[Music]
today i want to talk to you about how to
do the marvel film
intro it can be broken down into steps
so that you can actually
pull this off and filmora so what i'm
going to do is move slowly today i'm
going to go a little less scripted than
i usually do and i'm just going to show
you
how i got from the starting point to
being able to create this intro
the very first thing i did was i looked
at the
marvel intro and broke down into pieces
what i was seeing the very beginning of
that
intro seems to be a series of what looks
to be
comic strip footage like pages from
comic books so i knew the first thing i
needed to do was locate
pages from comic books or images that
look like that particular thing disney
and marvel are
super protective of all of their
copyrights so i'm not going to be using
any marvel images
i'm just going to be showing you how to
pull off these ideas
and these techniques using more standard
licensed images
i brought those images down into filmora
into the timeline one at a time the
thing that we know from looking at the
marvel intro
is that it moves very quickly now i
didn't know exactly how quickly i needed
that pace so i decided i would bring
this in and start slower
knowing that i could always speed it up
later but slowing it down could be a
little tricky because sometimes when you
slow down footage
it gets a little grainy so let's bring
one of these pieces down
i'm going to stretch the timeline out as
far as it'll go and i decided
let's do five frames of one image that's
a good place to start i snipped it and i
deleted the extra all right you can also
do that by
grabbing uh the end of the footage as
you know and stretching it back and
forth
i then brought down the second piece of
comic book art
these are images not really footage i
put the cursor right at the five frame
mark you can right click on it
to split it then right click on the
remaining part and delete you can also
do it from your keyboard if you see me
do that quickly that's all i'm doing is
hitting delete from my keyboard
and then just do this for each one let's
get five frames of each
one thing i should mention is you can
right click on each of these images
and click crop to fit and it will fill
up the entire screen
okay so now i have my eight pieces of
footage
that are all cut down to these five
frame segments one two three four five
six seven eight
all right now that's not going to get me
very far especially if i speed it up
if we look at the timeline above it's
only about a second
little longer than a second's worth of
footage once it actually plays and
that's at a fairly slow speed
but what we can do is i'm going to grab
these and i'm going to copy and paste
them as a bunch
and the way to do that is i'm going to
left click on the first one
i'm going to hold the shift tab on my
keyboard
and then click on the last one and
that'll highlight all of them
then i'll right click and i'll click on
copy
and all of those have been copied my
playhead is at the end so i can hit
paste and it will stick them there let
me shrink this down so i can see a
little better
i can hit paste again which is as you
see in the notation there's keyboard
shortcuts right here
ctrl v would accomplish the same thing
right click
and hit paste or i can keep hitting
control v on my keyboard and it'll just
keep adding those in
another keyboard shortcut that can make
your life easier as you edit
learning those shortcuts control v can
really
just make things fly so you can sit here
and just keep going
control v v v v i'm holding control and
hitting v
and it's adding this all in so now i
have
a really long amalgamate um that's a big
word i have a really long collection
of this video segment that will just
continue to play so if i go back to the
beginning
it'll just keep playing these over and
over but as you can see the problem is
that they're not quite moving as fast as
the marvel intro
and the colors are all over the place
the one thing i did notice from the
marvel intro
there's a couple things here i can see
just from there
that the colors are changing these clips
all seem to have a red hue and then go
towards a yellow hue
and they also have what seems to be a
fade in from
black and i can see
that there's a zoom effect as these play
it's clearly starting to zoom out so
those are going to be the things i have
to figure out how to do
next the first thing i can do is i can
add color because these are all
individual pieces of images trying to
apply
a zoom effect to all of them at once
won't be possible at this stage
right now let's see if we can get the
colors to do what we want
now it seemed like these started out
with like a red hue
so this is a great thing we can do is go
up to media
click on sample colors and you have all
these colors right
here that you can bring down into your
timeline
above your track and let me show you how
you can do this really easy i'm going to
bring down a red
now my whole screen turns red because as
we stack these images whatever is on top
the track that's on top
always overrides everything underneath
it but
if we click on that footage and then we
click on
compositing this allows us to figure out
how much of the blend we want or how
much of the other tracks we want to show
through
so if i dial back the blend suddenly
i start getting a red hue to these
tracks
and the trick will be finding what the
right amount is this is where your
sense of judgment and your eye comes
into play
maybe a 70 percent that's a pretty
decent red
and we can see as we play this
everything has kind of a red hue
that could be a little strong it's not
bad though
in the original marvel footage it
started as red but then it kind of
quickly shifted over to like a more of a
yellow hue
so let's do that let's go back up into
media
let's grab a we have a gradient yellow
not a straight yellow
i'll bring that down and let's see what
that does
let's make sure that's connected so we
want to click on that footage
and up in the compositing let's dial
that back
i think we did seventy percent on the
other one let's do the same seventy
percent here
and now we have a yellow hue but this is
a gradient so it's got a little red up
in the corner and
more yellow down so it shifts from a bit
of an orange to a yellow
