Editing Magic: Playing With TIME (Premiere Pro Tutorial)

oh hey guys it's jordy here from cinecom.net and welcome back to copycat friday and i think at this point we've all seen one of the videos from macro room passing by i mean it went pretty viral and that's because what then makes the guy behind the channel is so incredible he makes a combination of super slow motion together with real time footage and he does some really awesome video magic with that he kind of reminds me of zach king in a way i don't know but that is what we're going to recreate today guys we're going to drop a cookie into a mug full of milk and uh well what you see right now that's what we're going to recreate so uh let's get started and show you guys how it's done [Music] okay we have this cool idea that we want to recreate and now it's time to test some stuff and the thing we needed to test is the slow motion we need to find out how far we can go with the reds and with other cameras that we have laying around here so yeah it's just some slow motion testing and then we can shoot the real sketch [Music] the ideal camera for this effect would of course be a high speed camera but not everyone has them laying around or has the budget for them for the first experiment we recorded as slow as possible with the red camera which is 240 frames per second at a resolution of 2k with this i want to see how achievable it is to increase the frame rate without actually shooting more frames so i brought the clip in after effects here i use the trial version of the twixtor plugin which is basically a plugin which will make your footage higher frame rate it works by analyzing your footage and guessing how the missing frame should look like and honestly it looks pretty well of course you can see some art effects but that depends on how you actually shoot your footage but the downside could be that the plugin does cost some money for the second method i used a smartphone i know sounds weird right these days you have some smartphones like the samsung galaxy s21 which can shoot up to a frame rate of 960 fps of course you'll have to sacrifice a resolution which in this case is 720p yikes to fix this issue i use a software called topaz ai which basically scales up your footage bless you if you look at the result and compare the two footages you can indeed see it got a bit better but of course it doesn't compare to a real camera but depending on the goal of your video you could get away with it in our case we'll just stick with the 2k 240 frames a second because it should be good enough for us to shoot our video what are the guys doing right here hey timo i'm so good at instagram stories yannick bought the triple chocolate i'll be like the real vloggers that's because they have autofocus yeah but i also have autofocus now hello before we can start shooting we first need a photograph of the cookie falling in the milk and the cup because in the sketch you will see lorenzo dropping the cookie taking a picture of it and then showing the picture but you can do this all at once because you can't move time and slow-mo all at the same time so we're gonna take the photo before we do the sketch and then we can show it in the sketch easy as that we tried to take the picture with the iphone but as you can see the shutter speed is not high enough so we're going to switch to our dslr like this laura slr teemo i have a mushy cookie this is not an easy task for this effect you'll need two shots the first one is where you drop the cookie in an empty mug pretend to take a picture of the milk splashing out and show it back to the camera after this you don't want to move anything not the camera the lights the mug nothing because that will mess up your effect then you fill the mug with milk and drop the cookie from a great height and make sure you create a nice big splash of course shoot everything on a tripod because that will make your life way easier in the editing room thanks for the tip and something else that can make your life way easier is storyblocks our sponsor for today's video if you don't have a camera or smartphone that can shoot slow enough you can always scroll through the huge stock library there for example they already have a ton of slow motion clips in hd and 4k resolution so you can play around with time and of course this isn't the only thing they have they also have green screen clips lower turrets animated backgrounds and mograph templates like this one for example in premiere pro i can just type in what i say and look at that it just shows what i'm saying isn't that cool and the best of all is that you only have to pay a single price per year to have unlimited downloads so click the first link in the description down below for more information so guys for a tutorial the next step that you want to do is take out your scissor lift and hang above the table very important step now go take your scissor lift guys apparently i wasn't straight above the mug so we didn't get a splash of milk cookie drop take four i guess at first we had this light setup to light lorenzo from one side with these sub boxes and with one fill light on the other side and we also had a backlight behind them so we can make him come loose from the background however when he was moving his right arm you can see him casting