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1. Introduction: Creating fingers
stopping content is an invaluable skill to have, especially as we're all wanting information and
entertainment instantly, being able to capture and hold people's attention is crucial, especially for
platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels
with the endless feeds and the constant scrolling. If you're wanting to
increase your engagement all the views on your content
then this class is for you. Hi, I'm Smitesh Mistry, a graphic designer,
illustrator and content Korea, who's been creating content
for over four years now, in this class, I'll be
showing you filming, editing, and sound design techniques
in which you can use in order to elevate
your content over the past four years I
have created content, I picked off film and
skills, editing techniques, and through an observant,
learned how to capture it and hold people's attention. Learning how to create
content that is captivating. It's such an important skill. Knowing how to get your product or your ideas or your service in front of people that you want on social media is priceless. I'm teaching this class as the skills that
you're learning. This will be extremely valuable if you wanted to
grow an audience, communicate a message, or
captivate an audience. This class is
perfect for beginner who's never filmed any
contact me for office, someone who has been
creating content and once a level up their game. In this class,
I'll be taking you through how you can get the
most out of your phone, running you through some
of the basic settings. Then moving on to the
three filming techniques and how to create
these transitions, including the web in and
out on the mask overlay. There won't be taking these into a video editing software
of your choice, where we'll edit these
altogether at some sound design, export it and get it ready for you to post on
your social media. I'm excited to teach
this class as learning how to create engaging content through the use of specific filming techniques
and editing tricks. As I'm wonders for my platform, I love to share this
with you in a nice, simple and easily digestible way where you can
start incorporating this into your work
to start engaging and increasing your audience. Once you've completed
this class, I know your works about to
level up engaging more people and getting more
eyeballs on your work. If you're ready to take your
content to the next level, Let's grab your phone
and let's get to it.
2. Class Project: Hey. Welcome to the class. You're now in the
way of leveling up your content with the techniques you're about to
learn in this class. The project in which we'll be creating in
this class will be a process video containing
dynamic transitions. But bear in mind the transitions and the elements and
techniques you want to learn in this class can be
applied to anything from an unboxing to a
morning coffee routine. In this class, I'll be creating a process video of
an illustration which I'll be creating
at the same time. I'll be breaking
the steps down in this class into small
digestible chunks, so they'll be easy to follow. There's no need to worry
if you're new to this. The main skill I'll be teaching in this class is how to create dynamic and engaging content for your social media platforms. I've chosen this
project as I feel it's a great start for
beginners to understand the techniques and the skills
that you're about to learn this class so you can apply them anywhere you want in the future. For the class, I'll be
using an iPhone to film all this content and an iPad in order to
create the illustration. But feel free to
use pen and paper, paint, brush paint, wherever you'd like to recreate what I'm going to be creating. For the video and
software of choice, I'll be using Final Cut Pro, but feel free to use the Adobe
version of Premiere Pro, or even your phone use CapCut. Also, I will be using additional
lighting as I'm doing this video right now in order to create high-quality content, but it's not necessary in
order for you to get started. To set yourself up
for this class, I'd recommend getting
all your devices charged and get yourself
a little warmed up, as we'll be using our hands in order to make
different transitions. Grab your phones and
in the next lesson, I'm going to run through
some settings on the phone, that I like to use before I
start recording my content. Let's get you on
the way of creating fingers stopping content.
3. Camera Settings: In this lesson, I'm
going to be running through some of the
camera's settings I like to use in
order to get the most out of these
filming techniques. I'll be explaining how
you can set them up and why I'm doing this. Let's grab your phones. I'll be using an iPhone for this and I'll be showing you how you can change
the settings on this. But if you have an Android, the same settings can still
be changed on that way. It will be a slight different. The five elements I'll be talking about will be
frames per second, resolution, lenses,
exposure, and grids. Let me run through each one of these explaining what they do, what they mean, how
you can set them up. Feel free to follow along
as I'm changing mine too. Jumping in, this is the
screen you're presented with when you open the camera
up in the iPhone. If not, just slide to the right to open the video section. First, I'm going to
be talking about the resolution and the
frames per second, which can be found at
the top right here. At the moment it says HD and 60. The HD refers to the resolution. If you tap that, you can
change it to 4K or HD. In this case, we're using HD as most platforms only support HD. Now that we've covered
the resolution, now it's time for the
frames per second. Again, if you just tap
the number, it changes. In my case, it
changes from 30-60. This number refers
to how many frames are captured per second. The higher the number, when you play back the footage, it allows you to do slow motion. Moving on now for the exposure. On the iPhone it's quite simple. If you tap and then drag down, this allows you to
alter the exposure. In my case, I like to drag down slight bit as the iPhone for me and my preference is I
feel like the iPhone slightly overexposes the video. I start at the top and
drag down like so. Now for the lenses. This can be found at the bottom and it can be changed just by tapping on the different
numbers from zoom wide. But for this video and
most of my content, I like to keep it on 1x. As for me, that's the
highest quality camera but also I like the
way that the video looks with this lens too. Finally for the grids. As you can see when I
cover up my camera, you can see some grids
overlaid on top of the video. Let me show you how
I turn this on. If you just head
to your settings, just searching settings here, and if you scroll down
to find the camera, maybe just tap on the camera, then as you see it there under
composition you see grids. I've got my toggle on. This allows for the
grids to be shown whilst you're videoing. The main reason I like to
keep this on is mainly for the final shot and knowing on the iPad is in the
center of the frame. As a quick recap, I just
run through the settings I like to use on my phone
before I start filming, including exposure, frame rate and the lenses
which I like to use. In the next lesson I'll
be running through the first filming technique
that I like to use, the whip transition. Let's grab your phones
and let's get to it.
