 What's up guys it's your Val here and in today's video I want to tell you all about our new VFX pack and show you guys how to use the different elements like fire, smoke, dust, particles to really enhance your footage and make it look amazing. I'm also going to share with you some practical tips and tricks and walk you through a few techniques to really blend these elements in and to posit them into your shots and make them look real. So let's watch the trailer for the VFX pack which also includes the final shots that we're gonna be editing today and as always we're also going to have a giveaway at the end of this video so make sure you stick around but let's first watch the video and then we're gonna jump right in. So we're in After Effects and I want to start off with a pretty easy shot and a very quick and easy way to make your shot look better using the VFX pack so this is gonna be a simple example and then we're gonna move on to more complex things. I'm just gonna drag one of the elements in and you're gonna see how immediately without too much work it's gonna really enhance the footage and just make it look way better and more interesting just with a few clicks so let's go for that. So we have this footage of this couple just this bone file there they're kissing and now I'm gonna go and search for embells so let's go into the VFX pack folders and I'm gonna go into embells so we have a bunch of these and I'm gonna go for embers number five I'm gonna drag it in I'm gonna scale it up and I'm gonna go into the blending mode and go for screen and let's play the final result as easy as you like just drunk and drop change the blending mode and there you have it a beautiful shot. So this next example is also going to be pretty easy but we're gonna take it a step forward I'm gonna show you how to color correct the elements to make them blend in more with the original shot and it's just gonna give you the tools to really play around with the elements and just make them look good in any scenario that you're using any footage any element any effect that you're trying to achieve I'm gonna show you some tools to help you do that so let's go. So we have this shot of the girl running let's watch it all right looks nice and I really want to enhance this footage make it look more interesting just give it a little bit more of a pop so a very easy thing that I can do is just go over to my VFX pack I'm gonna go over to smoke and we have four smoke elements and I'm gonna go for the first one so I'm just going to grab it and just like that drag it into my timeline over the clip that I already have and as you can see the smoke is on a black background and it's like we can't see the footage underneath so all we need to do to fix this is go into our blending modes I'm gonna change the blending mode to screen which basically eliminates everything that is darker so we're only gonna see what slider which is the smoke and as you can see now we can see the smoke over here so what I want to do now is make the smoke bigger so I'm gonna press S on the keyboard to bring up the scale and I'm gonna go for something around let's say 250 maybe so already it adds quite a lot but it doesn't look really good because the smoke is white and the whole scene is more orange and the smoke that we already have going on is orange as well so we're gonna try to match that to basically make this look as if it was really there when they shot this so I'm gonna use a bunch of different color grading tools to help me kind of get this to look the same as the original so I'm gonna go to my effects and I'm gonna type in curves and that's gonna be the first effect that we apply and let's go to red first and let's try to play with that so that's looking already pretty nice now let's go over to the blues now let's try the greens and something like that I think looks pretty nice let's play it and maybe I want to drop the opacity just a little bit maybe somewhere around 80 and yeah that looks pretty nice very quick very easy and one thing I forgot to mention that I did is I actually sped up the smoke because it was going pretty slow so I just went right click and time time stretch and I put this on 75 which basically made this go a little bit faster which was more suitable to my shot so this is another tool that you can use you can make the elements go faster or slower depending on your needs and on your shot and I think that's pretty much it for this shot we just dragged in the smoke I put it on screen made it go a little bit faster scale it up and we also used curves to color correct this and make it blend more with the original shot so let's just play the final result again so for this next shot I want to show you guys something a little bit more complex so we have this shot here of this car burning and there's fire on the right side of the car and on the left side a little bit and the center is feeling a little bit missing I want to have fire in there as well so I'm going to use the fire assets on the VFX pack to fill in the frame and like get more fire in there make it more impactful so I'm going to go into fire in my folders and I'm going to look at the different ones that I have maybe I'll start off with fire number three I'm going to drag it in and again the background is black so I'm going to change the blending mode and I have a feeling that ad is gonna look better with this one but let's try screen at first so you can see the difference like this looks nice but it doesn't have that kind of glow effect to it so I think ad is gonna be better so let's see that yeah so this is a screen which is a little bit like more transparent and ad is just a little bit brighter looks better for this scene and there's still quite a lot of work to do on this one so let's start by scaling it down I'm gonna position it somewhere around there and now obviously this doesn't look good yet but before I go into color correcting again what I want to do is actually motion track this you can see that the footage has some movement and if I play it you can see that the fire element is staying stationary and the footage is moving so it's just not staying in place so I want to fix that and we're gonna do that by doing some motion tracking so I'm gonna try to motion track it manually and let's see how that works so I'm going to press on p to get to my position I'm gonna click this top watch to create a keyframe and now let's move a few frames forward and let's see position fire and we're just gonna keep on doing the same thing so we did a pretty nice job with motion tracking this and fire looks like it's pretty much staying in place together with the footage and that's what we wanted and now that we have it motion tracked I want to start color correcting it and just making it look more like the fire that is actually in the shot so I'm gonna go into my effects again and I'm gonna type in glow I'm gonna drag that into fire three and let's start messing around with the settings so I'm going to increase the intensity and the radius and the threshold so this is a pretty nice start this is with the glow