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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Elizabeth, and I'm a digital artist that specializes in Adobe Photoshop, adobe Illustrator, and
Adobe After Effects. In this class, we will be using
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro to create a
freeze-frame effect in a video. There's no experience necessary
to complete this course, as we will walk through
each step in detail. We'll start off by
planning our video and deciding which portions of the video we want to freeze. Then import that frame into Photoshop to remove
the background, and then Finish Editing
back in Premier Pro. We will do two different videos. The first will give you
an idea of what to do. The second will
be more detailed. Let's get started.
2. Course Project: The project in
this course is you find a video or record your own. Then scrub through the video
and find frames to freeze. Then bring them back into your video editing
software to merge them together to create
a freeze-frame effect. Once you are done,
post your project in the project section
of this course, I look forward to
seeing what you create.
3. Part One: Walking Through Frame: To start off, we're going
to start in Premiere Pro. Let's open up Premiere Pro. And we're going
to need to import our video into Premier Pro. So we can do that by going to the import section or the Project section.
You can double-click. You can hit Command
or Control I, or you can go to File, file and then import. Okay, and then we're
going to navigate to where our video is. The first video I'm
going to use is the video of the guy
walking across the screen. Okay, so click on that video and then we're
going to import it. Okay, Once the video is in, we're going to drag it to our timeline to add
it to our scene. Once I have it in my timeline, I'm going to go to
my editing window. Just allows me to have
the effects control and all the other available
windows for editing the video. So first thing we need to do is plan out our freeze-frame. So let's scrub through the video and see what exactly happens. So we just see a man
walking through. Okay. So I want to have him freeze framed at maybe four
points in this video. So the first thing
I'm gonna do is mark where I want to
have them freeze framed. So I'm going to scrub through. And let's have this
one be the first one. I'm going to add a marker so
I don't lose that position. Do that. Let's scrub through the
next frame and let's have him in the
middle right here. Add another marker and scrub
through a little bit more. Maybe we'll just do three. Alright, and that
another marker. And then since he's
off the screen here, I'm just going to cut my clip and then increase this so we can see
it a little bit better. Okay? Now what we need to do is take a picture of the frame
where each marker is. And that's really easy to do because it's already
in Premier Pro. It's this little camera right
here that lets you take a picture of whatever
is in your viewport. So let's go to our first marker, which is right here. And you can see the
little marker icon pop up when you're
exactly on that frame. So let's take a picture of this frame and we
want it to be a PNG. You can import it into
the project if you want. But we can also choose
where we want it to go. I'm just going to have
mine go to my desktop. And then hit Okay. And then hit okay again. Okay. And if you'd navigate
to your desktop, you'll be able to see that
you have a picture on it now. You also have it
in your project. And we're gonna do this for
every marker that we have. So let's go to the next marker. Right there. Another picture.
