hey guys so this is gonna be a quick
video showing you how to create a
parallax effect now if you already know
what a parallax effect is stick around
because you're gonna learn something
different I like to think of a parallax
effect as in when the worlds are upside
down like Inception like you see right
here but I want to show you a few more
advanced techniques like you're about to
see
so that's pretty awesome guys as you can
see we are able to manipulate the
footage to our own desire and preference
and it's really awesome I'm gonna show
you how to also create this effect right
here at the end where the bottom is
moving towards you and the top is moving
away from you it's actually fairly
simple so one thing to note is that this
parallax effect will not work with every
shot you know you want to have a solid
clear sky like you can see right here if
I make this a little bit bigger but the
main thing is that being able to give
yourself some room to play so I shot
this in 4k and I will be able to rescale
this all the way up to 100% without
losing any quality so before we get
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now that we have a clip to work with
keeping in mind that we want the sky to
be a neutral color or something that
gives us room to work with like the sky
you see right here all you have to do is
simply rescale this footage down a
little bit
notice how my scale is already 50% and
that is because I'm using 4k footage on
a 1080p timeline so I'm gonna scale this
down even more probably to about 30% and
let's drag this down to the very bottom
of our frame so we get something like
this a cool little trick is going to be
hitting this plus sign and then clicking
and dragging the safe margins down here
and just clicking okay so that we can
enable that to see where we're working
with so that this is the middle of our
frame both vertical and horizontal so we
want this bottom footage to be close to
the middle but up overlaying a little
bit just like so so now I want to do is
hold alt on our keyboard and drag to the
top of the clip if you're on a Mac
you're gonna hold option and then click
on that top video layer and simply
change the Y position over in the
effects controls tab to drag it all the
way to the
top just like so now that they're
overlaid we want to make sure our top
video layer is selected and that change
the rotation to 180 degrees and that
will create this little effect if we
lower the opacity just a little bit you
can see that these videos are overlaying
right about here make sure that opacity
is a hundred percent and let's move on
to the next step with our top video
layer selected we're going to click on
this create a four point polygon mask
you notice that it masked out an area on
our video and all we want to do is drag
this down to this line right here this
line represents the end of our top video
layer so we want to do is drag that to
the middle and keep in mind that this
line right here which is on our bottom
video layer so now what we're going to
do is drag these corners out to the
right you can click on the corner and
drag it around but if you hold shift it
will constrain those proportions
horizontally which is what we want to do
now click on the bottom one start
dragging and then hold shift and drag it
out to here as you can see we have this
mask on the edge of our video all we
want to do is click on invert it under
the properties over here and simply
increase the mask feather until we get
to that edge of the video or start to
see a line so now you can see that we
start to see this line a little bit
around 750 but let's back off a little
bit because we don't want to come close
to that so that looks about good around
396 so I'm gonna make that 350 just to
be safe so as you can see if we play
back through this it might be a little
jittery because we're using 4k footage
twice scaled as well so I'm simply gonna
click on any of these videos and click X
which will basically set an endpoint
right here in an out point right there
or I can click I to set an endpoint and
OH to set an out point but I think X
works faster and go to sequence render
in to out this will pretty much render a
video preview so we can see this without
any lag at the full resolution so as you
can see it looks great we have the
parallax effect going on and you can
simply click this safe margins button if
you want to get rid of those as well now
you might be wondering how you get this
parallax effect to be zoomed in like the
other one you would say change the scale
but there's actually an easier way
highlight both of these video layers and
right click and go to nest you can name
that whatever you want but I just keep
them nested sequences now click on your
nested video layer and simply upscale it
to about a hundred and fifty percent or
so so that it looks like this so now our
video layer is zoomed in and like I said
before you might want to lower the
resolution a little bit so you don't get
so much lag if you're working with 4k
footage one big thing is is that we can
go into this nested layer and manipulate
this footage to our own desire and
preference more specifically if I wanted
to make the top layer look like it was
going away from me
I would simply right-click on this video
go to speed and duration and click
