CRAZY FREEZE FRAME MORPH EFFECT ! Adobe Premiere / Any Editor

[Music] what is going on my friends welcome back to the channel today we are going to talk about something pretty interesting I've been calling it the freeze-frame deconstruct effect I'm not sure what to call it but essentially what it is is it's a combination of a freeze-frame and a match cut if you don't know what those two things are I recommend you go in the description you open up a new tab learning about the freeze-frame and learning about the match cut effects you can do them in any video editing software it doesn't have to be Adobe Premiere and they're very simple things to learn once you have a general understanding of those two things to freeze-frame and the match cut then you'll be ready for this tutorial and there's a lot of really interesting things you can do with this tutorial we're going to talk about what you can do with still images so something like commercial shoots product shoots and we're also going to be talking about how you can use this maybe with live footage music videos creative videos so it still has that popping freeze frame style but it's matching the continuity of the last shot and if we actually go and break down what we did here you'll see if I go frame by frame it's pretty simple we're just doing simple things like cropping some basic effects like an invert then masking out specific parts of the next shoe then overlaying it on top so we're gonna show you how to do all of this we're going to use simple PNG imaging to show the basics of it and then we're gonna talk a little bit about the more advanced how you can do this with video footage the best ways to go about it for the best results because there are a lot of factors that go into this and different applications you can have for this you can do this with people's faces you can do this with different shirts different shoes a lot of it comes down to pre-planning but we'll get into that a little bit later on what you're going to need are some still images I recommend you have PNG files with transparent backgrounds such as this right here to actually create those images you're going to need to take the pictures themselves and then mask them out and some sort of photo editing software or you can go on Google Images as long as you're using royalty-free stuff you can practice this effect we're free without even owning a camera you don't have to do this on only shoes you can do this with different cars you can do this with different t-shirts clothing there's so many different things that you can do this effect on you just need to make sure that the continuity is the same so you're going to want to find similar looking pictures for example this car next to this car next to this car so let's do it on cars instead of shoes we're gonna right-click we're gonna click save image as and you'll see I'll set this up with faces and a little bit as well let's go ahead and make a new folder here go ahead and right click and make a new folder here so that all our images are in one organized space and we're going to just name this car side shop click inside that folder and we're going to name this one and then let's just find a bunch of different car shots that we can use here let's see if we can even go to tools color transparent so if you do that in your Google search you won't even have to cut out the background in Photoshop it'll save you a lot of time if you would like to just practice it so let's just save a bunch of these for now and the more images that you throw into this effect the more flashy the animation is going to be a reason why this true animation here turned out the way it did is because we're using a huge range of different throughs which adds a lot of flow a lot of motion to it so you have your images in your folder now and so these are either gonna be PNG files or JPEG files if you've shot them yourself or you're working with only JPEGs say you are working with the JPEG and you want to have the transparency again it's optional but it'll help in terms of customizing the background so this first image here this is a JPEG this isn't a PNG it doesn't have a transparent background so if I drag this here you'll see this overlays over top of the shoe but if I drag in one of the P and G's this is now over top of the shoe with no background to get rid of the background on your JPEG files we're gonna have to open up Photoshop if you don't have Photoshop you can use something like or jimp I think is a free photo editing software there's a lot out there you just have to do a quick google search and find something that has a masking tool tidy up your image until you have something clean like this we're gonna go to file save as we're going to save this as a PNG file so let's find our car side shots save as type we're going to make this a PNG and then we can name this one so that is how you can create the PNG out of any of your JPEGs so if you're doing it yourself if you're shooting it on set for your clients throw them into Photoshop but out the part that you want and make sure it has a transparent background now we need to import them like I did here so that when we press play it's going to create this animation of them kind of just changing back and forth in the same relative area and then that's when we're gonna start adding the freeze-frame aspect of it and we're going to start adding some of these simple little customizations and the background elements to fully get this animation so to do that let's go ahead and just make a new sequence here so we have a fresh canvas so file new sequence I'm gonna use this 1080p by 24 frames per second preset we're going to click and drag to select all of them only the PNG so not our JPEGs and click and drag them into your Adobe Premiere project bin in the bottom left here now before we drag these into the timeline you're going to want to keep these all selected if they're not selected anymore you can just click hold down shift on your keyboard and