Hey what's up ladies and gentlemen in today's video we're gonna see how to
recreate this super 8th vintage film look
all right so I hope you enjoyed that little intro I'm a really big fan of the
super 8 Luke it just creates an entire vibe an entire mood that is so different
from nowadays cameras and yes just a lot of fun to play around with so in today's
video I'm going to be doing a tutorial on how to recreate this entire effect we
will be using an assets back from smash works I will talk about that in a second
but it's just necessary when it comes down to recreating things like that
you do need stock footage you do need well prepared assets and the better
these assets aren't the better your result is gonna be and I'm a safe smash
works really nailed it on that one so let's have an overview here here is the
smash works website where you can see all of their assets that they have
created they spent a lot of hours into making this entire effect so you can
achieve everything in a couple of minutes which is just awesome you have
these hand-painted titles which look really cool in combination with the
vintage film because a new modern kind of motion graphic wouldn't really work
with that and they have plenty of funds that you can use the vintage film
overlays which we will be looking at in today's video which is also really cool
so let's open up a Dooley Premiere Pro and see how to get started so I will
also provide you a simple video clip here which I just added it together here
I actually went on a Europe trip like two weeks back I went there for three
weeks I saw a lot of awesome countries and I'm also going to be making a travel
video for death I also flew over to ICC it's gonna be a
pretty cool video I think so hopefully you'll see that soon but yeah so I
basically took a few clips here I just pasted them together it didn't
put too much effort into this but I did look at like what could work for a
vintage film okay so here we have a vintage Metro which fits in a vintage
film so that's also something you have to take care of while filming also
everything is hand held I'm not gonna use gimble's they didn't have Gimbels at
the time so you really don't have to care about the movement also don't think
too much about composition people weren't so obsessed with composition
back then so try to make it look like it's been shot in that time and then you
can replicate it also like for example this shot is actually not a perfect shot
for a super8 camera because it has a blurry background and those cameras
didn't have that but anyway I just wanted to kind of mix the vibe of the
old school with the new school so kind of making a new neo super 8 so maybe I
just found something new here so I'm going to drag this in here in my
timeline I'm going to change the sequence settings and this is a full HD
clip I'm also going to import a song I actually use this song here from Vito
beats for those that follow me on well for a while now they know I work very
closely with la vita beats because he has some awesome tracks that you can
download the link in the description if you if you want to go and check them out
so
the song really also helps the vintage a lot okay so what I'm going to do first
is go to the sequence settings and change my resolution actually due 10/9
well 1920 to 1440 and if I click okay and that's gonna make it a little bit
more vertical but that's just to prepare it for the peg that we're gonna be using
another important thing with when it comes down to super 8 film is that super
8 film didn't have 24 FPS 25 or 30 FPS was more like 812 FPS so the frame rate
was a lot slower than nowadays cameras so what we need to do in order to
replicate the effect is to actually cut out some frames and to do that what we
can do in Adobe Premiere Pro is go to the effect step here and search for
posterized time right here and drag that on your clip if you go to effects
controls right here you'll see that the current frame rate is set to 24 so we're
gonna click on that to set it to 12 if you're gonna play this back immediately
you can see the frame rate dropping to 12 which is really cool and gives that
vintage look next thing you want to do is match the course to older cameras the
most important thing in order to match the course to a super 8 is to look at
real super 8 footage and try to narrow down as precise as possible that's
completely up to you I'm gonna be showing you a few techniques that I
found work well but of course if I would spend more time on this I would get
better results so that's a job that you will have to do so what I like to do
first is go into the color tab here and before when they were shooting with
super 8 when you are in an underexposed shot you would introduce a lot of noise
in your image and that's not what you want you want to have a nice clean as
possible image so what they did was kind of overexposed it a little bit to get
rid of all the noise but then in the highlights for example sometimes on the
face it would be overexposed on the skies completely blown out so that's
something that you also have to take care of not too
expose your shots but for example if you have a shot like this increase the
exposure increase the compressed in decreases shadows and increase the
highlights kind of getting rid of all the dynamic range that you have in these
cameras that makes it so awesome nowadays but you really want to kind of
make it look blown out also the separation you can pop it up here and
another important thing is to have an off white balance which means not
off-white the terrible brand but not to have a perfect white balance so for
example go more into the blues and maybe or maybe you want to go more to the
greens very subtle this already looks more vintage or it may be more to the
magenta I'm gonna keep it for magenta now and also a little bit in the blue
kind of make the image look dirty okay so great right here you can see the
overexposed area so that's what we want in the super 8 look next we can go into
the creative fab and also play with the sharpen and this footage before wasn't
so sharp as nowadays footage so we really want to kind of bring that down a
bunch like - 25 30 something like that
okay great then you can play around with these
colors over here or we can actually double click on this and go into the
color wheels I like to work with these a little bit more and introduce for
example magentas in the shadows a bunch like red or magenta in between these to
