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1. Introduction - What you will learn in this Class: In this class, I will show you how you can create amazing, beautiful videos using
your smart phone and the app in shock. This is a beginner
Tutorial 4 in short, I'll walk you through all
the most important settings. Hey, and welcome to this class. I'm Daniel, I'm a travel
blogger and YouTuber. And the last six years
I was traveling around the world and I love
to make videos. I have a YouTube channel,
it's called Daniel Kovach, but I also use my smart phone all the time to create
Instagram videos. And today I will show you all the bells and whistles that you need to
know from initial, from using a fact
transitions from cutting, from exporting from
the color grading, from effects, music
sounds of everything, everything that is
important for you, so that you can see how
fast you can actually make amazing videos just
with your smartphone. We see us in the first class.
2. Overview InShot App: In short, is an
amazing app because it will help you to speed
up the workforce. I tell you this coming from an video editor working
on the big programs like Premier Pro and just a time saving that you will
get with this app. But still having lots of functionalities
like speed ramping effects and other
things that you can do, and especially
transition. Transition was one
of the main reasons why I started with in Charlotte. I can use my phone to
have cool transitions that are normally just do
on my big program. Yes. The transitions that
you get also in other programs are
sometimes amazing to you. But when I compare those
programs with in short, I still feel in shot is faster. Basically want to click and you have it one-click
and you have it. So in short, when you
install it looks like this, this icon here in shock. And when you start in short, you can have very
different functions. You can start with
video or you can also edit photos and cola. So if you don't have any app where you do this
kind of things, me, for example, I do this
in Photoshop Express. Some people do it in Lightroom. Lightroom, I have
it here as well. Those two apps are free
as well and you can use them and the functions
are amazing for phone, but if you want, you
could start using inch off for the photo editing
and editing as well. I use it mainly for video. That's what I'm
showing you today. So if I go in here, I can select my clips that I want to connect. Let's say for
example, those three. And the cool thing is here, when you go into, like
with every editing app, you have a timeline. The timeline, Mr. see you down. And if I scroll
through the timeline, you see the video. I can place a transition
just by hitting this icon here and select
the transition that I want. Like for example here,
a glitch transition, or more common for this type of video is the Zoom in transition. I can click a clip and then
you see it's selected. And in the beginning
and the end, I can change it where it
starts and where it ends. And now in this
case, my zoom in, we'll come in like
this and I'm closer to the door in shot comes
in two versions, a free version and
a pro version. I recommend that you
get the pro version because when you can use
all the transitions, you videos, we'll just
look so much more amazing. And by the way,
I'm not a sponsor, I'm not affiliated,
nothing at all. I don't even know
the developers. I just use this app
like three years ago and they put more stuff and
more stuff and more stuff. And this is why I
also recommend you if you really use this for your own video so that
your brand becomes bigger, you should just get
some onetime payments cheaper in the long run. And you get every new update, every new function, every new sticker, every new transition. And I think you should
compare it like this. For my adopt software, I pay almost €50 a month. Yes, I can do much
more there obviously, but 50 years is more than
the onetime payment here. And now I have all of
those functions forever. So I see is just recently I found out that they
have this app here. It's called Peachy,
which is basically even more in the photo editor. With that one, you can
even do blip state, skin thin on whatever like retouched stuff and like
lots of photo editing stuff. If you're into that,
definitely check out this app. But this class is all about.
