- What's up everybody! Peter McKinnon here and today
we're talking about three little camera tricks that
you can add to your videos to make your edits a little
more fun and a little more interesting.
So without further adieu, let's roll that intro.
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I just broke Steve.
Steven, I gonna have to glue your ass.
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Alright guys, welcome back to another tutorial.
Monday morning, we're going to hit the ground running.
If you notice, my voice is like seven octaves lower
because I've been sick, had a really sore throat and
I've been under the weather all last week.
So I apologize for the void of not posting videos.
I really wanted to, so today's the first day I've
really felt a lot more like up to it.
So, back in the saddle trying to get
something out for you guys.
This is a topic I've wanted to cover for a little while.
There's a few things I really love about it.
Camera tricks and camera effects and doing these
little things within your edits, is so much fun
because they're subtle. It's not like a big explosion
or you're doing green screen effects or anything like...
These are very subtle, little tweaks that
might go over some people's heads,
they might miss them completely. They might have to rewind.
That's what I love about it.
Because that shows the level of commitment that you have
as a film maker, as an editor.
To go through this trouble to just add something
so small and subtle that it might actually be missed.
But if it's not, the people who notice are like
wow, that's awesome, like this guy puts a lot
of work into his stuff.
And getting into that kind of mindset is going
to help you grow as a film maker or someone that
does photos or videos or whatever it is that you do.
But going the extra mile, to just get that done
even if someone's going to miss it.
That's the principle I love behind this whole topic.
So, without talking anymore, we're going to go over
three of my favorite effects to do.
I've done them in some vlogs, some people
have missed them. Some people have obviously caught them,
because they're more obvious than others.
But we're going to talk about the clothes changing effect.
We're going to talk about like frame blending.
Walking in one side, coming out the other and
reaching through like 3D space.
And we're going to talk about a dolly zoom,
which is something I love to do with drones and cameras
in general, it's just a super awesome little camera
trick that you can do within the edit to make
your B-roll footage just look like what is happening.
So, three of my favorite things.
Let's start with the clothes changing effect.
So, obviously a great way to transition from
one scene to another within your vlogs, your videos,
your films, what have you.
It's a little more of a light-hearted thing,
I don't really see it done in movies very often,
but in vlogs all the time.
If you just want a fast transition,
the clothes change effect is phenomenal for that.
It's helpful, it actually helps move your story along
within a vlog if you're doing something like that.
But what I like about it, is it can be done
in so many different ways.
Part of the reason I love this effect too is it kind of
goes back to my roots as a magician,
it feels a little bit like a quick change artist,
something like that.
So all that's happening is there's a cut in the footage.
So you would snap your fingers and your clothes
would be different. Now nothing happened there
because I didn't actually do it, but what I would
want to do, is I would snap, take a look at my frame,
say okay, my thumb is like right above Steve Job's head
right there, so when I snap that's where I am.
My head's pretty much center frame
and I'm not going to move my body.
So what I would do, is I would snap,
deliver the line of content that I wanted to say.
What's up guys, alright so we're going to head out
I gotta get rid of this sweater
and put something else on.
(snapping sound) Boom.
I'm going to look where I am in that frame,
okay now I'm a little bit to the right of his head.
And then I'm going to take this off,
trying not to move as much as I can.
I'm going to have the article of clothing
that I want to change into pretty close.
So, I'm going to put that on.
If anything moves that's out of the ordinary.
Anything in the background moves,
anything in the foreground moves,
my hat gets crooked.
Anything like that is a tell.
Once you're in whatever you wanted to change into
put your hand back to about where it was
at the last frame, then deliver the next line of content.
(snapping sound) Okay, good to go.
When you cut those two together,
I like to take the snap from the first clip and
carry that audio of just the snap into the second clip.
It's when you try to line up the snaps
that things start to get a little mix match and
they don't work as well because then you got two snaps
or it's a little bit weird, so I take the snap from the
first clip audio, drag that over the second clip
where I'm now in these clothes and then when you put
it together, it looks like this.
What's up guys, alright so we're going to head out,
I got to get rid of this sweater
and put something else on.
(Snapping sound) Okay, good to go.
And there you have it. That's the clothes changing effect.
