in this lesson, we're going to learn how to make our footage look more cinematic with overlays. So we saw this clip right here. I added a couple of 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 go 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 going to take my beach two clip, bring it down on my timeline, going to cut it it it right after a couple of 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 going to 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 going to go at the top and bottom of the screen to change this footage to look like it's a diff...

erent aspect ratio. Cinema or cinemascope. These are wide aspect ratio. 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 going to be 16 by nine and for the full resolution videos. This is shot at 1920 by 10 80. So it's still going to 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 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 16 x nine format and playing it on your phone and everything else like that. So this is pretty cool. I'm going to move this up to track three. The only thing I don't like about it now is that when they're walking up his head starts to get cut off a little bit too much than I would want. So I'm going to select on this clip, go to effects controls good emotion and just drag down just a little bit. I don't want to cut off her too much. And 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 there at the bottom of the frame which I like but I'm going to move them up just a little bit too. Something like that. That looks a lot better. Now we want a nice transition between the two adobe premiere. Pro has lots of transitions. We could just add a cross dissolve with command d to dissolve between these two. But we're going to add a film burn. This film burn came from a free website online but you can find all sorts of film Burns and boca clips that are great overlays online. Just by searching free film burns or free boca 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 a 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 the 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. And then we want to 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 going to 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 going to select the film Burn pressing command on my computer 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 going to look better than before because it completely transitions to this next scene. It goes on a little bit too long though so I'm going to fade out of it. Just select the clip and press command D that adds across dissolve. I'm just going to make the cross dissolve a little bit shorter so now you have them walking up film burn, it looks amazing. We also have this BOCA 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 and opacity. Now this one you might not like the screen because it's too bright. We're only seeing getting rid of the dark parts of the BOCA. We want to 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's soft light it's very subtle. Multiply might be a little bit better. It gives kind of a cool effect. If I want to double these effects, I can move my cinema Top and bottom bars up to track four and then put the boca 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 bring goes on top of the boca 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.

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Make Footage More Cinematic with Overlays

Make Footage More Cinematic with Overlays

Lesson Info

81. Make Footage More Cinematic with Overlays

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video