Hey, everyone, Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal.
Today, I'm going to show you how to create this really cool freeze frame
clone effect that I saw on Lisbon social media will be using after effects
and the 3D camera tracker effect to make this effect work.
And I'll be filming the shot using the Zhiyun Smooth Q3
with the iPhone 13 Pro and this gimbal here is perfect
for social media creators because of the price
and because of the compact, lightweight design,
and it comes with this really cool led built in light
so it can illuminate your face while you're filming in the selfie mode.
Also with the app, you can control a few different cool effects,
such as subject tracking, so there's smart follow.
There's also Dolly Zoom and some panoramic cloning, which is really unique.
So if you're interested in the skin bullet,
you can use my affiliate link just down below, and let's
go ahead and put this kid together and start the effect.
And it's going right.
So after you're done filming with your iPhone or whatever
footage you have imported onto your computer,
I used AirDrop because I just sent it from the iPhone to the MacBook Pro.
But of course
you can use Google Drive or another app that works to get it onto your device.
So I've already imported the clip here as footage.
And by the way, you can download the clip to use and follow along as well.
And we need to put it into its own composition,
so right click on the footage and create a new comp from the selection.
So now we need to create a marker at each freeze frame
that we want to turn into its own Photoshop layer.
So scrub to the moment that you want to freeze.
So here when I kick, and if you need to go frame by frame,
you can press command on a Mac or control on a PC
and use the left and right arrow keys to move frame by frame.
This is good and to create a marker.
Press control eight in or create a marker on this clip at this exact moment.
So then you can go through at all the moments
you want to make a freeze frame, so I'll just quickly go ahead and do that
. So once you have all of your markers in place
now, we need to export them as Photoshop layers,
so to go to the exact frame, you can right click on the marker and select
go to marker time and then up from composition,
you can save the frame as a Photoshop layer.
Now I actually created a shortcut.
I manually created a shortcut option, or alt.
If you're on a PC option P to create a Photoshop layer at this exact moment.
So then it will bring up a new window and we can create a new folder called
freeze frames, for example, or stills,
and we can call this number one .
And it will save as API Steve.
And then you can right click on the next marker, go to marker time.
And because of my shortcut, I can press option P
and I can export each of the frames.
Just by doing so, I'll just quickly export all the frames
and then I'll meet you and Photoshop.
OK, so here are the four
ideas that we exported as frames, I'm just going to shift, click
on all of them here and right click and open with Adobe Photoshop.
Now we'll start with number one.
The key here is just to cut out the subject from the background
and Photoshop under quick actions now has select subject and it'll do a
really good job at selecting your subject and we can zoom in here.
You can use the magnifying glass tool to zoom in to see how well it did.
This one's a pretty easy cut out, and
I think I think we're good here to just cut this out.
So a quick shortcut is to press, command or control G
to turn that selection into its own layer.
And then you can turn off the footage behind.
And here you can see what this looks like.
So you may need to fix it up a little bit,
but I'm going to press
command zero to get it back into place here.
And if you want to smoothen this out, what you can do is press command
or control
and click on the layer one thumbnail and it will create the selection again.
And you can go up to select, modify
and you can contract or smooth or expand this.
So if I want to smoothen it out by two pixels, I can press, OK.
And then I can
press command again, and it will create a new layer
that has a little bit smoother edges so you can see the before and the after.
So now it's more smooth, so that's how you can smoothen your selection.
All right.
Command zero to bring it back.
And now I can just quickly go through
each frame here and do the exact same thing.
And after you remove the background, just press command us
to save or control us on a PC to save it.
So I'm just going to quickly go through and remove the background
from each frame.
If you find that
you need to remove and refine this selection,
you can go up to the quick selection tool and you can increase the size of this
and you can remove unwanted parts by pressing the ALT or the option case.
You can see how I can remove part of the selection that I don't want,
and I can also add to it as well.
So if I need to remove this, just press alt.
And you can refine it a bit.
And here
we can actually use the eraser tool.
And you can go in and kind of clean up the edges here just by erasing
some of the unwanted areas, or you could do the smooth
or contract.
Back in our finder,
you can now see that those photos now are transparent.
