 In today's video we're going to cut a Hollywood style trailer, form scratch using footage from Artgrid, music, sound effects and some cinematic titles. We're going to make an entry example to our edit challenge and hopefully you guys can pick up some tips and tricks along the way to make your entry better for a greater chance to win. But if you haven't heard of our edit challenge yet we're basically giving away 75 000 US dollars in filmmaking gear which makes this challenge the biggest one to date so if you want to know all of the details there's going to be links down in the description below so don't miss out. And also we're going to have a giveaway at the end of this video so make sure you stick around but with all of that out of the way let's start creating our trailer. So usually when you cut a trailer then you obviously have the full length of the film to cut the trailer from but because we're basically inventing its toy here we're going to have to work a little bit differently so I have kind of a vague idea of where I want to go with my trailer so what I actually want to do first is try to find some inspiration with the music so I'm gonna go into Artlist and I'm gonna find some song that kind of evokes the emotion that I want to create and what I actually want to do is listen to the music that I choose while I'm looking for footage on Artgrid so that's really gonna help me you know kind of fill things out and just find the right shots to fit the emotion that I want to create so on Artlist and I know that I want to go for something that is more dark and cinematic so straight ahead I'm gonna go into the mood filter category here and I'm going to go for dark and if we can't find what we're looking for then I will also go to genre and go for cinematic but for now let's just keep with the like dark so I've done this search already and I actually found two songs that I think will fit my vision and the first one is actually just the first one on the list here okay so like after the beginning I I don't really like where it's going but let's listen to the second choice that I got here I really really like this music there's just something like very mysterious and we're also like very dark about it I think I think I'm gonna go for that one so let's look into this artist let's see if there's like maybe something else I can use maybe pair them together okay so that one's on the same page as the other song we chose so I might download that one as well and see if I can kind of mix them together and while I'm listening to that music I'm going to go into art grade and actually search for shots that align with the music align with the emotional feeling I want to evoke so we're gonna listen to that and we're gonna pick out some shots so we're now on art grade and I'm gonna put on my headphones so I can listen to the music but what I want to do is just scroll through the homepage here you can see this is on staff picks so this should give us like the best shots out here and since I don't exactly have something specific in mind yet I only have a rough idea for like what I want to do so I'm just going to scroll and again just look for inspiration look for things that align with the music so let's go ahead and do that and what's really great is that for example I want this shot I feel like it would work well with the kind of shots that I chose so far and where I want to take this trailer but I want other shots maybe similar to this one that can support my story maybe different angle maybe there's another character so what's great is that I can go into this story here I can press view story and then I have a bunch of other clips that are probably from the same location and are like they have the same theme and like they're part of story and I definitely know that I want some lightning some fire these kind of nature elements so I'm going to go into video themes and I'm going to go for elements of nature and I'm gonna find some stuff here that I'm sure is going to fit with my vision and if I wanted to I could also search by shot type I could search for close-ups for long shots tripod handheld there's like a bunch of filtering options so for now I'm only going to choose the elements of nature in the video themes and I'm going to try and find shots that will fit my story so I picked off the clips that I wanted and I've downloaded them and the next thing I want to do is go to the sound effect catalog on our list and I'm going to search for impact anything I think could fit my trailer I want to do it before I start editing so I can just have everything just drag and drop try different things and especially at this stage I'm going to look mainly for the impacts because the song we chose while it is good and it fits my vision if we just use it like as it is it's a bit boring like for trailer it needs more change of pace it needs more action so I'm going to use impacts and musical keys to essentially create like almost a new custom track and I'm it's going to have pace it's going to be constantly changing it's going to be fast and slow and we're just going to mix things up and basically keep the interest going so I'm going to start with this collection it's a curated sound effects collection from our sound effects team at Artlist and they've made this collection specifically for our eddy challenge and there are some great sound effects here probably like I don't know like a pretty big portion of what you'll be looking for for your trailer is going to be in this collection so I'm going to leave a link down in the description below to that collection so you can just go ahead and speed up your workflow and just find the the sound effects you need over here so the first impact here definitely I'm gonna need it I'm gonna download it so I've downloaded everything that I need from this collection I'm in premiere now and I've got my music over here I've got all of the footage and I've got the sound effects and I'm going to start laying out the track and building the rhythm and the music and then I'm going to put the footage on that and build the story with the music and while I'm building the track and the music and all of the impact I roughly have the storyline I want in my head so I'm going to cut it and shape it according to that so I think I'm going to start with this part over here and then I'm probably gonna move on to the to this music so when making a trailer you usually want to start strong start with something that is going to be attention grabbing pull the audience in and then still on that first part you want to introduce the story introduce the characters and basically make a good exposition or like explain what the movie is about and then on the second act on the middle part that's where you want to give out more information and develop a little bit more of the story and this is maybe where you could introduce the conflict in the story or like the villain if you have one and then the third act is going to be basically like a lot of action and it's going to end strongly basically leaving you with the feeling of I want to see more of this so generally speaking this is usually the structure that trailers follow so I've laid down a base structure for me to walk in and I'm going to play it in a second I'm not sure about the ending yet but we'll figure it out later for now I have the beginning and the middle part so let's give a listen to that okay so that's what I have so far and the rest I'm going to figure out later but just laying out this basic structure for myself really helps me search for the right shots and it's like a puzzle and now that I have this base structure it's much easier for me to fill in the pieces so now what I'm going to do is just start placing my