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-This right here is the Mega Struck!
Yannick, catch!
[Cinecom's intro music]
Jordy here for cinecom.net and
welcome to Creative Tuesday,
a very special Tuesday today, because we're
about to make our own special effects.
You get it?
Special - special...
If you have ever seen an action film,
the gun fires are usually not real.
I'm sorry for that spoiler, but it's just more
save to use a fake gun than a real one.
Now these muzzle flashes are actually
things that you can create yourself.
But before we start, I do have
to mention to do this very carefully,
as we're going to work with fireworks.
And please only do this if you're above
18 or with the help of an adult.
Later down the video,
I'm also going to show you
some more visual effects
that you can create yourself
that do not require actual explosives.
[Upbeat music]
We got ourselves an iron tube from the
hardware store, that we could close on the end.
It's not necessary, but you
can spray this with black paint
to avoid as much reflections
as possible.
Mount this into a stand and make sure
to film against a black background.
We actually added some top lights to make
the smoke a little bit visible as well.
If you do this too, the make sure
to flag those lights off
so that they don't cast
light on the background.
In that tube goes a small explosive
and that's what you wanna film.
-Before you start guys, make sure
to take any safety precautions,
I'm wearing glasses right here, I got something
in my ears for the very hard sounds,
we've got the camera
behind a glass panel,
nothing around the area
right here can catch fire,
we also have a fire extinguisher
over there.
That was a hard word to say, anyways...
After you've taken all your safety
precautions, you are ready to go.
Before that, don't start.
Now, since the muzzle that comes
out of the tube is so short,
your camera shutter probably
can't capture it.
It's the same as if you would see
another person in the same room
using the flash of his camera.
You get this stripes.
So, that's why we lowered the shutter
speed to around 1/30th of a second,
which gave us a good result
about 7 out of 10 recordings.
You kinda have to be lucky here
that the sensor refresh
and the muzzle comes in
at the right time.
Apart from these muzzle flashes,
we also recorded some sparks.
And they can be used as projectiles
or impacts from bullets.
To create this, we used
the exact same technique.
Just film against a black
wall in a dark space
and use a grinding wheel against
some iron to create those sparks.
Again, take your safety precautions and
only do this in presence of an adult
if you are a minor.
Here we didn't add any extra lights,
as there's no smoke to capture.
A while back we also showed the same technique
with a lighter to create those sparks.
And you know, capturing light effects
against a black background
has endless of possibilities.
You can also take a flashlight,
and gently shine that into your lens.
These will become lens flares, and...
...if you take some transparent tape
and stick that vertically on your lens,
you get some of those
gorgeous anamorphic flares.
Now, we've actually made a bunch
of muzzle flashes, sparks
and other effects available
on Videoblocks.
So, if you already have
an active subscription,
you can just download all of our
assets from our portfolio link
in the description below.
If you're not a Videoblocks member yet, then
I can definitely recommend to check it out
by clicking the first link
in the description below.
There're tons of stock clips,
video effects, templates
and much more to download.
There's only a single price per year,
which gives you unlimited downloads.
[Suspense music]
[Gun shots]
[More gun shots!]
-Ha, ha, ha!
-Pew, pew!
[Gun shot]
So, let's now see in Adobe Premiere Pro
how we can use our own special effects.
You can start off by simply adding a muzzle
flash on top of your action clip.
From the Effects Controls, look for Opacity
and change the blending mode to Screen.
On the point where you're about to fire your
gun, you scale and align that muzzle flash.
And chances now are that you still
see a lot of the surrounding,
and that's why I'm first heading
back to the Opacity property,
click on the Pen tool and draw
a mask around the muzzle flash.
And once you're done, you can
also feather it a little bit
to remove those hard edges
from the mask.
Next up, open Lumetri and from here
you wanna create some more contrast.
We got the best results from the color
wheels, where I decreased the shadows
until the background
wasn't visible anymore.
You can also -if you like- increase
the highlights to make it pop better.
From the Basic correction, you can add some more
orange into the muzzle to make it more vivid.
[Suspense music]
The result is not perfect yet.
Since there happens a flash in front of me,
it should also lighten up the surrounding.
So, here's one way to do that.
Create and Adjustment Layer and just place that
between your clip and the muzzle flash.
With that adjustment layer selected,
increase the exposure
and add a little bit of orange
into it from the Lumetri panel.
And this is the highlight, which we only
want to appear on specific places.
And that's why I'm clicking on the Pen tool
from the opacity of that adjustment layer
to draw shapes around the areas
that would reflect the lights.
You can create multiple masks
on that same layer.
Very important here is that you
feather all the masks enough.
Finally, make sure to trim the adjustment
layer to take up only one frame,
or as long as your
muzzle flash is.
[Gunshots and bullets bouncing]
[Gun shots]
The sparks work exactly the same
and the light leaks or flares usually
only require a blending mode.
Now, in the description below
you can also find a download link
from where you can get several
of these effects for free
and if you'd like to check out more
of the assets that we've created,
then make sure to visit Videoblocks.
Thank you so much
for watching again
and like always:
Stay Creative!
-So, we're just done filming
a promo video for Cinebattle,
a show that will soon come to our
main channel here, cinecom.net.
We've been trying this out on our
second channel, Cinecom Raw,
and it's been a huge success,
so stay tuned for that video.
-Ugh!
-Oh, Jordy hit me! Argh!
Damn you, Jordy!
