- I'm gonna share with you 10 effects built into Final Cut Pro 10, that you can start using
in your videos today to spice it up a little bit, to level up. And you're gonna wanna stay
tuned for all 10 effects because you probably haven't
heard of all of these and they are gonna turn you
into a pro editor in no time. You go gotta just press record. Hey guys, my name is Nolan
Molt with Think Media. Now, number one is to use text popups. This is really popular
when it comes to YouTubers and it's pretty simple
inside of Final Cut Pro 10. Let me show you exactly
what I'm talking about and then I will show you how to do it. - Now let's get right into this video 'cause we have a latte talk about. - Yeah, cheesy jokes, welcome to the YouTube channel. - So as you saw here,
this text was popping up. Now I'm going to delete
this and start from scratch to show you guys exactly how to do this. First things first, you
wanna go into your text and I'm just gonna go ahead and use a custom one right here. I'm gonna drag this over. I'm kind of gonna resize this, so that it's as long as what I am saying because I'm gonna have them pop
up, right as I say the word, it's gonna pop up. - [Nolan Voiceover] We
have a latte talk about. - And it's gonna end right about there. So now that that's all set, I'm gonna go ahead and put in my text. Now that I have my text on the
screen, it's pretty simple. What I like to do first
is actually get in here and just cut them up to the words. Now this doesn't have to be perfect because it's actually really
easy to re-time these, so that it pops up at
exactly when you want to. But what I like to do is just
really quickly go through and cut these up into the different words. Okay, that's not perfect, but, you know, some are around here. Now you can see the
I've cut up the titles. What I'm going to do now is
start over here on number one. And I am going to go to Crop
and then change this to Trim, so if it's on Crop, you don't want that. You wanna change this to Trim. From here, all you have to do is take this right side of the box and start to drag it over, trimming off every single word,
except for your first word. Now, what we could do is
go over, click this again, go to Trim and go ahead
and do the exact same thing we just did, leaving our second word and our first word visible now. Now we could just do this
for every single text but to speed up your
workflow a little bit, you could do a copy and paste. All you gotta do is select one
that you've already trimmed. You're gonna hit Command
+ C, go to your next one, and then you're gonna
hit Command + Option + V. From there, it's going to
chop off most of the words and you just have to drag
it to your next word. So I'm gonna go ahead and do
this with the rest of them. And it really doesn't take that long and you get yourself a really
cool effect by the end of it. Obviously on your last one here, you want to leave all the words visible and now we can go
through, we can watch it, and see if we need to kind
of re-time any of the words. - Video 'case we have a latte talk about. - So I can maybe move
this second to last word, "Latte talk about." - 'Cause we have a latte talk about. - Now that's looking pretty
good and it's as easy as that, just using the Trim tool. You also could use the Mask tool but I found for stuff like this, using the Trim tool has
found to be easier for me. Next up, I'm gonna show you guys how to blur out a piece of the image, whether you want to censor it or hide it, you can definitely do that
inside a Final Cut Pro 10. I've done this before for clients where they needed to
actually blur out a brand or something in the
background, like an address. And so I've had to use this before but I'll show you how
to do that right now. So first off, we have our clip right here. And for this case, I'm just
gonna blur out my coffee cup because it's moving and I'll show you guys how to kind of move that around as well. So the first step you actually want to do is to copy and paste the clip
that you are going to blur and put one on top of the other. So I'm gonna go ahead and move
this right on top of there. Now we have two different clips. Now the top one is going to be our blur and we're gonna use a mask to
control what we want to blur. So let's start with our effects and actually going to pick out a blur. There's two that I like to use. One is just kind of your
classic out-of-focus blur, and the second one is
more of a pixelated blur. So I'll show you where both of those are. If you go over here to
Blur, you can see right here that if I throw this on top,
everything is out of focus, it's a pretty nice blur. This is kinda something
that you would see on TV. However, I would like
to use the Pixelate blur because it just kinda fun and funny, and so I like to use that sometimes. If we click on All and we