reverse speed so what happens now is we
basically have these video layers that
are going opposite of each other so you
can create some interesting effects
using this terminology so let's jump
back on into the nested sequence right
here and this is where we have some room
to play we can simply scroll up and down
on our y-axis but we don't have so much
room on our x-axis right here
so what we're going to do if we wanted
to create that circular effect that I
had earlier is start keyframing some
motion now this motion will be created
by going to the effects tab and typing
in transform and dragging on the video
effects distort transform effect onto
our nested sequence now under the
transform tab we want to uncheck the use
composition shutter angle because we
want motion blur to be happening and
change that shutter angle to about 125
you can mess around with that number
anywhere from 0 to 360 to get different
types of motion blur so what we want to
do now is keyframe the very beginning
scale and position and potentially the
rotation so we can see that that goes
like that
and then right about here is when I want
them to start keyframing into over that
rotation effect that we had earlier so
I'm gonna check this button right here
to add another keyframe on all of those
and I'm gonna just scroll forward a
little bit till I feel it is good and
just like that I'm gonna change the
rotation by dragging this thing to a
little bit beyond where I want it to go
so a hundred and negative 105 degrees so
then you want to go a little bit beyond
where your keyframe is and set another
keyframe to negative ninety degrees so
that it is completely vertical and now
that it's vertical we're noticing that
our zoom isn't right
so what we're to do is go back to our
keyframe right here where the rotation
is happening and zoom in just a little
bit till we don't see those black lines
and then when we go to the very end one
and we can potentially keep at 126 or we
can go back out a little bit till we
don't see those black lines and then
what we want to do is simply use the
arrow keys to scrub through this and see
if we see black lines you'll notice that
we see some black lines right here so
maybe we actually have to zoom this in a
little bit more so go to our first zoom
and change this to about 150 this would
be a lot of trial and error to figure it
out for you guys but scrubbing through
this right here we can see a little bit
right down here in the edge and it's so
minut that I might even adjust the
starting zoom to something like 105 as
you can see when it goes to these
keyframes after rotation it's a very
harsh duration back so we want to drag
these out a little bit and simply
highlight both of the rotation and scale
keyframes right click and click on
Bezier this will smooth out that
transition coming into these keyframes
right here as well you'll notice that
this line coming in is a harsh
stop right there so highlight both of
those right click and click on ease in
that'll smooth out that transition even
more so if I render out this sequence
from the keyframes click go in the
keyboard because I just want the first
part
and then go to sequence render into out
and render you guys we will see what I
just created so now let's play back
through this paying attention to our
keyframes right here the transition is
happening and right here is when the
Bezier should slow it down so the Bezier
slows it down and it comes back to the
center it is very smooth and looks
pretty cool to create the boom I did
earlier all you have to do is add a
keyframe for the scale and rotation and
then go forward a little bit and make
this zoom probably about 200 and what
the zoom to happen fast I wanted to
happen even faster while it's zooming in
I'm going to have the rotation go to
negative 90 to zero so it's zooming in
and turning as you can see we're getting
some motion blur right here and that is
changeable by the shutter angle if I
make it 360 we're going to get a
ridiculous amount of motion blur if I
make it zero we will get no motion blur
so I think a good solid standpoint is
125 degrees notice we're zooming in to
the right so I'm gonna continue to zoom
out for the rest of this clip so I'm
gonna continue moving the rotation to
the right so I'll probably make this 360
degrees drag that out a little bit and
then I'm going to change the scale to
around 100 so you'll notice all of these
key frames were Bezier so we want to
manipulate these to our own desired
preference so right click and click on
linear for all of them so that it just
happens how we want them to so this
linear keyframe it zooms in pretty fast
that's like how I want it so I'm gonna
all be continuous but I want to change
these ending keyframes to ease in so now
if we look at this you can see that this
is how I created that circle zoom effect
in the beginning that you just saw so
that looks pretty similar to what I had
earlier you'll notice that the farther I
get out I have a chance of getting these
black lines like you just saw right
there so you have to keep that in mind
for when you're making this transition
your self I had so much fun making this
tutorial in
hopefully you guys learned something but
for now you guys know the drill I'll see
you next time
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