Stop! Enough already. How are these black bars done? It's super
easy, so black bars tutorial today.
If you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn how to
take better photos and videos with the latest gear and to possibly participate
in creative camera challenges, consider subscribing. I like to use those
cinematic bars for many reasons. It helps me stylize the videos, to make them look
more interesting. I like it mainly for video sequence or b-roll. It's just very
pleasing on eye, it looks like in a movies.
And then there is one more reason. No....I'm not gonna say it.
OK. I'm gonna say it. Fine, I'll say it. If I want to hide something like for example
if I choose very dark background, too dark background and my roots are kind of
all grown out and I just stretched the picture a little bit, I slap on the black
bars and hide it, nobody sees anything. It reminds me, I still haven't
found a volunteer in this house who was gonna help me with my hair this time. You
know male youtubers have it so easy. They don't have to wear makeup, they just slap
on the hat and yeah... I tried it... doesn't work for me. Moving on. So what is it? It's
very simply a PNG file. An image. Two black bars and nothing between. There are
tons of free PNG files online available for download. Thin black bars, thick, this
way and that way, choice is yours. Let's go to Adobe Premiere Pro and do the
whole animation. I'm just going to add this PNG file to Timeline as another
layer on top. This is how it looks like when it is at hundred percent. To make
them come down and go away is super simple animation. I'll make them 132%
size, that way they are gone. Click the keyframe,
I'll click another keyframe where I want them to appear and shrink the size from
132% to 100%. Now they are here. To make them
disappear again, I'll just do the opposite. Create keyframe and 100%
as your starting point
and create another keyframe as your ending point. Change the size 132%
and done. Very simple. There are so many things you can do with them. You can make
them flicker, you can do different colors, you can make them fade in and fade out, the
possibilities are endless. You just need to use your imagination.
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see all of you my friends in the next video, cau... Ahoj...