shots and start building up a story so this is my first shot here that's what I want to start with and already what I'm going to do is get into my effect controls and I'm going to do some scale and positioning to just add a little bit of movement to this shot to make it a little bit more interesting and this is something that you can very easily do to almost any shot if you just want to get some more interest and movement so this is pretty basic stuff but it can be very effective I'm going to make two keyframes here at the start you can see it's turning blue that means we're now being able to animate these parameters the scale and the position so that's the first step and then I'm going to go into the end of the clip just the last frame and now I want to scale things up a little bit maybe get some position in there as well and now if we go back and play it you can see we have this movement to the shot which was static before and then what I'm also going to do and you're gonna see that a lot in trailers is I'm going to go down into effects I have written down dissolve and now I have the film dissolve here I'm just gonna drag it to the start of the clip and then to the end of the clip and we're getting that fade in fade out effect but now let's keep editing so I've placed a few shots and I want to show you what I did so far and then I'm gonna show you another very easy but impactful tip so you can see the shots are now placed with the hits and the sound effects but it's just hard cuts there's nothing really there we're missing that flare basically so one very easy thing we could do is when we transition from this shot to that shot where we have the hit what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go into the last frame here from this shot I'm gonna make a cut and then I'm simply going to go into my effects I can write down invert and then I can use it just on this one frame so we get this effect and then we have this so add a few more of these add a few fade in fades out and this whole sequence is gonna be much better so let's do it now so as you can see I've added a few other inverts and the film dissolve and now when we watch it back you'll see it's looking much better and it only took me like two or three minutes much better and what I'm trying to do here is basically work in mini sequences and tell like mini stories within the entire cut even if there's like no real logic behind it and sometimes they would even do it in like real film trailers they would make a sequence that looks like it's connected but it's actually from different points across the film so it just needs to feel like it's connected so we're basically building out these mini sequences so I finished placing in all of these shots for this cut for this trailer put in these titles as like placeholders for now and we're going to make titles later on then I also added a few other sound effects but I pretty much kept the same structure as we had in the beginning so let's watch what we have so far so that's what we have so far and now all that's left to do is put in the titles make them beautiful make them nice and tie this whole thing together and I'm in motion array I'm gonna search for a nice template to make me beautiful cinematic titles so for me I know a little bit of after effects and I know that mostly like the most beautiful templates are usually in after effects because they're a little bit more complicated so I'm going to go straight ahead into after effects templates and in here I'm just gonna try my luck with whole and let's see if we can find something nice so that's looking pretty nice might go for that one that one looks really nice I might use that maybe change the color there to like head or something but that looks pretty good that one's also pretty nice I'm gonna save that and that one is also nice so that's another option so let's download these and then we'll see which one I want to use so I think I'm gonna go for this template and as you can see we have all of the layers here that going to making this so I can easily customize things and I'm obviously going to change the text and I think I'm also going to change up the colors a little bit so I'm gonna do that and I'll meet you guys when I finish and then we'll watch the final thing with the titles and everything so we're almost done the last thing I want to do is add some black bars to make it that cinematic white aspect ratio and you could just open like that white aspect ratio sequence from the beginning then not have the black bars but we didn't do it so that way is going to be also fine so let me show you how to do it so I'm going to open a new adjustment layer and I'm going to put that on top of all of my clips so it's the top layer here it's above all of my clips and the way I like to do it is go into the crop effect apply to the adjustment layer and then I'm going to do like 30% on top and 30% on bottom and then we have that cool nice cinematic cinemascope black bars and then another thing I want to do is just add a little bit of color grading and if I wanted to I could have downloaded the log files from outgrade for all of this footage and then I would have had a clean slate basically and I could calibrate each shot exactly as I wanted but I downloaded the rex709 footage so what I'm going to do is create a new adjustment layer and I'm going to go down to color over here and because all of the footage is already um created basically what I'm going to try and do is maybe um like generally get the context down and get some of this saturation down and then on the same adjustment layer I'm going to create a new Lumetri effect and I'm going to go into the creative tab here and I'm going to choose one of the LUTs that we have here available and that one is pretty similar to the direction I wanted to take um let's see how it looks on different footage and it's in the right direction it's just a bit extreme so I'm going to make a few adjustments and if I really wanted to I could adjust things shot by shot and the last thing to top everything off I'm going to search for grain and I'm going to download this film grain and use it on top of my footage and I'm just going to drag this onto here and I'm going to go to my effect controls and all we need to do is change the blending mode to overlay and that's where the magic happens you can see all of that beautiful grain over here let me zoom in for a second we can clearly see all of this I've gone pretty extreme with the grain you can make it more subtle if you want by reducing the opacity and now we have a little problem if we go a little bit forward we have a fade out with the video and you can see what's happening basically when it's black we're seeing all of the grain so what we need to do is simply create a black video track underneath all of our video clips so that's what I've already done here so you can see when I enable this black clip the problem is basically gone so now we have beautiful textured grain and I think we are pretty much done so that was my take on how to edit a movie trailer hopefully you guys found this video helpful and insightful and I'm really looking forward to seeing all of your amazing submissions for the challenge a quick reminder again that all of the details you need for the challenge are in the description below if you enjoyed this video please give it a like and consider subscribing for more of these videos and for these videos giveaway one of you guys could win a three one year artist music and sound effects subscription all you have to do is let us know down in the comments below which movie trailer is your favorite one ever here is the winner for my last giveaway congratulations to you and until the next time stay creative