Now in a recent vlog, I did the same thing.
I jumped up, clapped my hands, came down,
I was in a completely different outfit and
that was done exactly the same way.
I just remembered where I was,
where my feet were in that room,
when I clapped where my shoulders looked.
I looked at the clip, went and changed.
Came back to the exact same spot and
then just jumped and did the same clap and
then cut them together using the audio from the first clip,
so it didn't, (clapping hands) didn't sound weird.
But using effects like this creatively,
is where they really shine.
So let's say you're walking out of your house
and you're vlogging and you say,
oof, should have brought a jacket, boom
now you're in a jacket, and you go,
I need a hat too, boom, uh wrong hat, boom
and now you got the right hat on.
Using them like that, as little characters or
little story arcs within your vlog or within your video,
is where I find these effects really shine.
So, now this is a pretty basic concept and effect,
but I did see a ton of questions about it when
I put it in a vlog in the comments a couple weeks back.
So, I just wanted to touch on that and deliver that
to you guys, so for those of you who don't know,
now you know.
So this next little camera trick that I love to do,
I don't even know what you would call it, maybe
frame blending or frame masking.
Let's just call it frame masking, essentially it's
the same technique that I taught in how to clone yourself,
we're just using it in a different concept.
There's a little bit of a different way to edit,
which I'm going to show you guys on the screen
in a second here.
But essentially the concept is you walk off frame
but you come in on the other side of the frame
before you're fully gone on this side.
Now, what's weird about it, what gives people the Uhhh!
Is that you're on frame, on each side of the frame,
at the same time for only about a second.
Now to do this, you're going to want to have your camera
on a tripod and you're going to want to have
nothing moving in the background.
You can have stuff moving in the background, but
it's going to be way easier if you don't.
In last week's two minute Tuesday, my chair spun
a little bit when I got up and that's what made
it look like a cut because where I masked the two clips
together, the chair went from spinning to still and
that made it look like there was a cut even though
the background wasn't moving.
So, if you have nothing moving in the background,
this is going to be way easier.
So, let me get rid of the chair
and show you what I mean.
So, essentially you'd be standing here and
you walk off frame.
Now when I masked those two together,
it looks like I just walked off this side and
came right back on without ever pausing a beat but
you saw me in the same frame on both sides
for about a second.
Okay, so how do you actually do this in Premier Pro?
It's easier than you think. I'm going to show
you how to do it on screen right now.
So, if you want to follow along, now is the time.
So, once you have your two clips open in Premier,
the one that you are going to walk out of,
if you're kind of frame blending this thing and
the frame you're going to walk into.
You have them side by side, just like this.
That's where I walk away and this one is where I walk in.
So the key, the idea, the objective here is to
blend those together so it's one smooth frame but
having me on frame at the same time for like a second,
which what throws you for a loop, it's like Uhhh..what!
This is how you do that.
It's not a cut, a cut would be too abrupt.
Now in the last two minute Tuesday there was a little bit
of a cut, like I said because that chair was moving.
But here, there's no chair, we should be fine.
So let's find the spot where I walk off frame
and then where I want to come in
on the frame on the other side.
So let's say right about here would be good.
Nice and subtle.
Let's take this clip and move it up.
This is where I am walking in on frame.
So we'll start it right about there.
I'm going to slide this over.
Now, here's the issue with that.
Because we've slid that over top of the initial frame,
you're not going to be able to see the first frame now.
So, if we played that back
I just disappear and that's not what we want.
We want this to look like a loop,
like I'm walking off one side, coming into the other.
So we have to mask myself out and key frame that mask away,
so that it's a smooth, continuous loop.
Sounds harder than it is, this is how you do it.
Go to the first frame of this clip right here.
We're going to make this to about ten percent,
just so we can see the whole thing.
I know it's a little bit small on the screen here, but
I'll zoom in a little bit so you guys can see.
Now if we hide this, I click Enable,
you can see my body's right there so that's where
we want to start the mask.
So we'll go back to Enable clip,
you're going to come over here with that clip selected.
Hit the pen tool, which opens up the mask properties and
we're just going to make a rectangle from here to here,
here, over and join that up.
Once you've done that, come over to the mask settings,
hit inverted. Boom. You have shown up on the frame.
