 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Premiere Pro tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to use Premiere Pro Photoshop Generative Fill, matte painting, green screening, masking, reflections, all these cool things to combine them to make awesome videos like this one here of a dinosaur kind of running across the beach. That might not be super impressive, but here is what we started with. This was the original shot, a boring sunset. That's it with some waves crashing in. We're going to isolate all the different elements, matte paint them and make this into an awesome video and I'm going to show you each technique step by step. Let's get going. All right, so I'm starting with a blank screen here so we can go through this step by step with me. Step one, open up Premiere Pro and now we need to grab some footage. I'm going to go into my Finder because I'm on a Mac. If you're on a PC, you may want to go into your Windows Explorer and then just drag and drop in your original footage or your underlying footage. For me, it's this glorious sunset. I just drag and drop it into the project panel and then I'm going to click on that and I'm going to drag and drop it onto my timeline. Once it's onto my timeline, I'm just going to go a little bit forward to say about six or seven seconds, seven seconds. Let's go to seven seconds. You'll see here, I'm just clicking step forward until it says seven zero zero zero and presto. I'm going to make this a seven second long video. I'm just going to drag the end in so that this way we've reduced it to seven seconds just because you don't want to see it. This doesn't need to be a long video. I just want to make this as quick as possible without too much processing power. So there we go. That's step one. All right. The next step is I'm just going to hit play and let's just take a look at this footage. It's quite still, but if you look very carefully, you will notice that there is a little bit of motion. In general, when you do matte painting, in most cases, you don't want any motion in it because it makes it very difficult in post-production to account for a little subtle movement. So I'm going to show you how to stabilize this even though it's about 98% stable. This is an effect that you could use any time. I'm just going to go into my effects panel. I'm going to type in the word warp. When you type warp into the search bar, you'll get something called warp stabilizer. I'm going to just grab that. It's under video effects distort warp stabilizer drag and drop that onto the footage. Now when you do that, go now to your effects control panel. Your effect controls panel. If you do not see either your effects or your effect controls panel, you want to go to window and make sure there's a check mark beside effect controls and effects. Okay. There's the check mark. Here is where my effect controls panel is. And when you click on it, if you scroll down, you should see warp stabilizer already being applied. That said, I'm going to go ahead and make an adjustment. And this is probably the only adjustment you need to make here is right now it says result smooth motion for this. We want no motion at all. So I'm going to click on result smooth motion and I'm going to switch it to no motion. You'll see here that it's just doing a slight recalculation. And now when I click on it, there's absolutely no motion on the sides. The only thing that's moving in this image or this video is the water and that's fine. That's what we want. We want to keep that. So that's step two. Let's get into step three. All right. Let's keep rolling. So the next step is you need to look for the camera icon. Now it's called export frame. For me, it's located right here. There is a chance that if you've recently adjusted Premiere Pro or you just installed it, you may not see that. What you need to do if you don't see the export frame is go find the plus sign here, which is the button editor. Click on that and then make sure that this one here, where are you, Mr. Frame or Mrs. Frame? This one right here that says export frame, you can drag it and put it into the timeline. So it's already there for me, but make sure that that's in your little toolbar part of me. Now the next step is because we've stabilized all the motion, we can now take a screenshot of anywhere in this and we're going to go ahead and start working with generative filter. So to take a screenshot, as you can imagine, click on export frame. When you click on it, you'll see you get a few options. It'll just automatically name it, which is fine. You can select JPEG PNG. I'm just going to stick with JPEG, but you can of course change that. I'm going to go ahead and allow it to import into project and I'm also going to choose the path, users desktop. If you don't want to save it to your desktop, click on browse and select somewhere else to save it. I'm going to go ahead and save it to my desktop and I'm going to click on OK. Yes, I'm going to over, no, let's change the name. Just in case, Glorious, I'm going to call it Glorious Beach. So I'm just changing the name, then I'm going to click on OK. All right, let's get on to the Photoshop side of things. All right, so now we are in Photoshop and I've got my previous work open here so I can show it to you, but you'll notice up here that this is Photoshop beta. At the time of this recording, only the beta has generative fill in it, as well as the online Adobe Firefly, which is free to use, by the way, at least at the moment. But we're going to do this in Photoshop beta. If you