[Sci-Fi effects and ambience sounds]
Yeah, that wasn't really
my best acting. Was it?
Jordy here for cinecom.net!
and it is Copy Cat Friday.
This week we were inspired
by the new Blade Runner film.
If you haven't seen the film yet,
make sure that you do.
Cinematography in that
film is amazing.
Now, the blade runner's girlfriend, Joi,
is actually a hologram in the film.
You don't really see it
in the trailer that much,
but in the film Joi would
often walk trough him.
Which is not so crazy knowing
that she's a hologram.
In the beginning of the intro you
saw me pressing a sci-fi interface.
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So here's how to create your own
hologram inside Premiere Pro.
And just like many
visual effects are done,
we're going to blend different
layers of video together.
And to make it ourself easy,
place your camera on a tripod.
The first layer that we need
is an empty shot.
This will be our base layer,
or background.
Now keep your camera rolling so that
your second shot is exactly the same.
Film yourself against a green screen and
pretend there's a hologram going through you.
We're using a portable
green screen here
which I'll put a link to in the
description below, as well.
This here is your second video layer.
We're going to film one more,
which is the hologram.
Again, from the same
camera standpoint,
film yourself or someone else that
pretends to be a hologram.
Then bring everything
inside Premiere Pro
and put the three video layers
you've filmed on top of each other.
The empty shot goes
on the bottom,
the real person on the
fourth video layer,
and you'll see why we're
doing this later on.
And then finally the hologram
goes onto the third layer.
Now we've been using a green screen,
so let's start with keying that out.
First off I draw a mask on the
inside of the green screen,
then take the Ultra Key effect to select
the green and get rid of that.
I'm going quickly over
this process
and it's something that we've shown
many times on the channel.
If you like to see an in-depth tutorial
on how to pull a perfect green screen,
you can click in the cards
up there.
I do the same process
with the hologram clip
and that will leave us with
two keyed out talents,
which is very convenient
to work with now.
Next up align the clips so that
the timing of Kim's arm
passing through me is correct.
If needed you can change the position
of your talents here a little, as well.
Kim, the hologram
sits behind me,
but her arm will eventually
come in front of me.
So I'll make a duplication of Kim
by holding down the alt key
and dragging it to
channel number 6.
From this duplication
we remove the mask that we initially
created for the green key.
We do this, because we'll
create a new mask
that is a lot smaller and only sits
around the part of her arm.
This mask we'll also animate
from the mask Path property.
And just as her arm goes
through my chest
we increase that mask
to reveal it.
Now, at the same time we'll also
track the edge of the mask
with the position of my chest.
Now when I move a little forward,
we need to reposition the mask too.
Continue doing this until the mask
has been animated properly.
You might need to tweak it here
and there to get it all right.
Finally you could increase the
feather of that mask a little as well.
So this is the basic setup,
but to make Kim look more
like a real hologram,
we're going to add some lighting
glitches on her.
The glitch effect consist out of
two layers, so first up
we'll duplicate the bottom
hologram layer.
Again, hold down the alt key
and drag it to the channel below.
To see what we're doing I disable
the first hologram layer above.
Then from the Lumetri
Color window
I'm going to add a lot
of blue into it.
And you can use the Temperature
slider for this.
Finally change the blending mode
of that clip to Color Dodge.
This option can be found
under the Opacity property.
If the glow seems to be
too hard here,
decrease the opacity a little
for that layer too.
Now let's enable the
top layer again
and, if we would play around
with its opacity now,
you can reveal that
blue layer below.
You can animate the opacity
of that top layer
so that it blinks here and there,
revealing that light blue layer.
It's nice to have it blink on the moment
that she pushes her arm through me.
And when that is done, we need to duplicate
the effect to the second hologram clip,
which is the arm of Kim.
Now like before, duplicate the
arm clip to the layer below.
And now simply copy
the original effect
and paste it onto the arm clip.
Since we couldn't copy the opacity
because of the mask,
I'll have to manually change the
blending mode here to Color Dodge.
And that's all it takes to get
a virtual girlfriend.
As a final touch, I'm selecting
all of the clips in my timeline,
right-clicking on it
and say Nest.
This will group all of those layers on which
I’ll add a fake camera movement to
to make it more dynamic and get
rid of that static tripod shot.
I'm using the presets from Jarle,
which I'll also leave a link to
in the description below.
Thank you all so much
for watching.
And as always,
stay creative!
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