Hey guys Yannick here for Cinecom.net
and ... apparently
you like Gille's dancing.
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So we were thinking - and hear me out
Maybe we combine Gille's dancing with Premiere Pro Effects and neon lighting.
*So pretty!*
And we are in luck
Chris Brown and Young Thug just made a new music video called "Go Crazy"
and they have a neon dance effect in there.
How coincidental is that?!
So let's recreate this effect and launch Premiere Pro.
Now in premiere pro you can drop your footage into a new sequence
and you are probably wondering what footage you need.
Well, for this effect, we need our dancers separately, so you have three options.
You just shoot your dance where you want
and you rotoscope him out with the awesome new Rotoscope Tool from After Effects
*Wow*
And if you want to know more about this Rotoscope Tool
we just made a video about it and you'll find a link to it in the description below.
A second option is working with a dark background while your actor is well lit.
Then you can use the Luma Matte Effect in Premiere Pro and single out your dancer.
Of course this technique won't always work that good.
So we are going to use the third option which is a green screen.
Okay, okay. Let's rewind.
So we have our greenscreen shot in our sequence and of course, we also have a clean plate underneath it.
Now, let's use the ultra key effect and make the green magically disappear.
Look at that Gilles is already dancing in our hall.
Next we are going to add multiple effects to the dancer clip to create the outline of our dancer.
But first we need to duplicate our keyed out dancer to the top
and you can disable the layer for now.
Then let's start with the effects!
The first one is the "Find Edges" effect, and you can drag that to your middle dancer clip.
The only thing you now need to do is enable the invert button.
The next effect is going to be the "Alpha Glow"effect.
Again drag it to the middle dancer clip.
Here you can decrease the glow to around 10 and disable the fade out.
The third effect is going to be the "Extract" effect
and we will remove the weird purple look and make everything black and white.
Here you can increase the black and white input a bunch until you have something like this here.
Now we are getting there
but we still need more effects.
*One more appliance could overload the system*
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Let's continue with making an awesome neon dance effect.
Select your middle dancer clip, right click on it and choose "Nest".
Now go into that nested sequence and here we can add some more effects.
Frst let's duplicate the clip, then we will use a new duplicate as a trackmatte.
This way, we will end up with only the outlines of our dancer.
So take the trackpad key effect and drag that to the bottom dancer clip.
In the settings set the matte to "Video 2" and the composite to "Matte Luma"
Now, of course with everything being black in the background
You won't see any difference.
*Duhh*
So to show you what we are doing let's place a red background behind it.
Note, you don't need to do this.
This is just to show you the results of the track matte.
So as you can see the trackmatte will remove the inner black part of your dancer.
Let's remove our red background and go back to the main sequence.
First things first.
Enable the dancer clip on top and move it to track number eight.
*What did you say?*
Yeah, you heard me: track number eight.
Then take the nested sequence and move it to track number seven.
You also need to offset it a few frames to the right.
Now, the outlines will be delayed and follow the dancer.
Next up will be the color and the glow.
Take the Tint effect from the effect library and drag it to your nested sequence.
Now map the white to the color you want
then the next step will be the glow.
Look for the vr glow effect and again drag it to your nested sequence.
In the vr glow properties you can start with changing some settings.
First lower the Luma threshold to zero,
then also decrease the glow radius a bunch
and next up increase both the glow brightness and the saturation to 10.
This will leave you with a nice glow.
However
personally, I find the glow too hard.
That's why I made a duplicate of the nested sequence underneath the original nested sequence.
Then I added a Gaussian Blur to that new duplicate and blurred it a whole bunch.
Also decrease the opacity to around 30 or 40.
There is still something missing.
We need multiple neon outlines.
So select the finished outlines we already have and duplicate them to track number four and five.
Again, I'll set them with a couple of frames and in the tint settings you can change the color.
Of course change the colors for both duplicates.
Now duplicate the outlines one more time.
Again offset them and change the color.
And now we are done!
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It is time
for Yannick's
Fun
Fact
FOUNTAAAAAIIIINNN!
Did you know that real neon lighting was invented as early as 1902?
But the first commercial neon lights in america were used in 1920.
And they cost around $12.000.
That's a lot of money for that time.
And another fun fact about neon as a gas this time
Well, it's used to freeze corpses
and not in a creepy way.
No neon gas is used for cryonics.
This means they freeze people so that they are preserved
in the hope that they can be revived in the future.
So in other words
Every sci-fi movie was right.
...maybe...
And that was it for today guys!
By the way, what do you think about the new editing style?
Yay or nay?
Thank you so much for watching!
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and like always
Stay Creative!
It's super simple.
First we go
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and four
It's that easy!
Here we go
Your turn now!