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INTRODUCTION 

 In this video is not about me in fact it's very much about you yes you the young filmmaker with Big Dreams of telling epic Stories the established filmmaker who feels like you're stuck in a rut and needs some    motivation if you want to find more fulfillment in your career doing more of the work you're passionate about this one is for you

SOUND ADVICE

 I'm going to share a few stories from my own career Beed with sound advice that could save you a lot of headache but also encourage you on your journey forward 2024 marks 15 years since I pursued a career in the world of film making in these 15 years I've transitioned through multiple genres from exclusively shooting weddings to full-time venturing into travel and tourism come Co getting thrown into the commercial world 

SIGNIFICANT VALUE

now also YouTube during this time I made a lot of mistakes but I also did a lot of things right in all of these genres I attained a fair amount of success that led to working on dream projects with dream clients and I'm convinced that what I'm about to share with you can add significant value to your career one of the questions I get asked the most is how did you land your dream clients how did you end up doing the projects you actually want to do and getting getting paid well for it I feel like the answer to this is combined in all of the tips

FILMMAKERS

 I'm going to share in this video but it starts with this what you put out there is what you will attract I see so many filmmakers doing this wrong and it's really not that difficult to get right ask yourself this one question what is the kind of work that you enjoy the most that you want to get more of back in 2013 my answer was high-end destination weddings I wanted to shoot the most expensive weddings and see the world while doing it the only way I accomplished this was by making sure 

WEDDING VIDEO

I put a certain type of wedding video out there I basically wiped my entire portfolio from the internet and only started sharing the best looking and most expensive weddings at first I only had three Weddings But it quickly multiplied into 12 and before I knew it I was only attracting a specific type of client clients who paid well and was willing to fly me all over the world to film their wedding

VIDEO PROJECTS

 what you put out there is what you will attract I used the same principle to transition from weddings into the travel and tourism space when I pulled the plug on weddings I wiped my entire portfolio deleted my website my Facebook page even deleted old Instagram posts and basically all digital Footprints of my wedding career I did this because I didn't want any of my new clients to think that I'm just another video videographer dabbling in a variety of video projects including weddings

FREE PROJECTS

 I branded myself as a specialist in travel content it was my way of saying to the world this is who I am and this is what I do if this is what you want I'm going to be the person to do it for you was it easy not at all I had to do a bunch of free projects low paying ones and also had to invest in a few passion projects but it didn't take long until the word got out and once my first big client took the bait I started getting massive projects with budgets 

CREATIVITY

I could only dream of what you put out there is what you will attract the way you curate your online presence plays a massive role in how people perceive your brand and you have to put out content that you absolutely love and want to do more of because eventually you will attract the right clients clients that already appreciate the work you do and doesn't want to limit your cre creativity the wrong clients often stem from a case of catering for what's popular and not what makes you happy which leads me to tip number two don't get distracted there are so many ways to be distracted in this industry but the most common one the one I fell for the hardest was chasing followers and Applause

OLD FILMMAKERS

 I see so many new and old filmmakers desperately trying to go viral with constant posting of Tik toks shorts and reals although I don't have any issues with this medium of content I do have an issue when the nature of the content is dictated by Trends and a desire to Cree the algorithm not only does it kill your creativity but it damages the authenticity of your brand and becomes such a distraction taking precious time away from actually making films and growing as a Storyteller there was a period

GRAFTING AND FOCUSING

 where I did this and I got completely consumed by the chase for Applause that I actually fell behind him my ability and during that time saw new younger filmmakers quickly surpass me because they were out there grafting and focusing on the craft a pivotal moment for me was in 2018 what's up my name is Jo I'm here with Sam and Chelsea I'm going to show them the darensburg uh follow around our stories to see what we get up to I went on a trip with Sam CER and Chelsea Kawai in the South African drens spurg so what do you guys think of the hike insane 

SPECTACULAR

so spectacular that's I've ever seen in my life while Sam was out there shooting an entire story of the trip I was only focused on getting the next epic drone clip that will go viral on Instagram I only realized it after the trip and I felt so stupid for not utilizing the opportunity to create cool content with Sam this was the kick I needed because after that trip I decided to toss everything aside that distracts my film making and Instagram was the first to go I posted less but when I posted it was the kind of work that I wanted to get hired for on shoots I stopped thinking about what I could share on social media and only focused on creating 

DREAM OPPORTUNITIES

the best type of content possible it wasn't long because soon everything started to pay off I landed a bunch of dream opportunities and quickly realized this powerful truth you don't need a 100,000 people to give you a thumbs up you just need a 100 people who actually wants to work with you likes don't pay the bills people do and if you attract the right client you'll never have to stress about getting enough likes I want to make it clear that I'm not against short form content but if it's taking you away from working on projects with more substance 

STRATEGY STEPS

you might have to reassess your content strategy step number three is probably the most misunderstood Topic in the film making space even if you ignore everything I said until now I really hope that this one will land and hit you where it's supposed to having a strong network is the number one biggest reason for my success in all genres networking is a Timeless principle that will Outlast any social platform and applies in every industry the word itself has a pretty boring connotation to it

WINNING RELATIONSHIP

 so I made up my own version to me networking is a winning relationship between friends that's all there is to it it's about establishing sound relationships with people in your industry and ultimately turning them into friendship network is friendship in the workplace it's called a winning relationship because both parties get something out of it a strong network will always Trump good work the most successful creators aren't always doing the best work and the most talented creators aren't necessarily the most successful how does it look on a practical level people often mistake a network as relationships with complimenting suppliers but the strongest form of network in the world of film making is actually making friends with people you view as competition throughout the past 15 years

COMPETITIVE FRIENDS 

 I've learned more from my competitive friends than I did from watching YouTube I got some of the best job referrals and also returned the favor many times networking is a case of making friends by being a friend your starting point has to be give give give Yes you heard right the mindset of networking should never be what can I get from this your goal with networking should always be to establish friendship and all the rest will come after it it doesn't matter how competitive your industry is Everything Changes the moment Things become personal it's the principle of like know and trust 