3. TOP 7 RULES of COMPOSITION: In this video, I will show you my top seven rules
of composition. If you want to create beautiful and amazing videos
using similar Tartuffe, then you have to
learn composition. The composition means the
placement and arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a photo or a video frame. Or in other words, there
are ingredients like in a shake and if you
put them altogether, you can create something
beautiful out of that and you can
learn how to use. In this video, I
will show you my top seven rules of composition, but not that they
asked many more. And I think if you
start filmmaking, you should also learn and educate yourself more
and more on the topic of photography framing and how create an
amazing composition. So the cool thing
about those rules are there like guidelines. You can follow them, but
rules are made to be broken, but you first should understand those rules so you can
purposefully break them. But the first rule
is the rule of thirds and basically
means is that you split your frame into thirds and you put points of interest
on those line. For example, if you
should landscape, you want to put the
horizon on one of the top or the bottom
horizontal lines, depending if you want
to focus more on the landscape or the sky,
if you should, people, you usually want
to put the people on one of the vertical lines and put their eyeline on
top of the horizontal line. And also the area
where they looking at give them enough lead
room or looking room. Otherwise it will look
awkward wherever they looked. You want to give them more
space where they look and less space in the back and also
be aware of the headroom. So usually you don't want
to have the people having too much head room and also you don't want to
cut off the head, so you want to keep the
head around that top line. The exception to this rule is if you want to purposefully show something in the background that is important for that shot. If you're doing a tighter
shot where obviously you can't fit the whole
head into the frame. Then usually keep
more of the bottom on the skin there and don't cut
off the people like this. Rule number two is guidelines or leading lines are always looked
for natural lines that I can use to guide the
viewer's attention to the center of the frame
or to the subject. And this will also create
more depth into the framing. And you'll be amazed
when you start looking for lines and position
yourself on lines, it would just look
more professional. Rule number 3 is symmetry. You don't have to always
look for the rule of thirds. You can also frame your
image by symmetry, by lines, by centering, like for example, now I'm looking in the
center of the frame. If I could rearrange my stuff in the background even more
and more symmetric, well, I have a more better and more weighted to the
image would look like sometimes you have amazing
reflections in the water. So this is, for
example, when you can break the rule of thirds and put the horizon in the
middle because the whole picture looks
more symmetrical. So symmetry is a
very powerful way. How you can make it a nice looking compositional
rule number four is to create
depth and focus. What I mean by that is we wanna create difference in the image. And the two most
common ways to do this is by using a lower aperture. So for example, I subject is in focus and the background
is not unfold. And the second way how
you can create this is by using objects in the
foreground, in the background. So this will give your image more three-dimensional
look to it. So I always try to see if there's a tree or
something else where I can move around my
camera to give the viewer the attention that it looks more three-dimensional, obviously focuses one of the most powerful ways
how you can guide the viewer's attention
to your subject or in cinematography many times
use play around it. Focus foreground and the focus and the background and
the focus, by the way, the new iPhones have now
the cinematic mode in it where you can play
around with the focus mode. So you have something
in the foreground, something in the background, and you can fast swap
between those two. So rule number five is
to balance diagonally. So for example, if
you use the rule of thirds and you
place an object on one of the vertical lines and the other side is
completely empty. This is what I mean,
but finding balance put another object
on the other side. So for example, when you
shoot a couple on that side, try to find something
on the other side. Example here in my shot
that I'm doing right now, I'm looking to you and I
still have a white wall here. There's nothing on there,
no pictures, nothing. So I put my microphone here to balance everything from
the desk from that site. Rule number six is framing. Pay attention to
everything in your frame. Does it there because
you want to be in the frame or is that something
because you were too lazy? For example, if your subject
and you have dead space all around and you
see other stuff that distracts the viewer, get closer to the couple and
have them as the subject. But also at the same time. Is there anything in
the background that distracts from your
subject that you actually want to
show that maybe use a blurry background,
a lower aperture. Obviously there are exceptions
where you maybe want to show the environment because the environment looks amazing, but then you use a purposefully. But the problem is with
many filmmakers that they just stand in the background and don't go into the action. Take your camera, go
to the subject and think about what you want
to include in your framing. Also, is your framing tilted.
This is not straight. You can use those guidelines and also the rule of thirds to make your frame more
horizontal and vertical and so it will already
look more professional. So rule number 7 is dominant subject is basically
like the framing before. Think about when you put in
a shot and if you have many, many objects in the shot, what is the viewer
supposed to look? Are you doing this intentionally because you want
to distract him? Or is there actually a subject? If there is a subject, you should always
use all the rules of compositions like
the guidelines, the rule of thirds, the focus, a low aperture to
show your audience what is the dominant
subject in that moment, if you don't have a
dominant subject, but you want to show
a dominant subjects. So that means that
this shot decompose. Always keep your
dominant subject in your mind and put
it into the frame. So the reason why
this is so powerful, we as the filmmakers, we who are creating the videos, we can guide the
eye of the viewer with all of those techniques that I told you in this video. And this is what makes
movies so powerful, because it's not just
in the real-world where everybody is looking at
everything at the same time, you tell the audience what is important and you show that. And if you know
what is important, you can build a story by using the dominant subjects
in your videos.
