hey what's up ladies and gentlemen I'm Ignace Aleya and today it's filmmaking
Friday and today's filmmaking Friday I'm gonna show you something really cool
we're going to see how to teleport through a portal within different scenes
so that's a pretty cool effect if you want to work on the exact same footage
as I am doing I will put all the links in the description and you can download
the files so we can follow along with this tutorial the portal effect itself
won't be provided with a tutorial files but you can follow the tutorial to
create one yourself if not you will have to get our pact I will put that link in
the description but yeah if you enjoy watching this video be sure to give it a
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notified when we upload new videos so without further ado let's jump into
Adobe After Effects and get started alright so here we are in Adobe After
Effects and I prepared two video files for you guys if you want you can
download them with link in the description so you can follow along with
the tutorial so right here I have a turn and look on this treat and then I have
another shot right here and another location where I do this exact same
movement and I actually counted my movement so it would be kind of the same
it doesn't have to be exactly but just try to make it as close as possible so
I'm doing everything handheld by the way and doesn't really matter that much then
I have here a portal that I will be using to track into my scene which is
actually from our Doctor Strange pack which you can download I will actually
get at our website but I also show you how to make this in another tutorial so
if you want to make it on your own you just go ahead to that tutorial but yeah
let's continue with the tutorial the first thing that I'll do is create a new
composition and make this portal scene make sure it's 24 fps and full HD and
then click OK I'm going to bring in my first video file right here so I have my
video file and from the second the animation starts right here I'm going to
press B on the keyboard and just trim my comp to work area move all the way till
the end like over here and press and on the keyboard right click trim to work
area okay so we have our video the next thing that you want to do is
actually track it but before we start I just want to make sure that everyone is
on the same level as my After Effects currently I'm working in a 32 bits per
channel which we will be using later on if you click on this you can change this
to 32 this will allow us to work with glows a little bit better so I'm next
click on your video file go to tracker and track the camera then go to advanced
and click on detailed analysis this is going to do a little bit better of a job
and then you just wait until it's analyzed in the background completely so
right here we can see the process and progress of your tracking okay so it's
done tracking and solve the camera and if we are going to look everything seems
to work fine so what I'll do is now pick a location where I want the portal to be
so right here I kind of at this level of this kind of tree we're going to select
a few of these dots then right click and create a null and camera and this will
create a 3d camera which we'll be using as reference for a location for kind of
that positioning so now go to your project manager and import that prod
than that portal actually and bring it into your scene so right here we have
the portal I'm going to change blending mode to screen press f4 on the keyboard
if you don't see the different options but yeah and this is how you switch
between that and this menu make the portal also a 3d layer and then go to
the tracked null press p on the keyboard click on that position and hold ctrl and
press C on the keyboard to copy that information now go to the portal and
paste that with control V and now the portal is at the exact same location as
the null so we're going to make it bigger and I'll just make it in our
position where we want it to be so maybe right over here
which is kind of fine I think we have our portal but as you can see the portal
isn't that clear we're just going to affect Video Copilot
VC cor vibrance if you don't have this plug-in it's a free plugin from Video
Copilot and it's awesome to color anything
that's black and white so that's really cool if we click on that immediately you
can see that we gave it well we've given a color to our portal so what we'll do
is pick our color and make our portal if you press f4
let's try additive so we see it a little bit better if you want to make it more
intense you can just duplicate it one more time and there we have it so next
what I want to do is actually select all this information to the portal the
duplicate of the portal and attract information on the null and the 3d
camera we're going to layer pre-compose and pre-compose this portal do a new
composition and click OK then go into that portal composition and click on the
track null and camera control C and paste it again in our original file so
we also have that information for later on then make the portal track again an
additive ok there we go so now what I want to do is create some reflection on
the floor so in order to do that I'm going to create a new portal scene I
well actually in new solid I'm sorry and rename this to reflection and give it a
nice color that is kind of similar to the color of our portal like ok and ok
so we have our solid press f4 on the keyboard to make it a 3d layer as well
and go to the track null press p on the keyboard and click on the position
control c and do the exact same thing paste that information to our reflection
now move it over and rotate it in the same kind of perspective as the street
so you make it a little bit bigger just like this
and it doesn't have to be perfect just kind of position it right over here okay
so now go over here and select the ellipse tool double click on that I will
create an ellipse just like this then press M on the keyboard and then press M
twice on the keyboard to bring up all the information about that mask increase
afetr and decrease the expansion
something like this like again on that reflection layer and now you can of
course find unit maybe move it a little bit forward bring it a little bit closer
to that camera you can also bring it a little bit more in on the sides and
there we have it press F on the keyboard and change your blending mode to an
additive so now we have our reflection on the floor I'm going to bring this
behind our portal tract and then what I want to do is click on our original
video and duplicate it with ctrl D on the keyboard or edit duplicate right
here click on it and go to effects color correction tint and then I'm going to
effect again color correction levels to bring these in so bring this in and go B
here also and then played around with the middle a little bit to create a nice
