How to create a HYPERLAPSE in Hitfilm Express (Tutorial)

what's up everyone today I'm gonna show you how to create these awesome moving time lapses these hyper lapses in hitfilm express alright so before I get into all the hitfilm and the editing and all that stuff I should talk a little bit about how to shoot type elapses because shooting them is very different from the normal time lapse and it plays a big factor in how you edit it as well as you can see here I've got a folder with a lot of images in it and in essence the way you should hyperlapse is basically the same as a time lapse except the camera needs to move between each shot with time lapses you need to have the camera in a still position on the tripod and then you need to take a photo every couple of seconds however when you're shooting a hyper lapse the camera needs to move between each hyperlapse so what I've done as I'll show you here is I've basically taken a photo moves one step forward and take another photo moved another step forward taking another photo and I've done this a lot and a lot of times until we have all of these wonderful images which we can use in our hyperlapse now you'll notice as well that something is very important with the way you have to frame this you have to have it frame so that one object is in the center of your frame the whole time that's gonna make it much easier when we stabilize over our hyperlapse in hitfilm so as you can see here I've got this this cross here which is hard to kind of see here but they're out the whole time lapse I've got that in the center and you as you can see here I've got that in the center even at the very end and that's gonna be our central point of focus and you need something like that to shoot your time-lapse with but even if you have to show your images yet it's very useful to follow along the tutorial to see how you're gonna edit it so that you can shoot it better for your edit anyway let's go ahead and go into hit film and see how we can edit all these photos to a moving hyperlapse I'm not starting in the editing screen today I'm actually starting the project screen and that's because the way you set up your project has pretty big implications on your hyperlapse but before we start getting into this I just want to let you know that all of this editing this tutorial will be an intermediate level so you need to have basic experience with it and it might take some time to kind of grid through all of this but it'll be all worth it with some amazing results in the end anyway let's go ahead and set up our project so the resolution is really up to you and it doesn't matter because resolution is really the resolution of your images anyway and that will change later but the important thing you need to set up here is your frame rate the frame rate is the number of images that it's going to playback every second the normal cinematic is 24 23.976 as you can see here and that's what I'm gonna choose because it'll give me the most amount of seconds for all the frames that I have however you can also do something like 30 or 60 it's totally up to you and if you've already got an ideal frame rate you want to have that you're shooting the rest of your video on for example you want to make sure that your project frame rate is that frame rate once you've got your frame rate and everything set up though just hit start editing and we'll launch into the Edit Page and the way we have to import our time-lapse is actually really easy hit film has a really easy way to import these image things and to do that instead of just clicking on the import button and importing your images you can click on this little import special menu button which is to the side here and then you can select image sequence and once you've done that just go over and find your folder with all your images in it and select select folder I've selected my folder with all the images in it and you can see automatically in the trimmer here as we play it back it's a little bit laggy but you can see all of our images have been put together and it's now playing it back at 23.976 frames per second this is a good start and I guess technically you could say you're done here but there's a lot of different things we can do to this to make it better we can stabilize it add some effects on it as well so that's what we're going to do to do that and make it into a composite shot so we can begin our tracking just go right click and make composite shot on your media you'll notice here that now we've adjusted the actual dimensions of our comp as well you can see here I've shot 16 megapixel images at 4500 by 3500 pixels but this isn't really a standard video size so it's hit films kind of calculated the closest that to be 4k uhd which is 320 by 2160 and that's good for me if your time-lapse is with small images it might default to 1080p or something like that but just hit OK and you should be good to go and you can see that if we use the scroll wheel to zoom out here and we just click on our a media file you'll see it's actually quite a bit bigger than how how frame but we're going to scale it in later and we're going to do all that later for now let's just go go back to scale to fit and we're just going to welcome the tracking so to do that I'm just going to open up my time lapse to media here and then under this little panel here you'll see this tracks option and this little plus button if you don't the plus button if you have an older version of hitfilm you might have to open this menu up so you can see the plus button but if you see this plus button then just hit insert tracker there and a bunch of things happened you'll notice the biggest change is we've got this huge track panel over here so what you can do is drag this so for example here and you'll just make it easier for us to work with of course you might not have had that big track panel pop-up it might have been somewhere else already this is depending on your workspace and you can see all of these works based options here that you can open and close that track panel like so once you've got your track panel you'll also notice we've gone to our layer here and in the viewer you can see we're viewing our final composite but now layer we're just reviewing the original source ayah that we've selected here and this is really useful for our tracking because we can track with this layer I'm also quickly just going to expand this and expand this just so that we get a bigger thing to work with here ok so zooming into our layer panel would be scroll wheel here we can see we've got two boxes here by the way I'm quickly using a hand tool by right clicking and dragging but we've got two boxes here we've got a red box and we've got a green box the red box is the feature we want to track and the green box is the search area every frame is going to look for this red feature in the area of the green box now what feature do we want to track well as I mentioned in the beginning of the video I've made sure that I've had this cross in the center of my frame the whole time throughout the whole video into there in the center and we're going to track that and you'll also notice that because we're coming much closer to it it's going to be much bigger at the end and I'm actually going to start tracking from the end and then go backwards so that we get a much nicer track so let's go ahead and quickly click in this box and we can drag it around to adjust the position we can click on the corners to adjust the scale and I might make this the whole cross or just