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- Good morning, what's up everybody?
Peter McKinnon here and welcome back
to another tutorial.
It is Monday, we are getting into it.
I'm just gonna teach you guys something quick today.
Something dope, something that you will probably
most definitely use if you shoot any type
of video, you will use this.
Before we get started, I wanna address
what you're probably thinking right now which is,
damn Pete, that's a bright t-shirt.
And yes, it most definitely is neon orange.
Fun fact, I've had this t-shirt for like,
like alm...
11 years.
(laughing)
The follow up question to that is,
how do you still fit into a t-shirt 11 years later?
And if you saw the bottom of this shirt
you would know the answer to that quite quickly.
Let's teach camera stuff, why don't we?
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Okay, so we all know what speed ramping in.
(whooshing)
Something's in slow mo
(whooshing)
you pick up the coffee mug
(gulping)
goes back down.
(crashing)
Card springs.
(zooming)
All of these cool, speed ramping is awesome.
If you have slow mo footage
and you love to use slow mo footage like I do,
speed ramping can really help at least
change it up a little bit, make it feel
a little bit different and sometimes it just
looks super badass.
Speed ramping stuff is amazing.
If you don't speed ramp (popping)
I'll leave the little thing right there,
you can check out that video.
But here's the problem with speed ramping
when you're shooting in slow mo.
Okay, so when you shoot in 120 frames a second
which is like what I do all my slow mo in,
or maybe you're shooting at 60 frames a second
depending on the camera that you have
maybe you're shooting even faster than that, who knows?
The thing is the Canon 1D X Mark II, specifically,
records in 30p.
So when you're taking that slow motion clip
and you're speeding it up so that maybe it pans
around somebody and right when it goes because their
shoulders (swooshing)
it speed ramps to the next side.
The problem is, there's no motion blur.
It just looks like a weird soap opera that you like
fast forwarded for two seconds and then hit play again.
And because you're filming in slow motion
plus the speed ramp, it's just this weird,
it looks weird.
And I didn't start doing this technique until like
two weeks ago when I was editing something and I was
speed ramping around myself and I was like
this looks weird.
So I figured to myself, why don't I just keyframe
in some directional blur into the speed ramp
and then boom, render that out,
Bob's your uncle, we're laughing.
That's a Canadian term if you wanna go ahead
and look that up, feel free, I'll wait.
So that's what I'm gonna teach you guys today.
Here's what it looks like if
you didn't use directional blur.
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Here's what it looks like with directional blur.
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So it's not like it's not crazy over the top
but it's one of those really nice subtle things
that when you're watching it, you don't know
that you like it but your brain knows that you like it.
You're like, I like that.
And then when you look back and you compare them
you're like, oh okay, yeah cool.
Directional blur, that actually enhances
it quite a bit.
A little tweak that makes a big, big difference.
And I love the little things that I can implement
into my work flow into my work that are very, very small
but make a big, big impact.
It's little things like that I feel
are sometimes more valuable to me than the big things
that you think need to make big impacts which ultimately
sometimes they don't.
I think that made sense.
Yeah, little things, big impacts.
Sometimes big things, don't make big impacts.
Okay, let's jump into the screen, figuratively.
All right, so here we have a normal clip.
This is the clip we're gonna be using.
I've selected my in and out points.
We hit space bar, it is just a 120 speed clip
slowly rotating around me as I am taking pictures
of Marcus in the middle of a road in northern Sweden.
So, cool clip, but way too long.
This just takes way too long.
Nobody wants to sit around and watch this
rotation happen for you know, 40 minutes.
So what do we do?
We speed ramp it.
So this is what it looks like when
it's speed ramped normally.
So it comes to here then whoosh,
goes all the way around.
And it looks much better.
But here's what it looks like with the motion blur,
with the directional blur.
It's super subtle but you can definitely see it.
When it just, shoowsh, goes around.
Play that again you can see
it's subtle but you know.
Like it's there.
We played the regular one again, it just doesn't
look the same.
It's pretty easy to do so let's just go ahead
and do it right now.
I'll delete these off the timeline.
This is the chunk that we wanna use.
So I set my in and my out points, I on my keyboard,
O on my keyboard to get my outpoint.
I can literally just drag straight into the timeline
from there and we're good to go.
I made this track bigger, by the way, so I can
see more details on it.
So you can just drag that up and you should be fine.
Go ahead and right click on this little effects symbol.
Go to Time Remapping, hit speed.
That's gonna bring up our speed ramp parameters
for this clip.
Command plus on your keyboard to zoom in a little bit.
So he'll hit space bar to preview this.
Pick a spot where we wanna start the ramp.
So let's just say we wanna start it here.
You're gonna hit P on your keyboard, you're gonna
click and make a point.
Hit A to get that cursor back, and on the right side
of where you made that point, click and hold and drag
all the way up.
We're gonna go a thousand times faster
than this 120 clip is.
So now if we're gonna play what that looks like
(swooshing)
and maybe we want it to stop right about there.
So we're gonna hit P again, make another point,
hit A, we're gonna drag that back down to 100.