COLLABORATIONS WORKING

I'm far more likely to recommend a friend over someone who appear to be the best because I have confidence in their work ethic and I know they're not going to damage my reputation with bad service it's not just about a transfer of knowledge and work but also about powerful collaborations working together on the same project I recently teamed up with my friend Ian ianas on a short film liminality I've known Ian for 13 years and we became friends in the early stages of our wedding careers the Friendship we established back then was strong enough to outlast our various changes in genres or what about Andre also met around the same time and 13 years later

MY BTS FOOTAGE

 we still partner on a variety of projects and a lot of my BTS footage is thanks to his amazing skills the awesome thing about a well established network is that it's almost self- sustaining in a way constantly growing and organically reaching new people the real magic happens when you marry good work with a great Network this leads me to my next tip humility is power the secret to a strong network is to take in a position of humility humility is a superpower in this industry it starts with knowing your ability and then admitting to yourself that you're not that special that there are people out there far more skilled and accomplished

OVERCONFIDENT

when I'm on set I don't judge a person by how he deals with the director or DP but how he speaks to the production assistant the lighting assistant the person who hasn't achieved anything noteworthy if you really want to impress me treat everyone with the same level of respect and I'll happily be your friend humility doesn't come by downplaying your own abilities and achievements but about finding out how little you really know one of my favorite ways to explain this is with a Dunning Krueger effect on the left you have an indication of your perceived ability which relates to confidence and at the bottom you have your actual ability which relates to knowledge and experience the graph shows that most often people with the low overestimate their actual ability and are overconfident 

ALGORITHM

you don't know what you don't know it's the proverbial that's easy I could totally do that mentality you set up camp on the peak of Mount stupid and for a while you think pretty highly of yourself this ego gets inflated by chasing Applause on social media by getting tons of views on content that appeals to the algorithm it's only when you get confronted with new knowledge and experience where you take a plunge and find out how much you don't know this is where I found myself in 2018 after the trip with Sam and Chelsea although we hiked in literal mountains I came down from the peak of Mount stupid into the valley of Despair but at least I finally saw the need for growth and the motivation came like a tidal wave I was committed to improve 

MY BIGGEST STRUGGLE

my skills and slowly started getting my confidence back but this time with A New Perspective now after all these years I find that film making is only getting harder Yes you heard right the more I do this the more I see the need for improvement because my eyes are open to so many new things I didn't know about before that doesn't mean I don't have any confidence it simply means I know that there's a lot of room for improvement before I move on to the next STP let's talk about music real quick in the 15 years I've been making films music bed has been a part of 11 of them in the first four years my biggest struggle was Finding relevant music that conveyed the emotions and tone I envisioned for my stories

AI POWERED

 I would spend hours searching often settling for something that was just good enough music can truly transform any narrative which is why having a wide variety of options is so important it has the ability to resonate emotionally with your viewers and if you feel anything while watching this video music B is a reason with over 60,000 songs music bed offers the largest curated collection of authentic music for your projects the Innovative search tools including an AI powered search by song feature simplify the process of finding the perfect song to match your vision I've said it before and I'll say it again music bed has completely transformed my storytelling if you're a Creator looking to connect deeply with your audience

CAREER ADVICE

 I cannot recommend it enough make the switch today and start your 14-day free trial with the link in my description and then for my last piece of career advice I really really hope you never make this mistake and I can only comment on it because I've seen how it applies over a period of 15 years in this industry people will cross you some of your friends in your network will disappoint you some will try to take clients from you some will pay late and even if you have all the reason to be angry whatever you do never ever burn a bridge

MY WORK SHOPS 

 I can say this with utmost confidence because I've burned a few Bridges myself and I've seen the damage it can cause in the long term as I matured through the years I grasp the principal and there are many cases of people crossing me where I had more than enough reason to write them off but I didn't and guess what many years down the line those same people came back over the bridge and sent work my way did my work shops and even bought my courses literally years later I benefited greatly because I didn't give into my ego and chose to preserve the peace some of them knew what they did was wrong but my response created a sense of security for them to come back and it only paid off in my favor makes me wonder what I missed out 

CONCLUSION 

when I actually chose the opposite there's this quote by Paul J Meers that's become an Anthem of my life and I hope it will encourage you going forward it goes something like this whatever you verly imagine ardently desire sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass I truly believe that if you combine all of these tips and apply it to your own career you will most likely experience great success in the future now go chase after your passion like your life depends on it because it does

INTRODUCTION 

hello everyone welcome back to another After Effects tutorial in this one we're going to do some AI magic and I'm going to show you how to take a shot like this where this guy is vacuuming the forest which reminds me if you see mushrooms in the forest don't eat them you never know but we're going to see something like this where he's vacuuming and we're going to remove him just like this here's 

COMPOSITION

the finished composition if I hit play he's no longer in the video and it looks very believable and I'll show you the last frame here you'll see here that we've actually masked him out punched him out literally and used content to wear fill I'm going to show you how to do this in just a couple minutes let's go all right here we go so I've got a blank new project Adobe After Effects and I'm in the default workspace just like this just the first thing you'll probably see

PROJECT PANEL

 I'm going to go into finder if you're on a PC go into your Windows Explorer grab the footage that you want to work with just like I've got here and then just drag it and drop it into the project panel once it's in the project panel next drag it and drop it on top of new composition and Presto you can also rightclick on the the video here and go new comp from selection either or works okay

SHAPE TOOLS

 so the next step here is I'm just going to move my playhead to the beginning here to make sure it's at the 0 seconds and what you want to do now is you want to draw a mask around the object the subject the item whatever you're trying to remove from the scene so in this case I've got uh this guy vacuuming the forest with his Hello Kitty Dyson whatever the hell is going on here so here we go the next step here is you're going to go up here to your pen tool if you have a like a an object or a subject that's like square or a shape you can use one of the shape tools but here 