one cool thing we can do is if we lock
the track i'd rather have that orange
down in the lower corner in the brighter
yellow up top
it just looks better to my eye so we can
lock the main track and then we can
click up here
and this gives us control over that
overlay let's flip that upside down
oops if i can do it cleanly see i
wrestled with fillmore like anyone else
okay so now that looks a little cooler
right and if i didn't want as much
orange i could also stretch this out to
get more of the yellow to be in frame
i think that looks kind of cool and when
i went back uh
and referenced the other footage it went
to yellow and then i started seeing the
background
was a bit more blue this is sort of
repeating the same step and saying okay
well we
we got we figured out how to do red we
figured out how to do the yellow let's
do some blue let's put some blue down
there
we've got two different options for blue
i'll try the brighter blue and see what
it looks like
now let's dial back that layer composing
that's kind of cool
i almost feel like the blue stronger let
me try like a sixty percent here
see what that does and then just take a
peek and use your eye
that feels kind of blue to me let me
take a quick peek back at what we were
doing i've got red
then it shifts to yellow and then it
shifts to
the blue that's in the ballpark again
use your eye tweak if you feel like the
red is too much you can always dial back
the red in the compositing feature
maybe in the yellow maybe it deserves to
be a little stronger
you can see how it affects it if we pull
it back it loses some of that luster but
it's just
use your eye i'm going to leave that one
at 70. but the problem we have right now
we're trying to figure out the length of
these i know watching this video clip it
starts with red
at the very beginning and that's very
brief and then it shifts to yellow
and then we have other characters come
in and there's a blue background
what i'm going to do here is i'm just
going to stretch the blue out because i
know there are other elements of
superheroes that are going to be
superimposed at this point and i'll just
take it to the end that's much more
footage than we need but we can cut it
down later
another issue that i'm seeing is in the
marvel intro it transitions from the red
into the yellow and into the blue and
with putting these colors right on top
they just break they go from red and
then immediately when it hits the yellow
it goes into yellow and that's not
exactly what we want what we want is a
transition so the way we handle that
is go into our transitions
and let's find the dissolve it's right
there the minute i type it into this box
it's a quick way to find your
transitions faster this little box up
here lets you search you don't have to
scroll through if you know the name of
the transition
type it in it'll pull it up let's bring
it dissolve down
from red to the yellow let's bring
another dissolve down
from the yellow to the blue and we'll
stretch this out to see if we like the
pace is it too
fast is it too slow i see the red
well there's a transition into yellow
looks pretty good it's pretty smooth
and the transition into blue looks
pretty good and
now what i want to do is i have to
consider the next step which is
in this video you can see it came it
faded in and there's a zoom effect
so to achieve that phase i'm going to
need to
export that and come back to it we call
this a bounce when we take what we have
send it out and then bring it back into
filmora so let's do that let's export
this footage
i'm going to call this my marvel intro
bounce
if i can spell bounce and
what you want to do here there's no
sound so i don't care about the audio
settings
i want to get this up to a slightly
higher frame rate i want it at 30 frames
per second
and the bit rate will really tell a lot
about the clarity
it doesn't have to be super clear but
the stock 8000 kbps is no good for me
i'm going to
boost that up for 40 000 kbps
because i want a pretty crisp image
because i'm going to take it out and
bring it back in
so that's a higher resolution bounce
we're doing let's figure out where we're
bouncing that to make sure you know
where you're sending things to
and send it out the more things i
ask filmora to do the slower it's going
to move that's true of any video
editing software i would save this
because i may want to come back
and adjust it so i'm going to save this
project
as i'm going to call it the intro step
one
so now i'm going to create a second
project
and in the second project what i'm going
to do is i'm going to go back to the
video sections
so it was marvel intro bounce let's grab
that let's bring it in
and then let's bring that down to our
timeline see how it's sort of moving
down here
that's filmora working through the high
definition clips
let that motion finish in your timeline
and then we can start working with it
the first thing i want to do is we knew
that this footage probably wasn't the
right speed
let's get this speed adjusted that's a
little slow
so to get the speed we want let's right
click on the footage
let's click on speed and duration you
can use either the slider or
punch in the numbers yourself but i'm
gonna put two that'll double the speed
and let me see what that looks like
that looks a lot closer to what i was
thinking the intro should look like
so what i would say from here is that
looks pretty good i like this
the other thing that we notice looking
at the marvel intro footage is that
there is this
zoom effect
so right click on your footage click on
crop and zoom
then click on pan and zoom and now we
know it was sort of zooming
out not in the default setting is out
meaning the start screen is big
and then the interior screen where it
ends is smaller meaning that would
zoom it in but we want the opposite
effect so let's go down here click the
reverse arrows
and it now swaps and makes the bigger
panel the end
and the center panel to start i want to
start fairly close let's shrink that
down a little
so somewhere in the middle here let's
hit okay and let's see what that looks
like well now that kind of gives us our
zoom effect out
though this zooms doesn't seem as
intense as the zoom in the marvel intro
and that may be because i've got a lot