don't have this installed, you can just go to your creative cloud here, click on that little creative cloud icon. And then on the left side, you'll see beta apps. And under beta apps, you can install any of these different betas. I've got the Photoshop installed as the beta. So the beta is in there. So I'm going to delete this. Let's start from scratch. Okay, so here we go. The first step is you'll remember that I saved that image to my desktop. So I'm going to go ahead and click on desktop here. So I've gone into my Finder and I'm going to desktop and I named it Glorious Beach. So here's the image. If you're not on a Mac and you're on a PC, you can find it in your Windows Explorer. Grab that image and drag and drop it into Photoshop beta. So here we go. I'm going to drag the image, dropping it into beta presto. I'm going to click on open and here we go. Now I've got a plane flying overhead. So I'm going to come back when that's gone and I'm going to show you the next technique. All right. So step one is I want to pull out this kind of murky sky. There's not a whole lot going on there. And I want to make the sky maybe blue with some red in it and just a really nice skyline. So how am I going to do that? It's very simple. I'm just going to go ahead and click on that little unlock just in case. I'm going to go to the left side here into my toolbar and I'm going to grab quick selection. And I'm going to go ahead now and just select the sky. And you'll see here that Photoshop has gotten really good at making selections. So I've just gone ahead and selected that sky. And when you do that, you'll see our little toolbar pop up. This is in Photoshop beta. Don't forget that. And on that little toolbar it says generative fill. I'm going to left click on it and then it says describe what you'd like to generate or feel free to leave this blank. Okay. So I'm going to go and again, I want maybe a purple skyline with a dark, with a bright, I don't know, something with a bright moon. I don't know. Let's go crazy, right? Like whatever, something like that. It doesn't matter. Click on generate. This is going to now give us three candidates that we can select from. And we'll probably choose one of them. But keep in mind as of right now, you have unlimited generation. So if you don't get what you want, you can always just change it and keep trying until you get what you want. So let's see what we get here. Here we are. It should be done in a second here. All right. Oh, that's not so bad. Okay. Pretty good. I might keep that. Let's go to the second one. Not so bad. I like that one. Let's go to the third one. Also pretty good. Okay. I don't know. This one looks like a nice desert with a moon in the sky. Now I'm going to go ahead and accept this one, but I need to make some changes to it because if you look really closely, you'll see here that there's a little bit of orange. It's not blending into the sky quite perfectly. So we're going to go ahead and accept this. I'm going to show you the next step. We're going to go ahead and mask it in the next video. All right. So in this section, we haven't done anything. We're just sitting here on the image. And what I'm going to do is I'm now going to go ahead and click on select and mask. So this is basically going to commit it, but we're going to adjust it a little bit. So when I click on select and mask, you'll see here that I've got a few options on the right side here. In particular, I'm going to go ahead and increase the radius to two pixels. I'm going to turn smart radius on. I'm going to smooth it to about 10. And again, this is what me just roughing it in here. You can of course adjust it as you see fit. I'm going to feather it one pixel. I'm going to increase the contrast to about 10% and I'm going to shift the edge to the left about 4%. These are just my personal settings. You can of course adjust those as you see fit. So we've got a little bit more of a nicer connection between the orange and the rocks. Let's go ahead now and switch up and get going on the blurring. All right. So welcome back. So in this one, I'm just going to do some simple blurring just to kind of manage the transition from the purple to the orange to the darker grayish areas. I just want to make it look a little more believable. So what I'll do is I'll go to the left side here and I'm going to grab my blur tool. It looks like the oil drop. And then it's going to say, you need to rasterize this image. I'll just show you what I mean here. So I'm going to blur like this here. For example, I'm going to click on it and it says, the smart object must be rasterized before proceeding. Yes, I'm going to rasterize it. And what it's going to do is it's just going to basically allow me to blur in kind of the purple and the orange and just make it look like it's a little bit more of a believable transition. And you'll see a little bit of lightish pink, lightish pinkish purple here at the bottom here. That's quite on purpose. That just gives it that little bit of a transition look. It's not a required step, but it's one that I like to take. All right. Now let's get to chopping. All right. So the next step is before we actually start chopping out the water, let's go ahead and save this. Let's actually export this file. We're going to go to export and we're going to go as a quick PNG. And the reason why is I just want to show you what we've done so far. So I'm just going to leave it as the name beach. I'll put it on the desktop and presto. Now let's go back into Premiere Pro and let's see what we're cooking