TRIANGLE DOWN 

we go making sure your playhead is at the beginning I'm just going to draw a very loose mask around the subject here and again this is very very loose it's on purpose because I don't want to show I'm not going to do a tutorial on masking I just want to show you the basic technique and then you guys can go in as you see fit so you'll see here I've drawn the mask and if I maybe I'll move that out a little bit more just so that we've got some extra room here and and there's a fair bit of room around it so there we go now the next step here is in your uh panel down here you want to go ahead and drop this triangle down 

ADD MASK

go to masks drop masks down and you're going to see mask one what you want to do now is for the meantime or for the meanwhile here we want to switch that from an add mask to none so that way we can see the mask and we can see the background everything is in frame we can see what's up next we're going to want to move this mask let me show you how to do that okay good stuff so this mask is not moving at the moment it is a static mask and we don't want that because this person here as you can see here when I move the playhead he moves over time it's video and it's not an image 

COUPLE OF FRAMES

so it's quite different so what you want to do is we want to go on that mask again we've switched it from uh add to none we're going to keep dropping it down here and you're going to see something that says mask path click on that stopwatch right here when you do that now the mask is animated so we can move it over time so here's what we're going to do I'm going to be at the 0 second here I'm just going to move it forward a couple of frames and then you'll see somewhere around here this this little um the vacuum end here is starting to come over the mask line 

VIDEO TRACK

so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the video track right here you don't want to click on the mask click on the video track like I've done here and then make sure you've got the pen tool selected and now you can just move these points so I'm just going to move these points nice and simply and again this is just not required if you have a St object that doesn't move but because mine is moving I'm just making sure that the mask is around the subject completely with a little bit of extra room let's go forward a little bit and here we go so this at this uh area we want to move this one up this area here this one up this one up and again you'll see here I'll do this really quickly here I don't want to spend too much time masking it

TECHNIQUE

 so you just get the point and I'll move this down and then we'll go forward a couple of frames to maybe here and and then we'll move this in and then we can even move this guy and these ones in a little bit cuz they're kind of way out there so this is the general gist of it I'll do one more here somewhere around here and I'll move this down I'll move this down and here we go we've got about a second and a half or so of footage that's enough for the technique now I'm just going to go ahead and if you wanted to do this for the whole clip you can just keep doing this process over and over I'm going to go ahead and grab this work area end button here this little bar and I'm just going to hold down the shift key and I'm going to bring it in and the reason why is I'm just going to constrict this to the second and a half or two seconds that we've got here

WORK AREA

 so I'm going to go to composition and now I'm going to go to trim comp to work area so the mask now is only working for the second and a half or so that we've got here so let's just go ahead and see what we got here's the original shot and I'll just move it forward and you'll see that I've gone ahead and moved the mask so that uh it's kind of around the person quite nicely now let's go on to the next step all righty so here we go go so now we've gone ahead make sure the playhead is at the beginning here let's do a couple of quick things on the mask we're going to switch it from none 

ALPHA EXPANSION

now we're going to set switch it to subtract and look at this we basically popped a hole in it so you can see the transparency in the background if you don't see these white and gray dots you can go over here and toggle the transparency grid with this button right here and it just basically shows you what we're working with and that this is in fact not a black background but a transparent background which will render uh with an Alpha channel so it's very important so there we go we've basically punched a hole out now we want to go up here to window and then we want to go down to Content aware fill I'm going to make sure that this is selected and for me it has gone ahead and added it on the right side here so as you'll see here I click on that content towar fill it defaults with an alpha expansion of about four

LIGHTING CHANGES

 I'm just going to move that up to six and then the other thing here is you get some fill methods you can have object which is like 95% of the time what you want to use search surface if you're working with you know surfaces if you've got a logo for example on a laptop that you're trying to remove and the same with Edge blend I'll make separate videos on those topics um also if the lighting changes in the video a lot you can go ahead and select uh lighting uh correction but in this case you don't need to so there

AFTER EFFECTS LOOK

 we go we're going to go ahead and leave that as is now what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a reference frames I'm going to click this button here and it's basically going to create a shot in Photoshop and that when I go back into After Effects look at this you'll see here now there's a reference frame on top now don't worry about that right now we just wanted to click that the next and the most important point is we want to click on generate fill layer this is going to do the magic for us it's going to start doing some an analysis and some thinking when it's done I'll come back and I'll show you what we got all right welcome back

CONCLUSION 

 so here's what we got now look at this I'm just going to move the play to the beginning make sure I'll hit play and look at that this is perfect that person has been completely removed and if you hide the layers here you'll see here there's the there's the cutout and then bang here is the original shot so I'll double click on the original video here this is him doing his thing vacuuming it up and then if we go back into the composition and I'll turn the layers back on we have it now all you got to do file export it is done this is Magic After Effects thanks for watching

PRESET-LINK

INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another quick tutorial this one I'm in pacd door.com now pacora for those you that don't know this is an all-in-one tool that's strictly for packaging it does anything you can imagine if you're creating merch if you've got bottles cans you've got t-shirts boxes anything that's packaging oriented it's here and we're not just talking about the basic functionality 

TALKING TEMPLATES

we're talking templates and dielines if you want a 3D rendering in real time to see what it looks like that you can zoom zoom in and out on mockups so if you need to do a mockup it will show you what it looks like before you send it to the printer and you have all those issues it's absolutely nuts and this tool covers it all I'm going to show you how to use it let's go all right so the first step of course is you want to go to the website it's pacd dora.com 

MOCKUPS

I'll put a link in the description below and then at the top right you're going to see the login option simply click on that and it'll ask you to sign up if you don't have an account it's free to sign up for so go ahead and go nuts there now I'm going to switch over to Google Chrome because I'm already logged in so this is what the logged in screen looks like and you'll very quickly see that this is a very easy to navigate tool it's simple you basically use the mockups the 3D design tool and the templates and die lines generator for those of you that you know want to make sure you get the the folds correct for me.

