hey everybody and welcome to Premiere Gal today is a Friday FX tutorial and I'm
going to teach you how to turn an average stock video shot into a
cinematic shot in Premiere Pro and my goal here is for you to leave feeling
like you don't need to purchase a high-end camera to achieve cinematic
looks in your edit okay so this is the before and after that you see here I'm
going to show you how to create this after right now here I have a demo
sequence here this is the original clip it's a stock video clip of a gorilla
that I got from pond5 and it's in a 4k resolution and just by looking at this
you can automatically see that it's not the best shot we really want to focus on
the gorillas face in that character we don't really want to see this grass here
isn't doing much for us and also everything is in focus there's not
really any depth of field here so we want to change that and of course add a
nice film color grade as well and lastly I'll show you how to add a lens flare
and even some rain effects if you want from Production Crate which we will
cover at the end so first let's scale it up and reframe
it because it's a 4k shot we can scale it up more so we can use the scale
controls over here to scale the clip in like so now if you had a 1080p clip you
probably wouldn't be able to scale up this much without losing resolution so
if you're going to do this i'd highly recommend shooting in 4k or getting
stock video that's in 4k and it's everywhere now even some free clips from
pixabay.com is in 4k so what I want to do is show you guys the rule of thirds
to show you how to align clips better I actually have a motion graphics template
that's free from my website it's called the rule of thirds grid
and you can drag and drop it on top of your clips so you can see you know where
you're positioning your subject ideally with the rule of thirds you want to
place the subject where these lines are intersecting and right now it's pretty
good we could even move this clip over a little bit more if we wanted it to be
more in the rule of thirds section so let's go ahead and do that and if you
want to download this just go to my website and click on templates PremiereGal.com/templates
and you can find this free rule of thirds Premiere
Pro overlay that you can import into your central graphics panel so now that
we have it in place let's go ahead and delete that graphic and now let's work
on fixing this image color correcting it and adding a film grade so we're going
to use lumetri scopes to read the image and I have a full tutorial on how
to read the lumetri scopes because they are intimidating at first so you
should watch that I will link to it in a card up here and we're going to use a
lumetric color panel - if you do not have this open go up to a window and
go to the lumetric color I think what I want most is to add some
more contrast so I'm just going to increase the contrast here and let's go
ahead and reduce some of the highlights where it's kind of right on his back and
in the grass area and let's also add a film look I really like the Fuji real a
500 D kodak look and this comes with Premiere Pro by the way so if you click
on that you can see automatically it's much more contrast it looks a little bit
more cinematic but it's a bit too much so I'm actually going to reduce the
intensity of it just a tad by using the slider here and then of course you can
make it more of a faded look if you want to I kind of like the faded look in this
case some people really do not like faded film looks but I'll just increase
it a bit I will also add some vibrancy which will just saturate the areas of
the image that are not saturated more than they were if you use saturation it
saturates everything and it's just too much right so so this is why I never use
saturation I always use vibrancy so now it's looking a little bit better but I
want to bring out some of the orange in his hair up at the top and on his
side I'm I'm a huge fan of the orange and teal look so I like to use the
curves here hue saturation curves to basically click here on the wheel and
bring out some of that red and orange see what just happened there and play
around with it until it's just right but if I click this on and off you can see
that it just added a hint more of orange there and because the opposite of orange
is blue and that's the orange and teal look right so I'm going to boost in some
of the Blues here a little bit more as well even though there's not a lot of
blue in the shot it's just nice to add to give it more of an orange and teal
look it's looking pretty good contrast is better but what we need to do now is
make the background out of focus right and the focus on his face so we want to
mimic an aperture of a lens let's say at a 1.8 or 2.8 which makes the background
appeared to be out of focus and the focus on the subject so to do that first
we need to duplicate the clip in the timeline and I'm going to delink the
audio from the video by hitting command L and then deleting the audio then I'm
going to click alt option on my keyboard and click and drag to duplicate the clip
on video layer 2 now let's turn off video layer 2 for now and let's search
for a blur to apply to video layer 1 so here under effects I'm going to search
for a blur called Gaussian blur and I'm going to drag and drop that on to video
layer 1 and nothing happens because we have to go back here and increase the
blurriness let's increase it to about 20 and now you can see that everything is
out of focus so what we have to do now is add a mask around the face and chest
area here on video layer 2 so let's turn that back on and let's use the opacity
controls to use the pen tool to draw a mask if you click and hold you can make a
curved point which is ideal because it's less hard and here is the background so
we want that to be able to focus so I'm going to avoid that as much as I can
like so and you can get the hang of masking real quick once you practice
all right, so now you can see immediately after I let go there and closed off the mask
now his face right if I click down here in the timeline is in focus and the rest
is blurry but you can see this harsh line we do not want this harsh line
there it just looks bad so we need to feather it to blend in with the
background so let's go back over here to the mask and let's just feather it out
let's increase this feather up and see how it looks now
it's looking better let's add a little bit more here and that's looking pretty
good so now you can see the before if I open up the original video clip I double
click and open it up in the source panel you can see it just looks so much better
now I mean the grade is better the focus is on the gorilla but to give it even
more of a WOW factor you can use some overlays from Production Crate I use
Production Crate all the time they have awesome resources if you go to
ProductionCrate.com you can search for lens flares and you can download
free ones without the stars but if you want to get a pro membership which is
just $49 per year you can download unlimited assets for the entire year so
it could be lens flares and they also have like sound effects music and visual
effects and motion graphics and I also downloaded some light rain I'll show you
what I downloaded here because I wanted to see if I could add some rain to this
shot so if you click on this you can see that there's some rain here so I wanted
to see if I can create sort of a rainy scene with a lens flare so I downloaded
these assets just by clicking this button and I dragged it into a bin here
that I created called Production Crate lens flares and here I have the lens
flare and the light rain so first let's add the lens flare let's drag and drop
it on the clip here and let's reduce the clip to be flushed with Clips below and
you can see that it's not as big as 4k and that's no problem just right click
just right click and set the frame size to scale it up and now we need to get
rid of the black so we can see below so go to effects controls and under opacity
blend select screen and here we this nice shot with the lens flare now
but it does look a bit artificial so I want to tone it down let's make it
around 30% opacity so now we have this clip here with the lens flare and it's
looking pretty good the only thing I want to add is maybe
some rain so I'm going to drag and drop the rain on top and use the rate stretch
tool by hitting R to slow down the rain and you can extend it to the length of
the clip so it just reduced the speed down to 91 percent which is pretty cool
tool the rate stretch tool is my favorite tool in Premiere Pro and so now
we have some light rain and a lens flare do you see that which is so awesome and
so we turned this flat shot here of this gorilla stock video from pond5 into a
cinematic shot that would actually wow the viewer so that's it for this Friday
effects tutorial if you guys found this useful be sure to give it a thumbs up
and let me know what other effects you want to learn in a comment below I'm
doing Friday effects tutorials every Friday and it's all gonna be based
around something visual anything that you see on TV anything that you want to
learn okay so anyway don't forget to check out Production Crate they have
some awesome effects I use them a bunch in my tutorials so I'm sure you'll see
me using more effects in the future so that's all and I'll see you all very
soon buy