shadows on the cup we removed the backlight and we lifted up the softboxes on the side creating more of a top lining which will make it easier for the shadows because they aren't casting on the cup anymore but just on the table and believe it or not but we are going to use premiere pro for this effect ah it's been a while of course a normal person would use after effects because we need to mask a lot of stuff and after effects is so much better than masking a lot better but you know us we like a challenge challenge accepted anyways let's stop wasting time and do some editing magic the first step is adding our main shot to a new composition now because we shot everything in slow motion we first need to speed it up back to a normal playback speed we filmed in 240 frames per second and we want to work in 30 frames per second so we need to speed up our clip 8 times to achieve the normal playback speed but of course this all depends on how many frames you shot in so it can differ for everyone next up we removed our cookie and for this we need a clean plate we don't have so let's make one we duplicated our main clip to track number four and yes this needs to be track number four we need track number two and three for some other stuff now we look for the point where we just released the cookie here we made a cut and removed the clip left of that cut then we selected the clip right of the cut and nudge it to the left offsetting it in time we do this so that the duplicate cookie will be a few steps faster than the original cookie and this we will use as a clean plate so we just created a mask on the duplicate layer which will cover up the cookie from the main clip of course we animated the mask so that it keeps following along with the cookie and look at that our cookie is gone well the thing is that we still need a cookie but we need it in slow motion so we again duplicate our main clip on track number five made a cut on the point where we dropped our cookie and deleted everything left from the cut now for the slow motion we are going to reset the speed of our clip once done we do have to time remap the cookie because we want a smooth transition between our normal speed cookie and the slow motion cookie so we let it start from a normal speed and then gradually slow down over time next up let's single out the cookie first we select the slow motion cookie clip and nest that layer then we took the pen tool and started masking try to do this as precise as possible oh come on premiere i said precise yeah this doesn't seem to be working sorry guys but we'll need to do it in after effects for this select a clip right click on it and replace it with an after effects composition in after effects we can easily rotoscope our cookie out ah so much easier and faster now that we have that we can go back to premiere pro and if everything went well you should have a clip where everything plays at a normal speed except our cookie that is dropping in slow motion okay we're almost there but we need to add our milk and slow motion splash so we took the cookie milk drop clip and place it on track number three we then match the timing of the cookie dropping and the milk splash on the milk clip we're going to create a match precisely around the cup this way we always have the milk up in our screen but when we now play everything we can see that we have one frame where we can see a small portion of a dropping cookie and the shadow of it but don't worry we can easily solve this we just duplicate our main clip to the video track number two nudge it one frame to the right and add a frame hold we then make the clip one frame long and mask out a small part around the cup removing the cookie and the shadow then the last thing we need to add is the splash we duplicated our milk splash to track number six and on the moment our cookie hits the milk we made a cut and removed everything left of the cut we then created a mask around our cup and the table this mask we animated over time to open up and follow along with the milk splash you can do this really rough because we are going to remove the black of our clip by adjusting the blending mode to lighten one thing we did was adding a simple photo flash on the moment we wanted to take a picture because we shot everything in slow motion and our real flash was so fast it disappeared when we sped up the clip we had to re-add it but luckily this was super easy and that's it for the effect yeah this video made me hungry guys with all the cookies i love cookies i hope that you love the effect guys and learned something new today i mean that is something that i would love as well isn't this a lovely set right here with the lights hanging thank you storyblocks for the love thank you for the love thank you everyone for the love and as always stay loving you want me to say stay creative right okay stay creative guys [Music]

Channel: Cinecom.net

Views: 900,562

Keywords: macro room, playing with time, slow motion, time remapping, speed ramping, adobe premiere pro, premiere pro tutorial, how to, tutorial, video editing tricks, magic trick, editing tricks, magic editing, editing tutorials, premiere pro effect, editing magic, premiere pro tutorials

Id: 7YPgb63dbOg

Length: 11min 5sec (665 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 11 2021