get these colors here and in the shadows and then we can also introduce maybe
some kind of greenish of course let's play around a little bit or maybe more
like orange tones is also pretty cool and then we can introduce a little bit
of green in the highlights so this looks privileged to me maybe a little bit too
much of course I'm exaggerating for this video it's up to you to make it subtle
and to compare it to real footage but this looks pretty pretty good next thing
I want to import the vintage film overlay well-known it's actually my set
here the frame overlay that's what I mean so everything that I'm going to be
using is from smash works we're going to import that a little bit higher and we
can see currently it's a 4k video so we should just scale it down a little bit
let's go back to the Edit tab and go to effects controls and scale it down to 50
and there we go so now we have this awesome look I'm so in love with it cool
so I'm going to hold alt and drag it over here and then kind of paste it like
so and then we have our entire video clip in our super 8 aspect ratio next
what we want to do is go for the film texture loops we can play with these as
well but maybe first let's go for a super 8 black HD here and these are the
looks we want to add to this to make it look really cool so we're gonna bring
that on top as well and also scale it down or actually I don't know if it
should be scaled down you know 100 percent is actually good so now we're
good to the blending mode and change it to a leiden or a screen play around with
these two blending modes depending on each scene it's gonna look a little bit
different I also want to kind of narrow it down a little bit more so we'll go to
the core and I will go to the basic color correction and bring down the
blacks the shadows maybe the exposure even to not get it too obvious
but that looks really cool okay we can go back to the editing now and I'm going
to maybe look at a different one with a little bit more variation they all look
different for example we're gonna bring in this one and this one okay
one more okay and we can copy these settings here from the Illuma treat
color control see and base it on all of these and then also change the blending
modes of each one to align them you can also reuse the first one they're all
loopable but yeah I like to add some variation here cool next what you want
to do is click on your original video clip and hold alt and drag it up once
and twice we're gonna click on one and then just bring it down you can see that
you have this mask over here which makes it look like it's a film and that is
currently rolling
all right and then we can also offset maybe everything a little bit more to
the right we can for example also play with the texture loops let's add one
texture loop I'm also gonna bring these just one up texture loop to add a little
bit more noise for example let's scale it a little bit and then set it to the
screen before after a little bit more kind of grunge
there we go so we also have these birds here that we
can use and these are also really cool like the for film always had some kind
of glitches in between some burns especially on over land well when you
did like transitions so for example we can add a transition like this and boom
it starts we can also and look at my hierarchy of the layers so first I have
my footage and then I have a texture then I have the frame overlay and then I
have my effect here of the sides and in between I have my burn so really the
hierarchy is very important try to kind of duplicate it or else play around and
make your own thing it's completely up to you but like right here it's an
awesome burn I'm actually going to make it a little bit shorter and bring it
over even shorter and then we have a nice cut like that super or actually we
have to use it on the next roll cut like right here awesome
so these burns really add a lot of details I also found some sound effects
on epidemics sound I will put a link in the description below for epidemic like
right here I have a camera timer and these sound effects really help a lot
like if you add them in your shot here and this is for example the constant
rolling sound effect I'm going to lower that to like minus 15 and DC bells but
having that in the background
if you look at the beginning of this tutorial in the preview and with these
sound effects you really bring that vibe there so it's not only visual but also
try to emulate the Sun and just make the entire experience like you're watching a
video even in that time so you're not in 2019 watching a vintage film you're
probably in 1970 watching an old movie and that's what you want to have the the
audience feel to travel back in time alright so basically does everything you
had to do in order to create this entire effect the last thing that I want to
take a look at is for the graphics here we have the motion graphics template
which is also from smash works and you can import that just by clicking here
and then importing their motion graphics template and I'm gonna be using the
hand-painted use any font I'm gonna click on that and drag it into my scene
here I'm gonna make it shorter and bring it beneath the burn here so we have that
transition from title to actual video and now we can click on it make it 50%
in size and scale because it's a 4k resolution clip now we can rename this
super8 we can choose a font we can choose a
size letter spacing
cool change puller maybe and we can also play with the look of the text detail so
you can see different looks here I
actually like the original look that they're going for so I'm gonna keep it
as it is you can uncheck paint bleed but I kind of like it we also have the line
wiggle which will just make the text move like this I don't like it for this
example but I definitely see use for that in different kind of videos and
animation you can also check it on or off so we have our title and it starts
boom awesome we don't even go for the project here and we can also add a
texture to loop in here let's head up the screen so we have a little bit of
detail also in the background cool alright and that's basically it I hope
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a really awesome pack and yeah it was really fun playing around with that and
creating that old-school look I enjoy it so much I hope to see you on the next
one take care and good bye