go to Search for pixel, we'll see Pixelate right here. And if we throw that on
top, you are going to see that it does this whole pixelating effect and you can really choose
how much you want to do that. Let's get the copy up here and maybe we wanna make
it even more blurry. Now that we have done our blur, what we wanna do next is pick our mask. So I'm going to search for mask, make sure you're dragging this on the top layer of your video. And from here, you can
start to draw a mask around exactly what you want to blur out. And we'll just go ahead and
blur out this entire coffee cup. Now from here, it doesn't look too good, but you can start to mess around, so that it fits around whatever it is that you're blurring out, a bit better. And then, we want to use the Feather tool. This is gonna make it
look a whole lot smoother. You can even drag this past
100, if you would like. And so, this is looking fine
for me as far as a blur goes, I think it looks great. Now you can see the issue here is that the coffee cup
kind of comes into the blur and it also goes out of the blur. So what I'm gonna show you how to do, is how to move this
blur effect over-neath-- Over-neath? Over top of a moving object. So I'm gonna move it to the first frame that it comes into, which is right here. And I'm just gonna drag
this entire masking tool with the blur effect over that mug. So that's right there. I'm gonna go ahead and
start my key frames. Underneath your mask, you
wanna open up your Transforms and then you're gonna
click this key frame button right here on position. And I like to go about
three or four frames and move the mask. If I'm moving it really fast, maybe I would do less every
frame or every other frame. But for something like this, you can really get away
with three, four frames. So I'm gonna start here and I'm just going to
move forward three frames. Now that I moved forward three frames, I'm going to move my mask back up, move forward three frames again, continue to move my mask, and I'm gonna do this for the entire clip. Now that I'm done, you
can see that the mask is actually starting on the clip and I don't want it to start on the clip. So to go to my first key frame, I'm going to hit this button right here. And then I'm gonna go back a few frames and move this all the way out. So as we go forward now, it's going to come up with
the mug, which is perfect. So let's hit Play and
see what this looks like. Awesome, so the blur is
moving around with the mug and it looks great and blurred. And the nice thing about this is, now that we've done a mask that's moving, we can actually replace
this effect with anything. So if we wanted to change
this to our other blur, it's really easy as just
dragging this on top of the clip and deleting the Pixelate button. Now we want to move this back up top, right where the Pixelate was. And from here, you can mess
with the amount of blur. You can make it more blurry, less blurry, and you're gonna see that
the same effect happens. All the movement have been kept the same but now it's just a
different type of blur. Next up, I'm gonna show you guys a little stop motion effect. I use this on my wife's
channel where her name pops up and I kinda made this stop
motion effect with her name. And I did that all manually
inside Final Cut Pro 10. So I'm gonna show you
exactly how I did that. So right here, I did a little text that
says, "Hello everybody!" And I'm gonna show you kinda
what this effect looks like. Just kinda bounces back and forth, kinda like a stop motion vibe. So it's really easy to do this. What I'm gonna do is
actually delete all of this but keep one of my texts. So first of all, you wanna start with-- It could be a picture, it could be text, it really could be
whatever you want it to be to kinda do this effect. And so all of it is going to be the same, whether it's text, a
picture, graphic, whatever. So the trick here is to make
your text three frames long and then we're gonna go from there. So let's start by doing
that, one, two, three. I'm gonna go ahead and hit
B, which is the Blade tool. I'm gonna chop that off. Now I have this text that
is three frames long. And what you want to do is
hit Command + C, Command + V, and you're going to paste it. This next one, what you wanna do is go
to your Transform tool and you want to adjust
it just a little bit. You don't wanna do it a lot but you just wanna change it slightly. You're then going to copy and
paste that one right after it, and you're gonna do the same thing. You're just going to adjust
the rotation a little bit, maybe even the positioning a little bit. Command + C, Command + V, and do the same thing again. Make sure that it's not too
crazy all over the place, or it might be a bit too much. But you guys will get the hang of this. And then once you have
about 6 to 10 of these, you're just going to