4. Cut your first Video - InShot Basics: All the videos I'm using today, you can also download them
from my Google Drive. You don't need to work on
those specific videos. This is not a class
design that you have to follow each step by itself, I recommend maybe just build your first ONE
video that you can publish as an Instagram story. So let's open in
shot and then go for video, have a new project. And I will just start with
the church videos that I have here for videos about
the church that I made. The first thing I
want to show you is if you start any new project, it usually takes the first
video as the canvas. The canvas is basically how you want to have
your video form. Like do you want to
have it 16 by 9 or you want to have a 9 by 16 that
you want to have it square, you can change that by
clicking Canvas if you ever run into the problem that you aspect ratio is
not like you want, usually have those
aspect ratios here. No frame than it takes to
video how I recorded it. Well, let's say I want
to create a Tik Tok. I can say nine by
16 and say, Okay, so now all my videos will be in this canvas. You
have two options. The timeline that I'm not Mr.
thing here on the bottom, you can just go through this one here and use some
of the settings. Like for example,
let's say here at the beginning I want
to cut this away. I can go in here and split. Now I have two clips and I can, for example, select that
clip here in Delhi. I find it faster just
going where I want to be. And if you needed more detailed, you can zoom in by swiping in the clip or you can zoom out
if the club is very long, you can always select a clip and then move the
beginning or the end, change the length of the clip if you want to add a transition, we already talked about this. You can just click
the transition one and select different
types of transitions. Okay, I like this clip here, going over and here I want
to zoom in to this position. So I delete this one here. First one, I select the first transition and I use the zoom in and
show me a preview. Yeah, that's the one. And the second way how
you can use the timeline is by longer press
on the timeline. Now you see those squares
and you can move, rearrange your clips
by clicking again, you're coming back
to this separately. If you want to add a new clip, you can just do this by plus. And then you can select
here video photo. If you have video here, you can select video
photos on the top, let's say this photo
that I just did before. So now because it's a
different aspect ratio, I don't want that. It looks like I can now select
this one and go back to Canvas and Zoom with my
fingers how I want this? Let's say I want to
have it like this. I don't want to see
anything else. Boom. And this is how I
would see this now, photos, obviously not moving. That's why they
are still images. But what you can do, and you can do the same
with videos as well. But I can go in here,
filters, effects. I will talk about
this later again, but there's a slow zoom effect. So I use this one
on top of my image. So now I can make it look
like it's moving slowly. You see that if
your video is done, you can click here on the
top right corner export. You can change your settings. I would keep it at 30
frames and also 1080, that's the most common news. And you can say safe and your phone will create a
video that will come into your camera roll and you
can use an upload that in the next couple of classes we go over music sound effects, more deep, deep effects and other settings that you can
put on top of this video.
5. Add Music & Sound Effects: I want to add music. So here's the music button. I can add a track and all
the songs that are already downloaded to my phone will come here in my iTunes library. So for example, I can
use this one here. Play the music. If I don't want to
start the music here, I can double-tap this one
and change the beginning. If I click inside
of the audio track, I can see where my track is. The longer it will even zoom in so I can see
exactly where I am. Let's say I want to
start my music here. You can fade the music in
and you can fade it out. You can change the
volume of your track. So let's say here, It's fading in the music is
coming, blah, blah, blah. If I don't like the audio
from my other Eclipse, I can click those
clips and make them mute while I have in my
stories video where I talk. So now the music is too loud, so I'm playing this. You can't hear me, so
I go back on music. And what I actually do is exactly here where
the transition is, I click my audio
track and I split, it seemed like with the videos. And now I can double-click
the second part, go down to like 17%, and I double-tap
my other clip and boost my audio for my voice. Hey, and welcome to this class. This is the
beginner's horse will ensure double-check if the
audio levels in between my good enough so many
beginner mistakes is that the music in the
background is still too loud and you can't listen to what I'm saying and
depends on the tracks. So you sometimes have to
play around with this here inside our different sound
effects that you can use. Let's say for example here for this transition,
we go on effect. And there are many, many, many effects is
basically a library of effects that you can
use years transition. So we take transition to
and it goes in like this. What is my recommendation? If you create a
really cool video, let's say for an Instagram
Reels and you want to make the video
feel more realistic. You use sound effects
for good videos. I do that to be fair to speed up my work process
many times when I just share a story
that will be deleted tomorrow because it's
just up for 24 hours. I'm not using sound
effects as often. I use music and I use talking
and I use some transitions. I could spend more time
placing those sound effects. It would be easier if those sound effect would come
automatically in the app. So this is one recommendation
for the developers. Maybe just give me the option to have this already
straight in. Now you know how you can
use this and there is so much stuff in here,
bells and whatever. You can play around
with this sound effect is a whole new topic when
it comes to filmmaking. So lots of beginners,
filmmakers, when they start making
their first videos, they don't use sound effects. For example, me the same. I
didn't use any sound effects. I just used music. You some cool shots. That's it. Later when you
develop your skills, you will understand that wait a second every time when there is something on the screen
happening and I have an audio, a sound effect for that, I can create more
life to my videos. You can also do a voice over recording if you
click this one here. Yes. Okay. Three, 21. Hey guys, I'm here in the city
and this is the church. And the church is amazing. I see the audio track here. Hey guys, I'm saying here
I can make this library. I can make the music. Now. Let's say here one, hey guys, I'm here in the
city and this is the church. And the church is amazing. Hey, and welcome to this
class. This is good.