4. Whip Transition: In this lesson, I'll
be taking you through one of my favorite transitions,
the whip transition. I'll be explaining what it is and how you can recreate this and include it within
your workflow. Then I'll be taking you through how you can recreate this
transition for yourself. Whilst I'm drawing showing you how I do both at the same time, filming with one hand and
then drawing with the other. As it can be quite tricky
to do that initially. Let's get into it. A pan shot is where
our camera pans so quickly that the video
plays into streaks. This is perfect as it creates a blur between the two shots. The different type of pan shots that you can recreate it
up, down, left, and right. I do use this transition
for three main reasons. Firstly, energy, the motion I add rarely does allow the
user to feel the energy. Secondly, is time and space. This allows you to move from
two different locations without it seeming
like a hardcore. Thirdly, it's paused and effect, this shows the
audience are change in events happening in real time. Now that you've
seen some examples what we are going
to be doing is, we are going to be
planning our shots first before we get into creating
the whip transition. What I've got here is I've got my illustration
based on one frame. What I'm going to do is
now is I'm going to choose what each frame is
going to capture. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to go in now and I'm going to
start adding in color to the arrows I want to
focus on for that section. Then what we'll do is we'll
finish off with a slight detailing that is involved. We've got this line here. Those are the seven steps, seven shots that I'm going to be capturing whilst recording this. Now, that we've
planned our shots what I'm going to be doing now, is panning out the transitions
in between each shot so we know what to do the camera when we get to it in
the filming section. The first few classes that we've got is going to be
a whip transition. Between this one, we're going
to have a whip transition. Whip transition here. What we're going to do now
is figure out the direction which is this is going to go and now the exit of this one, I'm going to go this way as you'll see when I
come to the filming section what I mean by this. Once we've recorded this, we're going to pan
out to the right and because we're going
out to the right, we need to make sure we
go in from the left, going left to right so the
direction is in the same way. We're going to create this part and then what I'm going to
do is I'm going to pan up. Now because we've
panned up there, need to make sure we're
panning up here too. Now that we've done that, so these are the
whip transitions that we're going to be doing. Now this is going
to be in and out. What I'm going to be doing, is, I'm going to be going
into this section here, the background. Going
to be on in there. Then we'll come out around here to reveal this section
and then from there, because from there
we're going to be illustrating the grass area. I'll go into the t-shirt. This is the way out and then in going to
go into the t-shirt. This is because this is green and this is going to be green
too so it'll give a smooth, seamless transition
between the two pieces. Then we're going
to come out here, the transition
between these two. Now that we've done this, this is the section
that we're going to be using the mask overlay. With this, when we come to it, I'm going to be going
in from this direction and then I'll go out from there and then that means
I come in from here and then that'll
be the final clip. Here we have the
clips all panned out. This will all make
more sense when we come to the film in section, which will be just shortly. But so you understand, this
is what I do generally because I've been doing
this for a while now, I do this in my head but
if you're starting off, this is a good way of
panning out how you're going to film your shots
when you come to it. Now that we've planned
out the shots that we're going to draw it on the iPad, now we need to think of a way of captivating the audience. I'm going to be doing this
by throwing up my pencil and then using that as
a whip transition into the first clip that we're going to be drawing on the iPad. As you can see here, I've
got a pillow on my desk just because I'm
throwing up the pencil and I don't want to break it if it lands on something hard. I've got my pillow on the desk
and I'm going up and down because I'm going
to use the blur from the pillow for
my first transition. It's important whilst
filming this to make sure that the white covers
the screen at the end, but also generates
a lot of motion. I like to do is, I like to start by filling in this section
of the illustration that I'm about to
color in first. Then on the video, I just like to show
a portion of that. What I'm going to
do it now is go in and start filling in the
trousers of the illustration. This is the part of
the illustration I won't be recording
on this video. There's a few ways
I can do this. I can actually show that I'm
drawing a section of this or I can show that I'm
filling a section. Because we came down like this, so what I'm going to do, I'm
going to set my camera up. Again, I'm on lens number 1 and then I'm going
to press "Record" and then I'm going to
move the camera down. I'm going to move
the camera down from this white wall
here, revealing the iPad. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to fill it in and then once I've filled it in, so the motion I'm going to do