That's bringin it back to normal 120 speed right there
and now we have a ramp.
So if we preview that (swooshing)
there we go.
Now, if we zoom in even more, command plus on
your keyboard, if you click this little point
and drag it to the right you can tweak these out
so it's a nice smooth transition
and we can do the same with this one going
the opposite way.
I think it was little bit longer.
Click on those, drag those out so it's nice and smooth.
So now we have a smooth speed ramp.
(swooshing)
It's not really like, it's not just like a harsh cut.
Like a slow, fast, slow.
It's (swooshing)
it's easing in and out which is important.
Okay, so from this point I'm gonna nest this clip now.
I feel like sometimes when I start to add multiple
effects and key frames and ramps to the same clip
things stop working and get weird.
So as I keep stacking effects and effects on top of
the same clip, I usually keep nesting it so that I
feel like I'm working with a clean slate.
It's kind of like collapsing all the layers
on your video clip.
Be sure to save it beforehand, you can even copy this
and paste it further down your timeline just in case
you do mess it up, or open a different sequence
and paste it in there so that you have a fresh copy
from when you started this just in case you do ruin it
or anything like that.
Although it doesn't really take very long to do.
So go ahead, right click on this hit nest
and hit enter.
You're good to go.
So that clip is now nested, we can apply more effects to it.
If you hit space bar you can see the speed ramp is
still there, like so.
Now we're gonna add the directional blur.
So go over here to effects, click on this little
magnifying glass, type in blur, hit enter,
directional blur is gonna show up right here.
Click that, drag it onto the clip, good to go.
Now over here in effects controls you're gonna see
at the very bottom here we have directional blur.
We have the direction and the blur strength, okay?
So if we were to make the blur strength, or the blur
length super dramatic it's just one big like
rawww directional blur, whahh.
It's a little bit too overkill.
I kind of like to have it around 11.
11's like a sweet spot for me.
It's just enough but it's not too bad.
And then if we make the direction of this
you can see that blur changes direction,
just like a clock.
So, throw it at like 94, 94's gonna give it like
a nice horizontal left to right blur.
We don't want it going up and down, obviously.
So like 94 and 11 is kind of where you want it.
But let's reset these to zero for a quick second
because we have to keyframe these into the exact
spots of where the ramp happens.
Now the one issue with nesting your clip
is I can't see, visually, where that ramp
happens anymore, but it's pretty easy to find it.
Like if you just use your arrow keys and cycle
through the clip one frame at a time
you'll notice it gets considerably faster once
you get to the ramp.
So like, normal, normal, normal, normal, there it is.
Like that's obviously where the ramp starts right there.
And then it ramps all the way around
and you can see instantly it slows down,
that's where the ramp stops.
It's not hard to find.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go right to where
the ramp starts, which is right here,
and we're gonna go back three frames.
One, two, three.
And we're gonna make keyframes by hitting
these little stopwatches with the direction
and the blur length at zero.
Then we're gonna go forward to where that ramp
starts, which is right there, and we're gonna
change this to our settings 94 and 11.
Perfect.
Now we see that blur kick in.
We're gonna use our arrow keys to go all the way over
to where that ramp stops, which is right about there.
We'll go back, right there, that's about where it stops.
We can go forward one.
We will make the same keyframes by hitting
these little diamonds.
Boom, boom.
And then we'll go forward two frames, one, two.
Whatever.
And then we'll make this zero.
The value of each of these zero.
So essentially what's happening is it's not blurred at all
and then when we get to our spot it keyframes from zero
up to our blur strength.
It keeps that motion blur going all the way through
that ramp and then it keyframes itself back down to zero.
So now when we play that in real time,
swoosh, boo that looks good.
Mmmm.
Throw a little sound effect in there,
little whoosh action.
(whooshing)
Mmmm.
That's it.
You've just keyframed in a directional blur,
added a speed ramp, and that clip looks
considerably better than when it was just up here
and it took 16 minutes to finish.
Let's watch it one more time 'cause it's just tasty.
(swooshing)
Oooooo.
Love it.
Have at it.
All right, so there you have it.
It's not very hard to do and I would encourage
you guys to think about sometimes, different ways
to enhance your footage with techniques that
you probably already know.
I didn't know how to do that, but I've keyframed
things in Premier before.
I've used speed ramps before.
We know that Premier and these different programs
that we use to edit in, Final Cut, that kinda stuff,
they have built in effects.
So how could we use those effects to keyframe them
into footage or use the skills that we've learned
in previous videos from previous people
from previous shoots to amalgamate them all together,
that's a fun word, to create better videos,
better visuals, tighter edits, how can we do that?
This is a perfect example of that.
It's nothing ground breaking
but it's the little things that make the big difference.
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And, and, I will see you guys in the next video.
Which will be tomorrow.
Because it's two minute Tuesday.
But didn't we stop two minute Tuesday?
Isn't that over?
Is it over?
I don't, I've said too much.
(swooshing)
Also, I went back to this backdrop because you guys
were like, where's the old backdrop?
Was so much better.
So um, here we are.
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Who wants to see more magic tricks?
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