-I've been trying to catch a lift here the entire day,
but nobody wants to stop.
You know what? I'm just gonna jump into a car.
-Woo-hoo!
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Hey guys, it's Jordy here for cinecom.net
and welcome again to our weekly series: Copy Cat Friday!
We've recreated the magical effects from Zach King
several times before on the channel
and it's always been so much fun to do,
we also get so many reactions asking to recreate more stuff from Zach King.
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-So, this is what we're gonna need, a tripod and a camera,
and that's it. Let's get going!
-And a car, because it's a trick for the car,
obviously.
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For those who are wondering, this right here is our custom-built GH5 rig,
if you want to see all of the parts that we use right here,
well, you can find a link to them in the description below.
We through it would go easy, but ended up driving back to the location five times.
You really need to try to jump on the same spot as where the car would drive by.
Sometimes I would jump too high or not far enough.
So, keep in mind to film several takes so that you have enough choice in post production.
Later we also found out that Zach King did not take two shots, but actually three shots.
We had the idea to jump up when the car passed by. And this definitely works,
but, in order to get the transition more natural,
there is a better way.
So you have the shot of yourself jumping onto the street.
Then Yannick would drive by without me in the car
and then we would drive by again with me in the passenger seat.
You can see here that I'm leaning outside of the car
and pull myself back in as we reach the spot where I jumped.
Only in this final shot you can let the camera pan with the car.
So we end up with three shots, let's bring them into Adobe Premiere Pro after this.
-I'll give you 5 bucks if you eat it.
Do it for the viewers, do it for the clicks.
-It's protein!
-I wanna get a million views at this video, Lorenzo. Eat the bug!
-Ha, ha, ha!
We're gonna start off by placing the shot of only Yannick driving the car to the first track.
Next to that I'll place the shot of Yannick passing
with also myself in the passenger seat.
You wanna trim these two clips so that they perfectly match together.
Now bring your jump clip on top of that.
With it selected, head over to the Opacity property
and click the Pen tool to draw a mask around yourself.
It's best that you start masking on the last frame
where you take up the shape of sitting in the car.
Enable the animation now for the Mask Path and adjust your mask as you're going backwards.
It takes some time, but that's often the case with such masking tricks.
In an interview by Zach King he once said that he would work for an entire week
on one single effect.
When you're not covering the entire car anymore,
you can make your mask bigger and...
...even more rough as the two clips share the same background.
The last few frames where you enter the car need to have a better transition.
So, add a cut a little before the clip ends.
I'm going to trim the clip a little open
and add another cut from where I started trimming.
The right clip now is going to get a Frame Hold,
which you can set by right-clicking onto it.
Now select the two last parts, right click again and choose Nest.
On this nested sequence I'm going to apply the Transform effect
to create an animation with the position of the nested sequence,
as you wanna steer your movement to the exact spot of where you sit in the car.
Disable to use the Composition’s Shutter Angle for the Transform effect
and set one of your own to get a natural motion blur in that animation.
This is also the reason why we animated the position with the Transform effect.
Next, right-click on the nested sequence and nest it again.
There's a conflict in Premiere with masks and the Transform effect,
which is why you need to nest it so often.
On the new nest, I'm going to add another mask,
this time it can be rough and you wanna cut off certain body parts
that should have entered the car already.
Animate this mask as well as you're going through the door of the car.
The whole animation process should be done now.
We're going to do a few more tweaks to sell the effect even better.
Using Lumetri, I'm going to animate the exposure
to make myself darker as I come closer to the car.
This is because the car is blocking the sunlight and so I move into the shadow.
Now, speaking of shadows, since I masked myself out,
my own shadow is gone.
To fix this, go to the point where your shadow disappears.
There I'm going to add a black color matte on top,
with the Pen tool I draw a mask that has the same shape as my shadow.
Start animation for the Mask Path and change the shape overtime,
as it follows my movement.
Then decrease the opacity of that solid and add a little feather into the mask.
With Lumetri you can color grade that solid
if you need a little blue tone into it.
For the final touch I'm nesting the whole timeline together
and on that group I will add a fake handheld camera motion preset to it.
This will take the edge off that static tripod shot.
This is by the way a free preset which you can download from our website
cinecom.net. There's also a direct link in the description below.
-Woo-hoo!
And that was it again!
The next time that you need a lift, don't waste time and just jump into a passing car!
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and like always:
stay creative!
-What a beautiful day here in Belgium!
Yannick! Are you still walking around with your monitor?
-It's so pretty.
-Lorenzo, you too?
-Of course, I've got a brand new monitor!
-What's up with all these monit... Where is MY monitor?
Guys, come on! Guys!