is going to be going down, film what I need to film, and then we went
off to the right. I'll press "Record",
what I'm going do now is I'm going to switch down. I'm going to switch down
from the right revealing the iPad and then I'm
going to fill this end, so with one hand I'm filming and then the other hand
I'm filling in the thing. I'm going to swipe down, show the iPad, fill it and I'm going to swipe
off to the right. There's a quick motion. Let me do that again. I'm going to keep
one hand here ready. I'm going to swipe down, show the iPad, fill it and then swipe off
quick to the right. Because we went off to the
right for the second clip, we're going to be coming
in from the left, going to the right. As it was a plan,
our second part of the illustration
was the t-shirt. What I'm going to
do now is again, I'm going to fill in a section
of the t-shirt but this time I'm going to look
like I'm drawing it. I'm going to go on a new layer, choose a color I'm going
to trade for my t-shirt and then I'm going to
look like I'm drawing it. I'm going to draw his
bottom line in first, draw the bottom line in, I'm going to draw the t-shirt. This is all a process
that normally happens. The things just see
online is generally a fraction of the actual
full process that goes in. I'm going to pretend
I'm drawing this. Remember for the second clip, the first day we went out to the right so that the
second clip need to come in from the left to the right and then once I've got the shot, I'm going to be going down. Remember we're going to go
in and from the left, quick, in from the left, show the iPad, show the bits we're going to do and then I'm going to go down. I'm going to press "Record". I'm going to start
off a bit further out to get some motion
because remember we want those streaks
so keep a hand here, I'm going to swap in. This takes a few tries normally. There's a quick motion down. I'm going to do again just to make sure I've got the clip. Quick in, quick in, down. That is quick in, down. One more time. Quick in, down. One good thing that
you see what I did. As I'm going down here, I'm matching that motion, the down motion here with
me actually going down, which adds to the effect too. One last try. We're going to go show
it and then down. As you can see in the
illustration, is not fully done but that's not needed
from the video. The whole purpose of the
video is to show the process. Now for the third shot, what we're going to be doing
is this is the transition where it comes in from a whip but then what we're
going to be doing, I want you to end it with the second transition
that we're about to do, which is going to be
covered in the next lesson. But this will be the
starting point of that. The third part of
the illustration I wanted to record was the head. Now for this create new layer and then you can
do the headfirst. I fill the head in. Again, this will
be a little fill so let me draw in
the hair first, until we all fill
in the same time, I'm just going to create
a gap between them. When you fill it, it fills in
everything that same time. Now for the third clip
I'm about to record. Remember for the
last one went down and because we went down, that means for the introduction
of this third clip, we need to come down. We've got this bit of
the word hair blurry. We're going to focus on
this part of the wood, bringing that in to here. What we're going to do
is gonna bring it in, show us filling this section
by dragging this on here and then what I'm going to do, I need to go in to the white
so I'll press "Record". We're going to go down, down, in, down, in, so down, in. Let's do one more time
just to show you. I've got my finger ready on the fill counter here so
I'm going to go down, in. It's important that the
color are the same too so swiftly swiping
out on this side, so swiftly swiping out, so we're ending a
clip on this side. That means I want to start the
clip with a similar color. Luckily at the desk
is the same color. Then we swipe in from this side, it looks almost seamless. It look like this side is going out and then this
side is coming in. That's it for the
first few transitions. This is what we've got
so far in illustration because we've gone in here. In the next lesson is the in
and out transition pro tip. The best way to make this
transition convincing is to make sure that the speed and direction of the
end of the first clip and the start of the
second clip are the same. This will make the
editing process so much more easier
when you come to it. Also making sure that
the color of the exit with first and the
entrance to the second also matches the speed and direction as this will
make it almost seamless, but there's almost
nothing in between it. Just as a quick recap,
in this lesson, I run through what the
whip transition is, how it's used, and how
you can recreate it. We went through it
step by step filming our first few clips
of the sequence. Before moving onto
the next lesson, I'd say spend some time just
getting used to filming and drawing or whatever
you're recording. Doing them simultaneously. Making sure the speed, direction and the
color of the art and the intersections of
the first and second clip, do you match up as
this will make it so much more ease
in moving forward. In the next lesson, I'll be running through
the in and out transition. This will be a nice follow-on from where we've just lead off. Once you're ready,
I'll see you there.