Now if we play that back,
it works, but you see this disgusting, hideous line.
And you think to yourself, what, that's not going to work.
What is that? That's horrible, like that's uhhh!
Easy to get rid of, you're just going to come over,
make sure you're selected on that top clip
where you mask is and you're going to
feather that line out by just dragging this
until it's completely gone.
You can move that mask expansion just a little bit.
Don't move it too much because you'll see it
moving on the wall there. See that?
So, that was at zero, we're just going move it a little bit.
Maybe it's like...
25, 30 max.
Now we've got our mask there, that line is feathered away,
looking good. So if you play that back now,
looks pretty good, but now we've got that big, black
chunk here. So the only way to get rid of that is to
go back to where this frame ends down here and
key frame that mask away as the clip continues.
So, here's how you do that.
So what we're going to do
is we're going to start moving that the second my body
disappears from this right side here.
So my body is gone,
we want to start moving that mask already.
So we're going to select that layer.
Hit Mask, so we can see that.
We're going to hit this little button here that
says track selected mask forward one frame and
then we're going to move this over,
we're going to hit that again,
we're going to move this over.
And the goal is to get this mask off the screen
before this clip ends.
Select it forward again, move that over.
Select it forward, move that over.
We're pretty much good at this point and
we'll just get it off the screen completely.
So now when we play that back,
you won't see any black spots there because
we've key framed it right off the frame.
So now when we play that back,
Looks good.
The only discrepancy in this would be
the shadows on the wall, so there's no way
that I can really get rid of those, that's why
I mean things moving in the background make it harder.
A chair spinning, shadows, because I've got a key light
right here, which is casting different light on to
this side of the wall than it is this side of the wall.
So, like midday or really even light are things you
want to look for to make this effect look as best
as you can, but if we were just playing this nobody's
really going to catch that if it's a vlog.
It's just the extra little bit of effort that counts
and makes this effect super, super awesome.
Love it.
Alright, the third and final camera trick and
I maybe wouldn't even call this one a camera trick,
more of just like a cool editing techinque,
but I love it so much that I had to include it.
You guys have probably seen it done in my videos and
others as it's a popular effect,
but it's called the dolly zoom and it's when
you have the camera moving backwards,
if that's a drone flying backwards or
you're just manually moving the camera backwards or
you have it on a stabilizer and
as that camera's tracking backwards,
you digitally zoom within your editing software, forwards.
And give this crazy, paralax, trippy effect where
it's like space and time, I can't even explain it.
It looks like this. It just looks so cool and
it's a great way to make your footage,
your drone shots, your tracking shots look exceptionally...
it just makes them look insane.
I remember the first time I saw it, I was like,
what is happening? How is that being achieved?
And when I learned about how easy it was,
I started doing it all the time.
So use it sparingly, but it's pretty simple to do.
Find a shot that you have that's tracking backwards.
The easiest thing that I found to do is fly a
drone straight backwards because
you've got that stabilization built in.
It looks great.
Fly it backwards, whatever you're going to do.
Bring that clip into Premier.
Go into the effect controls.
You're going to hit scale to start a stop watch.
A key frame at the very beginning of that frame.
Go to the very end of that frame and then
zoom the clip in, it works best with 4K footage
because you've got more data and more room to play with but,
go to the end of that frame, zoom in a little bit.
Don't go overboard, subtlety is key here just like all
of these effects that we've been talking about.
But you go to the end, just zoom in a little bit
and that's going to add that last key frame,
so that zoom's going to happen over time
from the first key frame to the last key frame
and when you play that back, it's that easy. It's done.
You've got this crazy, trippy effect that I just love to do.
And it makes your drone shots look a little more special
and a little more unique.
So I know you guys are going to have fun with that one.
Alright, so we have the clothes changing effect,
we have the frame blending, worm hole portal effect and
then we have the dolly zoom.
Three awesome things that you guys can add to your videos
to make your edits, your films, your vlogs
a little more exciting and add a little bit of camera magic.
I hope you guys enjoyed that video.
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and, I'll see you guys tomorrow.
I'm going to go drink some tea, peace. (laughs)
Ahhh.
So, ope, ope, alright we're back...
gonna have to glue it.