People have asked me, "Daniel is it possible to use Filmora to scribble on your screen?"
and my answer to that is...
Maybe!
Stick around, I'll show you how!
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The first thing you want to do is open up Microsoft Paint
or any Photoshop type application that you might have on your computer
but you can do this with just Paint, which is one of my favorites!
Now this is really similar to the Indiana Jones map animation
that we did not that long ago. We're going to create an open space
sized at least 1280 by 720p... that's 16:9 in the aspect ratio
and all you want to do is select black, take your paint can and turn it black
We just want a black canvas
The first thing we want to do is save this black canvas
somewhere on our computer so that we can come back to it later and use it in the project
Next what we're going to do is select the white color, select the brush
go for the largest line we can and then try to draw a reasonably straight line
across this horizontally
That was awful!
Perfect
Once you've got your line
Save that as well
while we're here let's create a dot in case we do anything like
a lowercase "i" and need to put a dot on the top or an exclamation point
Let's save that as well
Now let's bring our black screen and our line into Filmora
and bring them down into our timeline we want to put the blank screen first and
then the one with the line on it right after it on the same track click on the
transitions tab and then find your "Erase slide" transition
Bring that down and put it right between the split of the two and stretch it out all the way
You'll remember that this reveals the line and makes it look like an actual line is
being drawn across the video itself
let's export that
and now let's open up a new project with our actual footage in it
Now in this actual project we're gonna want the footage that we filmed the line
transition that we've created and our black screen with a dot somewhere in it
let's bring our main footage down into the timeline I'm going to find the area
in the footage where I pretend to start drawing on the screen and once I get
there I'm gonna bring our line footage down and drop it right there
now I want to find the spot in this line footage where it actually starts drawing
which looks like it's right there I don't need this beginning section let me
trim that click on it and delete it and this should be drawing my line right
about here and where it ends I can stop and trim the excess off as well so
here's my basic line footage now the first thing I want to do is wherever
this line footage is is I can't see through it because it's on black so I'm
gonna double left-click on that footage and in the upper left I'm going to
choose the chroma key feature and activate it by putting a check in the
box next to it now this presets to a green chroma key but I have black as a
background so I'll click on the eyedropper move over into the field of
the preview window and click in the black area that will now remove the
black and just leave this white section of line can you see it moving around
there now the first thing I notice is it's moving in the wrong direction let's
go down to the lower left and let's lock our main footage so I don't accidentally
move it and in the upper left let's relocate and rotate this particular line
so it lines up with what I was actually pretending to draw on the screen my
finger started up here let's see if I can align that
with the tip of my finger and as that comes down I want that line to move with
my finger now my finger is much faster than the line now this might seem
problematic but it isn't all you need to do is right-click on that line click
speed and duration and then we can increase the speed to whatever we want
eight times as fast let's see how that lines up
that's much better can you see what's happening but it's going too far it
should have ended right back about here so let me left-click and grab this and
shorten it it's still a little bit ahead so I'm going to speed it up a little bit
more maybe 9 was our right number these little adjustments take time but when
you do it right it really looks like you've got something great going on
that's pretty close it looks like I drew a line okay so from there what we want
to do is right at the end the very last frame not before it disappears but back
one frame where you can still see that white line on the screen let's take a
snapshot of that image and the way to do that is to shut off your main footage
click on the camera icon then it creates a snapshot of that exact position let's
bring that down into the timeline and then we can turn our main footage back
on and because we took a snapshot the same effects are applied to this
snapshot and it's already got the chroma key built in and we'll sit here do you
see what we're doing here kind of cool huh and if you want that to stay even
longer you could drag it out to the very end and that will stay as long as you
want based on how long you drag that snapshot for so we draw the line the
snapshot stays and that line stays there now one thing I noticed let me backtrack
for a second I thought that the line that I drew was a little thin and hard
to see so when I went into that track in the up early
left under the chromakey settings I actually changed it so that the edge