5. In & Out Transition: In this lesson, we'll be covering the
in and out transition. I'll be explaining
to you what it is, how it can be used, then we'll be moving on
to a step-by-step guide of how you can recreate
this and include it within the previous transitions
that we've already created. By the end of this lesson, you'll know what the in
and out transition is, how it was used,
how it's created, and you will have another
clip in your sequence ready. Firstly, what is the
in and out transition? This is the foundation
of a dolly shot. A dolly shot being where
the camera moves towards or away from an object. We'll be taking this a
bit further by moving it all the way to the subject
until the screen blocks out, which is almost like a
fade in or fade out. I like to use this
transition in order to show a particular emphasis
to a particular part. For example, in
my illustrations, I like to use it as almost
like a before and after. Showing what the illustration
looked like before and then the end
of the transition, showing you what it looks like after the change has happened. What we're going to do
now is power our phone, put on record and remember, we ended our last clip
going into the light, so we're going to bring it out, revealing the
illustration so far. What I'm going to do in this one is I'm going to be
filling the pencil. I'm going to be pulling
out filling the pencil and then from there we're
going to go into a color. For this section, I'm going
to be going into the green, as I know for the next
part of the illustration, we'll be starting
off with green. I'm going to fill the pencil
and then go in to the green, making sure the
full-screen is green. Let's start. I'll press "Record"
I'm going to pull out, fill the pencil and then
go in to the green. Start again. I'm going to go out, fill
that and then into the green. Now for the next part
of the process video, because we've gone
into the green, I want to be coming
out of a green. In the plan, we said that this section
here is going to be green. Let me go back and add in this
part of the illustration. Now that I've added
the green foliage and some texture to it, to add a bit of interest, now for the second in and out
clip that we're going to do. Remember, we ended our
last clip in the green so I want you to just
start it in the green too. This final section
that's fully green so we've got one here and all we're going to do
is we're going to pull out and reveal what we have so far. Pull out, reveal
the illustration, and then I want you to
stop the video there. I'll make sense in
the next tutorial but I just stop the video there. For this clip, we have
something that looks like this. It goes from the green and
then it comes out to reveal. Now go in and start
filming yours, making sure you're keeping
the speed and the color consistent in order to transition
a lot more convincing. Pro tip, one aspect
of the filming that can add to the
dynamic look is the speed of which you come
in and out this transition. Here's an example. I'm going to show an
example of going in and out with a constant speed and then an example
of what I mean by making the speed almost
like you're speed ramping, which means going
slow and then fast. Here's examples to
show what I mean. Apart from adding to
the dynamic look, this also makes the
editing process so much more easier
as the transition between the two is a
lot more seamless. As a quick recap of this lesson, I explained to you what this is, how it works, and how you can recreate this in your own video. One thing I'd recommend is spend some time making
sure that the in and the out of the transition is going into the same color, making sure the camera goes in the same color and
then blacks out, as this is what will make the transition a lot
more convincing. In the next lesson, I'll be building upon
the whip transition. However, we'll be filming this in a slightly
different way, which will become a
lot more apparent when we come to the
editing section. I'll see you there.
6. Mask Transition: In this lesson, I'll
be taking you through one of my favorite
transitions, the mask overlay. Like in the previous lessons, I'll be explaining what
it is, how it's used, and then we'll be
working through it step-by-step creating it and adding it to
the process video of the sequence that
we already have. What is the mask overlay? This is an animated effect using the masking tool in
video editing softwares in order to reveal
a certain clip. Word I like to use
is transition. Normally it's used in
order to reveal texts on the screen, like
I've shown here, but I like to use it in a fun and dynamic way in order to
bring different elements into the video to
keep it interesting but also fast-paced. With this transition, the main thing that you need
to know is our line needs to intercept the opposite
sides of the frame, whether that's a straight
line or an organic shape. Having this line is what makes this transition work so well. As for examples, I'm going to pause this video and show you how
the line intercepts the different sections
of the frame. This is what allows
us to mask it when we come to the
editing section. Got to press "Record". I'm going to go in making
sure I'm intercepting the screen and then coming up. I'm going to be cutting
the screen, falling up. Then on the way out, I
want to do the same. I'm going to cut. So you can see here where
to cut your screen. On the way end, on the iPad, solid line to come in, record what you need to record, and then I want you to go down and cut your screen like that. Let's do this for real now. We're going to be
going in and then out. It's almost like a
up and then down. Let's get into it. We're going to be
going up, down. Just to show you what I mean. Looks like that solid
line that comes into the iPad cuts the full frame, fills the frame, we do
what we need to do, and then it cuts away again. What we can do here
is we can treat each individual axon that
we're about to add on as a separate mass transition so we can make the video
super quick and dynamic. We're going to be
doing each one. We're going to be
drawing a separate line, matching the way that
we're going to come in. Because we ended that way
in the editing process, what's happened
is the whole iPad is going to come off the screen. With this one, we can
start just facing the iPad and then we're going to go out. What we're going to do now is, for the next couple of clips, we're going to be starting
here and then going out, starting there going out, or even coming in, going out. We're going to press "Record" and then we're just going
to have this here for now. We're going to have
it facing the screen. I'm going to draw a
line and then go out. I'm going to come in,
draw the line, go out. The next slides we
have are going to add a little bit of detail here. I'm going to start off here. I'm going to come in, go down. Right now, these clip is
gone all over the show, but it'll all make sense
in the editing section. Because we went down there,
we can add the code. We can just start here, add a slight bit, and go off. Remember, we're not solid line. I'm just going to go round, and we can start
here, down, off. I was going to do this
in all the places. I don't know what
you're filming, the actual illustration
that you're doing or whether it's a
coffee routine, or get ready with me. It's hard to multitask
at the same time. What I like to do is,
once I've found the clip, I'd like to go back in
just to make sure that, well, for me anyway, the element I'm illustrating
is done smoothly. That way, when you
come to the next stage or the final reveal, they'll all look super clean
and nicely illustrated. What I'd like to do is
have one final stroke that ends off the
illustration nicely. We're going to press "Record". I'm going to add in my stroke. This takes some time to get used to being able to do
both at the same time. With this, and I'm
just sliding in, I'm going to slide in
and then pull back. Slide in, pull back, so making sure the
illustration is in the frame. Slide forward and
then pull back. Do that one more
time, pull back. Showing again. We're going to slide
in, pull back. Now that you know
what's involved with this, you give this a try, making sure that you're
cutting the screen in half with the [inaudible]
you're filming. In my case, it's the iPad. If you're doing a coffee routine or you're doing to
get ready with me, making sure that as a solid
line of something to cut between us will all make
sense in the editing section. But you go in and
spend some time now. It may take a few tries, but once you film
this one on the rest, I'll meet you in the editing
section of this class. Pro tip. In order to make this transition
a lot more interesting, play around with the height or the speed in which that
you're doing this transition. However, do make
sure that you're making sure that
solid line is there, that it's cutting
the frame in half. As a quick recap. I ran through what the
overlay mass transition is, how it's used, and how
you can create it. Then we went through
it step-by-step in order to add it to
your sequence so far. Like previously
mentioned, I recommend spending some time
getting used to this one, playing around with
the different ways in which you can make
this transition work, getting used to using both
hands at the same time too. In the next lesson,
we'll be moving on to the editing
section of this class. This is where we're
putting all the clips that were filmed so far, into the editing software and
editing these transitions in order to make our
first dynamic clip, which we can post to
TikTok or Insta reels. Before you do move
into the next lesson, I'd recommend moving
all your footage from your phone to your laptop so
you ready to get editing. I'll see you in
the next lesson.