6. Add Filters, Effects, Stickers & Text: Now you can add filters, filters as kind of like the same that you have
an Instagram as well when you swipe to the right and you can change different, looks like color
grading on your video. You have that one
YouTube if you go to Filter and then filters, you have all types of
different filters. Movie filters, cinema
filters, everything is there. Some of them look amazing. It depends on your footage. Sometimes I use the
Instagram filters on top of that, sometimes not. It really depends on
you what kind of look feel you want to
create video, video. You have a couple of options. Number 1, you can change
the opacity of your filter. You don't have to
use it with 100%. So for example, if you have
a filter that is too strong, you just want to
reduce a little bit. You can change that here, or you can go even
into adjust and change the settings
from that point on. So everything is already
set to this filter. And now from there you can
even change the settings like contrast or I want
to have it more contrast, you are less contrasty, right? You can change that. So when you want to
apply those effects, you have two options. You can either apply
it to one clip, then you select on the top
right one this error or you selected to all of
the clips that you have. This is the bottom left
side filter applied to all. So now when you look
at your timeline here, everything is now He agreed. So that means there is a filter applied to each of those clips. Okay, Another cool thing
here in this app is effects. When you type in effect, you can do different
types of effects. For example, a slow zoom in. So it zooms in. I showed you this before with the picture so you can
make pictures move. Or he also, there are
some retro effects like this one here example, I really like at the moment
or the record button. And everything looks a
little bit more like you're just filming
from a camera. Pretty, pretty cool stuff. Just go over those
different ones and see if there's something in, like if you find one, this will now come
as a separate clip so you can change the
position where it is. Let's say you only want to have this on the first clip and then change to different
one here when I'm talking, I can put another effect here when I'm talking like rolling, which makes no sense. And your audience will
just think you're crazy. But maybe this is what you want. So you can do in spinning role in whatever
those are facts, then you can always hit
adjust and you will come straight to the adjustment
position from that clip. That means you can change
your contrast, the color, everything here, and
then apply it to all clips or just that one clip. Okay, obviously this wouldn't
be a good program if you can't put any text on
top of this and we can, we can put here in texts, let's say this is a church, boom, and same
like an Instagram. You can change the
colors of the text, the background, the shading. So you can also change the font. Of course you can
change it here, boom. And if you want to
change the colors, you can go into the color wheel. And for example, say the
texts should be black and the label should be white
or red or whatever. I really like black
and white and no, I don't like this font,
so I go back to system. It's a little bit bigger
or maybe tao1 church, you can change the size, you can position it, you can make it smaller or bigger. You can turn it around. Same like an Instagram hit. Okay, and now you get
another clip here so you can tell this clip how
long it should be seen. So we can change the
size and resize it. We can double-tap
this, for example, to apply effects like
the fade in longer, smaller, turn it, okay, here it will turn all the time. Like I told you,
if you want that your audience think
you are crazy, use something like that. Same like text. You
also have stickers. And with stickers, let's come
to a very powerful feature of being shot is all the
different types of stickers. If you have the pro version, when you go to stickiness, you'd find here this catalog. And if you have the pro version, you have access to all
types of stickers. And their stickers are amazing. Like you can do so much stupid
stuff with the stickers. Everything you
download, you will have here in your
catalogs and you can just use them there on your phone now, you
don't need an Internet. That's one thing. Oh, I totally
forgot to tell you, but this is one thing
I like about in short, you don't need any
Internet access. You can straight edit
from your phone. When I was in a train ride
to Frankfurt in Germany, I had no Internet at all and I could edit the coast
off with my videos. You always have this box, right? Whatever type you open
a stickers or not, you can change them resized
and change the text here, blah, blah, blah, effects
and so on and so on. Okay? And then again you
have a clip here. You can also change them
here with clips and text. You can put them on
top of each other. There's one rule. Nowadays,
the attention span is so short. Now we have videos like
15 seconds on tiktok. So people are used to have it fast, something has to go on. And we have this rule even for YouTube videos, for example, after every seven seconds, seven seconds should something
happen on your screen? If not, it starts
to get boring and the people just click away
and go somewhere else. And all of those features
like stickers, text, color, different clips will help you to make your
video more engaging. Another cool feature that in child has is picture-in-picture. So this is just
setting here, Pip, I can use now a photo or video, say this video for example, I can load this video on top of my other video
I have this year. I can just place this resizes. This is, for example, very
good when you want to do this arrow bureau
thing that I told you, but at the same time
you still want to see yourself when you talk. And now the cool thing
about this one is again, you have this clip here on top. And when you click
this, you have different settings,
different things. If you can do just
with that clip, for example, I can mask, let's say I don't want
the top and the bottom, so I can change the top and the bottom and also
faded if I want. So that's fading in
and top and one, this works like Eclipse. You can add filters
affect everything. And I will now doubled
tip this so I can make it fade in and it shows me here. So this is the,
this is that one. Okay.