with. So if I go into my Finder and I grab that new one that we just, I put it on the desktop, right? Yeah, desktop. It's beach.png. Let's put this in here and see what we got. Here's the original shot. If I go into play here, you'll see, obviously we've got our stuff. Now I'll put this on top of it and let's see what we got. Now we've kind of got the background we kind of want with the purple and the stuff, but obviously the purple is not reflecting on the rocks or the ocean at all. And the ocean is a still image where we, you know, if we want this to look, you know, correct, we want to keep that ocean flowing just like that and we want the image or the reflection on it. So that is the next step. Let me show you how to do it. All right. So for the next step, we're back in Photoshop Beta here. And what we're going to do is we're going to take a duplicate of this top layer. We're going to make a copy of it. So I'm just going to drag and drop it onto this plus sign inside the rectangle. And that creates a duplicate copy. It doesn't really do anything, but watch this. What we're going to do now is I'm going to hold down the command key on a Mac, control key on a PC, and I'm going to go ahead and hit the transform. So we're basically going to edit free transform. You can do it this way as well. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull it down something like this, somewhere like that. And what next is I'm going to rotate it. So I'm just going to go ahead and rotate it like this, something like that. Because what I want to do is I want to get this purplish color onto the rock. So here we go. We've kind of rotated it. It's not quite large enough for the bottom part of the image. So I'm going to go ahead and just pull this up something like, oh, no, actually, you know what, I'm going to pull it up like that. I'm not going to hold the shift key down. And we're going to get something like that. That looks pretty good. So we've gone ahead and duplicated the component at the top, and then we flipped it over and we made it a little bigger. I'm going to hit enter. And now I'm going to click on this image here. And I'm going to go up to edit, and then I'm going to go to transform. And I'm going to go to flip horizontal. The reason why we did that is because the moon should be on the same side. So let's go ahead and match the moon up here. So I'm just going to move it to the right a little bit. Obviously, the moon's a little bit bigger, but in reflections, sometimes you get that kind of cool look where the reflections larger than the source. So this looks pretty good. Now, what we're going to do next is we're going to go ahead now and turn this into an accurate reflection. Let me show you how to do that. All right. So creating a reflection that looks accurate where it's kind of just like the ground has the color cast of the sky. It wouldn't be gray. You'd get some purple and white in there. It's very easy to do. What you do is you just go over here to the layers and you drag the top layer down to a boat. Let's go with about, I'm going to go with 12%, let's say. And then to get it, you know, I mean, you guys can dial this into your taste, of course. There we go. Around 12% looks pretty good. You can actually switch the blending mode from normal. You can try out a few of the others. But the one I'm going to go with is color. That gives it the nice purple look, but it doesn't overdo it, right? And even 12%, it still looks pretty purple. So maybe we'll go down to like 9%. We'll make this very subtle. So the purple is color cast is on the ocean. It's on the rocks. Now we need to cut out the area of the ocean so that we can make that flow in the last part of the video. And I will show you how to do that next. All right. So basically we want to cut out the ocean part here so that we can leave a hole in this image so that we can see the video in the video, the ocean or the lake or whatever this is, will be flowing and it'll look natural. So it's actually quite easy to do. First off, select the bottom layer. This is the layer that we want to remove that from. So we don't want to remove it from any of these top layers because these are just, you know, pretty layers with purple and stuff. But this is the actual layer with the content on it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to the left side and I'm going to grab my quick selection tool. With this tool selected, I'm going to select this river or this lake and I'm just going to go and slowly pull in what I think needs to come out. So something like that. Now it's pretty rough. This part here is kind of hard to tell if that should be in the video or not. So I'm going to hold down the alt key or the option key and I'm going to subtract this component. But you can go ahead and accept and put in this crust here. But for the sake of time and brevity, I'm just going to go ahead and pull that out. Also, if we look close here, it hasn't gotten it quite right. It's not gotten right to the line. Whoa, Nelly. So this is a little bit of, you know, a little bit of work where you kind of just got to dial it in. So I'm going to go ahead and just do it a little bit tighter to the top here. It doesn't have to be perfect because we are going to go ahead and blend this in. And let's take another look here. This part here, I'm going to go ahead and add it in. And if you want, you can just hover down to add to it. You just go ahead and you just start adding. You just left click and to subtract, hold down the alt or the option key and you can just subtract little parts