hey guys it's mark here from editors
keys and today we're gonna teach you how
to make some cool animated stories just
like these
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so we've been using these on some of our
stories for quite a while and we've been
getting some great feedback so if you
want to see increased engagement on your
stories these are the things to use so
the key to making this work is being
able to photograph the background
independently you also want to find
something which is easy to cut out as
well so you don't want really
complicated edges when you do this we're
just in Manchester City Center at the
moment looking for some interesting
places this looks quite cool but we're
going to keep walking around and seeing
if we can find something better
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okay we've just finished filming on the
streets and we're now back in the studio
so let's fire up the laptop and let's
show you how this is done so we've put
our photos into Photoshop already but
you can use any other photo editing app
you may have like Pixelmator as well
okay so we're going to start in
Photoshop first and import our two
photos of our subject and our clean
background photo what we need to do is
separate our subject out of the photo so
there is no background behind it and to
do that we can use a few different tools
to cut our photos out and it all depends
on the type of image you have what I
like to do is make use of the lasso tool
and layer masks so before you start
cutting into your image I recommend
duplicating at first so you can always
have a backup below if something goes
wrong and to do that you can either
right-click on the layer and choose
duplicate or use the keyboard shortcut
command + J on a Mac or ctrl + J if
you're using Windows now we're going to
make use of our selection tools start to
trace around the edges of our subject
once you have your selection made hit
the layer mask icon that way if we make
a mistake with the cutout we can just
paint it back in once you've cut out
your image we can see how well it works
against our blank background image and
as you can see it blends nicely so now
we're ready to go to our editing app to
put this together but first we need to
save out our images for our subject
photo we need to make sure the
background layer is turned off and then
choose file and save as and select PNG
as our file type PNG is going to save
that transparency for us so over in
Premiere Pro we need to just import our
photo elements which we can just drag
and drop into our project window then we
need to create a sequence that's the
right dimensions for Instagram stories
so go to file and new sequence and in
the presets choose digital SLR then
1080p 24 frames per second then go into
the settings tab and then type in a new
frame size of 1080 in the width and 1920
in the height and be sure to keep 24
frames per second as our frame rate and
then hit OK
then we can drag-and-drop our images
onto the timeline we want to put these
images on the timeline in layer order
now we need to add some movement to the
image so let's make sure we're at the
beginning of our sequence and click this
stopwatch to create a keyframe then
let's move to the end of our sequence
and adjust the scale of the image as you
can see this automatically adds a
keyframe whenever we want to make an
adjustment to this value make sure that
our playhead is on that keyframe
otherwise you'll create new keyframes
and it will kind of mess up there's a
bit of fine-tuning we can do to make
this look even better we can actually
add a blurring effect of the background
layer to make the subject really stand
out
now we can add more elements to really
add that extra richness to the animation
so I'm going to add this music track to
give the story some sound you can take
this one step further too by adding
sound effects so I've gone and found
some ambient City sounds of X since ours
is in a city type shot and this really
blends nicely with the music and now
gives us story well a story now we're
ready to get this on Instagram so let's
make sure that we definitely have 15
seconds or less and choose file and
export media choose h.264 as our format
and then make sure these check boxes are
ticked on choose our file location then
export
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okay guys that's the end of the tutorial
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ones on our Instagram it'll be great to
see what you guys are making with it so
I hope you've enjoyed that video and
we'll see you in the next one
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