The call came in at 6:57 a.m.
own at the beach.
They'd found a stolen gun,
5 spent shell casings
but this time
something different....
a boot print
Did we finally have a clue to who our suspect was?
And why am I talking this way?
Stick around
I'll show you why
Uh... I mean... how
I'd like to thank the good people at Filmora for sponsoring this video
To pull this magnifying effect off
you just want to grab either an image or a piece of footage that you want to use
for your project bring that down into your timeline in this case I'm just
using this image of a gun in the sand with a bunch of spent bullet casings
around it I'm gonna left click on that and crop the fit so it fits my entire
screen and then the next thing I'm gonna do is right-click on that choose copy
I'm going to add another video track in my timeline highlight it in the left so
that that track is activated and then right click in that track and choose
paste now I have two identical tracks stacked one on top of the other I'm
going to lock that bottom track in in the upper track I'm going to right click
on it choose crop and zoom and I'm going to crop in on the area that I want to
use for this particular effect in this case let's use this bullet casing here
I'm gonna leave enough room around it so I have something to work with and then
choose ok that now highlights that bullet casing and enlarges it in my
upper right preview window but I want to get a circular effect around it so in
order to pull that off in the upper left let's choose the effects tab and scroll
down on the left to utility grab the image mask feature and drag that down
right on top of that entire top track that will apply a mask to it now I might
want to adjust that mask so to do that let's double left-click on that upper
track in our timeline and under the image tab if we scroll down we'll see
under the video effects that the image mask has been applied now
default to this circular mask which is perfect because that's what I need to
use for this effect but you could change it to any shape that you might want to
use down below it you'll see I have the ability to control this mask I can
control the horizontal placement I can control the vertical placement but I
also can control the shape by pulling in the width or the height let's dial this
in just a little bit and get it centered right on that casing perfect now if I
left click on that track up in my timeline I can actually adjust it I want
it to line up so it looks like it's being magnified from the original casing
so let me try to line it up so it sits right on top of that casing that's
pretty close now here's where you can do some really cool things in the timeline
grab that top track left click on it and drag it straight up that'll move it to
another track and open up a track in between our two I'm gonna use this white
circle to create an outline for this particular track I actually created this
white circle with my Photoshop editing software but you could find something
like this online very easily it's just a white dot PNG file that has no
particular background to it that way it'll allow the track below it to show
through let me lock that top track so I don't accidentally move it and if I left
click up in the upper right preview window I can now move that white dot
around now it's a little bigger than I need so I'm gonna left click drag and
reshape it just a touch what can be really helpful here is using the arrow
keys on your keyboard for minut adjustments I just want to make it look
more like an outline for that particular shape that looks pretty close so now
what I have is the lower track the circle track and then the magnified
bullet casing now I can find in the timeline where I want that magnification
to happen and I'm just gonna slice through the top track and the white dot
track and I can lose the stuff before it then I can figure out how long I wanted
to run for do the same thing and lose the other end tails so now I'll have a
section when it gets to here where this will appear as a magnified section but I
want to get it to feel like it's really jumping up so to do that let's double
left-click on our footage in our timeline and in the upper left word says
motion let's choose that boom effect double left clicking on that will
apply it to the particular piece of footage in the timeline but we want that
white outline to do the same so let's double left click on that and apply that
same boom effect as well now when it gets to this spot in our timeline you'll
see that that looks like it's jumping off the screen and being magnified but
there's one more trick to really make this pop using the track manager I'm
going to add one more video track above the first track I now have an extra
track place between my main footage and that magnified section in the upper left
click on sample colors choose black or whichever color you like and bring that
down right into that open track so that it fills up the entire space between the
magnified section and the main track now if you put your playhead on this section
you'll see the black completely covers the main footage but if you double
left-click on that and in the upper left under the image tab choose compositing
and now you can dial back the amount of transparency in that black allowing that
lower track to show through a bit but it'll give it a much more subdued effect
allowing your magnified section to really pop you can also consider adding
a little dissolve transition to the beginning and the end of this black
section so that it doesn't come in really harshly and just slowly fades in
underneath your magnified pop kind of cool huh if you'd like to learn more
cool fill more tips tricks and techniques make sure you click the video
that's on screen now where the ones I'll put down below peace