TEMPLATES

 I always click on the mock-ups generator to start the party let's click on that I'm going to left click on it and then bang you're going to see we've got got a whole bunch of options now pacora currently has 4,900 pre-built templates and no doubt they're going to add more so there's a lot here already to work with but here we go let's just flip through here and then in this case I don't know I'm a YouTuber and in this case for example I'm going to create some merch so I want to create like a a soda or an energy drink that I sell to my you know to my subscribers as an example

RENDERED IN 3D

 so on the left side I would go through the menu here and then I would look at cans and jars and then when I do that just taking a quick look through here here you go here's a standard you know basic standard soda can or pop can and here is an energy drink can kind of looks like red bullish so here you go we can select any of these I'm going to select your basic one here nice uh short and chubby one and I'm just going to left click on it and go just start working on it it opens up a new tab and now I'm going to show you how to design all right so let's go ahead and start the design process so here we go we've got our basic silver can here and again it's rendered in 3D

CANVA

 so you'll see exactly what your design looks like now you have a few options but the one I generally select is simply to upload an image so if you've got a pre-built design whether you built it in canva or you know you just took a picture of it whatever I'm going to click on upload and then presso we're going to get this option here now on the right side you're going to see that I can resize this window so anything that I do here any work that I do you'll see here exactly how it renders in the image so I'm going to go ahead and go to my finder because I'm on a Mac if you're on a PC maybe go to your uh Windows Explorer and then I've got this kind of cool looking abstract design that I'm just going to drag and drop right there 

DIMENSIONS

so there we go I've dragged and dropped it and you know what it doesn't look quite right here look at this just right out of the box it's pretty close to a cool looking can but again the dimensions aren't quite right so I'm going to just make this a little smaller and then let's take a look here I'm going to just fit this so if I go ahead and make it smaller you'll see here that I kind of want to fit it into that middle Square type thing so I'm just going to pull on this handle here something like that and then Presto let's take a look at it here inside the 3D render so this is what it looks like 

EXAMPLE 

so far now you can always pull this down if you don't want it to go right to the top for example you want the white at the top it's doing this in real time which is absolutely amazing so do what you need to do there but I'm going to leave it like that because I like the look of that and let's take a look here we've got this very cool can now for some people that's all you need to do you're literally done but I'm going to show you a few more tweaks as well as how to export it and take it to the next level all right here we go so here's what we've got 

ABSTRACT CONCEPT

so far here I'm just going to go ahead and spin this can around and to be honest with you I like the look of it it's kind of got that uh Vincent Vango star night type style to it nice abstract concept very cool let's add to it though in theory now this is of course optional but if you go on the left side here you'll see we can go ahead and add some elements in so when I click on that we can add in text we can add in shapes or we can even add in packaging symbols for example if this was I don't know if this was like non-bio degradable you'd add that in there uh or you can even add in your social media for that matter and if we look down here further we can go ahead and add text 

ADD IN THE TEXT

 now I'll be honest with you they've got about you know what is it 6 12 14 different styles of text so in a lot of cases you may want to go ahead and add in the text yourself whether it's using canva which is free you can use one of their fonts or if you got something in mind but if you want to use one of theirs like for example what is this this is more like an energy drink pop can so I could add something like there we go true love and now if I go ahead and look at the pop can here or the energy drink okay 

TECHNIQUE

I mean maybe not but hey you know what it's cool you can go ahead and fix that up change it up here maybe I would make that probably a little smaller and Center it and again this is just an example of what you can do right out of the box this is not Custom Design or anything like that and then bang you know what if I saw that on the Shelf when I was buying a can maybe I'd go for that hard to say I'm going to delete that though because I just want to show you the technique

DESIGNER

 I'm not as good a designer as you probably are so there we go you can add in some elements shapes Etc and if you need Inspirations there's two things here you can add in some pre-built patterns so I kind of like this Scottish Scotch uh christmy packaging one but if you like these and they work for you go ahead and you can can also check for inspiration so for example here if I was creating a wine you could go ahead and delete this even though I'm not going to but I want to show you I'd click this here and then it would just go ahead and add this in and then I can go ahead and then just resize it maybe I make it bigger something like this let's see what we got here I'm just doing this in real time just to show you the technique and look at well I mean holy smokes fruit wine cherry fruit that is a really cool looking can would probably change the gradient a little bit and stuff but you know what for right out of the box that's really cool 

3D STYLE 

So anyways I'm going to go ahead and uh undo that and I'm going to go back to what we had here I'm going to even undo this and then this is the design now I'm going to click on Save and I'm going to show you some of the next steps here all right so there's just one more step and there's an optional step I'll show you the optional real quickly here it's not required of course but I'm going to click on this 3D design button here up at the top right when I do that you're going to see here that I get this cool looking 3D style 

BASICALLY ZOOM

now I'll be honest with you not everybody you know is used to this what happens here is you can basically zoom in zoom out and get a 3D representation that you can turn and move basically kind of like if you were using after effects or Cinema 4D or uh something like that but here you go you can move it on the XY and Zed axises I generally don't use this but I will twirl it around just to take a quick look and then maybe move it up and down and just to see what I got I like it I'm going to go ahead and X out of this but I just wanted you to know that that was available but generally what you want to do now

JPEG OR A PNG

 now that we've got the design we kind of like and it looks pretty cool let's go over here to Super export when you do that you get a whole bunch of different options I'm going to go through them with you right now all right so at this stage of the game the hard work's basically done you can see here that you can go ahead and render and download a JPEG or a PNG so I would just click on download depending on what you want if you've got something that's kind of tricky and it has a DI line and you want to make sure like a box for example and you want to make sure all the designs and folds are correct or your printer's requesting the dialine