and bits and pieces. And you of course can go ahead and change the size of your brush. So right now I've got it on 25. But if you've got a very, very fine selection that you need to do, you can reduce the size of it quite a bit. And I'm going to get it to something like that. Okay. Now the next step, and this is actually kind of counterintuitive, but if we just hit mask on this, it's not correct. I was going to just do it that way, but that's actually not the right way to do it. What we need to do now is we got to go up here to select and then go to inverse. And when we do that, what we're doing is we're selecting everything, except the part that we want to pull out of this. So watch this, when I do this, and now I hit mask, watch what happens. We've actually pulled out the water and everything else has remained in the shot. So this is actually what we want to do. And you can of course go in here and do some brushwork. But if you want to go ahead and make it a little bit more accurate, but I'm just going to go ahead with this because I don't want to take too much of your time. So there is our first crack at it. Also, we can go ahead here and we can select the mask and we can go up here to select and mask and we can maybe feather it a little bit if you want to. Like maybe that I'll feather like two pixels because it's, oh yeah, let's go something like two pixel feather and a little bit smoother just because contrast up a little bit, shift edge in a little bit just because I want these edges to be not as sharp and as delineated. I want them to be feathered. Feather is the one that matters the most here and then I'll just click okay. So we've got a nicer feather on the edges. That is not a required step. It's just one I tend to take and then presto. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go to file. I'm going to go to export, export as PNG. This can't be a JPEG. This has a transparency background now. You'll see here that we need the transparency because that's where the hole in the image is which is where the water is going to go. So I'm going to call this beach transparent. I'm going to click on desktop and I'm going to click on save and now we're going to, in the next shot, I'm going to show you how to import it and then I'll even show you how to do a quick green screen to make it more fun and then we'll call it a day. All right. So now we're back in the Premiere Pro and I've just got the regular footage here that we stabilized earlier. Nothing's been added to it but we just created that transparent style purple moon background thingy that we just made there in Photoshop with generative fill. Let's get that. So I'm in Finder. I'm going to find the image which is called beach transparent.png. I'm going to drag and drop that into my project and then from there I'm going to go ahead and add that on top of the image or on top of the video and while I'm here I'm just going to increase the length so they're both the same length. Now take a look at what we got here. Look at that. We've got our generated background. We've got the orange here coming over the hills here. We've got some nice bright lights. We've managed to keep the ocean in it and it looks pretty convincing. I'm not going to lie. It looks pretty damn good. We've added in the purple color cast to the waves and a little bit of a purple color cast to the rocks as opposed to the original shot and now the easy part is the green screen with the monster that I'm going to show you. It should take like 60 seconds and then you'll have the best video you'll know. So here we go. I'm going to add that last part in. Let's get going. All right and for the final part I'm going to show you how to go ahead and add in some green screen footage. This is obviously optional. What I've done is I've got an account with Elements.invato and I'm not plugging them but I've got this video here of a dinosaur running across. I downloaded it. It's a paid subscription so you can't get it free but you could create your own or find something on the internet. Anyways I've got it here. I'm going to go to my finder. I'm going to go to my downloads and here's the dinosaur. I'm going to drag and drop the dinosaur in and presto. Now I'm going to drag and drop that little creature on top into the top B3 track and you'll see here that there we go. We've got our dinosaur running and I want that dinosaur running across our purple beach. All right cool. So how do I do it? I'm going to make sure I'm selected on the top layer and then I'm going to go to our effects panel. It's right here. Again if you don't see it window check for that check mark beside effects. We're going to grab a key called ultra key. So in the search bar type in ultra and then drag and drop ultra on top of the dinosaur like I've done here. Now go to the effects controls panel or the effect controls panel. When you're in there you'll see ultra key. My dog's barking part of me and then here we go. I'm going to go ahead and grab this little eyedropper here. Hold it down and then actually got to hold it down and drag it over and then sometimes it doesn't work to be fair. So I'm going to click on it and then click on it again. Come on Mr. Eyedropper there we go and just select one of the greens. I'm going to select the green color and presto. There we go. We've got our green screen pulled out. Our dinosaur is doing the dino walk and if you want to change where he is you can move him around like this etc. But that is literally how you create this awesome video from scratch step-by-step. Thanks for watching.