Not quite there yet

Tweaked the movie a little more

Today was not much of an eventful day. It primarily consisted of watching tutorials and searching for special effects to use in the video. I did attempt to add an explosion to a couple of scenes but the appearance was off and will need more research to make the appearance match the footage. But I did add a speed blur sequence and here is how.

Running at super speed

The original plan was to make a shot where it looks like I teleport but I needed extra effects such as sounds and animations, which costs a lot of money. So the path I took was to mimic super speed. The first thing I did was re shoot some footage of me about to run and me arriving at my destination. I then took the footage and selected a short sequence with me about to run. I then cut three frames of the scene without me in it and added a clip of me arriving at the end point.

From here I copied one frame of me about to move and placed it above the original scene. I then added a 16 point garbage matt and placed it around myself. I then added another effect, directional blur. I changed the direction of the blur to horizontal, increased the blur length and positioned it to the point where I was about to run off. I then repeated the process for the exit shot and reduced the scale and positioned it to match the shot.

The sequence and effects add to the clip

The result was nowhere near as good as the tutorial I followed (seen below) but it wasn't a bad attempt.

Adding a cinematic effect

The last thing I did was add an adjustment layer to the whole movie, except the logo which I'll explain why in a second. I used a preset called cinema 2 to give the video a nice cinema look. But the footage I recorded had a wide angle and made some scenes look off. So I used another preset which can remove the wide angle lens effect from the go pro and did this to all of the recorded clips. And finally, the reason for not using the cinema adjustment layer was because it made the logo appear to dark and not as good as the export was.

Next task, adding a fireball to my hand, some explosions and replacing the background for a clip. All in a days work