7. Import: In this and the
next few lessons, we'll be covering the editing
section of this class. I've split it up into
bite-size chunks, so it's easy to understand, with different sections for each transition
from the in and out, the whip transition,
and the mask overlay. For this portion of the class, I'll be using Final Cut Pro for my video editing
software of choice. But feel free to use the
Adobe version of Premiere Pro or any other video
software that you'd like as all the tools that
we're using in this lesson will be transferable across different video
editing softwares. I've got Final Cut Pro open. What I'm going to do,
I'm going to start a new project by
clicking down here. I'm going to call
it Dynamic Video. I'll leave all these same and then we're going
to press "Okay". Now I've got a project. What I'm going to do is I'm going to head
over to my folders. Here's the folder I've made, with all the clips
from my phone. I'm going to click, drag. I'm going to click and then drag them straight into the timeline. There we go. Here's all of our clips. Here using my mouse. I'm not clicking them,
I'm just moving my mouse. You can see it has all the clips that we recorded during the
filming section of this class. One thing before I
get started is to check the resolution and
the frames per second. As you can see up here, the resolution is 1080 by 1920, which is perfect, as this is the resolution that's used on social
media platforms. Before moving into
the next class, what I'd recommend is just putting all your clips in order, which is what I'm
going to do now. Also, to zoom in and
out on my laptop, I'm using a track
pad and I'm pinching and then reverse pinching in
order to zoom in and out. To rearrange the clips,
all I'm doing is clicking and then dragging
to where I want to. Now I've got my clips in order. As you can see here, I've labeled mine,
prior, in my folder. I've got Whip 1, Whip
2, Whip 3, Whip 4, and then I've got In1,
In2, Mask 1, Mask 2, and then Mask 3. Now that we're all set up and all the videos
are in the timeline, let's get into the next lesson where we'll be editing
our first transition, the whip transition. See you there.
8. Whip Edit: [MUSIC] In this lesson, we'll be creating
a whip transition. By the end of this,
you would have had something that
looks like this. Let's get straight into it and start editing the
first transition. As you can see, I've
labeled mine whip 1, whip 2, whip 3 and whip 4. I'm going to end, as we're going to focus on this section. When we was recording this, we did do a few takes. What I'm going to
do first before we begin is to find the
take that I want to use. The way I'm going
to be doing this is clicking on the end
and then just dragging in using this window up here to see whereabouts
the clip is up. I'm just going to go in now with these first four transitions. I'm just going to find the
clip that I want to use. What I'm doing is as I'm going through it, for the first one, I'm just scrolling my mouse over this to see what's happening. I need to bring this
back a little bit. I'm looking for here
is on the start of the clip where I've
throw the pen up, scrolling and then just wait until it goes
white and then mark. That's the clip I want to use. That's the clip that
as you can see, what I'm doing is
I'm just going to go roughly to about here. I'm going to click, and
then I'm just going to drag this into there
so I know where it is. What I'm going to
do is I'm going to show you this first
transition here. Then I'll let you go
in and then do the same for this transition
and the fourth one. Focusing on here,
remember when we were recording we were
focusing on the speed, the direction, and the color. What I'm doing here
whilst editing is looking at both clips
where they're white and where the direction is the most blurriness as
that's what's going to make the transition
the most convincing. I'll do it here as
I'm scrolling with my finger, I'm not clicking. I'm just scrolling so I want to see where the clip starts. I'll start the clip about here. I'm going to click
and then again, hovering over the
end of the clip, and then just dragging it. This is where it's
going to start, it's going to throw up. Then I wait until it's blurry. I'm going to say about that. I'm going to click. Then on the end of the clip this time
I'm going to drag this in. Now for the second
clip, I want to find where this is the
most blurriest. Say about that. All I'm doing is I'm just
scrolling little bits at a time just to find the part of the clip that's
the most blurriest. I'm going to say about that. Again, I'm going to click,
I'm going to zoom in and then clicking on the clip and I'm just going to
drag it into that point. To play this back,
if I just tap space, we can see what we have so far. Scratch can see that it
seems almost seamless. Throw a pen up, and then it
goes straight to the iPad. Now what I'm going to
do is I'm going to go in and I'm going to do the same for this transition
here where we went to the right
and then the left. I'm going to do the same for the up and down
here, what we did. Again, all going to
be doing is finding the blurriest point. I'm sorry about
that. Then hovering over the end of the clip, [MUSIC] I'm just
dragging it, and I'm going to play it back to
see what I've got so far. This is looking good. This is the way that the
transition should look. It's nice and smooth. It goes
between the clip nicely. We keeping that
fast-paced action, which makes these clips dynamic. Now we're into the
white. What we're going to be doing
in the next lesson, we're jumping into
the transition. Pro tip before moving on, really spend some time playing around with the start
and the end of the clip where you find the
perfect point where the transition
feels super smooth. One thing I like to
do if you still feel that the clip is still
a little bit clunky, they started directional blurb
just over the two clips. This will add to the motion, making sure that
both are the same along the transition
to flow smoothly. In the next lesson, we're
going to be moving on to the in and out transition.
