Video Effects and Transitions | Shotcut Master Class (Part 3)

welcome back to another video guys my name's Jack I produce weekly content based around video production today we're jumping into episode number three of the shot cut masterclass jumping into the filters section all of the advanced video effects the advanced transitions breaking down everything that you can actually do in terms of visual manipulation all the actual sort of VFX heavy stuff without further ado let's explore the filter section of about I nearly said Premiere Pro shot cut masterclass we're doing it now the full shot cut masterclass is linked down below in the description shot cut is up on my screen we are carrying on with our you know composition with our project that we've done like I said we've already done two episode so far so that has gotten us to this point that's me by right there with my friend climbing up a castle this is one of the clips we've imported so far but we're gonna be jumping into the actual visual effects now before we actually jump into those quickly let me just go ahead and just trim this over a little bit and I just want to make a full sequence right I just want to bring this over and you know just pop that right there and just chop this down a little bit so it so if you bring this over actually go to the point in the clip where I'm trying to jump up there it is okay so this is actually me and my friend just literally literally got down with the phone alright so without further ado let's go ahead jump into this filters section and that really is it so in the past couple episodes we've gone over the tools and shortcuts and over all familiarizing ourselves with the program itself today we're gonna be jumping into the filters section so the filters section actually is literally you just can't do anything with it until you've imported a clip now once you've imported clip you can actually highlight that clip and then the filters section will become active okay so if you have no clips in here import a clip and it will become active and to actually create a new filter all you got to do is go ahead and press add filter and it's gonna pop up with the most used filters so show favorite filters first and you know you you might actually think you've got a limited amount of stuff but you just have to switch it from the show favorite filters which is default it's default on that to the show video filters then you go ahead and just click it and you know you've got all the video filters and it is pretty interesting the video filters they give to you some of them are actual just presets and then some of them you actually have customized ability as well which you would help for so I just want to start breaking down some of these filters right here so let's go ahead and select one like the vignette vignettes a pretty cool filter of course it looks pretty disgusting right there looks it looks a little bit too much what I want to do is put the feathering on full and the radius on pretty damn full as well but just about about like that or about like that cool so we've created a vignette and then I'm gonna make the opacity not so much right so we've created a vignette just like that just by kind of importing this and then kind of messing with the variables just like that we've got a vignette and you know the playback speed of a shot cut is unfortunately one of its biggest downsides unfortunately as you can see right here I've got a extremely powerful computer upgraded two months ago and you know the the the playback is still still pretty laggy it's unfortunate it's definitely one of the biggest downsides the shot cut do have you know especially with these video filters it's pretty unfortunate but that's just what it is now we've got the vignette right there let's go ahead and mess around with some other ones okay so let's go ahead and just do sketch why not there's some more stuff like a sketch for example where you can actually do like a cartoon kind of outline type of thing and I'm actually gonna remove the vignette as I add this sketch we can actually scroll along to see that you know it's pretty cool cartoon background and you're probably understanding the video effects right now we're gonna get to the transitions in a second and also some color grading stuff but right there the video effects are pretty simple okay all you got to do is pop them on and then you're gonna have some sort of control but there are it's stuff like the mirror which traditionally in other video editors you would have some sort of variables and control over it a mirror effect in this is literally just a mirror effect there is no actual variables to adjust and some of these filters like I said are just kind of presets like that where there's no customizability you can really do to it but there is some cool stuff you can do as well with example size of position when you actually want to create an effect to be a little bit more complete for example let's go ahead and find like a wave alright so here's a wave a wave adds this weird border to our effect which is not nice it ruins it to be honest look at these little these little dots around the side now if you wanted to actually remove these annoying eyes dots you know hold on let me just go ahead and undo that I just messed up let me just delete that add it again I messed up wave say you wanted to remove all these little impurities if you will it's actually pretty simple how you do that but you know what first glance it could be a little bit intimidating all you want to do is actually add another filter and let's go ahead down here and actually just try and find the size of position so there it is that's size of position this is more or less the scale and you know all that sort of stuff so we actually click that and add it and we have the ability to actually start dragging out via these guideline helpers if you will around the side we can actually hold as you start dragging that up which actually dragged it away from the sides so you actually start erasing those impurities that were around the side and now if we give this a play we've just got a pretty smooth wave effect without all that little