this is without the glow but it's still not doing enough so next up we're gonna go into curves again and I'm just going to raise this up and then I'm going to go into tint and that already made a pretty big difference just the amount of tint I want to bring it down maybe something like this because I do want to keep some of the color because it is yellow but as you can see the real fire is like almost pure white it's completely blown out so that's what I'm trying to go for here now I can see that the fire that we added is just it's too sharp compared to the real fire so I'm gonna go into Gaussian blur and let's start blurring this up and this is already looking much better let's see everything that we did so far so this was before and this is after so quite a long way but we still can make it look a little bit more real if I look at the fire on the left here you can see it's it's very blown out and our fire is still like it has too much detail so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go into brightness and contrast let's just bring this up so that's looking already better and then back into my curves let's try to get the color just a little bit more into the yellow side and then just to really dial this in I'm gonna go into you and saturation and I'm gonna go for reds, lightness I'm gonna bring this up I'm gonna take the saturation a bit down and then I'm gonna move this wheel over maybe something like that and I'm gonna take this saturation down again and you can see that brought us like very close now I think it's a little bit too blurry so I'm gonna take down the blurriness and yeah I think that looks pretty nice let's play it so yeah I think now it's blending in very well with the original fire it doesn't look fake so it looks really good and it really added to the shot and now we can go ahead and add maybe another fire on the other window and we can basically do the same thing again so drag that in put it on add scale it down and then I'm just gonna copy everything that we did with this one and there we go we have another fire in there and obviously we want to motion track that as well and another quick thing that we can do with this shot to really add a lot of depth is create a new solid and I'm gonna give it a yellow color I'm gonna press okay then I'm going to create a circular mask something like this then I'm gonna feather this out quite a lot maybe something like this I'm gonna change the blending mode to add and I'm gonna put this underneath the fire and I'm gonna drop the opacity way down let's try 10 percent yeah something like that we can even go 20 and you can see it's just adding like kind of this atmosphere glow around the fire and the same thing that we can see happening with real fire and we have like smoke and the car so in real life it would emit kind of a glow so it's looking pretty nice so just a quick little thing that can add more depth and make this look even better and in general we can spend at least like 30 minutes on even an hour or more tweaking this to look just perfect but just within a few minutes this is looking really really nice and I like the results and the fire elements really helped intensify the scene and make it look even more powerful than it already was so that's the power of these elements so let's go on to the next example so for this next shop we have this couple sitting together in the rain and I think we could really spice this up by using some raindrops so I'm gonna go into the VFX pack folders and I'm gonna go into raindrop and I'm gonna choose raindrop number two I'm gonna drag it in and now you can see that if I choose something like screen then it gets rid of the black but this is not really looking good because all of the raindrops are white which they shouldn't be because in real life it kind of catches on the color that is already there so the blend mode that we want to use for this is color dodge because when we do that you can see that now all of the colors are coming through but we're getting the raindrop texture so I want to make this a little bit bigger and I also want to drop the opacity and now you can see that we have a little bit of a problem because the shot is moving in and our raindrop is just staying the same so it doesn't really match up so what we want to do is actually motion track this but this time we have like a forward movement and we also have like the x and y movement so I do want to motion track this using the after effects tracker and not manually like we did in the previous shot so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go into the tracker here and if you can't see this then you have to go into window and check tracker over there so I'm gonna choose the base layer or base footage I'm going to hide the raindrop for now and I'm gonna select track camera and I'm gonna basically let it finish tracking so the tracking finished and you can see that now we have all of these tracking points over here and they're all pretty much the same in this instance so I'm gonna go for this one right click create solid and camera and now we can see that this solid is actually moving together with the footage so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to right click and I'm going to pre-compose this I'm gonna double click that and I'm gonna change the composition settings to 4k which is the size of our raindrops and footage and now I'm going to delete the solid and I'm gonna copy all raindrops into the composition then I'm gonna change the composition here back into color dodge and now you can see that our footage is actually motion tracked and it's kind of going together with the original movement of the footage and now I just want to add a little bit of a cashew blur just a touch so maybe something around like four yeah that looks pretty nice and the main takeaway that I want you guys to understand from this example is that we used a different blending mode within your screen or add because those just made the blacks disappear but it didn't like made the colors come through and that's why we used color dodge and depending on your footage and what you want to achieve and the kind of element that you're using there's like a lot of options here for different blending modes there's dark and multiply color burn soft light so just experiment with all of these and kind of see what works in like your case and your footage and the effect that you're trying to achieve so just be flexible and try to kind of stay creative and just experiment so that is all for this video I really hope you guys enjoyed it and the key with this pack is really to get creative and use the different elements and different tools and techniques that I've showed you to really make your vision come to life and now let's talk about this video's giveaway one of you guys could win a free one-year subscription to the artist music catalog and the VFX pack all you're gonna do is comment down below which video would you like for us to make next here are the three lucky winners from our last giveaway congratulations to you guys until the next one stay creative