It's already set up. So let's hit Okay, again. And the last marker. Take a picture and
hit Okay, again. Now you'll see in
your project section that you have three pictures
and then the videos. Okay? Now we want to take these three pictures and
we want to bring them into Photoshop because
we're going to remove the background very easily. So we're going to jump
into Adobe Photoshop and bring in R3 pictures. I'm just gonna go to File Open. And I'm going to find all three pictures and
open them in Photoshop. All right, let me bring the view down a
little bit so you can see if you want to fit
your image to your view, just hit Command or Control 0 on your keyboard and it will fit the image to the
view that you have. Let's start at the first
photo that we took where he's at the other end of the there are numerous ways to select a portion
of your image. You can use your
selection tools. You can draw a lasso around it, which might take a little while. You can use the Quick Selection, which you just click on
the part you want to keep. It Command or Control D
to de-select something. But Photoshop has a feature that will select a
subject for you. So go to Select and
then Select Subject. And you can see it does
a pretty good job at selecting the subject
that you want, but it misses a few things. It adds a few things. This right here is
not part of the leg, so we want to de-select
that with our lasso. We can just go to our
minus selection box and just de-select part of this. Okay. De-select this because this is not part of his knee. And hold down your space bar
and scroll up a little bit. And you can see that
we want this hand. So let's just go with our
quick selection tool, make sure it's on Add, and then select
the water bottle. We can refine this a little
bit by hitting Select Mask. Increase the radius to maybe one pixel and then
shift your edge out like 4% and then hit Okay. What that does is just increase the selection a little bit. So we're getting all the
pixels that we want. And we want to get this hand as well. I think that's good. So now what we wanna do
is delete everything else except for the guy. So if we hit Delete right now, it's going to delete the guy. Undo that by Command
or Control Z. We want to invert our selection, that we're selecting everything
but the guy to do that, you can go to Select
and then Inverse. Or you can hit Shift
Command or Control I. And you can see that your
selection is inverted. Now if we hit Delete
on your keyboard, everything else is
deleted, but the guy, but we miss a little
portion right here. So let's undo that. And let's undo our
inverse selection. And let's go in and de-select
this portion of the sky. Just hit your quick selection. Make sure you're on de-select. And then just click
right there and now you have it de-selected. Let's go back in and do Shift Command I to invert
that selection again. And now let's hit Delete again. And now you see everything is
deleted except for the man. De-select. And
we're going to save this Command or Control S, or just go to File Save. Now we need to do the same thing for the other two images. So let's go to our next image. Go to Select, select subject. Let's de-select the
portions that we don't want, like this poll. Let's zoom in to make
sure everything is selected on the water bottle and let's select what
is not selected. Okay, Let's hit Select a mask
and increase our radius. And then shift our
edge, add a little bit. Okay, Then this is
also selected again. So let's de-select
that by going to our de-select and then
click right in there. You might need to decrease the size of your
selection brush. To do that, you can hit
the left bracket button to decrease the size of it. And you can hit the right
bracket buttons to increase. So let's decrease and
then de-select that. And then we need to
go back in and select this arm because that
is definitely needed. Okay, Now let's zoom
out and hit Command O. 1 second is foot. We need to de-select that floor. And we can select that foot. All right, zoom out
and then hit Shift, Command or Control I to invert
your selection and delete. And that looks good. So de-select everything. And then let's save this
by Command or Control S, or go up to File. Save. And now let's do the
last image one more time. Go to Select Subject. Zoom in to make sure everything
is selected that we want. Let's fix this toe. Legs look good and then bottle
or fine, head looks good. Let's select and mask and increase our selection
a little bit. Shifting the edge, click Okay, and then Shift Command I
and delete one more time. Hit de-select, and then save. Now let's go back
to Premiere Pro. And you can see
that since we have these pictures imported
it in our project, and we save them
as the same name. They've already updated
in our project. So we don't need to go
back in and import them. If they didn't save
in your project or you change the name of them, you need to go back
in and import them into your project by hitting
Command or Control I, or going to File Import and then importing them
back into your project. So now that we have
them in our project, Let's bring our playhead
to the front of our clip. And let's find that first image, which is the one where he's
all the way to the left, I'm sorry, all the
way to the right. Bring it into your project. Now we want to have this
guy disappear when he walks into the scene and
hits that portion. So we're gonna go to the
first marker because that is the same position
as our first image. And we're going to
drive that first image all the way to
that first marker. Now, if you go back to the
beginning and you hit Play, you'll see that
when he walks into that first position,
he disappears. Okay, now we're
gonna do that with this other images as well. So let's bring
that second image, put it on top of your video, and then drag it out
to your second marker. Okay. And if you go back,
you'll see you have two pictures now on
top of your image. And let's do that
with the last one, the third one right on top, and you're going
to drag that third one out to the third marker. If you go back and hit play,
now you'll see your guy. We'll walk through each
image and then disappear. Okay, and that is
the basics of it. The next video we're gonna do, it's gonna be a little
bit more complex because the movement is
going to be of a dancer. So let's jump into
that video next.
