 Hell yeah, what's up guys? This is CursePike. My friends call me Bigsy. I'm back at Action's Day! We're looking at some more production value techniques. We're using HitFilm Express and we're teaching you how to become the best video editor you know using only free tools, free software, free techniques, free tutorials. In this one I'm going to show you how to add a vignette to your video for free of course. It's these nice little shades here around the edges you'll see here in the four corners. If you look at the original footage it's kind of old it's um it's all lit uniformly. We're in this one we've got some shade around the edges. Why would you do that? Well it's a photography technique and the real reason why is it it draws your attention to the center and in the center of this film well we're at a zombie dance party. Let me show you yeah these guys are zombies doing zombie things and then this guy just is starting to bust a move for no real apparent reason but it's Friday and you guys want to go zombie dancing go zombie dancing all right so we're trying to draw attention to this zombie in the middle here so how do we do it how do we create the vignette very simple let's start from scratch I'm going to delete that and I'm going to bring it in the footage I'm going to left click on the footage and I'm just going to drag it onto video track one okay good here we go we've got the footage up and running roll out the next step is you want to go to your effects panel over here and then type in vignette like I have so there you go typed it in now you will notice that there are a few options here what you want is the one under color grading left click on vignette here under color grading and just drag and drop that onto the timeline when you do that presto it's already have it's already got a vignette applied to it it's a subtle vignette if I'm being honest it's not very very strong so you can go in and make some changes if you go to controls go to vignette and then now we can go ahead and adjust things like well let's the strength is set to maximum but if you want to adjust the width for example you want it less if you want more there you go you see while we're getting a little bit more in there and then we get adjust the height well we're kind of loony tunes in here but something like that that is yeah there you go that's pretty subtle so let's turn the effect off effect on that's how you create a vignette you'll also notice that I had a different color and what I did there I'll just quickly show you is I'm going to go to my effects and then I'm just going to delete these and then I'm going to go to the bottom here and under presets there is a couple options for for quick film looks so if you go to presets go to film looks you just have to click open these triangles as you drop down the one I was using earlier was hard no it wasn't wasn't hard cool it was soft cool there we go and just drag and drop that onto the timeline and bang now you've got a nice bluish tinge pretty bright you know horror look just to match with the kind of footage this is it's like a scary movie you've got a vignette a vignette is also useful as well for like remembering things so if you're doing like a sequence where your actor or actress is trying to remember something from the past a vignette's a good way to indicate that so that's all there is to it we color corrected it and we made a vignette in about two minutes this is another free awesome production value technique thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up stay tuned