Command, copy all of them and paste those over and over again. So I'll just do a couple more here, adjusting it just slightly, so that they look a little bit different, giving that stop motion effect. All right, now that I
have done seven of them, I'm gonna go ahead and hit
Play and see how it looks. I think it looks pretty good. And once you're happy with how it looks, all you have to do is copy and paste that over and over again to
make it as long as you want. So I hit Command + C to copy. I'll hit Command + V, and then Command + V again, again, again as long as I want it to last. And once you have it, as long as you want, you have a really cool stop motion effect to your YouTube videos. Next up, I'm gonna show you
guys how to add overlays to make your shot a bit more interesting. So when I first started using this, I was actually adding some muzzle flashes to some guns for these little action films that I was shooting with my friends, but really this works for anything. If you wanna do light leaks
or any sort of glitches, stuff like that, this works really well. It basically just takes the
black and a background image, or a video, and it makes it transparent. So when you overlay that onto your video, it's going to be transparent,
and the black will go away, and everything else is going
to be on top of your image. So right here, you can see
that the video is pretty bland. And so I'm gonna add some overlays just to spice things up a little bit. Right here I have this glitch overlay, which I think I just got off of YouTube, but it kinda has these numbers, kinda techie computer things going on. And so to get rid of the black,
so that it shows through, all you have to do is select the video, come up here to Blend mode, and you're gonna change that to Screen. Once you've done that, you see
that you get these textures coming through and there
is no more black screen. Everything is transparent and it kinda adds to this
cool computer shot going on. So I'm gonna do the same exact thing with this glitch effect right year, which we actually got off of story blocks. And so I'm gonna go to Blend mode, change that again to Screen, and this is gonna add a cool
transition to my next shot. And so let me show you
what this looks like now. I think it's really cool. It adds a lot to the shot. And again, you can get creative with this and add tons of stuff to your footage to make it look cooler. Again, those light leaks
I've used a lot of times, different glitch effects, stuff like that, you can add on top of your video by using the Screen Blend mode. I'm gonna show you guys
how to do this effect where it shows you the before and after. So if you're redoing a room, or if you're doing like a color
grade, like I am doing here, you can actually do a sliding effect to show the before versus the after. Now, right here, I have an
adjustment layer and a clip. And this adjustment
layer is just adding in my color to my shot. So you can see, this is what
it looks like completely flat. And then you have your adjustment layer. Now with this effect, you actually can't use an adjustment layer and I'll show you why later. So what I wanna do is I wanna copy this. I'm gonna delete my adjustment layer. And I'm just gonna paste
that onto my actual video. Now, in order for this effect to work, you do need two clips. So I'm going to copy this
exact clip and paste this. Now this would work exactly if it was your before
shot and your after shot, but for me, I'm going to
do before my color grade and after my color grade. So the top one is going
to be the after shot and the before is going to be the bottom. So what I'm gonna do is delete everything on this bottom clip to make it flat again. And you can see here, if I
mute this video feed on top, our bottom layer is the before, our top layer is the after. From here, you're gonna
go into the Transitions and you're gonna go to the
Search and look up wipe. And then you are going to
drag the Wipe transition onto the top layer. You can actually delete this end one. And then you want to extend
this to make it a lot longer. And I'll show you guys
what this looks like now. So right now you can't
even see the top layer. You just see the before
shot, which is down here. And then as it plays through, you're going to see this wipe effect where it shows you the
color grade that I've done. You can adjust the duration of the white by dragging it left and right
to make it longer or shorter. You can also click on this transition. And if you go up here, you're gonna see that you
have a few different options. So if you wanna go from left
to right, you can also do that. So now it is dragging from the
left side to the right side. You can also change the edge treatment. I usually like to leave this on Feather where it just kinda
blends in the two videos, but you also could do like
a solid color, like this, and make it white or black, and you can make the
border color a lot smaller. And then that way it's kinda
showing you the before, after, using a line of color
to distinguish the two. Now, I don't know about you, but have you ever accidentally gotten like a shotgun microphone in your shot or a light in your shot? Like you can see up here,
I have this light up there. It was not supposed to be
in my shot, but it was. But luckily in Final Cut Pro, there is a fix that you can do for this. What you wanna do is
copy and paste the clip that you are going to cover. And so we are going to cover
up this light right here. So what I'm gonna do
here is take this color right around here, because it's gonna be about the same color. I'm just gonna drag that over the light and then feather it out
so that no one can tell. In our effects, we're gonna
be looking for the Mask tool. And you can just draw a simple mask. I'm gonna drag that on top. Now, from here, I just
wanna take this color, about the same size of the
light and then close that off. So now that we've done that, we are gonna take the feather
option and put that to 100. And then on our Transform, or you can go to this right here, we are going to drag this up above. Now, if I completely
remove the bottom layer, you're gonna see what's happening here. I'm taking this color that
I just got with the mask, and then I'm actually going to
feather this out a bit more, so that it's much smoother. And all you have to do is make sure that it's
completely covering up that light or the microphone. Whatever it is you want
to hide in the shot, you can do this simply by adding in a mask and dragging something over top of it. And then by adding in some feathering, you're really gonna smooth out the shot, so it looks nice and clean. And now it looks like there
was no light ever there. So I can click this on and off. You can see that's
before and this is after. Another really cool, easy trick that I use for our Think Media videos is Ken Burns. So you can see here that we have a few different B-roll shots and they're just pretty simple, right? They're not too exciting. They're pretty boring. There's not a lot of
camera movement happening. Let me trim this one first. But what I'm gonna do here
is add in some Ken Burns and this is going to
emulate a camera movement. So all you gotta do is
click this arrow right here. We're gonna go to Crop and down here, you're gonna hit Ken Burns. Now here you have a Start
option and End option. So you can see it starts completely wide. And then it zooms in, ending a bit closer. I'll show you what this looks like. Now, it looks like there
is a zoom happening. And so we're gonna do the
same thing with this next shot but I'm gonna show you a few more things that you can do with this. So here we can see that
now it's doing a zoom out where it's starting in tight and then it is coming in, zooming out showing us the entire shot. But if you wanna switch that around, so that it's also zooming in, all you have to do is hit
these little arrows right here and that is going to swap these for you. So it's also going to do
another zoom in for you. And if we actually wanna
just switch that back, it's as simple as moving that. Now, if you wanna make it really drastic and zoom in a bunch, you can move these around
as much as you want. I don't like to make it super obvious. I like to do kind of a subtle
zoom in or zoom out effect, but whatever floats your boat, you can definitely do and mess
around with these as well. After adding in those Ken Burns, you can see that this movement to the shot really just adds a lot
to these B-roll clips and gives it a bit more spice. And I definitely think it's
something worth messing with because it can really take
your shot to the next level. Just adding that little
bit of camera movement really can make a big difference. For this next effect, we use this all the time at Think Media. This is when our texts
swooshes in and swooshes out. And we add in the sound effects. I'm gonna show you how we do that. So right here, you see
that I have my name. I have my Instagram handle. All you gotta do is go to your Transitions and look for Slide. This is the transition that I use. You can drag this right over
your image or your text. And then you want to
click on this transition and come up here and this is where you
mess with the settings. So we have slide in, which
is exactly what I want. And then at the end, it's gonna slide out. And the direction I want to go is right. So that's perfect. That's kinda the preset that it's set to. But you'll see here, when
it goes to the other clip, that's not what I want happening. So something wrong is here. So I'm gonna click on this transition, and we are going to go back up here. We can see that it's set to Slide In and I don't want it to slide
in, I want it to slide out. And for the direction, I
want it to slide to the left, so it goes back that way. Now, if we watch again, slides in, slides out, that's perfect. Now from here, all we have to do to make the normal texts
do the same exact thing is hit Copy and Paste onto this one. Now it's not going to
paste both transitions. You're gonna to go back up here. You need to hit Command + C, click down here, hit Command + V. Now it has perfectly copied and pasted every transition onto both of them, so when we hit Play, they both come in at the same exact time, they both go out at the same exact time. If you wanna make these quicker or longer, you can drag this to the
left to make it quicker. You can also drag it to the
right to make it last longer, be a longer slide. And then you would just match
these up, so that they match. And this is just gonna
come in a bit slower. The next effect I wanna show you guys is the handheld effect. So we're gonna search for handheld and drag this over our clip. And this is going to give
our static tripod shot a handheld look. So once we hit Play, we're gonna see that it looks like someone
is holding the camera. They're a little bit shaky but we can mess with those settings by clicking on our video
and up here, in Effects, we can mess with the
shakiness and the distance. If we wanna make it more shaky,
we can drag it to the right. If we want to make it less
shaky, we can drag to the left. I like to keep my
shakiness around 15 to 10, and then my distance, I like to bring back down
about to 10 to 15 as well. And we can see what this looks
like now with those settings. It's definitely a lot less shaky. This is a bit more of my taste. And I like to throw this in on videos to just spice things up and
get people on their toes 'cause when they're seeing the same shot over and over again, they
can start to tune it out. So cropping in, cropping out, adding in these handheld effects. This is great for resetting
the viewers attention to get them to watch longer. Little stuff like this does wonders. And I think it's a really cool effect that you can add to your videos. I know I got a lot of questions
on that in a previous video. So for those of you asking,
that is exactly how I do it. And I've actually had
a lot of people ask me about this effect that I'm
gonna show you guys as well. And this is when the
camera tracks on my face. So as I move my face around,
the camera tracks with me. Let me show you exactly how I do it. And I use key frames to do
it, but there's a trick here that makes it a whole lot easier. So I'm gonna drag this
custom text onto my video, and then I'm just going
to add in the letter X. It really could be anything. It could be a dot, let's just do a dot. And I'm gonna drag this right
into the middle of my eyes. Now this looks really weird at the moment but I promise you guys, it's going to be a really cool effect. So on this clip right now,
we have scaled the image, so that it is a bit closer and you can see that as I hit Play, I move my head around like this, and I'm just going to do a
little camera track on my face. Now, the reason I put the dot right there is 'cause for these key frames, I want to make sure that
my middle of my face stays in the center of
the frame the entire time. That is what's gonna make
this look really interesting, look really cool, and the camera kinda move with
my head as I move it around. So now that I have the video selected, I'm going to add a key frame. And I'm just gonna go frame by frame, moving this image around to stay on track with this little dot in
the center of the screen. For something like this, I'll
go forward every two frames, or if there's a lot of movement, I'll just do it frame by frame. But for something like this, I could probably get away by
jumping forward two frames, adding a key frame, jump
forward two frames again, and adding a new key frame. And for those of you
asking, if you're brand new, once you move something around, it automatically adds
in a key frame for you. So all you gotta do is
start your key frames once and then we can jump forward two frames. Once you move it like this, you can see that this has a check mark. If I jump forward two more frames, you can see that it is not selected yet, there is no key frame. But as I move this around, it
adds in a key frame for me. Jump forward two frames and just do this throughout
the entire thing. All right, now, before we watch this, we wanna get rid of this dot. So I'll delete that, and then I'm gonna hit the Play button. All right, so that's pretty cool. So you can see as you're
talking, it crops in, and it does this funny little
tracking on the face effect. Again, people ask me about that one, that's exactly how I do it. If you wanna watch my
Final Cut Pro 10 tutorials for beginners, then click on the screen and check out that playlist. I made it for you guys. So please check it out and I'll see you guys in the next video. (upbeat music)
