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Hey, everybody! I'm Nathaniel Dodson from tutvid.com
Welcome right into this Premiere Pro tutorial,
where we're going to take a look at creating this parallel
sky, rotation, transition - you know what? Just check it out!
That might be the easiest way to describe what this is.
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Pretty cool, right? I thought it was pretty neat.
We're going to cover how to do everything that you just saw, as well
as kind of a neat, little trick when it comes to exporting this video.
Really, it has to do with the setup of the video, well, you know what?
You'll see, if you stick around and check it out.
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And with that out of the way, let's jump into Premiere right now,
and check this thing out.
Ah, well here I am in Premiere Pro, and the first thing I'll do is
create a new sequence from this video clip by right clicking on the clip,
and choosing to create a new sequence.
Then, I'm going to find the sequence in the project bin, and just change
the name of it to something like "flipped effect," just so it's not the full, long
video file's name.
Then I'm going to drag in my sound track beneath this,
I got my sound track from Epidemic Sound - they aren't sponsoring
this video, but number one: they should be, and number two:
they still have a pretty killer setup over there. Lots of great stuff, I love them
quite a bit.
To get the best outcome with this effect, you really want to use a video
that has the top edge that's one continuous edge of something.
It can be a solid color, it can be the sky, it could be water -
really any kind of solid color, or texture that will blend or mesh well.
And it's also best to have the foreground content of the video somewhat
close to that top edge.
In my case, with this video, that means I'll actually be better served
to have the RV driving a little closer to the top of the frame of this shot.
To do this, I'll select the clip on my timeline, then look to the effect controls panel
and I'll boost the scale of the clip to like 120%.
Now, this will be a little detrimental to our quality, and we'll be
talking a little about quality later. So, we just have to know that we're going to
take the good with the bad here.
But after I upscale this to 120%, I'll then adjust the positioning for the Y-axis
until there's less sky in the shot. Just bump it up a little, maybe move it over,
I can double-click on my monitor and just manually move it with the mouse, as well.
Once I've got a shot with less sky, I'll right click on the clip in the timeline,
and choose Nest, to create a nested sequence.
And I'm going to name this - something stupid - I'll just name it "nesty."
Next, go to the effects panel down here, and search for the replicate effect.
Then, drop that on the video clip that we just were working on, really,
the nested sequence, and then set the replicate to 3 in the effect controls panel.
Now, we're going to go and find an effect called Mirror in the effects panel.
Drag that, drop it on the clip. And here I'm going to set the mirror effect to
1279 on the X, and 540 on the Y, and I'm going to give a reflection angle of
0 degrees.
Then, I'm going to right click on this mirror effect and choose to copy it and
then right click in the effect controls panel, and choose to paste the effect.
I'm going to change the reflection angle here to 180 degrees. Then I'm going
to change the X input to 640, and I'll the leave the Y value at 540. That's - that's fine.
Now, copy and paste this mirror effect again.
And this time, I'm going to set the reflection angle to 90 degrees, and here
I will leave the X value at 640, and this time I'm going to change the Y value
to 719.
Next, I'm going to copy and paste the mirror effect one last time,
and here I'll set the reflection angle to 270 degrees, I'll change the Y value to
360, and leave the X value at 640, just like I did with the last copy and paste.
Now, a quick pro tip, this is kind of a base effect, where we create this three across,
three up and down, fully reflected video effect.
And I use it in a number of preset transitions, and things like that that I like to do.
So it's a good idea to save this whole thing as a preset.
So you can just hold down you CMD/CTRL key, select those five different effects
in your effect controls panel, right click, choose to save them as a preset, and for something
like this, I would probably name it something like "3x3." Just as a three by three across,
we know exactly what it's going to do when we add it to any clip or adjustment layer.
Alright, so, now with that out of the way, we're going to search for the transform effect,
and drag that over, and drop it on our video clip.
And the first thing I'm going to do is set the scale in Transform here to 300% to zoom
us back into the center area of this 3x3 clip effect, and kind of make the video look,
you know, normal again.
Now that that's done, let's build the effect by bumping in six or so frames into
where the first audio drop is beginning to hit.
Right here at the beginning of this, I'm going to drop a key frame for the position
parameter of the transform effect. Then I'll move to the end of that first peak of sound
in my main timeline, and I'll adjust the Y parameter here of the position, I'm going
to adjust the Y to 700, to push the footage downward a little bit.
Now, we want to blend the sky coming down from the top, just to make it -
make it just mesh together, blend together, whatever, a little bit better.
So, I'm also going to add an animation to the mirror effect that's controlling
the row of video that is kind of dealing with the stuff above our center video.
So I can use the little FX icons in effect controls to turn on and off effects until
I find the one that it is.
I happen to know it's the one here that's right above Transform.
So I'll select that, and in this effect I'll drop key frame for the reflections
center parameter, right where the other animation for our position began,
by aligning those key frames and then move to where the second key frame is
for the position parameter in the transform effect. You can use the little next
previous key frame buttons, by the way.
And here, above the second key frame, I'm going to change the reflection center
to 445 on the Y-axis.