[MUSIC] I'll see you there.
9. In & Out Edit: Continue on from where
we just left off. We just finished editing
the whip transition. Now let's move on
to the in and out. By the end of this lesson, you will have created something
that looks like this. Let's get straight
to editing this one. After completing the
whip transition, we've added all these, now going to move
into in and out. On the last whip transition, we ended our clip in white. What we're going to do is
similar to in the last class, we're going to scrub
through and find the point where the screen goes white. As remember when filming, we wanted to make sure that the screen is filled
with a particular color. In this case, for the
first transition, we wanted the color to be white, so I'm going to find that point where the screen goes white and I'm going to
click right right and then I'm going
to drag this in, so it goes white. I'm going to do the same
for the second clip. So I'm going to find the point first where we want to use. Remember, this time the
white will be coming out. So I'm going to zoom in a little so I can find the exact point. So this is the point
I want to use. I'm going to click just
as it's coming in. So I'm going to click there. I'm going to press
B, the shortcut, and I'm going to cut
that by clicking and then I'm going to go
back to the Select tool or you can press
A as a shortcut, click and then using
the Backspace button, I'm going to delete that. Now if we hover over the transition, we'll
see what we have. Then we can cut off
a little bit of the clip on the second one, as it is in the
white bit too long. I'm going to click there, and then I'm going to drag
this clip in a tiny bit just to cut off a bit of
the empty white space. Now if we play that back, it
should be a lot smoother. There we go. That's what I wanted. Now, as you can see
for the second clip, it's going straight
to the green. So I'm going to do
the same for this. You go in and do the same too. That's perfect. That's what I want to see when we're editing
this transition. I want it to be a nice, clean, and smooth movement, keeping it fluid. You don't know no stillness. You want to seem like
it's shot in one shot, that's the whole purpose
of this transition. We're going into the green
and then we come back out. The whip and the in and
out are quite simple as it is just a matter of
matching the clips up. In the next lesson, this is where it will really
start to come to life. Pro tip, again, like in the previous transition, I'd recommend playing
around making sure that point
between the two clips is just right so again it feels like it's shot
in one smooth clip. If you feel like the
clip that you recorded doesn't go fully
black, it's okay, you can add a fade to the
end of the first clip and then to the start
of the second clip so it will look like
it's gone black, and then it'll feel
like the transition has gone a lot more smoother. In the next lesson,
we'll be running through the final transition,
the mask overlay. This one is a bit more tricky and a lot more time-consuming, but this one is by far my
favor item and way worth it. So I'll see you in
the next lesson.
10. Mask Overlay Edit: Continuing from
where we left off, let's get straight into it and start editing the mask overlay. By the end of this lesson, this is what you should have. Now that you know what we're
creating, let's get into it. When I was in the
filming section, I recorded all of these
transitions in one video. What I've just done is, I've gotten using the blade tool and this chopped each clip into
its individual transition. As you can see here, I'm
just scrubbing over each of the clips just to
transition to show you. I've chopped up in a way where the iPad fully
leaves the screen, so we're just left
with the desk. This will become
apparent when we come to add in section of
why I've done this. For the first clip,
what I'd like to do is just to have a feel of the first clip by scrubbing slowly over the start of it. What I'm going to be
doing here is I like to find where the iPad cuts
the screen in half. I'm just going to
be scrubbing in a way where I find that. I think around here
for me is good. This is where I
normally like to start. What I'm going to be doing
is going heading over to the effects panel on
the right-hand side and searching draw. The effect I want to find
is called draw mask. I'm going to click
and then drag that over onto the first clip. After dragging on this effect, you can see a panel on the
right-hand side has popped up. We're going to be focusing
on the control points. As you can see here, this little diamond, I
will be clicking it. This adds the keyframe. This allows us to
remember that mask that we're creating at
this particular frame. What I'm doing now is
just with single clicks, I'm clicking around the iPad. As you can see, once
we close it off, it gets rid of whatever
is not in the shape. This is what a mask is. You can see a keyframe has been created by the yellow symbol. What we want to do now is go in and do the same for
all the other frames. In order to get to
the next frame, we'll be tapping
the right arrow. This will jump into
the next room. Like we did in the
previous frame, I just wanted to tell you
to match the points just by clicking and dragging to
the edge of the iPad. I'm going to go through now
after each frame tapping the right arrow and then just moving the points
to match the iPad. Because we started off in
the middle of the frame, we need to go back
and do the start of the clip tool when the
iPad isn't on the screen. Just using the arrows clicking in the
opposite direction now, it does go through and match the points of the edge of the iPad. Now I just watch
through what I've done, make sure the iPad comes on cleanly with the frames
that we just matched. Because the mass we use uses a hard edge and the video we show has
some blurred edges, I'll just use the Feather
tool and drag out just a tiny bit in order to
blur the lines of the mask. This avoids the
hard line for when the iPad comes on
in the transition. As you can see here
as we slid it across, the mask blurs a slight
bit on the line. When we play this back, you can see there's a slight