just make sure these are all selected right click on them we're gonna go to speed duration and we're going to reduce the duration here so that it's only a few frames if we are just to drag these in here you'll see the duration is 4 seconds for each so it'd be 4 seconds and then switch to the next let's control Z that if we do the duration beforehand so right click speed duration we're going to make this instead of 4 seconds we'll make that zero we want to min we want to only make this around 4 to 5 frames and this is going to change your speed if you if you make it lower than 4 frames it's going to be super quick animation and cycling through the different ones if you make it above 4 frames it's going to be a little bit faster with how fast it switches since we only have around seven images let's even go above four frames let's make this 6 frames so we'll click OK and now we can click and drag and we have the nice stack in here so let's click play let's click our spacebar on our keyboard or click this and we'll see what our animation looks like so we have one main issue here this is an OK animation speed but the size of the cars are varying a lot so to fix that issue what we're gonna want to do is we're gonna want to line these all up so you can just take one as a reference let's just click and drag it in a video layer above and we're just going to size these so that they are exactly the same so let's first find our ideal size so select your layer go up to your effect controls and then just work with your scale your positioning I think this is a good relative size for how all of the cars should be let's show our bottom layer here and we're gonna resize every car to a be around this size so select the bottom layer let's go ahead and size this down if you want you can put it on top size this down change your positioning sometimes you'll have the same positioning but it's flipped and easy little fix to that let's just go to our effects library here and you'll see I've already searched for it just search for the flip effect and we're just gonna put a little horizontal flip on there another thing that could help with the lining up is your opacity option that you have right here just open that up lower this from a hundred percent you can kind of make it see-through a bit and that way you can completely line this up as perfectly as you can and this little tip that I just mentioned here this is going to come very much in handy when we do this with actual footage video footage and not just images so here's what our animation is looking like now they're relatively around the same size and now we can start adding our freeze-frame masking effects and everything else that we would like so starting off you want to raise the second image up a little bit and you want to take the first frame out of that so we're gonna click on our keyboard the right arrow key once to move over one frame we're gonna click ctrl K to make a cut you can also use your little razor tool here and now we're gonna take this one frame of our second layer and we're going to alt drag it up we're gonna make a duplication of it if you want since I dragged this up I can even click control C control V and there it is but if you want to make it easier just click alt drag up so now we have an exact duplication of only the first frame what you want to do here is just click and drag this few frames over now what we can do is we can take this one frame and we can put it in a video layer above frame 1 you see here's frame 1 we're taking this duplication of our first frame and just putting that over top of the car so you'll see we press play I kind of like pops in but you can still see the second car behind it now what we're gonna do is we're just going to use masking to only take one piece of this SUV and have that overlay so if we select the layer we go to our opacity here we can click our pen tool and let's just start with the wheel again you want to look for simple shapes that match up that's what the key to this effect really is it's creating these freeze frames but in a way that has continuity like a match cut here's what that looks like we just connected our mask you know see this is a little bit offset from the wheel of my second car an easy way to fix that is just click it click your motion you can just click motion here and then drag it over or over or you can change your exact values so we'll drag it over the wheel now the only issue is if we're dragging it over the wheel like that it's going to be a little bit offset from the second layer so what we need to do so we need to take the motion change we did on this freeze frame and it's pretty easy you can just right click copy select the second one and then paste only your motion so only check the motion here and click OK if you don't if you check opacity it's going to copy and paste the so only check that motion box again don't check opacity only check motion so now this completely lines up for our car and that's essentially the bread and butter of the effect it's matching it up and having the next image pop in if you want to change the length of the freeze-frame pop in you can just drag this layer out now it'll be longer and again if you want it to be super quick it'll pop in just like that by reducing the size of the clip and you can get creative with this you can get fancy with this say you want to have these wheels kind of like rotating like they're moving easy way to do that select it you're going to want to find your anchor point here so just click anchor point in your effect controls you'll see this little dot just move that to the center of the wheel and now we can take our rotation here keyframe it at our beginning position drag and then let's just make this do 1 X 0 so that'll mean it'll do one rotation and then just drag this keyframe so it goes to the end so BAM just like that and again you need to do your anchor point first if you don't have that anchor point in the right direction this is gonna roll all