PDF AI 

 you'll see here I just clicked on dialine and I can go ahead and download it whether I want a PDF AI stands for Adobe Illustrator not artificial intelligence just in case or a dxf file and you can also select a color mode now in most cases you want CMYK which is cyan magenta yellow and key uh cyan magenta yellow and black is what it actually stands for I want to make sure my design skills are my design knowledge is there so cmk is General but if you want generally the right one but if you want RGB go nuts you can export that right here if you want videos now normally you'd be like why would I want a video but if you are creating you know social media post 

HTML

 you're doing um you know you've got a YouTube channel and you want a sec you know like a four second snap of this or you want an 8sec video like look at this this is just an example here of this uh can just shooting in I would just go ahead and click on export now and literally job's done you can already see that it's cooking uh I can go ahead and download it when it's done so this is just some of the stuff you can do here I'll go back to that screen while it looks at that if in any way you need the code in most cases you won't need that but it's there if it's HTML and you need that HTML

YOUR PACKAGER 

 go ahead and finally guys if you want to share it and this is not sharing on Facebook or Instagram but this is sharing within like a design team so you can share this link I'll just copy the link and then I could share that to maybe you know the head of marketing or you can share that link to your printer or to your packager whoever that is and that way they can make sure that everything's correct because if you have a you know a large run and you want to do like a lot of packages or a lot of cans you want to make sure you get it right first

CONCLUSION 

 so there you go that Link's ready to go and literally guys that is it that's how easy this is to use it's like canva and figma kind of met but they did it in a browser and it just works for packaging this is the way to go pack Dora give it a shot it just works links in the description below thanks for watching be back soon

INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another AI video in this one we're in Flora 13.3 and I've got something very cool to show you I am going to show you how to create amazing composite videos just like this using AI functionality built into filora 13 the first step is we're going to get some green screen footage and then we're going to use their AI chroma key functionality to pull out the green and just leave the subject after that we're going to create a background using their AI image an AI art generator in this case

CYBERPUNK BACKGROUND

 I've got a cyberpunk background but you can of course create a background to your choosing after that we're going to create the music to go with the video they have an AI audio or an AI music generator inside flora and I'm going to show you all the different ways you can create background music to go with it and then finally I'm going to show you a little bit of color correction so that you can make sure that the video the green screen footage the or the subject matches the background 

SCREEN FOOTAGE

so to speak so there's just a couple of steps here guys I'm going to show them all to you step by step let's go all right excellent so the first step is we're going to work with the green screen footage now there's two ways you can go about this you can add in your own footage which I'll do right here I'm on a Mac so I'm going to click on finder and then I'm going to open up my filora 13 folder I'm just going to grab this green screen footage and drag it and drop it right into project media it's going to ask me and it did ask me if I want to create a proxy file I do not want that because I have a very fast computer 

RESOLUTION

so uh I can work with high def resolution pretty quickly here but if you've got a slower computer consider using a proxy now if you don't have any green screen footage very simple all you got to do here is go up to stock media and they've got green screen footage ready to go right here so under trending already you can see that I've got this green screened explosion here I've got this uh curtains opening up like there's a whole bunch of different green screen stuff that you can select right out of the box right out of the right from Thora

CAT ROBOT

 now I happen to know that I like this one here it's called cat robot and I'm going to type that in here and check this out they've got a green screen cat robot so let's go ahead and use this one I'm going to drag and drop this into the timeline and then Presto it's going to add it that's step one now we're going to chroma key it all right so to remove the green color cast or the green green screen that's a lot of greens super easy to do in film all you got to do is go up here to the top right under video and then switch it from basic to AI tools once you do that you're going to see the chroma key toggle 

BACKGROUND AI 

now 99 out of 100 times all you need to do is just click this button and the background is gone if it is not perfectly gone it's not to worry about right now because I'm going to show you how to fine-tune it once we get a background AI image in there and we can go into the next step so right now the green screen's gone let's create a background image okay the next step is to just grab the footage in the timeline just click on it left click on it and then push it up so that it's in video track too the reason we're doing this very quickly is because because we're putting in background AI generated image in behind it 

AI IMAGES

so you have to have the green screen on the top track and then the image in behind it once you've done that I'm now going to go ahead and I'm going to go and click on stock media and under stock media you'll see a whole bunch of options the one that we want is AI image click on that little triangle and then you're going to see one that says tool this is what we want because this is where we generate the AI images so I'm going to go ahead and now click on start and when I do that you're see is going to load up the AI image beta

IMAGE STYLES

 now very quickly here there are three aspect ratios right out of the box that you can use I'm going to use 16 by 9 because this is a wide screen but if you were doing YouTube shorts you would want to go with 916 now I'm going to describe the image that I want to create so I uh this is a we're going to do a cyberpunk cyberpunk dystopia with buildings and um I don't know people in the background something like that very simple it it it doesn't really really matter I'm just going to go ahead and create that image before I do that though you'll notice that we have some default image Styles keep in mind you can always describe exactly what you want but these image Styles here are kind of nice because if you know you're looking for something like

COLOR CORRECT

 I'm looking for cyberpunk it's really just one click here and it's going to automatically give the cyberpunk objectives or adjective so to speak so there we go I'm going to now go ahead and click on start creating I'll come back when it's done show you the candidates and then we'll input it in and then we'll get to the next step all right welcome back so it has gone ahead and created four candidate images for me so let's just click on them real quickly here first one second one third one fourth one so which one okay I like this one here CU I think we can sneak our little cat robot in here and we'll color correct it to make it look like it belongs in the scene so this is proper looking cyberpunk AI image generation looks great

