all right you guys asked for it i'm going to show you guys how i do the speed ramp effect
in the videos i do this a lot in rap music videos
it's like slow and then goes real fast then it slows down it goes real fast
but in this video first i'm going to show you how to film to do the speed ramp effect and
then also we're gonna hop on the computer and i'm gonna show you how to edit to do the speed
ramp tutorial videography music video speed ramp tutorial coming right up welcome to the video
what's up music entrepreneurs my name is Cracka Lack welcome back to cracka lack tv you guys asked
for it i said if i got 37 comments i would do this video so here we are if we get 37 comments asking
for speed ramp tutorials i'll make it for you guys so i have artist b-lils here i'm going to be doing
a scene to finish up a music video of his that we started in pittsburgh and new york and then
philly wrapping it up here in our home lansing michigan if you're new to the channel i used to
be a artist myself i put out over 16 full-length projects while i was making my own beats recording
mixing matching my own songs doing my own music videos throughout that process i learned how
to do all of those behind the scene things and i realized that being a like a rapper wasn't for me
and i enjoyed doing the behind the scenes stuff so that's what i document and teach on this channel
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you don't miss any more good ass content just like this right here all right so there's several ways
to do this speed ramp video effect but i'm going to show you how i like to do it first foremost you
need an artist right i'm going to tell the artist he's got a stage of a ball like this right here
this is your stage feel free to move forward move back also since you're gonna be doing slow mo with
it to make the slow-mo stand out like some sort of arm movements or walking forward walking back
turning your side to the camera the more movements the artist is doing the cooler
it looks when you slow it down and speed it up all right so the camera that i use
as of today is a sony a7s2 when i do the speed ramp uh like performance shot music video effect
i like to go really wide so i'm gonna be at 16 millimeter there's a full-frame camera so it's
not cropped in or anything i always use a gimbal for this shot i don't i wouldn't say that you have
to have a gimbal to do this but you're probably gonna want a gimbal it'll look the best if you
have a gimbal something real smooth because when you slow it down you don't want the it to be
shaky or jittery when you speed it up you don't want it to you know be bad like that so for my
gimbal my stabilizer i have a dji ronin-m i've had this for about three years if you're interested
in one of these i have a video on my channel dji ronin m is it really worth it check that out i'll
show you guys like a side-by-side comparison where i'm trying to be as smooth and steady as possible
with my elbows tucked walking on heel toe heel toe and uh it's a night and day difference comparing
like handheld versus the gimbal i highly recommend this gimbal but to see it yourself i'll put a link
in the description to check that video out now for the camera settings you want to make sure you're
now filming in 24 frames per second but 60 frames per second you can do 120 if you really want to
but i like 60 frames my camera crops in when i go to 120 so i'll be at 60 frames per second
all the way wide i got my aperture at four to do this if you're filming at like a 1.8 or something
like that like you gotta open aperture up more so you don't have that shallow depth of field
wow all right now i'm actually going to go manual focus and what i'm going to do is
let's say i'm going to start back here and then walk up to them like this i'm gonna
find the middle ground about like right here and that's where i'm adjust my focus
now we're good to go
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it was trying to go on my nose guys got it out for you something like they heard
what you've been doing today brothers and sisters i've been [ __ ] up flies
any flies watching this and watch your back yeah i got time
did you know i've been killing flies on youtube you watch it hey i'm a lucky guy me and him we're
saying like the cracker lag effect obviously other people's done it in the videos but it's
the thing that i like to do a lot in my videos two reasons one because i have a really wide
lens that can go to 16 millimeter and then i have a gimbal and i feel like when you put a wide lens
mixed with a gimbal and you do this in and out or kind of going like this around thing to a subject
and when you speed it up slow it down it looks dope but i'm going to show you another example
of just like some random b-roll i'ma get one of these light poles and i'm probably going to get
this like fence back there and then we're going to go back to the house and i'm going to show you the
editing side of doing the speed ramp please so you can get some free promo all these cars going by
just be little all right so i got the frame how i want it i'm in manual focus i'm adjusting my
focus boom like right here the shot is in focus i'm gonna hit record and i'm gonna go backwards
and i'm gonna go right back to where i just was there's one simple speed ramp way to film it
do another one but now i'm gonna make it not so wide so i'm gonna change it from 16 to 35
and this time i'm gonna do like a round so instead of just going straight forward i'm gonna rotate it
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all right so i'm back wide again i'm gonna walk i'm gonna go towards the fence and then away and
i'm gonna speed ramp the this part but i'll show you how i feel man i'm adjusting my focus manual
focus boom is good to go in focus that's my iso all right it's good now i'm gonna back up
towards it
that's kind of like the whole v technique go
diagonal towards it diagonal back and then you speed up that part
that's curious man who are you man just kidding who are you
oh okay all right so y'all gotta see this i was like supposed to be doing
big or something all right man i'll take you out though bro man he's got some nice hair
maybe it's baby all right you guys now i'm gonna show you how to edit the footage
that we filmed earlier to do the whole speed ramp effect let me drag down the first clip
now let me pull up the song
all right all right you guys now the first thing that i'm
going to do is match the words up with the song
so what i like to do is i like to listen for a part in the beat where the song actually drops
and i can see that the beat drops right there listen to the song
boom right there
all right now that i got them synced up i'm going to delete the audio from the video track
all right so how to do speed ramp first make sure your project is 24 frames i just see right
there bam 23.976 again we filmed this in 60 frames per second so we're going to do some slow motion
fast forward slow motion fast forward type of stuff and i like to do it with the beat on the
beat before the beat drops things like that so let's just show it we see the beat drops right
what there would do is maybe right before the beat drops
and what i did is i split the track right there i split the track right there
okay so we're going to edit this whatever software you use where you change the playback