black bit in the clip. What we need to do is drag the clip on top of another clip. This allows for the
iPad to look like it's coming on top of
the previous clip. I'll start to play this back
a few times just to make sure that the positioning of this clip is in the right place, just by scrubbing
through the timeline. When we filmed this, we took
the iPad off the screen too. What I like to do is go
to the frame just before the iPad starts leaving the
screen and adding a keyframe. Now like at the beginning,
we're just going to go through and follow the iPad off the
screen going frame by frame by pressing
the right arrow. Now with this transition, because we have the iPad
leaving the screen, we need to put a clip underneath
it being the next clip. To do this, we add a slight gap first by going on to Edit, Insert generator, and then gap. I'm just going to drag this
in between the first clip. What I'm aiming to
do here is create a big enough gap in order for the second clip to be
overlaid just right. When the first clip
leaves the frame, the second clip that we shot
is underneath it already. I want to go in and do the
rest for all of the clips, making sure that you mask
the iPad out accurately, having it come in and
leave the screen. After adding the mask, so
all the different clips, this is what I have so far. As you see as the upper
leaves the screen, the clip underneath
is already in place, so it's timed perfectly to show the action which I'm doing. [MUSIC] Then finally ending
up with the review. As a recap of the previous
three editing lessons that we've just done,
we've gone through, we've added all of our
clips in the timeline, and we've added each
transition from the whip, the in and out on
the mask overlay. Now you have the content which
is slowly coming together. You now have an arsenal of
ways in which you can film on Edit transitions in order
to create dynamic content. In the next lesson,
we are going to be bringing in all these
clips that we have to live by adding
some sound design. I'll see you in the next lesson.
11. Sound Design: In this lesson, I'll be
running through sound design, how it can be used, what it is, and how you can
implement it into the content that
we already have. By the end of this lesson, you'll have all your
sound design added to the content that
you've already edited. This is for me where the content really starts to come to life. What is sound design? Sound design is a
way of creating a particular track in
order for a specific need. In this case, we'll be
adding certain sounds to the content that we filmed in
order to bring it to life. This is created through
the use of sound effects, foley sounds, voice
overs, and even music. For the content that we're
filming in this class, we'll be using two
of these four. We'll be using sound
effects and music in order to elevate our content. At this stage of the process, now that we've got the
sequence fully edited, what I like to do is, is go in and see the transitions and imagine the type of sounds that that transition would make. In this motion, because
there is a lot of movement, I can't imagine like a
whoosh or a whip sound. Like this has [inaudible] to
do is as I'm watching it, play it back and then
add the noises myself, so be like a whoosh. That's what I like
to normally do when I'm adding in
the sound design. These are the most
common sounds, the whips and the whooshes. Let me go in and let me show you where you can get the sounds and how you come up them in. The website I like to use is
one called Epidemic Sounds. This is what it looks like. These songs are
tailored towards me, but they do do a free account. To search a sound, I'm going
to go in the top right. I'm going to search swoosh
and then just press "Enter". I'm going to make sure I'm on
the sound effects section. What I like to do
now is to go in and just listen to the sounds and just see if the way the
field would match the clip. So I quite like this one, so I'm just going to
click "Download" on the right-hand side and
for this first transition, I'm just going to zoom in and I want to match the audio
to match this transition. From my folders,
in my downloads, I'm going to click
and drag that on. I'm going to zoom in a bit more. The good thing with this
is it shows the waves. You can see the peak, which
is where it'll be the louder. I'm going to drag that
over the transition. If I click and then
play that back, that's how I feel for the
way it sounds and feels. That's perfect. That's the type of noise
I want it to make. I will look through
Epidemic Sounds, see the type of sound you like, and go in and just add them
in to each transition. This is a result of what I have after adding in
the whoosh sounds. Now that we know the whoosh
and the whips sounds, and you've heard
what it sounds like, what I'm going to do is try
to think of any other ways in which I can add
sound to this. If I play this back or if I'm looking at
this particular clip, I can imagine this making
a pop sound as it fills. What I'm going to do
is I'm going to go on to Epidemic Sounds again. This time I'm going to
search for a pop sound. Make sure one sound effects and if I scroll down maybe like I quite like this one. This is pop sound. I'm going to download this and then I'm going to add
this to the timeline too. Now I'm back in the timeline. I'm going to drag
this to where I feel it would work just as
it's getting filled. If I play this back now. What I'm going to do
is I'm going to go in and figure out any other
ways I can add sounds to it, whether it's the
sound of a pencil as the Apple pencil is drawing, or any other sound effects I can think of and then
I'll come back. Now that I've added all the other sounds,
different whooshes, have gone from pop
for when it fills, and I've gone for
the pencil sound for when the iPad is drawing. This is what we have so far. So you can see the
different lengths of sounds of the whips
and the whooshes. Very much the transition, which is what will make
this whole clip convincing. There we go. The final part of
this is to add music. Again, head over
to Epidemic Sounds and have a look and
