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Yannick!
Yannick, it's Christmas time.
Come on, let's put up the decorations.
So beautiful!
Yannick!
What are you doing, Jordy?
Come on, Yannick, light up.
No, stop touching me. Go home.
What are you? The Grinch?
I think Gilles' weirdness is infecting Jordy.
Am I the only normal person here?
I'm normal too, Yannick!
No, Lorenzo, there's also something wrong with you.
Told ya.
Anyways, I'm Yannick, the only normal person here at Cinecom.net
and welcome to another CopyCat Friday.
In this week's video, we're going to make it a little bit easier with the glowing finger effect from E.T.
We are currently working on some big projects for the upcoming weeks.
I can't really say much about it
but let's say one project had something to do with Christmas and it's really making Jordy happy
and the other project is tickling Gilles' geekiness.
Oh, and of course, we are still working on our short movie, which is coming along quite nicely.
But that is something for next year.
So be patient.
There's a lot of juicy stuff coming your way.
Now, you know the reasons why we are taking it slow today.
However, this doesn't mean the effect is less cool or iconic.
Everybody knows E.T., the lovable alien, along with his glowing finger ready to phone home.
Well, he recently came back to earth in a commercial for Xfinity, a telecom company.
In this video, you can see E.T coming back to his pal, Elliot, and his family.
After binge watching some old Christmas videos together, he decides to head home.
In my eyes, this was the perfect advertising stunt
and also the perfect reason to recreate this effect.
And for this effect, you are going to need two shots from a tripod.
Place your camera and make the framing you want.
Now for Shot 1, let your actor slowly move in his finger, ready to touch something.
For the second shot, keep your camera rolling.
But this time, let your actor hold a flashlight and bring it closer to the object he wants to touch.
This light will mimic the light your finger is emitting.
And that's all we need for this effect.
Let's fly into Premier Pro.
The first thing you now can do is select the finger part out of the clip and drag that to video track #1.
Then select the part with the lights and drag that to video track #3.
Now because we can see the flashlight, we are going to create a mask on this layer.
Create a rough mask around the hand of the actor, then in the Effects controls,
you can invert a mask to cut away the hand.
You can also feather the mask to your liking.
After this, enable the animations for the mask path and, while going further in time,
animate your mask so that it follows along with the moving flashlight.
This will already leave you with the light emitting from your finger.
The next step is adding the glow to the finger, but first, Jordy wants to shine.
Oh, hey guys.
I was just putting on some Christmas decorations outside and, you know what?
This reminds me I also need to send some Christmas cards, but I'm gonna do it differently this year.
I'm gonna send Christmas video cards.
That's right.
I can just simply use Storyblocks video for that, because on that website,
I could simply download Christmas card templates.
These are After Effects templates which I can change with a click of a button
and then I send that to my friends.
Or I can just film myself in front of a green screen and then just put any kind of Christmas background on it.
That's gonna be really cool as well.
And you know what, besides all of these Christmas things on Storyblocks,
I can also find generic things, of course, such as high quality 4k stock clips.
There are, of course, different kinds of After Effects templates as well.
You've got visual effects, overlays, and so much more.
And the incredible thing is that it is absolutely not expensive.
There's only one single price per year which allows me to download unlimited video assets.
So I'm gonna send a million video cards to everyone.
Gonna be really awesome.
Guys, click the first link in the description below to start downloading right now.
And Merry Christmas.
Back to you, Yannick,
Okay, let's do the glow.
Just duplicate your finger clip to track #2, then the first thing you can do is open up the Lumetri panel.
Here you can increase the exposure a little bit to around 0.4.
Then also increase the temperature to around 60, the highlights to 50, and the white also to around 50.
This will blow out your shot and make everything more orange.
Now, let's only add this to the fingertip.
To do this, simply create a detailed mask around a part of the finger you want.
Now feather it a whole bunch and decrease the mask expansion a little.
Then enable the animation of the mask path and, overtime, let the mask follow along with the finger.
The last step is to adjust the blending mode of the duplicate to 'Color Dodge,'
and this will already leave you with a glowing finger effect.
But if you want, you can add one more detail to really finish it.
The detail I'm adding is an extra glow
To do this, just create a color matte with an orange color.
Drag that on top of everything and create an ellipse mask.
Feathered that a ton and decrease the opacity to around 30%.
Then also enable the animation for the mask path, and again, let it follow along with the finger.
Last, adjust the blending mode of the color matte to 'Screen' and, boom!
Your effect is done.
Of course, you can also create this in After Effects
which will make it a little bit easier because you can use tracking
but, as you can see, Premiere Pro is also perfect for this effect.
So beautiful!
Yannick..
Wait.
I think I forgot something.
Oh yeah!
Yannick's Fun Fact Fountain!
Let's do a quick one.
What if poet Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein, and a pug dog, would have a child?
What would you get?
Do you know?
Well you would get an E.T because they modeled E.T's face after these three famous persons/dog.
And that was it for this week's CopyCat Friday.
I hope you enjoyed it and learned something new, and as you know,
keep spamming us with CopyCat ideas in the comments.
We would love to hear them.
Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you Storyblocks Video for the support and, like always, stay creative.
So guys, like I said before, we are doing something big and maybe this is a little spoiler for that big project.
You can recognize him?
You can see his eyes.
Who is he?