Post by WT100 on Jun 20, 2010 18:13:36 GMT -5
I often get comments on the Hyper Color of my scooter videos. So here is a tutorial on how you can do it too.
This is an “old school” trick updated to the computer age. You can always spend money to buy video effect plug-ins but with the technique below you can achieve lots of cool “looks” using things your program probably already has. (Note: this will work with most photo programs as well.
The core of the trick is to find out how your editing program lets you combine (or layer) two video clips. In FCP (Apple Final Cut Pro) you can simply lay one clip on top of another and then turn the opacity of “top one” down letting the bottom clip “show through.” Once you can do that, the possibilities are endless.
Combined clips.
Now this is the core of the trick. Instead of combining two different clips, combine the same clip to its self and then “treat” the two clips differently. Adjust the amount of “blend” till you get the “look” you want.
So here is how you use that to create the “Hyper Color” music video look.
Any video program will let you “turn up” the color, but the color signal is where most of the video noise lives so you world get a colorful but noisy image. I have set my screen up so that you can see the bottom image on the left and the top image on the right. If you look at the sky and grass you can see the color noise that resulted from me turning the color up.
Now I take that top image and apply a blur filter adjusted very low. Just enough to smooth out that color noise.
Now I reduce the opacity of the top image to let the original sharp untreated bottom clip show through. Raise and lower the level till you get something that looks “hyper natural”.
Or add more effects to the top layer to get something trippy.
For a practical application of this I usually edit the entire video and export it as a single video clip. Then bring it back into my editing program for the “treatment” process. Much easier then doing each clip separately.
That’s is it. Have fun and hit me with any questions.
This is an “old school” trick updated to the computer age. You can always spend money to buy video effect plug-ins but with the technique below you can achieve lots of cool “looks” using things your program probably already has. (Note: this will work with most photo programs as well.
The core of the trick is to find out how your editing program lets you combine (or layer) two video clips. In FCP (Apple Final Cut Pro) you can simply lay one clip on top of another and then turn the opacity of “top one” down letting the bottom clip “show through.” Once you can do that, the possibilities are endless.
Combined clips.
Now this is the core of the trick. Instead of combining two different clips, combine the same clip to its self and then “treat” the two clips differently. Adjust the amount of “blend” till you get the “look” you want.
So here is how you use that to create the “Hyper Color” music video look.
Any video program will let you “turn up” the color, but the color signal is where most of the video noise lives so you world get a colorful but noisy image. I have set my screen up so that you can see the bottom image on the left and the top image on the right. If you look at the sky and grass you can see the color noise that resulted from me turning the color up.
Now I take that top image and apply a blur filter adjusted very low. Just enough to smooth out that color noise.
Now I reduce the opacity of the top image to let the original sharp untreated bottom clip show through. Raise and lower the level till you get something that looks “hyper natural”.
Or add more effects to the top layer to get something trippy.
For a practical application of this I usually edit the entire video and export it as a single video clip. Then bring it back into my editing program for the “treatment” process. Much easier then doing each clip separately.
That’s is it. Have fun and hit me with any questions.
All of the above suck compared to a real editing prog. Oh well, at least they're free.
