 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial in this one I'm going to show you how to rack focus or pull focus Without doing it in the lens. That's right guys I'm going to show you how to do it inside Premiere Pro and you can do this with any footage normally you have a Assistant that will adjust the dial so to speak and they'll pull focus on set But a lot of us are just you know We make our own videos and we want to add some cinematic effects to it and we want it to look good and we don't have you know Fancy DSLRs with high-speed or fast lenses and all that good stuff. So let me show you how to do it. Okay? Here's the original. I'm gonna well. I'm just gonna show you the effect first So I've started it off with the dog with the pupper is out of focus is blurry and then over the next second you'll see that the dog bit goes into focus and Then the background goes from in focus to blurry. So there are two blurs going on here I'm going to be pulling the dog like this so the dog goes in focus And then if we look at it again, you'll see the background if you look at it is going to go to blurry And then the dog will be up in front and center. So let me show you how I did that So I'm going to delete all of this stuff and we're gonna start from scratch. Let's just go ahead and delete everything Why not right gonna delete that? Okay, so the first step here is I've got some footage of a pupper doing pupper things I'm gonna drag and drop that into my timeline now the dog is just kind of chilling out in the grass and Okay, so let's just go to a right about here I'm not going to show you how to animate the masks Not because I don't know how to do it But because I did that in my previous video So if you have motion in your videos a lot of motion and you need to move the mask or move the blur over time I can show you how to do that as well. It's just in my other video, but for this one here we go So we've gone ahead. We've added in the timeline the next step is you want to go up to your effects panel Notice that I am in the effects workspace and under effects. I'm gonna type in Gaussian Just like that g a u s s and you'll see Gaussian blur show up So I'm gonna drag and drop Gaussian blur onto the timeline Okay, it doesn't do anything to start and that is perfectly fine. However, if I just crank the blur up Well, you'll see what it does But that's not what we want to do make sure your play head is at the start and we are going to grab this free draw Bezier or pen tool as it's often referred to as what we're gonna do is we're gonna left-click on it And then I'm gonna very quickly draw a mask around the puppy And you will notice that this is not an exact mask and that is on purpose and I'll show you why in a second Somewhere on there sure and we'll just we'll just make this nice and rough and This isn't if this was going into production I of course would spend a little more time than I am here But this is not so I'm not too worried about it again It's just to show you the technique and we'll close the mask. Okay, great So we've got a mask around the puppy roughly the next step is you want to go down to the mask now So under Gaussian blur in effect controls You'll see the mask when I left-click on it the mask is highlighted and now we can go ahead and increase the blurriness So let's go ahead and increase this to something that looks somewhat realistic to start. So let's go with 45 what the heck okay? Great now this does have very hard lines So it's very high contrast between the background and the puppy and what you want to do is you want to increase the Mask feather considerably. So I'm gonna go ahead and increase it to about 50 Let's go with 50. Okay. Good now. I'm going to click outside and I'm just gonna let you look at it So this looks pretty good The puppy dog is definitely blurred and the background more or less is quite in focus Good we are on our way. Let's go back to the go back to the blur And now we're gonna animate the blur. So this is the fun part So what you do is you will go to the mask and then you want to left-click down here You see blurriness left click on that stopwatch and we're gonna go ahead and decrease the blur So we're gonna start with the puppy in blur So the puppy dog is out of focus and then let's say after one Second let's go to one. Yeah, let's go to one second. The dog has no blur So here's what's happened. We've created two two keyframes It starts with the dog out of focus and then once it gets to a second It's in focus. It goes from out to in so I'm gonna hit space bar and you'll see that gradually the dog Loses its focus, which is what we want now to do it now What we also have to do because when you rack focus something goes into focus and something comes out of focus So there's a second component. So what we need to do is we need to make the background Which is this all this grass and stuff? We want that to go from out of focus to in focus So we're gonna go ahead and do that or part of me in focus to out of focus. That would be better for this Yes, so we're gonna go back to Gaussian blur here under effects We're typing goss Gaussian blur and we're gonna drag and drop a second Drop onto this pupper. So we're gonna have two effects running. You've got the first one animated now We have a second one going and on this one. We're gonna draw the exact same mask So I'm gonna draw it just like I did on the last one I'm gonna draw it really quickly though because I just want to show you the effect and I don't want to bore you guys All right, cool. All right, here we go Puppers and We're gonna just nice and easy. All right. Oh, nope. That's a bit too much. Hey, yo, sorry there little puppy I'm gonna take that one and then we're gonna go to here Come on. There we go something like that And then we'll go to here and we'll go around tip of his nose, etc. Etc. Again I'm doing this rough just to teach you the technique. Of course, you probably want to go a little bit a Little bit more accurate if we were doing this for production, but either way I've drawn a second mask and Now what you need to do and this is very important left click on inverted when you do that Nothing happens yet, but when you add the blurriness now watch you'll see that the background is Blurring but the dog is being left alone So what we want to do is we want the background to have no blur to start So we're gonna left click on that stopwatch and then after one second We'll we'll link it up. We'll we'll match the time with the other blur After one second we're gonna blur it to I don't know something like let's go a little over the top. Let's go to like 55 that's too much But again, I just want to show you the technique also you will see the hard edges around the dog where it's not exactly Where the mask wasn't a hundred percent perfect again, we're going to increase the mask feather considerably. Let's go jack it up to about 50 for this one. Yeah, we want all right. I want a good mask feather. Okay, good now watch what we have I'm gonna go back to the beginning. I'm gonna click out and dogs out of focus background is in focus as We move the timeline Dog comes into focus Background goes out of focus that is how you rack focus or pull focus in premier pro without using any fancy lenses No fast lenses. No DSLRs. None of that stuff. We can do it inside premier pro. Thank you for watching tutorial I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned