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Learn how to create three unique and exciting transitions for your videos in Adobe Premiere Pro CC with this tutorial and walkthrough by Leighton Milne.
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In this video, you'll learn how to create three exciting video transitions:
1. Object Wipe Transition
2. Fade/Sky Replace Transition
3. Zoom In Zoom Out Transition
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hello and welcome to another filter
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grade tutorial my name is Leighton in
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this video we're learning how to create
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some of those popular video transitions
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seen on YouTube today I'm talking about
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the object wipes the limit fades and the
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zoomin zoom-out transitions you can
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create these transitions with many
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different techniques and many different
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programs but this video today will
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specifically take a look at how to do it
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in Adobe Premiere Pro CC
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now a lot of people find that these
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transitions are overdone
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especially in travel videos but fact of
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the matter is that you need to be able
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to use the transitions and understand
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these techniques in order to establish
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yourself and show that you are a
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competent and knowledgeable Video Editor
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producer so I hope that you understand
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these techniques I'm about to show you
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today taking the information and
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hopefully create your own transitions
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that everyone else would be wanting to
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understand trying to figure out so
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without further ado let's get into it
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remember me or here I got a couple of
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clips we're going to work with today the
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first technique I want to go through is
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the object wipe so this is when
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something passes through the screen left
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to right or right to left see this tree
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here and covering the entire screen so
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what you're going to do is separate one
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side of the screen and you're going to
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have the next clip and this tree here
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going to act as like a barrier I'm going
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to separate two clips cut it great at
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the end
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delete that and then I'm going to have
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this one after so same location
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different clips the first thing you want
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to do here double click and get to your
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effect controls on this clip here so
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this technique we're gonna be using the
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pen tool in order to create a mask turn
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the whole left side of this tree here
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black and in order for us to get rid of
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it and put the next layer behind it so
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let's get to the very first frame of
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behind the tree here we'll start here
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right there so you want to click this
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pen tool here on the under early opacity
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let's go ahead and click that it's going
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to create its own mask here what you can
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do is just click and create points you
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want to follow the line of whatever your
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object may be if it's a tree if it's a
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sign if it's maybe a car passing by just
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going to follow the line here so we'll
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move over to here justice to bring it
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all the way down and then reconnect it
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to the beginning you can twist it a
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little bit and we
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around so as you can see this mass was
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created this whole screen black which is
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not what we want and want to hit the
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invert button here and then just like
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that you changed it up all right so
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that's good enough you can also adjust
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the feather here which makes a little
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little softer it's not so harsh if you
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made a bit of a mistake or your your
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line that you're following isn't 100%
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straight so from here we go to the next
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frame just click this button right here
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track select mask and move forward one
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frame this is a very tedious process
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where we're going to keep redoing what
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we just true move this over with this up
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a little bit so as you can see it's
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gonna be a lot of this but just make
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sure everything is black so how precise
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you want to be all depends on how much
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time you want to put into this if you
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really want to take your time give me a
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lot more accurate but for the purpose of
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this video I'm just going to go through
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pretty quick here and I'll fast forward
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it for you so something I forgot to do
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at the beginning was actually set a
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starting keyframe that doesn't have the
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mask in it as you can see it kind of
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comes in early here all you got to do is
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find the point where it just before it
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comes in just click and just move the
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whole math to the left so it's not in
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the way that's the easiest way of
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dealing with it as you can see starting
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the beginning the clip we come through
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and there's our mask it blocks off the
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entire left side of the screen make sure
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you save what you did because you wanted
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to go through that again the next thing
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you want to do is bring your Clips over
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raise this one up and put whatever your
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next clip is going to be under it so
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when you play it out
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the black just turns into the next clip
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show that again here just like that
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now this transition works better if it's
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a quick moving a wipe past the object a
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lot easier if your object is straight
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and you can just draw a nice straight
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line the entire time like I said before
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if you want it to be more accurate I'll
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take more time but put on some
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headphones carve out a good half hour to
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really fine-tune it and you're why
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people look a whole lot better so there
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you have it one more time nice and
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smooth so that is the object wipe
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technique the next one we're gonna be
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looking at is the luma fade or the
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gradient wipe or the highlight sky
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replace whatever you want to call it so
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the effect that I'm going to show you
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here in premiere is using the gradient
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wipe transition you take this into After
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Effects and really fine-tune it just in
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the exposure to make it exactly what you
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want but this is definitely the most
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simple technique that going to duplicate
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the look you're going for I'm in the
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effects workspace here you can change
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that by going up to window workspace is
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you just go down to effects it's a lot
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easier with such when you're doing
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transition work like this so all you
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have to do is search gradient and you're
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going to use the one under video effects
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not the one under video transitions just
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make sure you doing this one here all
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you do is click and drag it onto the
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clip I'm going to clip with some waves
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here which is the classic luma fade clip
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to use you're gonna want to lift this up
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above your clip up to you how much you
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want it to overlap this is probably good
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enough for me
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so it's a clip skateboarding on a bridge
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and then it's going to turn into waves
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we're going to be using keyframes here
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so if you go over to your Flex controls
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of your clip you can see here the
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gradient wipe has been added but we just
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need to add keyframes and just really
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turn this thing on so let's go to the
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very beginning of the clip here we're
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going to click this little toggle
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animation button which is going to set a
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keyframe so click this keyframe and
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we're going to put in 100 so I just
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means that the entire clip is going to
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start completely opaque meaning that
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you're not gonna be able to see the
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waves yet we're going to put another key
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frame rate about there just when the
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first clip ends so we're going to hit
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this add remove keyframe button here
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which is the same place where we hit the
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stopwatch before click that and we're
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going to hit zero in this box and that's
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going to bring it out so that's pretty
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much all you have to do it kind of does
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it for you if you play it out this is
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what it looks like
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highlight start to show up first and
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then slowly fade everything else in just
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like that you can stretch it out make it
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longer make it faster you can change how
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soft ingredient wipe is just by going
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here softness you can go up kind of
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turns into more of a fade or blur I like
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to keep it at zero or maybe even just
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like 10 I don't know up to you it really
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depends on what you're going for here
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just like that nice easy fade and here
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it comes
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nice and easy put some music to that add
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some audio effects then just like that I
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want you to show you another technique
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for doing the same kind of transition
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here you're going to go back up to your
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effects browser you want to type in
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color key and this is what you're
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looking for all you do is drag this drop
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it onto the clip like before that you
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want it to apply to so I've got a nice
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clip of some birds and some sky here
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this is a nice aerial view for this
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technique when you're replacing the sky
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you really want a nice bright sky or
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whatever you want it to replace not to
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be very bright contrast to the
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foreground or whatever you want to stay
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I think so you got some hills here a
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little bit darker you want to go over to
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color key here proves that we've added
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the effect I'm going to use this
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eyedropper tool what this does is lets
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you click anywhere on the screen and
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it's going to figure out what color you
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want to change so I just clicked in the
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sky it's all fairly the same color here
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but in order to increase the radius we
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can just grab this colored tolerance
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move all the way up until you pretty
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much replace the entire sky you can put
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a bit of a feather on it so it's not so
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sharp but again really up to you of how
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precise and how perfect you want this
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transition to be so this whole clip is
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now the sky is turned black meaning that
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if we raise it and put it over here the
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sky from the clip below it is going to
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show through just like the transition
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before we're going to be using keyframes
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in order to tell it when to start the
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fade and finish the fade so probably the
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easiest way is to either just to overlap
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this clip however much you want it
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however long you want the fade to go for
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threes and keyframes to initiate the
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fade nice and easy so it's a nice
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seamless transition add some keyframes
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by clicking this toggle animation
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stopwatch thing here so click that click
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that for the color tolerance as well as
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the key color so the keyframe tells the
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clip specifically how you want the
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effect to be applied at a certain point
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of time in the clip
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I'm going to add keyframes here both to
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key color and color tolerance so I click
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on the keyframe color tolerance I'm
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going to bring that all the way down to
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zero as you can see when we go through
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this there's a nice gradient fading
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effect from the first keyframe set to
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the next now if we go before where we
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want our transition begin if we can see
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there's a little bit of the effect added
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to the sky we don't really want this to
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happen quick an easy way of dealing with
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this - just take your blade tool cut the
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clip bring it down all you have to do is
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just click the FX button is how the
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color key effect for this clip and it's
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all gone so you've got a nice clean
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effect where the sky just disappears
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slowly and then the rest of the clip
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follows in extend us as much as you want
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stretch it out and if you want to get
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rid of the foreground same way you got
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rid of the sky you can go back to this
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technique here use the gradient wipe and
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that will get rid of your foreground as
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well so just these two techniques
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together create the nice luma fade okay
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so finally we're going to be taking a
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look at how to do the zoom in transition
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this is probably one the most popular
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transitions I've been seeing in videos
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recently there's so many ways you can do
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it different techniques using After
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Effects using Premiere but this way I'm
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about to show you is what I think likely
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to be the easiest and it's in Premiere
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which is great if you don't have After
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Effects so let's get into it we're going
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to be changing from this wide shot of
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the bridge it's going to zoom in to the
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skateboarding shot which we use the for
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we're using key framing techniques like
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before so we're going to count to the
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left of here it really depends on what
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you want if you want a faster transition
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only go in like 3 2 or 3 4 frames if you
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want a longer zoom I would count in five
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or six even up to 10 frames it really
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depends on what the look you're going
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for I'm going to go in four frames here
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to see what it looks like so we're gonna
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go one two three four and I'm going to
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cut it right here with the blade tool so
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I'm going to split clip there and the
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same thing we're going to do on this
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side too so we're going to count in one
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two three four three oh we're going to
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click this clip here it's going to bring
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up the effects controls on the left if
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that doesn't show up first if it looks
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like
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just go over here to effects control
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bring it back up we're going to be
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adding keyframes here using the scale
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section so go ahead and hit a keyframe
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at the beginning of this clip scroll all
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the way through the end of this clip and
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hit this button right here which is add
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another keyframe so click that so we got
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two here you first want to do anyone be
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set at whatever it was set it before so
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it's 100 leave it at 100 and then the
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final one go on to the end of this clip
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you can do 200 you can do 150 I depend
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how aggressive you want to zoom in to be
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I would recommend going 200 for the zoom
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in part of it it's really initiate that
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quick zoom in since this is a zoom our
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next clip is also going to have to zoom
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in so using the same key framing
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techniques we're going to hit the scale
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button on this next clip hit that and
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add the keyframe right there as you can
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see then go to the end of this clip that
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you split up already click that you got
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your two keyframes this one is one
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you're going to leave at 100 just one of
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the beginning here again this is up to
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you you can go 50 on the scale you can
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even go to 0 and have just a crazy out
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of nowhere zoom but that's gonna be a
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lot harder to deal with especially when
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we're trying to replicate the edges add
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mirror effect to the outside now as you
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can see if we go through it already kind
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of has the zoom look to it except we
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have to deal with all these black
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borders around this clip here alright so
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you're going to go over here to the left
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bottom panel find this little button
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says new items click that and you're
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going to want to hit adjustment layer
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this is all the settings to whatever
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your timeline already is so just let it
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be and it's going to pop up right here
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all you do is click drag it put at the
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beginning and then cut it the end
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so now you have an adjustment layer
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that's just going to be specific to this
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clip here so up in your effects browser
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you want to type in mirror you know type
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that in there if you already know where
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the mirror effect is you can find it
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either way grab it and drag it and drop
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it on to this adjustment layer so when
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you click on this open your effects
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control it's going to pop up right here
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sitting here now you're going to want to
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add this four times you need to do all
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for now or you can do one of the time
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might as well do all for now so you
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don't forget it as you can see right
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here one two three four
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so each mirror you need for each side of
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the clip go to the beginning we're going
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to work with the first mirror and you're
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going to click so as soon as you click
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the mirror button you're gonna have a
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little circle crosshair up here just
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drag that over until it appears drag it
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over right to where the clip matches up
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roughly it doesn't matter too much
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because it's only gonna be four frames
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it's going to be zooming its me really
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quick so now that you've got that you're
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going to hit this toggle animation
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button on the left here we're going to
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add a keyframe added right there and you
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can also add the reflection angle by
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clicking the keyframe there as we scroll
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through it you can see the main clip
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zooming in but our mirrored adjustments
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still there so scroll through to the end
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of your clip here just one frame before
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and you can see if you go to the very
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last frame it disappears and you can't
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find that crosshair against go before
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click on the cross here we're going to
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move it over until it is right on the
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edge so you can't see it anymore so you
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just lose it right there and then all
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you have to do is drag this keyframe
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over you can't really see it anymore
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which is perfect so for it to add a
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keyframe just for good measure
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at the end of the clip here just that
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your reflection angle is locked and so
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we got one side down during following
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this technique for all other sides so
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for the next mirror we're going to go
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down here to reflection angle we're
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going to type in 180 for 180 degrees the
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whole screen return block all you do is
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click this crosshair and we're going to
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drag it across the screen and there we
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have it you can see it link it up there
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are the key frames in the beginning
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reflection Center reflection angle all
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locked in
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we the same thing as before as you can
