SEAMLESS Masking Transition | After Effects 2022

in this video i'm going to show you how to make these seamless masking transitions from my cinematic video let's go so there's quite a few of these transitions throughout the video but these are the ones here that i want to show you how to make so i've got two clips here laid out on the timeline and the first thing is you need the right footage in order to make this work the first thing is you'll need to set up your camera and for this i was just using a ronin gimbal and i've just got my camera set up on top you just want to basically run that camera as close to the ground as possible really to try and create this blur that we can see here on the screen now these clips here are from my latest cinematic video so if you haven't checked that out already there's a link in the description you can go and watch that video but one of the very common questions i got was about how i created these seamless transitions then you'll want to set up your second shot in your next location but for this one you want to start with the camera looking down and then panning up into your shot because obviously we need a transition point to have these two clips sort of fade together right so you can see basically how the effects already working here just in the two shots that i've got now if you don't know already already have a full course called travel effects pro and it goes through about how to make a lot of the effects seen in this cinematic video and in the behind the scenes stuff i show you exactly how i filmed this effect but if you're trying to replicate this effect yourself you're just going to need to have those two clips so i've got my two clips here laid out on top of each other so right here over that transition point what i want to do is now create a mask so i'm just going to come up here to my pen tool and i'm just going to draw out a rough mask here it kind of sits over the top like this i can create a keyframe there and then i'm moving across here on the timeline you can always just adjust this and just kind of pan it down like this so we can adjust the timing by dragging in and out on those and i'm just going to feather this mask a lot so as it sort of you know the mask comes down it's feathered as it goes across into that next shot now i can adjust that timing of that mask by just adjusting that and the other thing i also want to do here is also just hit t create a bit of an opacity keyframe and then go across here and just sort of fade that off so i want a bit of that fade effect as it goes across now you can see most of this effect it's already kind of working here but most of this is done in camera now one of the issues you might run into here and one thing that you might want to you know go through and adjust is the timing so if the second shot is say moving really slow and the timing is different from the first shot then you might want to readjust that so what you can do is just right click go to time and then enable time remapping now i've already done gone ahead and done this on my original clip and then i've just basically dragged this point in and that'll help speed up those clips so if you drag these n keyframes and it'll speed up that clip if you drag it out it'll slow it down now what you're aiming for is you want to look at the two you know different things in the two different shots and try and get them to move roughly at the same speed because if there's if there's a quite a lot of speed difference between the two then this effect is not really going to work now that's pretty much all you have to do as as far as this effect is concerned it's pretty straightforward one other thing you can do is you could add a bit more of a zoom over the top so you could just come up here create a new null object basically position this here select both of those and then create a null and then what you could do is back here you could create say a scale and a position keyframe go across here create another one somewhere down the end and in the middle here what you want to do is basically just scale this up move it back like this so that you kind of get a bit more of an exaggerated sort of camera move so you can see what we've done here i can just drag those m1s in select all of those make them easy ease and that's going to create a bit more of you know that camera movement what you'll need to do is basically select all of these first go down to keyframe interpolation make sure these are continuous bezier and then when we go back here to our settings we can basically just scale these up to sort of smooth them out and you'll get a bit more of that sort of seamless you know effect one other thing you can do then is just add a bit of a color correction and i've added the scopes lumetri scopes to mine and you can then adjust so if you need to bring down this second shot just basically bring this null down and that will help position that second shot to wherever you need it to be so you've got a bit of that transition something else that you also want to keep in mind is the two shots and the two different times a day are not may not be the same so you might want to go through and readjust the color for instance so you could always you know to the second clip up to effect down the color correction and just add one of the lumetri colors and you could just create a bit of a transition so this first shot is a little bit warmer so what you could do is basically just create a temperature keyframe here and then fade this back to zero so what you're essentially doing is you're creating a bit of that transition now you can just dial this back if that's too much but basically you're trying to match that tone between those two shots so that's how you would create that you know transition and ways that you can go about making it more seamless something else that you can also do which i did in my original is just add a bit of motion blur over the top so i did that by just adding the cc force motion blur to an adjustment layer and i just wanted to apply it to my second shot there and you can see that the final result it works quite well just kind of transitions nicely across and we kind of get that seamless effect playing out so that's really how easy it is just to make this effect i want to go ahead and show you another transition that i've done using this same technique and just to show you just how easy this is but it's really really effective now you can't recreate this effect to the