nonsense around the side now like I said the preview is unfortunately pretty shocking unfortunate that is like I said the biggest downside of shotcut hands down but you know just by simply pulling this out a little bit you know just by make it a little a little bit bigger we've kind of been able to zoom in right there and you know erase those impurities around the side and create a much more convincing full effect something that's not you know going off the side or anything crazy like that um now let's go ahead just try one more effect just to make sure you guys understand how to actually just stuff and make sure you're familiar with the filters section just go ahead and scroll through here alright simple well get it glow now some of these are really gonna have one variable or two for example right here we got the blur variable and you know just looking pretty cool oh yeah alright sweet so just like that we've added a whole bunch of different effects now how would we actually go about doing some transitions that's what I want to you know have a look transitions again soup easy shot cut is very cater towards beginners so you've probably picked up a pattern at this point which is that everything is really really easy almost too obvious so to actually add yourself a transition there was going to be two different ways to do it and they're both as effective as each other you could either go over to the left hand side or the right hand side until you get this little control bubble that pops up and it's pretty obvious you see it right there control Bobo a bubble on the left control bubble on the right and you can actually just click and hold and just start dragging that in to create one of these angles right here and you know that right there is gonna be a fade in aka a transition and just like that it's gonna fade in so you could actually go over here on the side and again try to find that and just bring it over and you know you've actually added a fade into video and a fade out you see we got a fade in and then a fade out just like that we've actually added it in you know a matter of seconds to be honest and if we actually wanted to do this a little bit longer over way we could actually just go plus to the video filter so just go fade in a video and you know just like that if we drag that out it is now gonna add a nice smooth fade in to the video and in terms of other transitions shot cut is very limited that's pretty much the most effective transition you can do ba means tell me in the comments if you've you know if you know some more effective custom transitions and stuff like that but by all means the fade in is more or less more or less than most powerful more or less than most powerful transition now moving on to some actual color correction some color grading it's kind of interesting the color grading I would have hoped for more I really would have but all you got to do to actually select it again go to filters and then go to color grading and they are interesting shall I say that I'll say it's interesting all right you can kind of customize some stuff obviously it just gives you a shadows of mid-tones and highlights and you know you could actually look up a couple more in-depth tutorials on how to use these tools right here but more or less these are really good to actually grade towards a certain color scheme if anything now I'm not the best with color color grading with these sort of you know dials but more or less all you want to do is actually do a nice contrast of colors a lot of the time works so if you push towards let's say a blue in your highlights maybe on your midterm mid-tones you might want to push towards the opposite direction to kind of even out a little bit and kind of create like a sepia is it Sofia I'm not too sure I'm using the wrong I'm using the wrong words right now but more or less if I had to be real with you guys the reason I've left the color grading to the end of this video effects in transition sections because it's not great I would have liked to have a whole complete video just based on the color grading but it's really not great like I'm I'll be real and for me I am kind of shooting in the dark when I'm actually color grading using shot cut I have not been able to get a grade that actually looks nice so far all of them just look kind of amateur by all means tell me if you guys are a little bit better with this but you see what I mean it's um it is a little bit tough to actually to actually use use this tool to kind of grade it in a convincing way unless you do sort of little light things like that like you see if we turn that off and then turn it on that's actually done a bit of grading but just kind of in a in a in a pretty simplistic way in a pretty subtle way and I should be like that like that's funny enough um I was just saying how I haven't been able to get a decent color grade and now I've just created one that I'm actually pretty happy with so that's the before that's the after that's such as jinx on myself I for real I'm actually kind of happy with this right now this is pretty minimalistic pretty simplistic pretty subtle but I like it and that is what a good color grade is it's not over the top unless you know your color grading sub s log or some V log footage which is a mass difference obviously because it's gray or whatever but that right there is a pretty nice color grade and the subtler the better I think the subtler the better it's just a nice kind of addition to the the footage and this is drone footage that I'm watching right here but that right there is the video effects and transitions part number three of the shot cut masterclass I'm about to get started with the titles and effects loads of amazing titles of effects in here you know there's a bunch of presets as well which is great so you could save yourself a bunch of time animating stuff and all that is coming in the next episode so if you reach this point of the shot cut masterclass episode three I'll see you in the shot prep masterclass episode 4 because you're clearly enjoying it sweet see in the next episode

Channel: Jack Cole

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 12 2018