to be slow motion you want to play back at forty percent so i'm using sony vegas pro i'm going to
change it to 40 right there how i got to this was i right click the track and i went to properties
and then the playback rate i changed it to 40 so you'll see it's gonna go from real time and
then right where this line is where this where the clip splits it's gonna start playing slow motion
right there you see now what you wanna do is right before the beat drops again fast forward and then
there's one more thing that you do after that and i'll say one way to kind of ruin the look or make
it look amateur is you want the fast forward part to be really short you don't want to have a long
clip of this fast forward that looks very immature stuff right so i'm gonna show you what i did here
right before the beat drops you zoom in zoom out whatever before the beat drops
i'm gonna split it so cut the track again i'm going to right click it go to properties
and then now we're going to change the playback rate to as fast as
what you want and i think it's sony vegas the playback rate is four times so i
say 400 percent speed and then we're going to stop right on beat so we're going to cut
a little bit right after and we're going to delete this move the actual on time audio and
what you can do is make them overlap a little bit just like that okay so that was too short
i actually don't like the fade so normally i would actually go to a different clip
so let's drag a different clip down here what i did was i muted the audio
so again you're playing the clip real time slow motion and then it's gonna speed up
and then the last thing that i like to do on the fast forward part is i look for a video effects
and i'm going to do a gaussian blur i think that's how you say it caution blur i made my
own preset called crack blur so you drag it on the clip super super super blurry you want to
just lower it to where it's barely just a tiny bit blurry like point zero one point zero one
all right and then let's say i was actually going to have this clip go from fast forward i'm gonna
cut it right click go back to the properties and now play back in real time right so we have real
time slow motion fast forward with a blur real time now when you watch it it looks like this
speed ramp and now what you can do is i could slow it down right there again
it looks cool he's holding the you know the fake telephone up to the ear right
click it go to properties playback 40 slow motion so now it looks like this
and then right before the snare hits we're going to cut it again
go to properties make it fast for it again so it's playing back at 400 percent then we're
going to cut it again right on the snare and let's go back into slow motion so now when you watch it
then the drum hits again right there so what i'll do
split it we're going to take it from slow motion let's play back in real time
hopefully the words are still on because we didn't take it off too much
and then again what i would like to do kind of pay attention to the drone i can see it kicks
right there so right before that kick i'm going to cut it again we're going to fast forward 400 which
is just 4 4.0 cut it again right as the kick hits delete the rest of the clip and then now remember
again whenever i do the the fast forward i like to do the blur and i save my own presets called
the crack blur drag the crack blur onto just that last fast forward clip so now when you watch it
boom that's what i would do and i'll go into the next clip it's like you slow down
and then you end with a fast forward like get the [ __ ] out of there and then going to the next
clip so now let's show one of those b-roll clips that we did i'm just going to watch it right now
so what the clip does is i go close to the fence i turn so on that turn there's a motion and i think
it would look really cool if on the turn it's slow motion i'll show you what i would do to edit this
so i'm gonna probably start it off with a fast forward so i'm going to the playback for 400
now again you want to keep the fast forward really short really quick like
quick fast forward because if it's too long again it's going to look amateur
and not cool it's not going to be the cool speed ramp well just like a quick fast forward
and then let's go back to real time so i split it change the playback rate to one
okay and then there's a snare right there i can see so i'm gonna split it again
and now we're gonna go slow motion so 0.4 all the speed ramping is is you're just making the
clip playback from slow motion to real time to fast forward to slow motion kind of with the
beat so you're cutting it to the beat and fast forward getting in getting out and it looks dope
and again we got to add that uh that blur to the fast forward just click and drag it down there
just slow for a second we're going to split it again let's go real time change
playback right to one let's now watch it then i actually want to fast forward again right before
that kick right there so we're gonna right click it properties change the playback right
to four let's fast forward and we're gonna cut it again right on the kick change the playback
right to real time which is just one again go back and forth between slow motion fast forward
slow motion fast forward real time there we go so i'm gonna change it i'm gonna put the blur on it
there we go split it again let's do another quick
fast forward right before the snare comes in we're gonna go slow motion so i'm just
splitting it again changing the playback right slow it down slow motion watch it now
and i'm gonna do another little split let's go real time
and then there's the kick so we're gonna get out of there but i think it always looks cool
right before the beat drops or right before you end that sequence of clips just a small
split speed it up make it go fast forward to get get the [ __ ] out of there change
my playback right now i'm going to throw a blur on it so now when we watch this sequence
speed ramp that's the speed ramp trick watch both of these together
there we go let's do one more for the hell of it drag this b-roll clip down
okay all right so what i did is very similar to the fence clip
walk towards the pole and go up right that's it so that's the clip normal
but you see all these kicks and snares in the beat so we should we should fast forward slow
mo real time along with the beat right before that snare i'm choosing to cut it
and we're going to go slow motion so real time cut right there change it to slow-mo
yep and then right before that kick again we're gonna go quick fast forward speed
cut it again right on the kick and change the playback from fast forward so let's go real time
let's drag that uh blur on the fast forward to give it some sort of like it's a motion
blur like speed slow down that's what enhances that's like the secret weapon
cherry on top ultimate trick to the speed ramp tutorial blur motion blur
cut it one last time right on the snare let's change it to slow motion now let's watch it
right before that last kick add another cut let's go fast forward
drag the blur on it cut it right on beat and we get the [ __ ] out of there
that's it watch everything back together
there you go ladies and gentlemen the speed ramp video music video tutorial trick hope this helped
you guys out let me know in the comments what other tips tutorials questions you guys have
that i can cover in future videos i'll see you guys in the next video Cracka Lack tv