contrast in the street so we have a lot of information in here
something like that okay so this is going to be our luma
we're going to put it on top of our solid layer click on the solid and
change the track mat if you don't see it again f4 on keyboard right-click luma
met and this is going to kind of bring in the reflection of the street a little
bit better you can see that the reflection looks a lot more realistic
and of course you can press T on the keyboard for your reflection and bring
down the opacity if you think it's a little bit too strong and again move it
forward a little bit more something like that ok next what we want to do is
actually replace the center here for another video file so what I'll do is
right-click new and create a new solid layer and this is going to be our alpha
and again make it a different color maybe black click OK and ok now deselect
it just so you can see everything in the scene but make sure that the layer is
selected and again go to that ellipse tool over here in the center hold ctrl
and shift and make a nice sphere about circle just like this and then kind of
move it perfectly in the center of our portal we can double click on it to make
it even bigger just play around with it there we go
and we can of course enable it again and press F on the keyboard to feather it
out just a little bit something like that would be great and if you want to
take it a step further you can click on it and go for effects and presets and
search for roughing edges and apply that to your solid as well and in here we can
remove the edge sharpening a little bit the scale we can bring it something like
this and increase the complexity just a bit
and that way we create a nice kind of transition to our video later on so this
solid that we're using right here is actually going to replace our video
later on in time so again we are going to track the null and so go to the
position ctrl C and paste it to our solid after we've made it a 3d layer so
press f4 great 3d and paste it on here and now kind of reposition it into its
location so we have to rotate it a little bit rotation tool is by the way
over here we can also uses and W as a hop key and just bring it into location
okay so there we have it and great so now it's going to track
properly with our portal so now what we want to do is go to our project file and
import our secondary layer and put it on top and kind of find the exact same
location where the movement is happening like this I think okay and now bring it
below that alpha layer press f4 on the keyboard and go for track mat alpha mat
and now the black circle is actually going to replace our new footage and
there we see our new video file over here of course you can just move this
over a little bit and actually select these two things and put them behind our
regular portal there we go so now the portal has a nice overlay and if we're
going to plate us we can actually see that our portal isn't made over here so
what we'll do is click on the portal layer so go in here and just offset the
portal raw a little bit so it's already made something like this and go back to
the portal scene and if it's not perfect yet what you can do just move it over
just a little bit until we are at its final stage over here
and check a portal for now so we can concentrate on our view and just make
sure the position is exactly the same so reset our position okay now click on
this layer and the alpha we're actually going to close everything down so I'm
going to give this a color so we can actually see this a little bit better
blue so this is our new video with the alpha combines like both of these layers
and ctrl D to duplicate them on top and maybe give this a new new color maybe
yellow and go to your video and go to effect and apply a color correction tint
effect to that and here we're going to give it a dark kind of red core click OK
and here maybe a nice orange color something like this okay and change the
blending mode to an additive or screen so it's up to you maybe screens a little
bit better and there we go so it looks like it's in the portal
and now what you can do is click again on this layer duplicate it without the
alpha and change it to no track Matt so we have it on top
delete detent effect and change it back to a normal blending mode and we're
going to put this on top of everything there we go now hold shift no now hold
ctrl and shift and press D to split the layer and delete the first part so now
we have this and then our new layer so now we have it then right-click new and
apply just an adjustment layer and here I'm going to use one of our transitions
of the transition pack so I'm going to head over to TC and go for a TC zoom
which you can also get at our website or make your own I have a bunch of
tutorials for this maybe the high presume I'm going to apply it over here
press U on the keyboard and move it over I'm actually going to change the zoom
point as well so it has to be over here okay there we go now for the zoom amount
I'm gonna set this to like 100
and there we basically have it one more thing that we have to do is just go to
our original portal and I waited for this at the end because this is quite a
heavy effect in this case I'm going to use one of our free presets perfect glow
and which you can also get with link in the description if we're going to apply
this to our portal track we get a nice glow over here so we're going to lower
the threshold to 25 on the top one and just decrease the glow over here and if
we jump in the portal track we can actually change the color I think it's a
little bit too intense so what I'll do is go over here and change this one to
maybe a kind of yellow ish this is a little bit better and actually on this
layer I'm going to delete our vc color vibrance and just play around a little
bit more with this one here increase the vibrance just a touch and duplicate it
one more time to make it something like this this looks pretty cool
go back to your portal scene and refine your glow a little bit more there we
have it okay that's pretty cool and maybe in this case you can also go for a
screen which looks a little bit better and just increase the intensity of the
glow a little bit more so we have more detail in here okay this is getting
closer maybe 50
and now let's preview it one more time
all right there we go so now what I will do is just create a new adjustment layer
and here I'm going to apply a color correction luma treat color do apply a
final creative LUT over here in the look maybe something like the apocalypse this
is one of our lip X actually which you can also get I will also put a link in
the description but that's of course completely up to you this is just to
finalize everything maybe the three hundredth or let's go
for a badass okay this one before and after this looks a little bit better
okay cool alright so that's it for this video I
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