AI GENERATED FOLDER

 I'm going to go ahead and click on this little down arrow because it's very important this is going to go ahead and load it into my stock AI generated folder I'm going to click out of this now okay I'm going to close all this I don't need to go through that and now look here you'll see here I'm going to show it to you under Library oh pardon me we're going to go AI image generated here it is right here aigc cyberpunk dystopia I'm going to click on that image and then I'm just going to drag it right underneath the cat robot and look at that our cat robot is now in this scene of course it's not properly scaled and colored yet but you'll see where we're going with this finally I'm going to grab this image here and I'm just going to pull on the handle a little bit 

LOW BEAT ORCHESTRAL

so that they're both the same size all right let's get to the next step all right so that took just a few seconds here and it has gone ahead and created six songs just like it said it would so here they are you'll see it said it says right here generated six of six results let's listen to the first one all right pretty cool it's kind of low beat orchestral let's go down and listen the next one okay all right so I really like that one so I'm going to go ahead and click on the download of course if this was a you know my own project and it wasn't a tutorial I would probably listen to all of the rest of them but again I know that one's really really good

CINEMATIC TYPE SCENE 

 so again I hit the download button and now it's been added to the project now let's go ahead and close out of that just like I did here and let's just go ahead and put that track in let me show you how all right adding in the track is a piece of cake I'm going to go from the tool I'm going to click on music and then I'm just going to go ahead and click on where is it AI music generated that's the one and there you go the top one here is epic cinematic let's listen to it again perfect that's the one I wanted I'm just going to left click on that and I'm going to drag that onto the audio track just like that now I want to note here that the audio may be a little bit loud if you're doing a cinematic type scene 

VOLUME KNOB DOWN

so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and pull down the audio a little bit here so I'm going to click on the audio track I'm going to go up here to the top and then you'll see here under adjustment that I could just pull this volume knob down a little bit I'm going to go ahead and do that just because I want this to be a more subtle and muted sound as opposed to in your face Presto finally I'm going to grab the right edge of this track here and I'm just going to pull it in so they're all the same length now if we hit play let's take a listen and see what we got all right this could be all you need to do we've got our robot in a dystopian scene all of this is AI image generated green key if you want a color correct 

ADJUST HEIGHT

I'm going to show you how to do that in about 30 seconds let's go all right last but not least is the color correction and we're just going to scale the robot down a little bit so it looks like it belongs more in the uh video here so the first step I'm going to click on the green screen footage or the robot footage and then under basic you'll see transform these are linked together at the moment so I'm going to go ahead and decrease the scale if I decrease the X it also decreases the Y so it width and height both scale proportionally if you do not want that just click on this lock button and it will go ahead and you can adjust height and width independently in this case 

SMALLER CUZ 

I don't want to so I'm going to go ahead and maybe make something like that what do you think let's make him a little smaller or her a little smaller cuz it's a subtle thing here we're going to put them right about here so there we go that's the decrease in size now let's fix up the colors a little bit I'm going to go ahead and makeing sure I'm still on the same track I'm going to go up here to the top and then video audio color and then all you need to do is just make sure that this color tab is turned on and then look here you'll see tinting Vibrance saturation all these tools 

VIBRANCE UP 

I know that this is cyberpunk and it all goes towards the purplish and pinkish and light blue teal temperature so I'm going to just go ahead and tint it a little here so you'll see here I'm turning up the tint and already you can see what's happening the robot is turning nice and purplish and then I'm going to pull the tint or the temperature down to get it a little bit cool here so we've got purple in the robot and we've got some cool Blues in the hands which matches the color so far I'm going to go ahead and turn the Vibrance up a little bit I'll saturate it a little more and again 

PURPLISH

you can do this as you see fit if you want it to be more in the shot and you can increase the exposure if you want it to be a little subtler like for example you just want them sort of hanging out there but not really being the center of attention you can pull the exposure down things like this just adjust this as you see fit I like to increase the contrast so that there's a nice contrast and then Presto this little robot here has some of the purplish and the bluish reflection on him and because it's made of metal it you would expect it to be um you know the light would be kind of reflecting on him 

CONCLUSION 

so something like that and then just adjust this as you see fit Shadows Etc and prestol there you go we've gone ahead and added in through AI we've got green screen footage we've kind of pulled out the green screen we've got an AI image generated background we've got AI audio included we've color corrected it this is how you make a amazing composite video in inside filora 13 using their AI tools thanks for watching

INTRODUCTION 

Hello everybody welcome back another cap cut tutorial in this one I'm going to show you how to remove backgrounds from your video and I'm going to show you two different ways to do it the first method is a more traditional style where you get some green screen footage like I've got here and then we remove the green using chroma key 

GREEN SCREEN

I want to note up front here that cap cut and its green screen functionality is free to use so there's no charge on this the second method involves Ai and this is simple background removal I say simple but involves very complex AI to do this but I'm going to show you how to do that and we're going to take this lady here and we're going to put a fun background in behind her both of these methods are included in the free plan 

SKILLSHARE

let's go all right so before we roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty I just want to quickly note here that this video is sponsored by skillshare recently I've been wanting to update and upgrade my video editing game and the way I did that was to go to skillshare and I took a couple of their cap cut classes I did a beginner's class and then I did an advanced class that I can do some of these techniques that I'm going to show you including the two in this video 

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FOOTAGE

so the first thing I'm going to show you is this technique here you'll see we've got some stock footage of some TVs against the wall then all of a sudden one of the TVs has some cool 80s sci-fi Miami Vice Motion Graphics inside of it how do to do that let's start from scratch and go all right so there's nothing on the timeline let's get cooking here so the first step go to import up here at the top left and under stock materials I'm going to show you how to use pre-built footage and content that they've already got included in it if you have your own footage that you want to work with go ahead and import it as you see fit but I'm going to show you