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see our mirrored effect stays where it
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is we'll do the same technique as before
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where we add a keyframe and then move it
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just over to the left or right for the
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final frame if you put it just off the
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screen then your keyframe is going to
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match up perfectly with your clip
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zooming in making for a seamless zoom
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with mirrored outsides you don't even
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notice add your reflection angle
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keyframe just for good measure in case
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you accidentally get confused and mess
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around with other keyframe actions now
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use this mirror effect on an adjustment
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layer for each side in order to extend
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your clip in all directions so that you
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can start from a pulled up perspective
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and zoom in without making it too
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noticeable and the zoom itself will be
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quick enough that very few people will
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be able to pick out and depending on
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your clip if it's more of a landscape
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clip there will be two sets of legs that
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people can pick out as easy it really
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depends on the clip has for most
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transitions go alright so we're going to
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go to the next one here so now we've got
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both the sides set let's take a look at
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the top and bottom for the angle let's
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type in ninety degrees that way we've
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got a nice reflection going here again
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you can click this little crosshair and
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just drag it down to the point where it
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links up perfectly nice so you can can't
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really tell if there's a split line
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there go ahead and add our keyframes
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toggle animation and toggle animation so
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the keyframes are both right here scroll
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towards the end of the clip just one
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frame before the last frame again click
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the mirror
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let's bring it down just out of frame
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that's good and then we'll drag the
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keyframe over to the last frame and then
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the reflection angle keyframe you can
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guide that over there if you want to so
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for the very last slide we're going to
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type in negative 90 on the reflection
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angle enter there you go so let's click
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the mirror button again here grab our
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crosshair move it up links up perfectly
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yes this looks kind of weird but when
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you play it all through speeds up a
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little bit a little bit of motion blur
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it look normal it look nice and seamless
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so it's at our key frames here selection
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Center reflection angle play through go
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to our second last frame click the
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mirror against your crosshair pops up
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bring it up it doesn't matter where
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you're putting this left or right just
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make sure you have the the y-axis the
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north/south all set and figure it out
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perfectly good just out of frame right
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there is perfect drag this over to the
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final frame at your reflection angle
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keyframe drag that over to and there you
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have it
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it just kind of extends your clip and
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lets you do the zoom effect if you play
16:54
through see it looks like it does look a
16:56
little bit weird just because of the
16:57
dark top and the extra pair of legs but
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you can change this by adjusting how far
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you zoom in if you have a two point
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seven K you're in a 4k clip that you're
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putting on the 1080p timeline it works a
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lot better because you actually have
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more of a clip to use but this is a
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1080p timeline and this clip that we're
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moving into is 1080p so we're gonna have
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to use this newer technique so finally
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just to make it a little bit more smooth
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how to go up here into the effects
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browser under video transitions under
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dissolve it's just they're a little
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cross dissolve in between these two
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Clips here below not the adjustment
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layer but just the clips themselves make
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it a little smaller it just makes a nice
17:36
kind of a smooth even more subtle look
17:38
to it let's go back to the beginning of
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the clip here let's play it up see how
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it works in zoom so like I said it
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really depends on your clip that you're
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using to zoom in zoom out technique all
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you have to do is the exact opposite of
17:49
what I just did so put the adjustment
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layer on this first clip pretty much the
17:54
same thing as far as the mirror effect
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goes
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if your zoom is still not pleasing you
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can always go in just the keyframes if
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you want it to be faster you can adjust
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this keyframe bring it in closer that
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way it's a quicker transition you do the
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same thing with this clip here the one
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that you're zooming into if you like you
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can also hit R on your keyboard and you
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can make this clip faster also with this
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clip as well same with the adjustment
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layer just make sure the adjustment
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layer follows whatever you're doing on
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this layer here bring these two clips in
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together and that's going to speed up
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the entire thing which is a little bit
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crazy but it's all creative decisions up
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to you I would recommend taking some
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time figure this process of
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understanding keyframes maybe you can
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figure out your own technique how to
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zoom in zoom out maybe you can create
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your own never-before-seen transition
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before and put it out there for the
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world to see and then everyone will be
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making tutorials and how to do your
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video transitions so once you've got all
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your video transitions figure it out and
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you got your timeline looking nice you
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may find that your video is still
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missing something what you want to do is
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go to filter great calm for all the best
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video let's this will make your footage
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look a whole lot better it'll give your
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video a very unique cinematic beautiful
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look it really takes your footage to a
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whole other level
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I recommend any of these video let's
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take some time look at them see what you
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let pack works best for your video or
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your style of shooting and as always for
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all the best Photoshop actions Lightroom
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presets and video let's check out
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they'll do very calm