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Hey guys, it's Jordy here for cinecom.net and you're watching Copy Cat Friday!
And welcome to our 5-star motel!
And every week we look for a creative way to recreate a certain effect
from a film or music video.
Cheers!
And today we're going to recreate this infinite loop
from Side Effects by The Chainsmokers.
[Cinecom's intro music]
The Chainsmokers came out with Side Effects,
a very nice new music video with tons of inspiration,
such as this infinite loop from different settings within the same loop.
And although it might seem easy to pull the effect off,
without the proper equipment it's quite challenging.
Now, before we start I'd first like to make a quick shout out to our partner Adorama,
which is an online store for any video equipment.
They run multiple promotions across the entire year,
and if you need personal support when buying a new camera,
lighting or anything else, they are happy to help you.
All the gear that we use in the studio can be found in their web store,
and we have links to all of it in the description below,
or if you would like to go directly to Adorama and drool on all the gear that they have,
you can click the first link in the description below.
[Rhythmic pop music fades in]
That over there is an RGB Flood Light, it's the same as we have on the ceiling.
It's an RGB 50 watt light,
so that means you can choose the color whatever you want.
It also comes with this remote control, which allows you to set certain programs,
like that it changes the colors, that it flashes, etc.
Really cool lights to use for such practical effects.
And the great thing about these lights is that you can find them at any Home Depot
and they cost around 40 to 50 bucks.
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Welcome to the Cinecom Motel, guys!
We got a bunch of cool things in here. Let's start with the wall behind the bed.
Those who can guess who this guy right here is, gets hundred points from me.
And over here we've got coffee, water, we've got the Kurzgesagt,
or the -in a nutshell- channel poster over here.
The King's poster, and of course the Royal Family.
Cinecom Motel is ready for opening and we charge $10 per square foot.
So, that will be $10 per night.
And we often get the question "Hey, we don't have this studio like you have,
we can't recreate this effect".
Well, no worries guys, because every time when we recreate a certain effect,
we always pay attention to it that you don't need to have all this equipment.
That's why you can use your own house and just open up the window,
or find any public place that has kind of a box in a box.
Over the past two days, we've been trying to find
the perfect way to pull the effect off.
And the first one might be the easiest way, but not the most convenient way,
because you need the equipment for it.
For example, this one right here is something that could do the trick.
It's the Syrp slider, the Pro Slider II, or something.
The great thing about this slider is that you can actually extend it
for as long as you want it to be.
So you can actually take the top part off, as you can see,
add more rails to it and you can really make like...
...1000-foot rail.
With this heavy-duty slider right here, you can take heavier cameras as well,
and also comes with a motion control accessory
and that is the exact thing that we need,
because when we are going to make an infinite loop, that means every action
or every movement has to be exactly the same.
This one is able to pull that off, but we don't have enough rails yet,
and we don't have that motion control accessory yet.
Hopefully we do in the future, and then we can make some really cool things.
The second way is probably more accessible to most of us.
And that is through some After Effects editing.
We are going to need two shots.
One is a static shot from the tripod.
Make sure that the entire box and a little of the outside wall
is visible in the frame.
Then in the second shot, You wanna make a small travel with the camera.
Keep the lens pointed forward and just go sideways.
In Adobe After Effects we're going to extract the change in perspective,
which is why I've attached these small dots on the outside of the box.
And these will function as tracking marks.
Make sure to have one on each side.
We are using a dolly, but that's probably not mandatory.
In theory, you could even walk with the camera from one side to the other.
But the results would be a little bit better if you could travel smoother.
And there are multiple options to do that.
-Yannick, can you demonstrate this, please?
-Or you can take a skateboard!
-Just don't do tricks.
-Or you can take a gimbal! Anything that helps to go smoothly sideways!
Or you can take the gimbal on the skateboard!
-Or even better! With a gimbal on the skateboard...
...on a chair!
Smooth motions!
This is actually really smooth.
Or even better better! You take the gimbal on the skateboard
on the office chair on the dolly.
-Come on Yannick, help me for a moment.
-Jordy, leave it alone! -Come on!
-It won't work, Jordy.
Leave it alone.
So let's open up After Effects and place your moving shot
into a new composition.
With it selected, locate the Tracker window,
And if you can't find it, you can always call it up from the Windows Menu on top,
and then choose Tracker.
In that window you click on Stabilize Motion,
which already gives you one tracking point.
But we're going to need 2, which is why we're going to enable Rotation and Scale as well.
We now have to tracking points, and you wanna position each one of those on those markers.
The inner square defines where the tracking markers sits, and the other square is the search field.
Make sure it's big enough to avoid tracking mistakes.
Once they sit in place, you can hit the Track Forward play button and let it do its thing.
If your tracking went fine, you're done.
If not, try to adjust the tracking point size and let it Analyze again.
Then click Apply from the tracker window and hit OK in the message that pops up.
you will then end up with something very weird.
A shot that sit still but actually it's moving.
This could already be a lot of fun for animated Gifs.
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Anyways, repeat this step for every shot that you took.
The loop can be infinite, so you can have infinite shots as well.
Next, we'll be making the outside wall.
And for this I'm going to create a ridiculous wide composition.
If you're working with full HD clips, the height can stay at 1080.
The width of 1920 will be multiplied for every clip that you have.
We'll be working with four clips, so that makes 7680.
In that composition place the static shot and move it all the way to the left.
With it selected take the Pen tool from the tool box
and draw a mask to cut off a little bit of the right side.
Within the Mask properties increase the feather.
Then with your clip selected hit control D to duplicate it.
Move the clip on the bottom a little bit to the right
to make it seamlessly fit to the other.
Then duplicate that clip again, move the one in the bottom to the side and so on.
And once you have your canvas filled up you will select everything.
Right-click and choose Precompose.
Make sure that "Move all attributes into the new composition" is selected.
Then hit OK.
Now, take the Pen tool again and this time we're going to draw around the frame of the rooms.
As for the floor, here it can go straight out of the screen.
But it might be that you need to adjust this, but that can be done later on.
Do this for all the boxes and once you're done,
you can go into the Mask Settings again and feather it a little bit.
Now let's drag in the compositions we've created prior, where we stabilize those shots.
Start with the first one and place it underneath the pre-comp.
Now position that one into the first gap of the pre-comp.
If needed, you can also use the scale or rotation to match it better.
Do this for all your shots. Drag them to the composition,
put them into a box, try to match it and you're done.
Finally, offset the time of each clip
so that they overlap each other with the ending and the beginning of the next clip.
That will kind of create this stair shape in your composition.
And we're almost there guys!
For the final step we're going to create a new composition
with a normal full HD resolution.
In there drag that ultra wide composition.
Change its position all the way to the right.
Then open up the Position's property from the layer settings
and click on the stopwatch to create an animation.
Move your playhead to the end and push your clip to the left
to create the second key frame.
This will make the clip pan, moving over each room
and with the parallax inside, it seems like an infinite travel shot.
If there's anything visible from your mask or your clips on the edges,
you can increase the scale a little bit and drop those things off the frame.
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And that was it again!
Thank you guys so much for watching, thank you Adorama for the support.
Don't forget to check out their website.
But more importantly:
Stay Creative!
-This hotel sucks!
My bed hasn't been cleaned in a week, cockroaches everywhere!
I'm going to Sri Lanka!
And you're getting a bad review on TravelBird!
Zero Stars!