Voiceover: In this lesson we're gonna learn how to make
our footage look more cinematic with overlays.
So we saw this clip right here,
I added a couple different overlays
to create this cool film burn transition,
and also making it look a little bit more cinematic
with this wider aspect ratio.
So let's recreate this from the beginning
and learn how to use different overlays.
So I'm just gonna move this footage over to the side,
I'm just gonna take my Beach 2 clip,
bring it down on my timeline, going to cut edit it
right after a couple seconds, and then we're going to
cut it to the beach shot, them on the lifeguard tower.
See that bird flying by like so.
The first thing we're gonna do
is add the aspect ratio overlay,
so you'll find in the resources for this course
that there's this Overlays folder,
in it are these aspect ratio overlays,
and these are basically just black bars
that are gonna go at the top and bottom of the screen
to change this footage to look
like it's a different aspect ratio.
Cinema or CinemaScope, these are wide aspect ratios
so if I put this onto track two it's automatically set up
so that the video shows through it.
It's just black bars on the top and bottom,
so you can see it with it on, off, on, off.
And automatically this makes it a little bit more cinematic.
Now the actual video itself is still gonna be 16x9
and for the full reslution videos
this is shot at 1920x1080,
so it's still gonna be that resolution,
which is actually good for playing online,
for putting on YouTube.
You could actually go into the sequence,
Sequence Settings, and change the frame size
to the actual different aspect ratio that you want,
but this is just a quick and easy way to do it.
And actually, like I said, better for uploading online,
because YouTube likes the 16x9 format,
and playing it on your phone and everything else like that.
So this is pretty cool,
I'm gonna move this up to track three.
The only thing I don't like about it now
is that when their walking up,
his head starts to get cut off
a little bit too much than I would want.
So I'm gonna select this clip, go to Effects Controls,
go to Motion, and just drag down just a little bit,
I don't wanna cut off her too much
and I actually like seeing her flowers
just a little bit in there, so just a little bit.
Just a little bit.
And then with this shot they're at the bottom of the frame
which I like, but I'm gonna move them up
just a little bit too, somethin' like that.
That looks a lot better.
Now we want a nice transition between the two,
Adobe Premiere Pro has lots of transitions
so we could just add a cross disssolve with Command + D
to dissolve between these two,
but we're gonna add a film burn,
this film burn came from a free website online
but you can find all sorts of film burns and bokeh clips
that are great overlays online, just by searching
free film burns or free bokeh overlay.
Now if I take this film burn, open it up here,
I can watch it and I can see what's happening,
it's got this nice film burn look.
If I take this and I put it in between on track two,
what happens is it's just
the black video with the film burn.
We have to change the blend mode of this clip
so that the black is invisible.
So go up to effects controls, with this film burn selected,
go to Opacity, and change Blend Mode from Normal to Screen.
The Screen effect will make the entire film burn,
all the black disappear,
and only the highlights show through.
Then we wanna move this to a good position
so it looks like it's transitioning
from one shot to the next in the burn.
So I'm just gonna go right here in the middle
of these two clips, then I'm going to adjust the film burn
so that there's a spot in the film burn
where the entire frame is covered up with the burn.
So I'm gonna select the film burn,
pressing Command on my computer or on my keyboard,
and the right arrow keys, or the left arrow keys,
and I'm trying to get to a place,
I'm just nudging it one frame at a time
until this entire frame is covered with the film burn.
And this is gonna look better than before
because it completely transitions to this next scene.
It goes on a little bit too long though
so I'm gonna fade out of it, just select the clip
and press Command + D, that adds a cross disssolve.
I'm just going to make the cross dissolve
a little bit shorter.
So now, you have them walking up, film burn, looks amazing.
We also have this bokeh if you want,
you can try the same thing,
so I'm just gonna put this on top of it,
just put a little bit of it on top
just to see what it looks like,
then change the Blend Mode in Opacity.
Now this one, you might not like the screen
because it's too bright, we're only getting rid
of the dark parts of the bokeh,
we wanna get rid of some of the light,
so change this to Multiply.
Multiply is a good one, Darken is a good one,
Lighten and Screen, even Overlay can be good too.
Those are the main ones that I would look at,
Darken, Multiply, Lighten, Screen,
Overlay, and even Soft Light.
And here Soft Light's very subtle,
Multiply might be a little bit better,
gives kind of a cool effect.
And if I want to double these effects,
I can move my cinema top and bottom bars up to track four
and then put the bokeh on top of everything, like so.
You know that's maybe a little bit too dramatic,
a little bit too much, and maybe I would
actually put this below film burn,
so that the film burn goes on top
of the bokeh as well, but if you're looking
to get really stylistic, it is a cool effect.
So that's how you can play with overlays
to make your film more cinematic,
combining them, changing the different blend modes,
those are the keys to using overlay.
If you have any questions please let me know,
otherwise have fun playing around with these
and we'll see you in another lesson.