of footage so it's doing this zoom over
a very long period of time here
so what i can do is i can actually snip
this
right at a change let's pick oh
right right when i see a change let me
just pan this out i'm going to move
frame by frame
there's a change right there and i'm
going to clip the footage
now when i clip the footage when i have
put a zoom effect onto the entire clip
what that does is it puts the zoom
effect on each section
meaning this first section will zoom out
to
the split point and then it'll start
again and zoom out again
i think that achieves the effect that i
want i start close up
and then it zooms out and creates this
effect
so all of this i'm liking so far now i
noticed that there was a
fade in from the beginning a fade in
from black
the way you do that is click on one
piece of footage and you can either go
to the last piece of footage hold
shift on your keyboard and click and
it'll highlight everything in between
or you can click on your piece of
footage hold control
and then click on other pieces of
footage that will allow you to move
multiple pieces of footage at the same
time a good little tip for when you have
a lot of pieces of footage and you're
trying to stick something in the middle
it's a great way to get there so we're
talking about doing that
fade in from black now here's where you
can do that let's go back
up to media and see these sample colors
again let's grab
black and let's bring that down and put
it in the space we created
it only needs to happen very briefly so
let's shrink that way down
the two pieces of footage bring them
back in so it goes black right into our
footage and what do we know just like we
did with the other we want that to sort
of dissolve
into it so let's click on our
transitions and we've already
got the dissolve feature pulled up
because i used it last it still has dis
up in the um the search box up here so
all i see dissolve let's bring it
dissolve down and let's place it right
between
the black footage and the first piece of
the comic strip footage
it paused there i don't like the way it
paused did you see that
there's a way to get around this and
that is you can either
dissolve in just from the black footage
like this
and sometimes that'll work
nope it's giving us a hard one or you
can put it on the other side
sometimes that works as well
that seemed to do the trick uh the black
was too long at the beginning though
let's trim it down a little i can always
trim it down more in post but let's take
a little bit of that black off take the
beginning part
and if you hold shift delete
it'll remove that piece and move
everything back that's your ripple
delete or
you could equally just go right click
and then ripple delete and it'll do the
same thing so now we have this let's
take a peek we go from black
and it dissolves into that footage and
i'm kind of liking where this is going
it's starting to feel like the marvel
clip to me
so there's a lot of good things going on
here i like what that's doing
the only other thing i've noticed is
that there is a
vignette on this section if you don't
know what a vignette is
it's that ability to turn the outside
corners a little darker
it almost frames the shot a bit and let
me show you how to do that in filmora
what you want to do is click on your
footage and then go up to
color and in the advanced tab
click on that'll open up another window
and at the very bottom this is where you
can really get into the color correction
which is great in filmora
but there's a vignette option and what
you want to do is slide your footage in
this fader right here a little forward
in the scene so you know where you're at
past the black
point i'm in the fade still so let's get
past the fade there it is so that's
where it's starting
this is that black fade in so let's get
past that
and let's use the vignette option you
can take a mount
and we'll do different types of
vignettes see that getting darker that's
a darker vignette
or you can do a reverse vignette where
it actually gets lighter on the corners
we want the darker one
so let's dial that in a little bit you
can control the
overall size of this uh
i just want the corners so somewhere in
there is probably good
you can control the roundness that's
actually kind of the shape of it which
is neat
this was kind of an oval that i noticed
it's very harsh see how it goes right
from the light to the dark
so that's where this feathering feature
is really helpful it sort of blends it
more
so we're going to bring that feather way
up so just the corners are slightly dark
and then you can do things like the
highlight and exposure but i don't need
to change i just wanted to add a little
bit of dark
and depth around the corners we click on
ok
and now we have that applied to this
clip so here's the settings i've used
for this first clip but i've split the
clips and i actually want that to be in
my blue clip
as well that part where the footage
turns blue so what i can do for these
settings is hit
save as preset and name it and i'll just
call it the
marvel vignette v-i-g-n-e-t-t-e
so now i can say okay i can open up the
second clip highlight that
hit on the um advanced tab
presets up top i go down to
my custom presets and you'll see the
marvel vignette
you can see it gets applied and i hit
okay
so let's go back let's take a look at
what we have
and we've got that intro section
of everything vignette moving in moving
quickly
very cool so we want to actually save
this this is going to be the bed to
which we
layer other things on top of so we'll
start right here
by let's save this as we're going to
call this our
intro step two and let's export this as
well
sometimes people get caught up in trying
to do one project and make everything
happen all at once like there's one
simple button to hit and suddenly you've
got this massive effect
the reality is is that video editing is
a skill it's something you have to learn
there is technique and there's an eye
that you need to train you need to
really train the way you see things
so that you are questioning yourself and
coming up with answers that are right
for you
if you'd like me to continue this series
and show you how to make the rest of the
marvel intro let me know down in the
comment section below