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All you're gonna need is a camera and a software that can cut video.
Here are 5 super-simple video hacks!
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Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to Creative Tuesday,
and let's kick it off with the first video hack called the bullet time,
which was made famous by The Matrix film.
Take a chord as a distance reference to where your subject stands.
Let your subject take a pose, he or she can even jump in the air,
but you wanna grab a picture at the right time.
Try to use your display's info to align the subject,
because in the next shot, after you've moved about 15 degrees around,
you snap another picture on that same place.
Keep doing this for an entire round.
And once you got all your pictures, simply place them all together
in your favorite video editing software.
Every picture now becomes one frame and you got yourself a quick Bullet Time effect.
Video hack number 2! Ever thought about creating an infinite zoom?
Well, It’s quite easy, actually!
You start off with a first shot of anything while stepping backwards.
You then take this clip and load it into anything that can play it back,
for example, my phone.
I play the clip and film it so that it covers my entire view.
At a certain point Yannick, the camera guy, will also step backwards.
You then load this clip into another device and do the exact same thing.
Repeat this as much as you want.
Finally, bring all of your clips into your video editing program.
We are using Adobe Premiere Pro.
Just place all of your clips in the right order next to each other.
And after that, you wanna seamlessly cut them together.
So, trim your first clip to the same point where you start walking backwards...
...in your second shot.
It takes a little bit of time to find the right spot, but once you got a little sequence,
it looks awesome!
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Hack Number 3!
On one of our previous videos Lorenzo did a great job at playing Harry Potter,
so, today he can do that again!
Simply film your subject while he or she jumps into the air.
Every time you wanna move a little bit further.
It's best that you film this from a tripod to avoid any shake.
In post production, you cut away every part where Lorenzo stands on the floor,
so you end up with a sequence of him floating through the air.
And, if you wanna get that static tripod shot away,
you can select the whole bunch, right-click and choose Nest.
On that nested sequence I'm adding a fake camera motion
which is a free-to-download pack from our website.
Number 4! Let your talent stand on a little height.
Take distance with your camera and lay a mug with water in it in front of your lens.
Try to align the two perspectives.
Important now is that both the foreground and background are in focus.
So, what you wanna do is close your aperture,
which will increase the depth of field.
Then let your actor jump down and after he did, drop a little rock into the mug.
In post production, just cut out the part where you dropped the rock
and align the jump with the water splash.
And this perspective trick can be used for many things.
It's one of the oldest film tricks in the book!
And that brings us to the last one!
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The easiest way to make a hyper-lapse!
Snap a picture, take one step forward, snap another one, one step forward, etcetera.
What you wanna pay attention to while doing this is like with the first trick,
that you align a specific point of a building or whatever with something on your display.
The smaller your steps and the more pictures you grab, the cooler the effect will be.
In post production, you again wanna place every picture as one frame in your timeline.
It's really important that we're going to stabilize the entire footage now.
There're two ways of doing that. The first one is if you're not so familiar with editing yet.
What you then wanna do is create a small square.
Position this to that same point you were aligning to, while making the pictures.
With every frame, you wanna adjust its position now,
so that it perfectly matches with that little dot.
On the final end, you nest everything together
and scale that group a little bit up.
If everything went well, you would see now a smooth hyper-lapse.
For those who are familiar with Adobe After Effects:
with the build-in tracker you can set the track type to Stabilize
and let your tracking point move with that building.
This obviously goes a lot faster!
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Thank you so much for watching...
...and like always...
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...stay creative!
-I really don't know why I'm clapping the entire time.
I think I watched PewDiePie's videos a bit too much.
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-Alright, let's do this!
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