4. Part Two: Dancer : The next video we're gonna do
is going to be of a dancer. And what we're gonna
do is freeze-frame his shoes at different
sections of the dance. I provided this video in the project and resource
section of the course. So let's drag it
onto our timeline. We're gonna do the
same thing as before and go through and mark certain sections of the video
that we want to freeze. So scrub through the video and picks different portions
of the video where you want to have the shoes frozen on the screen and add a
marker at those portions. So I'm going to choose this one. And maybe this one. This one. You can do as little, as many as you want. Let's do one more right here. And maybe one more right here. Okay. And then I'm going to end the
clip where he stands back up and drag it over
to end it there. Now what we need to
do as scrub through, go to each marker and take
a picture of that frame. Remember that when
this icon pops up, that's when you're on a marker. So let's just export a frame and then pick where
you want it to go and import it
into the project. And then hit Okay, go to
each marker and do this. Take a picture, it okay. Picture. Okay. Once you have all of
your pictures taken, we're gonna jump into Photoshop
again and we're going to remove the background
and just leave the shoes. If you want to do a
different portion of his body, feel free. But I'm just going to
leave the shoes and have them come on freeze-frame. So since I have all that done, I'm going to jump into
Photoshop and I'm going to open up all the
images that I just took in Premier
Pro of the dancer. Alright, and I'm going to
start with the first one. Let me zoom out by hitting
Command or Control 0. Then actually zoom in. Get a better look at the shoes. Now, to do smaller
portions of an image, you're going to have to
use a selection tool instead of using AI. So I'm going to use the
Quick Selection Tool and just click on the shoes. And it doesn't have
to be perfect. But get as good as you can. Another little trick when
you're selecting things, if you hold down the Alt button, alt or Option, I'm sorry. It'll switch between
the Add Selection or the subtract selection. So you don't have to go back up and switch between the two. Okay, I'm gonna go down
and select this shoe. Not all of that. Okay, and then just like before, we're going to invert
our selection with Shift Command or Control
I, and then Delete. And you'll see we
just have the shoes. Okay, let's save this by hitting Command or Control S
are going to File Save. We can close this one. Now let's zoom out of this. Now we're going to go through
and do this for each image. I'm not going to make you
watch each image we done. I'm going to fast-forward
through this. Just go through, select the portion of the
image that you want to keep and then delete all the
other parts of the image. Makes sure you save it. And then we're going to jump
back into Premiere Pro. Since we didn't change the
name of the images saved, all of it's gonna be outdated
in Premier Pro for you. As PNGs. If you change the name, we're
going to import them. So let's go through and add
our images to our video. The one at the top is gonna be the first time that it took. So we're going to drag that in, put that to the first marker, and do that for every,
every PNG that we created. And if you're worried
about the order, the order that you
took the pictures is going to be the
order that they're in. Just drag each image
in and drag out the duration to where the
marker is for that image. Okay, once you have all the
images in your timeline, you're pretty much done. Okay, so let's make
this a little bit bigger so we can see it. If you want to add effects
to these shoes, you can, you can have them fade
onto the screen at any point of the video, or you can have them
twirl onto the screen. And the effect that
you want to add, you can, let's play through
this and see how it looks. Pretty cool. You can do this with any type of video you can
do with animals, dancers, airplanes, pretty much any type of
video you can do this with. Just find a subject
that's clear. Bring it into the video, mark the places where
you want it to freeze, and then bring those
images into Photoshop, remove the background and then add them back into your video, where the marker is.
For each marker.
5. Thank You: Thank you for taking the
time to watch this course. I hope you found it useful and good to create
some fun videos. If you have time, I like to ask if you could go
review the course. The feedback helps me improve
the classes I create. Don't forget to
post your project in the project and
resources section. I look forward to seeing
what everybody creates. Thanks again, Take care.
Elizabeth Ann, Digital Artist