They don't have the background behind it.
So what we can do is go back to after effects
and we can import all of these stills, the SD files
and drag and drop them in here in the great part about using SD files.
If you composite them and you're like,
Oh, it doesn't look that great, you can always go back into Photoshop,
clean it up a little bit and then go back to after effects.
And those changes are made because it's it's put inside of the SD file.
All right.
So the first thing we need to do
is add a 3D camera tracker and there's two ways to do it.
The first way to do it is just by using the tracker panel,
or you can search for 3D camera tracker from effects.
So I'm going to open up the tracker panel here,
and you can see it right here.
And with our footage clip selected, you're just going to select track camera.
And what this is going to do is add the 3D
camera tracker to the effect controls panel as an effect.
And depending on how long the clip is, it will take a few minutes.
It could take up to ten to 20 minutes if it's, you know, like a 32nd clip.
This clip here is only 15 seconds, and it's
only going to take a couple of minutes so you can go grab a cup of coffee,
have some water , and let's just wait until the analysis is done.
So now that it is done, select the footage
and select the effects, you can see all of these 3D points
and we're going to select the point on the ground, so you'll get
you'll get three points and you can right click and create solid and camera.
So now this will create a solid.
And we want to replace the solid
with the still that we met.
So this is how you do it.
Go up to project and we're going to take our first still
select the track solid and press the alt key.
If you're on a PC or the option key on a Mac and drag
and drop it on to the solid and it will be replaced with our photo.
And then we're going to have to use these orientation controls his 3D controls
to bring it back into the exact same place as this frame in the video.
So what we can do is we can select the red axis,
which is the x axis here and rotate this up.
And then we can go down to the layer controls underneath transform
and we can scale it up
and we can move this into place until it fits exactly in this frame.
And it will take some time to tweak this until it fits right.
And once it's in place, it'll look perfect
so we can zoom in a bit here until it looks right.
So it looks like we need to rotate
the y axis over.
It's really cool to do this, actually to get into place,
but you're going to play around with these controls until you get it into place.
And once you get it into place,
what we can do now is select this pasty layer
and press the right bracket to cut it at this moment.
So that way it stops right here at this
initial marker that we made render it out to see how this looks.
All right, that looks pretty good.
And I kick into the frame.
All right, and one more thing you can do to make it more realistic
is you can go to a fax and you can search for camera lens blur
and you can drag this effect onto the still frame layer.
And then we can make it go from blurry to less blurry,
so it looks more realistic.
But if it's just blurry the whole time, it doesn't look very good.
So we can start it
at 5% blurry or the radius at five, so we can open up the effects
and select the toggle animation watch.
And then as we get into frame here
around here, we can lower this down to zero.
So that way is less blurry.
So now that we added the camera lens blur as we play it back, you can see the layer
goes from being blurry to in focus and it just looks more realistic.
So then we can repeat that same process for every still frame.
But the next one is a little bit different.
So let me show you how it works when creating a new solid.
So you would right click on the marker and go to marker time again,
select the footage.
And when you go to effect controls this time, make sure that the 3D camera tracker
is selected to see the points again and this time select,
you know, a parallel moment on the ground right click.
And this time
there's no create solid and camera because we already have the camera.
So just create solid and just like before
select the solid go back to project.
And with the second still frame selected press the alt key or the option key.
If you're on a Mac and keep that key
being held as you drag it on to the solid layer
and then you can go through and use these controls to, you know, bring it back up.
You can go to the layer controls just like we did before and scale it up
until it gets into frame.
So I already did this to every single frame,
plus added the lens blur effect to each layer.
And this is how the final effect looks.
So that's
how you create the freeze clone effect, as seen on Liam Ocean's Instagram
right now, go over to Liam Ocean on Instagram
and go give her some love and check out some of her cool effects.
If there's any other effects that you want me to create
that you've seen on social media,
just leave a comment below and I'll check it out.
And a huge thanks to Jason for sponsoring today's video.
Don't forget to try out smooth Q3 with my link below.
If you want to start creating more study shots
with your phone to create these cool effects.
All right, that's all for today's video.
And as always, keep creating better VIDEO with Gal.
See you next time. Bye, boo!