7. Advanced Techniques (Speed Ramp / KeyFraming): Now let's talk about a couple
of advanced techniques, how you can use in short. The first one that I wanted
to tell you is speed ramping. Every clip that you have, you can change the speed. If you go into here speed, you can just speed up the clip
like one is onetime speed, two is two times
speed and you can go crazy with this
and change the speed. But the advanced setting with the speakers that you actually
go in here and curve. So curve means I
can, for example, say that beginning
is normal speed, then it speeds up. Maybe I want this until here, speed it up and through there, and then it comes back
to the normal speed. So I go until here, and here is the normal speed. Maybe you're even want
to have it slow motion. By the way, for slow motion, you should also record
in slow-motion, if not, your video, we'll look choppy I showed you. You can see it's choppy. If you want to show slow motion, you should record
in slow motion, I have a clip that I
did in slow motion. The way slow motion
works is that your camera is just
capturing more pictures. For example, 30 frames is
what you usually have. That means you have 30
pictures in 1 second. That's what our eye is used to. You see that in cinema is 24, mostly on YouTube is 30 frames. If you want to have slow motion, you record in 1 second like 60, 120 or even 240
frames per second. That means now you can
actually slowed down the footage because you still
have more frames than 24. It will look like
it's in slow motion. So this clip here, for example, that's an in camera transition. What I'm doing now,
I zoom in Here, I want to have the
slow motion, okay? And then I zoom out, split. So out here, zoom in here, so the motion zoom out, split first-class, I click
it and I go to speed. I start with that
one with the speed. And when it's here, I want is the normal
speed like this. So slow motion and then
back to the speed. You can add another
keyframe here. For example, now I didn't
have enough keyframes, so I put another
keyframe in here. Sometimes you have to play
a little bit around to see how the speed
ramping looks good. But now we have
this slow motion, it will turn into this. We do the same here
with this clip as well. We go to curve, we start with the speed and where we
want to have it is here. Here we want to have
it slow motion. I will add another
keyframe here and add another keyframe
here where we can go back and speed it up again. So if you have both clips now, we can look like this. And that, for example,
is also how you can create your own transitions, not using the digital
transition, using your phone. So what I did here, I recorded my video
already like this. I turned in film and turned out, and then I went to the
next object, did the same. And the idea is that you
have the same movement. So if I move to the right, I also start with a right. The next advanced
technique is keyframing. We already used keyframing
with the speed ramping, but you can also
use key frames with different elements here in shot, for example, the mosaic already
talked about the mosaic. Let's say I want to make
my head looked like this. What I can do now is
I can use keyframes. Here's a keyframe.
I will start with that and then do
another keyframe here. And so for example,
let's say I start with this effect
having no opacity, so I start normal. And then when it's
on the keyframe, my mosaic started to begin. So I can expand this
clip, do this again, keyframe here I
keep the settings and now here on that one, I changed the settings down. So what I have now is I decide
with keyframes where in my timeline I want to bring the effect in and
bring the effect out. So with keyframes,
you can also go more in-depth and change the
settings and your effects, how you want them.
8. Congratulations! - Upload TikTok, Reels & Shorts: If you made it until this
point in this class, that means you understood the most important
features from this app. You can use it now to make
amazing Instagram Reels, to create TikToks and Instagram Reels and
also YouTube shorts. Many people don't even
know that at the moment is the big fight between
those three players. If you'd like to
learn more about filmmaking, tech and business, definitely check out my
YouTube channel down your coverage and follow
me on Instagram at x lima. And there are many
more classes here on Skillshare about filmmaking. Definitely watch them
to improve your craft. And there are more
classes from me as well. If you are an iPhone user, I have a class on
productivity using your iPhone and also on
how to use shortcuts. I see you in the next class. I wish you amazing
time with creating more videos and let me know if you have
anymore questions. Anything is unclear, please
just connect with me. Just tell me what you
need to know if there's anything that I was
missing in this class, I can add more videos to
make this class even better. So just let me know and
I wish you all the best. See you soon. I'm Daniel. Bye.
Daniel Kovacs, Filmmaker & Travel Blogger