thickness was a little bit bigger and that actually gave it a bit of a black
outline and I pulled the feathering back and what that did was it allowed my
white line to have a bit of a black outline to it can you see what that did
there so now when I go to my last screen I can say all right here's one frame
before the end we want to turn off our main track lose the visibility because
we do not want that to be in our snapshot so let's take a snapshot and
then turn our main track back on and let's bring that down next to our moving
line and now you'll see it draws that line with a black outline and stays
there very cold nice face Daniel we can
actually reuse some of these pieces I know I draw a second line right next to
this so I'm gonna left click on this first section of moving line then I'll
right-click and click copy I'm gonna add one more video track in the left I'm
gonna click on it to activate it and I'm gonna right click in that track and then
click paste now I want to line that with where my finger is my finger starts
right up about here so that's the second line let me grab that and move it over
now the problem is it's actually overlapping the first one you can't even
see it but if I lock all the other tracks then I can go up in the preview
window let me move a little bit forward so you can actually see the line it's
overlapping the first let me grab that and move that over to where my finger is
actually drawing it looks like it's a little low I can probably move it a
little higher I probably could have done a better job of writing the word high
but it draws that high and right there is where I kind of want it to end so one
frame before the final line let's take another snapshot we want to turn off the
other tracks first though let's eliminate the visual of the other track
so we just see this second line let's take a snapshot and let's bring that
snapshot down right next to our second line now we can
turn our other two tracks back on and if I did this right I should be able to see
two lines being drawn starting back here one two you see what I did that's all
that I've been doing here let me do one more line I'll do the cross section of
the age so again let's go up to the add video track add one more we'll
right-click on any one of our scribble tracks and click copy and then let's
find with this next line across starts right
Oh dare let's click on the track we want to drop it into and then right click and
hit paste now we have that line here and let's click up in the preview screen and
that will allow me to modify this cross-section I'm going to turn it
because this one goes the other way I'm going to shrink it down it's not nearly
as long a line as that other one but I'm gonna fatten it up I must stretch it
this way can you see where it's at it's far too low it's way down here so I need
to click and I need to bring that up to where my finger is somewhere in there
and I want it to start right about at the edge of that page I'm gonna use some
of the edge things to pull that into place it looks like right in here and
it's a little slow so let me look at that again it comes across starts
drawing a line it's a little too slow it's behind my finger so let me take the
speed and duration and let's bring that up a tad let's go to like a nine it's
pretty close that looks kind of like an H so again from that one frame before
let's turn off all the other tracks because whatever we screen capture and
take a photograph of is gonna show up in that photograph
so let's only capture this one horizontal line click on the snap shot
and now we have that horizontal line right where it ended let's bring that
down into the track and put it right at the end of where we stopped and turn on
the other tracks let me shrink this down let's take a peek at how that looks
perfect did you see that I'm holding down the right arrow key on my keyboard
to scroll through this timeline in slower motion h-bomb and that's all you
do you do the same to create the eyes or whatever letters you want to do now a
letter like a C or an S that has a lot of curves to it can be trickier and
you're gonna have to play around with the motion of these but that's all
you're doing is overlaying these each to create these letters the way I created
that wipe effect is I actually turned off the main track I exported this
sequence and you know when we export and bring it back in we call that a bounce
so I bounce that sequence and came back into filmora
and just imported that entire scribble as an overlay once I dropped that down
in place I left clicked on that track and I again activated the chrome key and
selected black now the way I created the wipe was right where my hand starts to
wipe I actually split this footage I deleted the second half and up in the
upper left I brought down a sample color of black I clicked on that black color I
also added a black chroma key and then in between the two I used an erase
transition the erase slide to create that wiping effect as my arm came across
it actually wiped out the high nice now I also added some squeegee sound effects
to make it seem like I was actually writing on something but you can do
whatever you want at this point and really create an effect of writing on
the screen that can be super convincing if you want to learn more cool
transitions and effects from Filmora, be sure to click on this video right here