at 50%.
Also you could right-click
and set to Frame Size
or scale the Frame Size
that would do the same thing.
Now we have our drone shot in regular speed,
so the first thing we need to do
is activate Speed Ram.
To do that,
right-click on the Effects tab,
go to Time Remapping and hit Speed,
and then hit P on your cursor,
to where I've got my computer set-up,
and that inserts a key frame,
so I'm gonna put one at the beginning
and one at the end here.
Now when I hit A to get my cursor back,
I can drag that all the way up to a 1000%,
and that's going to ramp that middle section
leaving the front and the end untouched.
I think we've taught this a few times.
Now to get rid of that audio at the bottom
that we don't need,
go ahead an hit Cmd + L,
that separates the two tracks,
and just piece out the audio.
Now let's take a look at what this looks like.
Boom.
It's still too long.
You see that Speed Ramp takes way too long to happen.
It needs to go way faster.
Now the issue with Premiere
is it doesn't let you ramp past 1000.
Why?
Why won't you just let me ramp
to however much I wanna ramp?
Premiere, get out of here!
So to combat that,
because if you're on Final Cut,
you can do whatever you want.
But in Premiere here all you gotta do is nest this clip
and then re- Speed Ramp it,
so it's a little bit of a hack that gets...
I wish there was a faster way,
so technically you can ramp as fast as you want,
and it's gonna ramp on top of your Ramp already,
so it's gonna go twice as fast,
so don't go crazy with it,
but before we go ahead and nest this clip,
let's smooth out this Ramp.
You can do that by clicking these little things here
and dragging those wings to the left or the right,
and you'll se that smooths out the ramp line.
Now that ease-in and ease-out of the Speed Ramp
looks a lot nicer,
it's a lot more subtle.
I'd like to trim the beginning and the end here
just to make my final adjustments to the Boomerang
before I go ahead and nest that clip
just so that it's perfect
and I'm not dealing with too much excess footage.
Once you're happy with that,
you're gonna go ahead and right-click,
hit Nest,
and then just hit OK,
and it's gonna go green,
so we're good.
Now when you nest this clip,
that visual wave that you have there
to let you know where the Speed Ramp starts and stops,
that's gone when you nest the clip,
so because that visual wave goes away
when you nest the clip,
you have no idea where the Speed Ramp starts,
you could kind of guess
because you gotta make another cut,
but it'd be better to just count the frames,
and this is what I mean.
I go ahead and start from the beginning,
and I count all the way until the top of that Speed Ramp,
and I do the same thing at the other end of the clip
from the top of that Speed Ramp all the way back down.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
17 frames from the top of that Ramp,
and from the back
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
same thing,
so that makes it way easier.
Now I can go ahead, right-click, hit Nest.
That makes it go green.
Once the clip's nested,
you're pretty much good to go.
You just right-click,
hit Time Remapping,
Speed,
and before you place those key frames,
count 17 clips from the front,
place your key frame,
17 clips from the back,
place your key frame,
then you can ramp the middle accordingly
because that's gonna be exact
because you already counted beforehand.
Once you're happy with it,
hold down Alt,
drag it over to make a copy,
then on my keyboard you're gonna hit Cmd + J
to bring up the Speed Duration dialogue box.
All you need to do is reverse this clip.
So the Boomerang comes out,
and that second clip starts at the outpoint
and ramps right back in.
Now you've created a loop.
You're just duplicating that clip,
reversing it,
putting them together.
It's gonna be seamless where it's joined.
Then you're good to go.
At this point you can highlight both clips.
Right-click, hit Nest, you're done.
That is your final Boomerang clip.
So how do we export this for Instagram
because right now we've got a wide screen video?
I'm not talking about IGTV
or for an Instagram story.
How do we post this on our actual feed
with those nice vertical fat landscape profiles
that aren't gonna be horizontal or too vertical,
it's that in-between.
This is how you're gonna do it.
You're gonna go to File, New, Sequence.
Then come over here to Settings at the top.
Click that and change this to DSLR.
Change the Timebase to 23.976.
Square pixels.
1080x1350 is what we wanna do.
So hit 1350 in there,
and you'll see it changes it to a 5x4 or 4x5,
whatever aspect ratio,
hit OK and boom,
there is our Instagram size.
Just go back to your old sequence.
Copy that.
Go back to the new sequence.
Paste it in.
It's gonna be a little bit off,
so you wanna just center it,
expand it so that it fills the frame.
Choose the best frame,
whatever you like,
depending on what you're showing in that Boomerang.
If it's a huge background,
if it's the city,
like Kraig had the whole skyline behind him.
It is a good tip to start with it centered on you,
but once you've got a good spot and you're happy with that,
you are good to go.
Place some music behind it.
Put some sound effects behind it.
Make your in and out points,
I and O,
and then export that the same way
you'd export anything else.
Don't touch anything.
Just come down to render at maximum depth,
make sure you use maximum render quality is,
select it,
change the output name to whatever you want,
hit Save,
and hit Export,
and you are done.
So that's that, guys.
I hope you enjoyed watching this Two Minute Tuesday.
I know it's over two minutes,
but whatever.
Also,
hope you've enjoyed the old office,
the old background.
I saw so many comments.
You guys were like,
"Do another video in your original studio,"
so here it is.
But thank you so much for watching.
Thanks to Kraig Adams
for letting me teach that
since I did see it from him first,
and if you would like to see more from Kraig,
I've linked his stuff below,
give him a little follow,
go tell him I sent you and say,
"What's up? Pete sent me,"
and maybe tell him your favorite type of pizza.
I love pizza.
Lastly I want you to tag me in your Drone Boomerangs,
so if you're gonna post them on Twitter,
if you're gonna post them on Instagram,
drop me a #pmdroneboomerang,
then we can all search, find them, connect,
talk to each other,
and check out our Boomerangs with drones
and fun things like that.
Thank you so much for watching!
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And I will see you guys in the next video.
Original hat.
Old-school ending.
Bye.
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