have a listen through all the different
types of music. I'm going to go in
and add a track and then we'll overlay it. I've gone in and added a track. The name of the song is called Ballpoint by Embody,
if you're curious. But once I've dragged
in the music, so this is where I go in and alter the volume
of the sound. This can be done by
hovering your mouse over the sound and then
these little arrows, the up and down
arrow, will come up. I like to click and
drag this down. Generally, I like to
go for a minus 10 as then I feel like all the
sounds can still be heard. I'm going to adjust that
until I get to minus 10 and then if I play that back
now, let's see what we have. I'm going to tap space. Also, one thing I did was
when the music dropped, I've matched up with the
first whip transition in order to add to
the dramatic effect of the pencil falling. I want you to go in and
really spend some time as this is what brings
your clip to life. Find the sounds
that you feel much. The videos you've taken, the length of the
whips, the volume, and adjust each of the
different elements until it feels like all the
layers match perfectly. Pro tip. When
playing around with the sound design in
your video is all about the layering which gives
it that much richer and more in-depth feel worth
watching your content. This can be done by stacking different sound effects
along with music, then also playing
all the volumes too so certain parts become
a lot more dominant. Added music,
environmental sounds, the whooshes and the whips, and any other sound effects, all to bring the content
together to make it feel like the person watching
it is actually there. I hope this has
given you a basic understanding of how
you can start adding sound design to your work from the use of music
and sound effects. As for me, those are the things
that started elevating it. The more you get into it, the more you can
start experimenting and adding different
sounds to your work. You're nearly there of
having your first piece of dynamic content. In the next lesson, we're
going to be exporting this, you're ready to post it
to wherever you like. I'll see you in the next lesson.
12. Export: Now for the final stage
of this whole process, the export, let me show
you the settings I like to use to get
ready for social media. In this lesson, I'll
be taking you through the settings I like to
use in order to keep the quality there while posting on social media,
let's get to it. Before exporting, I like to watch a clip through
one last time, just to make sure
everything's fine. I'm just making sure that
transitions are okay, the sound design's
in the right place, colors are okay, the speed of which all the
transitions come in, just making sure the whole
thing flows properly. This is looking good. To export, what I'm going to
do is head over to File and click "Share"
and then 'Export File". Once you clicked on this, you're presented with this window, I like to head to settings, and then these are the
settings I like to use. The format, we use computer, video code, want to
keep it as H.264, resolution is fine, and then once I've saved it on open Quick Times
on watch the video, and then you just press "Next". Then just choose a location that you want to
save the document in and then press "Save". Here's a clip once
it's exported. Again, I'm going to
watch it one more time just to make sure the
export was right, there's no errors and
there's no glitches. Once everything is fine,
then we are ready to post. Now we have it, we've got our first clip fully
edited and exported, ready to post wherever you like. I'll see you in the next
lesson where we will conclude this whole process,
I'll see you there.
13. Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this class on how to create dynamic content
just using your iPhone. We've covered a
lot in this class, especially the
filaments selection. Then, there was a lot to take on board with the different
movements and how you can coordinate yourself whilst creating something
else at the same time. Do feel free to go
back to any section of this class to give yourself
a better understanding, to prepare yourself for the
future in order to create a lot more quicker
and dynamic videos. You will get a lot
more competent of the filament aspect
of this process the more that you practice, especially knowing
how to edit and post, this will definitely influence your filming techniques too. But again, this all
comes with time. The more you practice, the better you're going
to get out of this. As a quick recap, I went
through the settings I like to change in my phone
before I start filming, we recorded all three
different transitions along with making
a process video. Then we went into
video editing software where we edited these
transitions together, adding sound design
and export it. It is one key takeaway
from this class. I hope it's given you confidence by learning these
transitions and different filming
techniques in order for you to create fun
and dynamic content. This class was here to show you my fulfillment process on
how I create my content. In order for you to
gain some inspiration, I'll take certain aspects and include it within
your own content. Don't forget to
upload your video to the project panel
below where I can give you feedback in order to help you keep going
in the future. Also, do post on Instagram
and tag me on @designed with Smit where I can see that I
can repost it to my story. But also away from that, don't forget to
tag me and follow. Whether this is the beginning of your content creation journey, or you've been creating
content for a while, expressing yourself
through video content is a whole different ball game. I hope the skills and the
techniques that you've learned in this
class will benefit you and take you a lot further with the content
you'll create in the future. Now, for the skills
and techniques that you've learned
in this class, I hope it gives you
a stock park in order to start making
endless amounts of content and to give
you the chance to start inspiring others too. I wish you all the best. Stay creative and
keep inspiring. Bye.
Smitesh Mistry, Illustrator & Designer