over the place so make sure your anchor point is in the middle of the wheel there and essentially all you need to do is just repeat those steps so just rewind the video rewatch those steps on how to create it it's pretty simple you'll see a big reason of why this looks the way it does is because the whole time I was doing this I was thinking on how I could play the next shoe in with the last so you'll see for the converses that have a lot of the arrows I'm using the freeze frames and I'm kind of popping to make these moving forward animations for things that have the star I'm highlighting the star for things that have circles here I'm making them rotate like I did with the wheel for a lot of the lines and the straps you'll see I kind of did one mask second mask third mask so there's a lot you can do you can mask different parts of the shoe with the shoe it gives you a lot of room for this so that's why it works very well with something like a car or something like a t-shirt or a person's face you got to get a little bit more creative and think a little bit more into it and it may take a little bit more experimentation let's go back to square one where we just had our duplication over top here you can go to effects add a little crop effect and we can just animate a little crop effect so let's go to our fed controls and just kind of change the left value so you'll see what that looks like and now we can try and match those two up so we'll click motion try and match this as best as possible so 50% if you want you can just have it kind of pop in like that those are just some simple little effects that you guys can do get creative with it repeat these steps for all the other that's in the sequence here again it doesn't have to be too crazy it's happening pretty fast so anything that kind of matches with the continuity and using that freeze-frame effect and all the other basics you need to learn some more facts check out my channel if you want some inspiration for things you can do you can play this frame by frame through YouTube clicking the little left and right comma and period keys on your keyboard or of course in Adobe Premiere you can use your actual left and right keys 90% of this is just masking simple things cropping flashing rotating not a lot of crazy advanced things going in there it's more just the knowledge on how to apply it and now let's apply it to video footage so again we're going to make a new sequence here we're gonna go to file new sequence and I'm gonna drag in the footage that I was using before keep in mind that this is completely unplanned unprepared for I just tried to find shots that looked similar so a little bit of my thought processing while I was doing this cuz I had three old shots here where I had three different girls looking in one direction so getting kind of like a side profile at their face this is the first one second one and the third one so they're doing relatively the same thing they're all looking to one direction and in fact in a lot of these shots they were looking to a different direction I used that flip effect here actually she was looking this way I use the flip effect so here is my step one I found shot of girl looking to the side another shot of a different girl looking to the side another shot of another girl looking to the side it doesn't have to be girls looking to the side I'm just using old footage I didn't have a group of people that I could walk up to and just film the side of their face maybe you guys are shooting some sort of project maybe you guys are shooting a music video the thing I want to get across before we start these similar steps is the pre-planning is what will make this a lot more smooth easy and better-looking what I mean by pre-planning is a if there's a lot of motion in your shots handheld this is not gonna look really good unless you really finesse it in the edit and try and combine it as best as possible to make this as easy as possible shoot this on a tripod or use clips that have minimal and held movements or movement that you could track him again we'll leave the tracking into a part two second is you're gonna want to make sure that these are relatively the same size distance away from each other if not we can scale them up and we're gonna show you how to do the lining up part now take the shot and we're gonna place it above the last frame of this clip this is where our transitions gonna be select it again this one she's looking at different direction so we're gonna have to flip it let's go to effects let's go to flare place the horizontal flip on her and now we can select it go up to our FET controls and we can just lower the opacity a bit so you'll see it's not lining up perfectly so we can change the position and there you go it's lining up a little bit better and change your scaling if you want and you'll see if we put our opacity back this isn't lining up because again these weren't pre-planned this is where the issues come in so to fix that what you would have to do is you'd have to scale both of these up for it to make sense you'd have to nest this clip here so select them both right click and nest and then you'd have to scale this up to where there's no edges showing just like that so now we have this zoomed in because we have to and then we add the next one and you'll see this is essentially our match cut again if you watch that match cut video this is the same composition it's in the same area and there's no fanciness it's just a nice smooth transition from one spot to the other now let's bring in the freeze-frame aspect to this match cut double click into our nested sequence here and you'll see exactly what we were doing before just our two clips and let's go ahead and get crazy with these two clips so we're going to create a freeze-frame I'm going to click once on my right arrow key and then ctrl K to cut it out I'm gonna hold down alt click and drag up so the same steps we've been doing this whole tutorial now the only difference is