STOCK MATERIALS 

 how to do it just using their built-in stock stuff okay so under stock materials I'm going to go ahead and type in TV when I do that I'm going to hit enter and watch this you're going to see a whole bunch of different options now instead of going type No Limit I'm going to go type video because I want a video background so here we go look at this one here this is I think this is the same one actually there we go there we go I'm going to grab this one and then I'm just going to go ahead and put that into the timeline right there at the bottom now the next step is I'm going to click on it and I'm going to move it up one

SECOND VIDEO TRACK

 so I want this to be on the second video track and there's one underneath it okay hopefully you're following along with me piece of cake now I'm just going to go ahead and click on that X and I want to add in the footage I want in the background so again I'm going to go ahead and let's look under trending what do we want to star in this video so we've got the green screen TV and then under underneath it let's go ahead and do the same thing I'm going to go with let's go with this one here this looks pretty cool yeah I like that let's go ahead and drag then drop that underneath the green screen footage okay there we go so nothing has happened yet that's okay the next step 

REMOVE BG

I'm going to go and click on the top footage here and then I'm just going to grab the handle on the far right and I'm just going to make them both the same length nice and easy now making sure you're clicked on the top screen this is where the magic comes we're going to go up here to the top right right and then you'll see we have a few options I'm going to click on video make sure you're on the video tab then go ahead and go to remove BG that means remove background and when you do that I'll just increase the size a little bit here we get two options we get Auto removal and we get chroma key there is a custom removal but that is a paid feature and I'm sticking to the free stuff for this one

CHROMA KEY

 so I'm now going to click on the little check boox beside chroma key nothing happens yet not to panic I'm now going to go ahead and click on that ey dropper hold it down and look at that when I hover over the green on the TV you'll see here that it has gone ahead and basically taken away the green that said if you look very closely at the edges here there's still some green it's kind of spilled over on the top and the left a little bit so what I'm going to do is I'm going to increase the intensity a little bit and as I do that you'll see the green sort of Retreats away and it becomes perfect so that's just the way to do it you can increase the shadow a bit too if you see fit but in this case it looks like we got a good green screen

TOP LAYER

 let's make sure the play heads at the beginning hit play look at that it's pretty darn cool now the one thing I will note here is we can go ahead and turn the top track off and when we do that you'll see here we've got the bottom track we can change the size of this so if I click on it and I go back to video and I go back to basic there's a couple ways to do this I'm just going to change this scale down to something about TV size so I'm going to go with something like that let's say turn the top layer back on and then look at this I'm just going to go ahead and slowly move this in here maybe it's a bit too big here

ORIGINAL SHOT

 I'm going to pull the handles something like that now let's see what we got that is a very cool effect and we did that in just a few seconds using their chroma key functionality for free let's get into the second technique all right the second technique is how you can do the same thing but without any green screen let me show you here's the original shot of the grandma she looks like a regular Grandma cooking making mashed potatoes but here's the thing this is this Grandma was actually made with open AI Sora this is a completely AI generated video straight up 100% check it out

TIMELINE

 now to kind of keep with that theme we took away the background and then we put some Matrix scary AI in the background because that sort of fits with it so how did I do that let me show you here start from scratch all right here we go we got a blank timeline this will be very very quick the first step I'm going to go into my finder if you're on a PC you may want to use your Explorer and just grab the video that you're looking to add in this one here is is called sora Grandma I'm just going to drag and import that in as you see here now I'm going to take it and put it on my timeline just like that the next step

THE STOCK MATERIALS

 I'm going to grab the footage here and I'm going to move it up a track so it's on the second track we're going to leave the track below it empty so there you go if you don't have any footage just grab something out of the stock materials here uh I don't know you can just search for somebody you know cooking or cleaning or whatever it is you want it to be now the next step is we got to put some footage under underneath Grandma here so I'm going to go ahead and under stock material I'm just going to type in Matrix then I'm going to hit enter when I do that you get a whole bunch of different options

VIDEOS CUTZ

 now I'm going to go ahead and click on No Limit and restrict it to videos cuz I don't want any photos I want this to be video stuff and the one that we were going with well let's see what we got here there's a whole bunch of different options let's go with this one here this is the one we used before I like it even though it's scary as hell I'm going to grab that and I'm going to slide that underneath our original footage of the grandma now I'm just going to go ahead and pull the right handle here on the right side so that they're both the same length now the next step is very very easy making sure you're clicked on the original shot here or this video track two of the grandma or whatever you're using I'm going to go up here to the top right and I'm going to see video

REMOVE BACKGROUND

 I'm going to go to remove background and then I'm going to click on auto removal this is fantastic it's going to go ahead and cook it up and look at that we've already done it but I'm going to go ahead and move her now so I'm going to maybe move her to the right side something like that and then also I'm going to grab one of these handles and I'm going to scale her down a little bit because you'll see here that it even got rid of a little bit of her stomach here it's just sort of like the top torso so it maybe it went a little bit too far but that's okay we'll do something like that we'll put Grandma right here maybe something like that cooking up some mashed

CONCLUSION 

Now let's see what we got I'll just hit play yep there we go looks pretty good kind of scary stuff I will note here there are a few other things you can do if you want to put a stroke around her for example you can click on that button here and there we go we've got that white stroke that you see in so many YouTube thumbnails this one's a little bit less of a stroke you can adjust it here the size the color if you wanted a yellow stroke for example you can go ahead and select yellow and there you go and also there's a little bit of offset and some this looks like a like a mystery movie where you know we've got this weird uh dotted version but there you go guys this is all there is to it to removing backgrounds in cap cut thanks for watching

INTRODUCTION 

one of my tutorials that a lot of people have found helpful is how to remove a green screen in adobe premiere pro so in this video i'm going to show you some more background removal tricks maybe when you don't have a green screen like this video here so we're starting out with a video clip where we don't have a green screen background and i'm probably going to do many examples of these because each clip is going to be different