Now, go ahead and hit the little rectangle icon to drop a rectangular mask.
I'm going to drag the mask over to the center left position, and then drag a
selection over the anchor points on the right side of the mask, and hold SHIFT
and drag these all the way over to the other side of the frame, in fact,
a little past the other side of the frame.
Now once I have my mask in place, I'll set the feather of the mask to 110, and maybe
even bump the mask expansion to 25, or something right around there.
Now, nothing on the mask gets animated. The mask is just going to hang out there
and do it's thing. All the animation is happening in the mirror effect itself.
So now let's do the cool turning and flipping rotations to make this effect really work.
Move the playhead to an area of the timeline a few frames before you see another
audio drop.
I'll move it over right here and I'll add key frame for the rotation parameter, by
hitting the stopwatch icon there, next to the word "rotation," and then I'll
move to the right, right where the first part of the drop is peaking.
And I'll change the rotation to -60 degrees. Then I'm going to move the playhead
to just before the second part of this audio bump here.
Right before it starts, I'm going to add another key frame that's going to hold
the -60 rotation. I'm going to do that by clicking on the little diamond icon,
that's sort of the new key frame button.
Then I'll move to the peak of that second audio bump, and I'll just hit that little reset
rotation parameter, the little fliparooski arrow right there.
And then I'll select all four of these key frames, I'll right click, and just choose
Auto Bezier to add just some nice swing and bump easing to this animation
we just created. It really helps kind of top the effect off a little bit.
Now I'll also uncheck the use composition shutter angle option here in the
transform effect. And I'll also specify right below that a 360 degree shutter angle,
you may need to scroll down if you don't see it right away. But trust me,
it's in there.
This is just going to give us some nice motion blur to go with our animation.
Now, I can move down to the next bump in audio, and add another animation,
and maybe this time I'll animate the rotation going the other direction.
So I'll just go straight 135 degree angle, and I'll use the technique that we just
used. After that, I'll add one last animation that flips this thing directly to
90 degrees, and then back.
So we'll have two additional animations here, and then we'll be ready to render out
our video clip.
So, speaking of rendering this thing out - because of how we created this effect,
we've really hurt the quality of the video.
And it'll render out something like 360p quality. Even if we have our settings set
to a 1080p export.
Just because of that whole 3x thing we did, and then we boosted the size to 300%
to compensate. But remember,
even the original video clip we had boosted to 120% to get the framing and
composition that we wanted.
So it's not perfect, but the best and fastest work-around that I've found for
getting a much higher quality export - depending on the footage you, and everything -
but what I've found works the best in almost all situations, is to do exactly this...
That would be, create a new sequence by again right clicking the video clip as we did
at the beginning of this tutorial, and creating a sequence from it and then going
Sequence>Sequence Settings and make sure you're still working with 29.97 frames
there near the top.
And then we're going to set the size to the rather massive 5760x3240 resolution.
So this is just three times the size of our original image.
Now, we can right click on the clip in the timeline, it's that small - small sitting
in the middle there of the composition now.
Now we can right click the video on the timeline, you can see it sitting there,
it looks kind of small in the middle of our sequence now, doesn't it?
And we'll right click on that video clip in the timeline, and choose to scale it to the
frame size.
Then we'll jump back over to the finished effect that we have in just our standard, 1080p
sequence. We can select all the effects that we have in the control panel there.
The replicate, the mirrors, and the transform, by just holding down CMD/CTRL and
clicking them all, and then right click and choose to copy them.
Now, head back over to the new, massive sequence, and select the video clip
on the timeline and paste these effects into the effect controls panel.
Now, side note, very, very important here. Make sure you drag the transform effect
to the bottom of the stack and drag the replicate effect back to the top of the stack.
Now, if you have a slow computer, or even a moderately fast computer, things
are going to slow way down here. Because this is a massive file at this point.
But, what you can do, is export this huge file and downsize it - we can downsize it,
at this point to a standard 4k size.
And we can get from that a passable 1080p file.
I've found that the best settings for me come when I'm exporting using
the 4k preset within the H.264 selection in the export panel, and I push the
bitrate MBPS, the megabits per second, I push that up to 50, and I'll use
the variable bitrate, it's the VBR, I'll just do one pass.
That seems to be pretty good. It's much, much better than just exporting straight
up at 1080p. For some reason, the quality is just horrendous at that size.
So if you export the 4k, you can get a decent quality video, and then you just,
you know, if you're playing it in QuickTime, you zoom back a little bit, and
it actually looks pretty decent.
Obviously, in my case, because I bumped it that initial 120% way back at the beginning,
we're just going to have some limitations in terms of quality,
because we're upsizing the video and it's really not meant to be upsized like that.
So, I just have to keep that in the back of my mind. But you can play
with different settings, and different sizes, and see what works for you.
And just find out a good way to get a nice, high quality version of this really cool
effect.
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we have created this effect!
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So, for creating this effect in Premiere Pro, and working with transform, and easing, and
just everything else that went into making this happen, guys! That's it!
Get it? Got it? Good!
Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com, I'll catch you in the next one.
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