we can't just drag this out because look this will keep moving we have to right-click on it and we to add a frame hold now that we had the frame hold we can drag it out for some reason if it doesn't work just keep trying to do it sometimes these adding frame holes is kind of annoying there we go so it finally worked we have our frame roll we have our freeze frame here so now we can go ahead and place this over top of our last clip here just like that and now we're just gonna use masking to cut out the parts that we'd like to cut a lot of you may recognize this from that ASAP ferg floor seeds tutorial I made a while back we talked about the facial match cutting different facial features or body parts using just Photoshop this is just going a lot more in-depth into that same kind of concept well that's still using the match cut and the freeze-frame so let's go ahead and start masking we're gonna select the clip up in our effect controls here we're going to go to our pasty and let's drag let's grab our pencil here and in my opinion this is the most fun part to do you can just click select and we can just kind of cut out any piece that we want so let's just go with this eye here you'll see that it automatically lines up over top of our next clip we can select that if you want to keep it rough you can kind of have the mask like that if you want to have it more blended trying matching the faces as much as possible you can go to your mask feather option here and just raise that and that'll smooth out the edge so now it looks like it's kind of one shot but with a different eye you can also click the mask tool here and adjust it if you need to and another little pro tip if you're in your color workspace or however you call or grade color correct in your video editing software of choice you can select the clip and let's add a little bit of tint to match this shot that we have you'll see there's a lot of pink red lighting so we can add this tint here we can maybe add some contrast and just mess around with this and try and match the color correction as best as possible you can do some really cool stuff with this you can get really creative that's why I really like this effect and that's why I think that you guys can use this in a bunch of different ways so we're gonna want to cut this off right when our second shot starts so it should look like that see there's the match cut if you just pay attention to the eye if you pay attention to the right eye there's our match cut so BAM just like that let's add a little bit more length under here now again again touching on that motion tracking if you want me to make a part to really kind of creating some crazy looks with this and trying to match it the reason why it looks a little off is because this clip is moving you'll see this is changing a little bit because it's handheld this was shot on a tripod and if there was minimal movement almost like a picture there wouldn't be any change but you'll see we go frame by frame the eye just isn't perfectly centered it kind of just pops over what you can do to try and match that a little bit better select your clip go up to your motion here and keyframe it at our starting position let's move to our end position and then we can just try and match that a little bit better if that isn't working for some reason with the mask it doesn't sorry I should have mentioned this first right-click nest that first so nest the freeze frame first then you can keyframe it at your starting position and then we can move over a bit try and create a little bit of matched movement do the nose here just to rehash what we've been talking about find the side profile part and again we're gonna have to use this flip effect here let's drag this over top of the clip and we're going to have to try and actually line these up so right here we're going to lower the opacity again in our effect controls so lower your opacity put your scale up and let's even click motion here and just try and line these up so try and line up the noses because that's what we're trying to match cut match for each match freeze frame deform transform cut whatever the word for it is put the opacity up and then again all you need to do is mask so we click our pen tool and then we just select the area that we're trying to pop in like that's maybe kind of end it here it's gonna look really weird like this so to blend this a bit we'll just add some more feathering and you'll see that actually masks in a lot better than the first time I did it so some feathering and it's a little bit blue from the old shot here so we can add a little bit of warm tint like this and after a few seconds of that we'll cut this and you're just gonna want to right-click and do and then you're just going to want to delete the mask off the second part cuz this is where it switches to normal footage so something like that I think that actually turned out a lot better than the first time I did it again you'll see this is moving so we can position scale and with those keyframes I think that is as close to a motion track as we're gonna get again if you want me to build on this let me know in the comments down below there's still other videos out there that I promised a part two for and they're going to be coming I have it on my notepad they just take a little bit more time to setup so we have a lot more continuations of things i made but aside from that we have a lot more new things that i haven't talked about we talked about freeze frames we talked about match cuts I want to bring some new things to this channel more 3d some more animation work to try and build just a giant library of interesting things on this channel that can help you guys for your projects as always guys thank you so much for watching thank you so much for supporting and I'll see you guys in the next one [Music]

Channel: Max Novak

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Length: 22min 44sec (1364 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 06 2020