How to Cast the Protego Spell! Harry Potter Special

[frowerhousestudios]

The black background helps a lot. Later, you can use it in any video that you want by chroma keying out the black! :D

[StarVlogger]

You could use noice generators to do this in Sony Vegas.

[paugsol]

Good tutorial, but one problem. In the movies, the spell sort of spreads out and diffuses. In yours, it kinda sucks back into itself.

[jillyc1204]

this is very helpful and i just wanna no what is the program u use

[TTNFilms]

it think there's too much glow in your comp

[moviemaniacproducts]

The first time I watched this I was like O_O there's no way I'mma be able to do that, it looked so difficult. But now that I just went ahead and did it, (and did it pretty well) I was almost as excited as when Skyrim came out. THANK YOU so much for these tutorials. You have no idea how much these help me. I'm doing a HUGE high school graduation project and I'm making a short Harry Potter fan film for part of it. and I'm following your tutorials for the bulk of my effects. Again thanks so much!!

[VampiresDoRule]

ffs so annoying your screen is jumping

[ProjectZain]

I'd also add environmental glow to your subject from the spell to really sell the effect. If you notice in the clip with Snape, his face and hands lights up. You can easily a do this yourself by masking out the subject's face and arms and adding a curves adjustment. Just thought I'd offer my two cents to help aspiring vfx artists :)

[VKinDisguise]

It's actually a charm...lol

[Luka1180]

What about doing it in 3D, as in an angle? Please explain :)

[aplkitda135]

great tutorial! but im having a problem i can't find the elipse masking tool i have just the rectangular one can you help me?

[mortaluserful]

good tutorial, in the movies of harry potter what program they use to make the spells ? I don't think they use after effects xD

[AmanEditing]

That looks almost exactly like the one from the half blood prince :)

[CrazyTeenagerTV]

Thx a great tutorial but it will be really nice if you save the composition of the protego spell and put it in a site where to download it example: 4shared or Mediafire :)

[Brunomobject]

Thanks ! It really helped me!!!!

[FRISKIE889]

how do you make fractal noise so quick

[jrmoves]

Great video! There are many videos out there explaining how to create H. Potter effects, however many don't result in professional results. This tutorials helped me to get the exact look I wanted -Thanks!

[mrharrypotterspells]

what program did you use to make the effects??

[cactus248productions]

@VFXCoach i found using the blending mode 'screen' worked better as it kept more of the colours when putting it in with my footage

[CemeQuez]

Can someone help me do this with Motion 5? :(

[MrIDONTDONAMES]

Hello. This is a great tutorial, but I have a problem. During the part where you are supposed to change the size of the mask, I made the key frames and changed the size. However, the size did not stay with only one of them - it changed the whole amount of them. I tried changing the key frames and redoing it, but that did not work. Please help!!

[nab742]

@MrIDONTDONAMES the same thing happened to me, wish he would respond with the fix!

[iTzzMaTTYxHD]

@nab742 i found a way to fix it. click on the white solid and press "s" and then keyframe the scale.

[VFXCoach]

@MrIDONTDONAMES Ok. I see a couple of you are having this problem, but I am still unclear as to what is going on. Are you saying that you make te keyframes and adjust the size and it changes the size in all of them? If so, here are a couple of fixes:

Make sure you make one keyframe at a time. Start by selecting the stopwatch where the mask expansion should begin. That is your first keyframe. Move forward to where your maximum point of expansion will be, and dbl click on one of the mask points..

[VFXCoach]

@VFXCoach then drag the mask out until it has expanded. That is your second keyframe. Move forward again to where the mask should disappear and follow the same procedure as step two, but rescale the mask inwards so it gets smaller. Hope that helps. 

[ronoc36]

@VFXCoach Im having the same problem as MrIDONTDONAMES, i do all the keyframes for masking, making the size increase for the middle keyframe and decrease for the last keyframe but when i play through it then, they all stay the same size as the first keyframe, please help!!!

[iTzzMaTTYxHD]

@VFXCoach i have the same problem. when i clip the stopwatch on mask path on the first frame then double click the mask, the mask path keyframe unchecks.

[iTzzMaTTYxHD]

@MrIDONTDONAMES i found a way to fix it. click on the white solid and press "s" and then keyframe the scale.

[RMMpictures]

@MrIDONTDONAMES the same thing is happening to me and none of these suggestions are working

[MrDomburger]

i somehow did not follow Mask path step...

Because if i do some mods at the middle of the timeline... it won't have another keyframe... even if i manually put them... there won't be any resize of the shape etc.

[naruto4070]

u rock man

[brickflop]

what program are you using to make the movie?

[maxdaddy0]

what do you use for sound effects

[Geertos13]

Wouldn't this look better with some sparks, fire crackers or something and maybe a small CC Vector Blur?

[twoodhouse02]

please switch the screen recording software! i cant follow good with it blinking every five seconds!

[Geertos13]

You can't imagine how thankful I are for this!

You are fantastic!n Your tutorials are great! especially the HP ones!!!

Fantastic job!! I sub!

[MdsMaxify96]

Your so so good at it my complements

[VFXCoach]

@Miatpi Very good. That's the idea with my tutorials. I give you the foundational technique, but it's up to you to take it, make it better and even turn it into something else entirely.

[BlenderTutorials412]

Verrrrry good tutorial!!!

[ChiValryWu92]

there are great, you are awesome, i was just thinking about making a Harry Potter Vid

[didyoumissme189]

Finally a tutorial for this!

[Rytackle]

Great tutorial, really helpful!

[Xfasid]

Hi! Awesome tutorial but you need to fix your recording software. The screen blinks

when your moving the mouse and doing things. This makes everything harder to see. I have watched this on my iphone and computer, the blinks still occurs

[VFXCoach]

@Xfasid yes it is the recording software. I'll be upgrading to Camtasia or Screenflow very soon.

[Drowsy62]

AWESOME! Thanks for posting :D