BRIGHTNESS OR DARKNESS

 so in this case we have a few things to note we have a basically kind of solid even colored bright background so brightness or darkness matters we have a pretty decent line of contrast here so a skin tone might matter as well depending on the contrast between that in the background and also he's wearing a white t-shirt which may give us some problems because it's the same color sort of as these white clouds but i'm going to show you for this example a two layered approach that you can use to still get a pretty decent cut out when it's just not a green screen 

LUMA KEY

so in the effects panel we're going to be using the keying effects and we're going to use a combination of the luma key and the ultra key here i've just got the original clip this is the original clip on track one i'm going to hide that just so we can have it for reference now i'm going to take the clip put it on another track so we can work with it and the first thing we can try is a luma key so luma refers to the luminance or the brightness or darkness basically so in the luma key effect controls you have two things threshold and cutoff 

TRANSPARENT

so you can adjust the threshold at which the video will become transparent and it looks like just it's just becoming black but that's actually just transparency if you actually want to see that displayed as transparency you can click the settings icon and under transparency grid you can check that and you can actually get see like the one that you see in photoshop if that helps you but as i adjust this amount especially from zero to fifty to a hundred percent we see it sort of cuts out him but if we go too far it starts to cut out some of the clouds as well 

THRESHOLD OR VICE VERSA

so you wanna find a balance between the threshold and the cut off where you're just getting a decent selection of your person and you can see kind of how it inverts itself when the cutoff becomes higher than the threshold or vice versa but not to complicate matters you can just kind of balance these two sliders and the goal is to try to get as much of the subject and as little of the background with as clear of a line as possible so this is what that might look like for me but you notice that this is still not perfect if i put it on black again we're still getting you know parts of since this shirt is so bright it it's kind of registering as the background even this highlights on his cheek and that's why i'm offering a two-layered approach here to kind of help you out further

DUPLICATE THIS CLIP 

 so you know depending on your clip if you just want something really rough this could be workable but it's not gonna look great because you're cutting into important parts of the subject like the face so if i were to just duplicate this clip i'll just do that by holding option and click and dragging it on a layer above itself you can also just drag it back over i'll delete the luma key on this effect so we're bringing back the full original clip and i will now use an ultra key as well so just to show you what's going on i'm going to hide everything else except this layer and the ultra key allows you to pick a key color instead of working with brightness and remove that 

GENERATION TOOLS

so i'm going to ink drop over to sort of this really light blue color maybe i can try a few different ones and see which one seems to get a bet the best amount and then i'm also going to open up the matte generation tools and here you can adjust things about the tolerance of this selection so right now at 50 we can increase it so it even goes in more of those blue ranges if you want you can open the matte cleanup and soften things up a little bit this can have a tendency to get a little bit pixelated looking but for the most part we have removed a lot of stuff around here and in this case

CREATE A MASK 

 we're still keeping the parts of the face and for this method since we might get a lot of extra stuff in the corners and the side if you're able to if you're working with something that's not moving across the frame a crazy amount you can even add a mask on the opacity of the layer so if i just create i'll just use the pen tool for this case it'll be easier for a person shape but if i sort of just create a mask on the opacity of the rough outline of this person you'll notice once you get to the end it's kind of hard to make a point a workaround is to zoom out a little bit on the program window and then you can go beyond those boundaries and make those points and then you can put it back to fit if you want 

KEYFRAME ANIMATION 

so now i've really contained in my mask  a little bit more i can add points if i want to bring it in even a little bit more and if you really wanted to get advanced with it and go tedious you could add a keyframe animation onto this mask path so i could begin this mask and if you lose the blue outlines just make sure you highlight mask one again i can begin this kind of opened up enough and if i notice that you know i need more room here for the skateboard flip i can bring out that mask a little bit and then as he puts the skateboard down i can bring it back in so if you want to take this extra step you can sort of animate this mask

BACKGROUND OF YOUR CLIP

 so it tracks your subject a little bit more so again every clip is going to be case by case and these are the different sort of things that might be included in a clip and these are tools that you can use to find solutions to those problems so since we can only key out one color at a time the cool thing with these keys is we can stack them so first i keyed out the blue now let me try to key out this really grayish blue white and this is another issue where i need to be careful because his shirt and his outfit is white as well and you're going to find oftentimes perhaps the color of clothing matches the greenery or background of your clip and these are things to keep in mind 

TOLERANCE

so for this you maybe don't want to increase the tolerance too much but i'm still able to remove even some more of that section in if you really want to get in there that's where you're probably going to want to make sure that mask is really in there so effectively we've removed out much of that stuff and we've used the mask to make sure we don't have to worry about everything else now depending on your clip you know this might be enough but you'll notice this way sometimes kind of get grainy or not the best

ADD AN OPACITY MASK

 so what we've done by combining the two methods is we still get that crisp line and edge from the luma key on the first layer that we did but then we also fill in the remaining portions of those areas using this second layer and i notice there's some clouds here in the luma key layer so it might not hurt to also add an opacity mask on the luma key layer so that we don't have to worry about that as well and although this is not perfect if i add another clip on the background 

CROP ANIMATION 

so that's the original if i add like whatever layer underneath it does provide a pretty decent result and it's up to you know how much key framing and how tight you make that mask to how clean your effect will be but it's still a little bit faster than more of a masking or rotoscoping style where you literally have to mask it exactly on the edge frame by frame that's a job that's much better suited towards after effects and as an added bonus if you want to know how to do that little before and after thing it's just simply a crop effect which is under the transform video effects folder and i simply will add a crop animation 

CONCLUSION

let's just say on the left starts at zero and you can move forward a little bit and make it go to 100 and that'll do like a before and after i have a full tutorial on that if you want like a deeper explanation before and after transitions but that's another example of how to remove backgrounds in adobe premiere if you enjoyed this video you can check out the others on my channel and subscribe to stay tuned for more i'll probably do other examples to show you guys how i would approach those and the unique problems and solutions that other clips would provide my name is justin odisho thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in the next video you