a section like this make sure it's a very high contrast point so you can see that we've got these lovely edges around here and I might just do the whole cross actually and we've got these lovely edges around here and it's just lovely contrast against the sky and that's really easier to track because we've got a lot of movement in between each frame it's probably a good idea to have a pretty big search box so I'm gonna make mine pretty big like so now it's time to go into our track settings you can see here by type you've got a default single point but we also want to stabilize some other things you can stabilize scale as well but today we're also going to be stabilizing rotation to make sure it doesn't skew to the side like this and it just stays centered along this line and luckily I've got this other cross here which we can use to track that as well so I'm just going to go from type from single point to double points that will give me those scale and rotation options there as well our second point appears there I'm just going to quickly drag this out of the way so that we can access this like so and then we're going to zoom out and drag this point all the way down to the second cross here and do the same alrighty so we've got our two points let's go back into the method now and you can see there's two options optical flow and tablet bench optical flow allows for a lot of changing in the kind of feature you're wanting to track and it's very good for most purposes however just with testing for my clip template match box much better it's much less flexible because there's so much detail around here that the tracker could accidentally mistake this for tablet match works much better so I'm just going to select template match for mine but of course you can try both of them and see which works best for you there are also more options here which you can learn about but I'm not going to go into that in this video we're just going to go straight to our track controls the main ones here are the track forward and if you're at the beginning and you're just tracking forward you can just use this button to track your video from the beginning but because we're at the end we're gonna track it backwards however just to start off with just a gauge you ever app without tracking we're going to go one frame at a time which you can do by clicking the track back one frame and track forward one frame buttons I'm gonna zoom out get both of our points in the frame and moment of truth let's just click track back by one frame and you can see there detract both of these points this one's moved from here to here and this one from here to here in a similar motion as well and we can keep doing this frame by frame if we want or we can track backwards the whole way I'm just gonna keep going back one frame at a time until we get an error like this are so this will happen a lot especially in this clip I'm gonna get a lot of errors and what happens when you get an error is you can just go ahead and zoom in and just reposition it like so and then just continue tracking back like so I'm quickly going to go from the frame by frame method I'm just going to go ahead and track it all backwards by playing it and it's going to automatically do it frame by frame until it stops and sometimes it'll stop and that's when hitfilm notices that it's encountered an error and we can use the full stop or the period key to go forward one frame and you can also use the comma key to go backwards and you'll notice that indeed this point down here has been misplaced it's been put down here and hit film luckily it has stopped that for us so we can just go ahead and move that here resize it a little bit maybe and we can just go ahead and continue tracking every time it stops there's an error or just reposition the tracks and then we can go ahead and track backwards again and just keep going through this process until you've tracked your whole video I'll be with you when I'm done alrighty our track is finally complete it's now time to do something with this track and stabilize our footage so just go to step 2 apply delay and change the purpose from transform which will apply this track data to some of the layer and change it to stabilize which will stabilize its own layer based on this data now we've got no option to select the layer that's because it's going to track stabilize this own layer and by default we have X and y position but because we've used two points we can also do rotation and scale if we want now as you can see from this point moving all the way up like this you can see that a scale would create this kind of dolly zoom effect and if that's what you're going for that's cool but we're just going to click rotation for now and we'll make sure it's just aligned and it's all this point in the center all right so we've done all that let's just hit apply and what nothing happened that's cause we're not in our viewer so just go back to the viewer it'll view our final composite and if we play it back it'll be a little bit laggy but we can already see that this this cross on the center has been locked in place and we don't really have any side googly rotation movement it's all been stabilized for us and that's really good now you could say you're done here but there's a couple of things I just want to show you first of all we still have that to scale issue so if we zoom out we can just scale it back and you still want to have a little bit of edge over the over the corners because you'll notice that it kind of wobbles from side to side you want to make sure that you don't get any transparent areas in your video so you might actually have it too small and you might have to scale it up but either way make sure it's in the frame properly and then we're also going to apply some effects which kind of make it look a little bit more realistic because because the motion isn't actually there I just took a still frame and each of these frames but there's no actual real motion between these frames and so to replicate this we're going to kind of add motion blur back to make it look like the camera's really moving through this quite fast now there are lots of different modes you could add motion blur but by far the most accurate effect is the motion blur effect which is really great that is even available in the hit film Express so just go ahead and search for that and just drag that onto your video but I will warn you we do have a 16 megapixel image here and it does get quite laggy so make sure you have some time to export it and you have a decent enough PC and you're working with a good enough resolution if you wanted you could export the video without the motion blur and then apply the motion blur effect on that exported video but it should work ok for me and as you can see it's applied some motion blur it's a little bit wrong the trees here but you can see it's applied some motion blur here if we go back to a frame like somewhere over here for example you can see that it's applied lots of motion blur to these things which are moving in the correct direction as the motion blur isn't meant to be applied in but you can see that the the building here is still very which is what we want anyway that will be it for today's hip hop tutorial if you did enjoy this then be sure to click the like button because it'll help it grow on YouTube and he'll help other people find it and of 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Length: 13min 54sec (834 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 03 2019