same level or the same impact with drag and drop transition so you really need to do this in camera now i'm rice and this is flat pack fx and if you're enjoying this video then definitely give it a thumbs up and maybe consider subscribing if you want to see more content just like this now this video was also sponsored today by envato elements now one of the common questions and one of the things that i talk about in my travel effects pro course is around sound effects now in my cinematic video i had hundreds of different sound effects that i used to create the soundscape of my video now all of those elements came from envato elements now the best part about embara elements is they're basically just a one license which covers you for all commercial use you can download unlimited number of times and this is something that i've personally been using now for quite some time and i use it pretty much in all of my different projects that i do but for this cinematic video i use so many different aspects of it to create my finished video and it just saves so much time because it means that i don't have to go through and recreate all of these elements from scratch now for instance at the beginning of my video i had this whale sequence and i wanted this you know the ambient to sort of reflect that with the different sounds so i had a whale sounds which i just found through embarra elements and once i downloaded them i could just drag and drop them straight into my timeline and you can see here just on this timeline just how many different sound effects and layers that i have other things that i use a lot are the titles which i can just basically quickly create some titles for my video that have a lot of impact and a lot of graphic elements which i use for a lot of my animation projects now if you're interested yourself in trying out enviro elements then you can use the special link down below and that's going to give you 50 off an annual subscription now here's another shot where i use this same technique to connect this cave shot here into this underwater sequence now you can see here that the two shots again that i've got is i've got this shot here of a cave where i just basically panned down behind the rock so again i'm shooting this in camera and that's really important because you just can't recreate this without having those shots now if you are interested in learning more about shooting techniques and all that sort of stuff from all the stuff that you've seen in my cinematic video then you definitely want to check out again my travel effects pro course because i show you behind the scenes and i talk more about you know making the different effects i show you how i actually film them right through to actually making them step by step so this is all really really important sort of stuff now the second shot here is this underwater shot and this is just a simple gopro shot where i kind of started the camera close to the water and then just panned it down now i go through all the settings that i use to film all these different effects in my travel effects pro course but then basically it's just a matter of creating that transition point now again for this one all i did was i basically just had that shot so as it pans down and then bought the second shot which is my underwater shot underneath so it's buttered up against the top of that first shot and under the controller i basically just created a null exactly like we did in the first part and then i created a position scale and rotation so i did exactly what i did in the first part of the video which i've shown you and i just connected those two shots together and animated those that camera movement or exaggerated that movement using the null as basically as a camera so i basically had a pan across those two shots and then i also added a bit of motion blur over the top just to kind of help exaggerate a lot of that movement so i'm just using the motion blur here for those enabled for those two layers and the other thing i did just to kind of hide that transition point so this is what i was talking about before with lumetri color you know you want to try and match the two colors sometimes that's just not going to be possible so what i did was i added just a black solid over the top and then i created a mask so if i just show you with that mask just set this to be none i just created a black solid over the top which i had fade on so i just created some opacity keyframes there it fades on i then basically just added a rectangle mask which sat over the top of that so you can see i've just drawn it here over the top of that black solid and then i just added a really big feather to that so somewhere around a couple hundred pixels here and that creates that that sort of that motion blur or that dark patch in between those two clips so if i turn that on and off you can see it hides really well that transition point so this is something that you can also do for your transitions just kind of help you know hide that point but really it's going to be like a clip by clip basis so in that first example i've shown you exactly how i've done it i've shown you how the clips and the way that i filmed it so i just pan it down behind a rock or it's running along the ground something where i can just basically have you know fast motion or an object to sort of fill that screen and hide that transition then i've just created a mask which went over the top and that just then transitions nicely into that second shot when you actually break a lot of this stuff down it's quite simple but it has a lot of impact and that's really what you know i really like to see in different video effects something that's simple relatively to make but has a lot of impact you don't want to spend weeks and months making one effect you can do simple in-camera stuff and using a few masks and transitions you know it's going to work for telling your story and creating that impact in your video again if you want to learn more about this process and more about how to make different video effects from my cinematic video then definitely check out travel effects pro there'll be a link in the description below thanks for watching if you like this video can give it a thumbs up if you love this video then you might consider subscribing thanks for watching and i'll catch you in the next video

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Length: 12min 41sec (761 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 13 2022