Make your PHOTOS come to LIFE – CINEMAGRAPHS in Premiere Pro
- December 30, 2023
- Posted by: MainInstructor
- Category: .Net BASIC Go Photoshop Premiere Pro
Video Title: Make your PHOTOS come to LIFE – CINEMAGRAPHS in Premiere Pro
Welcome to Creative Tuesday, guys! My name is Jordy for cinecom.net and today… …we’re going to make some photos come to life. Cinemagraphs is a fancy name for moving pictures. It’s definitely not something new, but it has been getting quite popular among advertisers. Instead of showing a static picture of their product,
They would add one or several moving elements in it to draw more attention. We also gave it a shot with this delicious coffee. Only $149, which gives you unlimited coffee for an entire year. No, wait, that is for Videoblocks. With that single price, you can download unlimited stock videos,
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…by following the first link in the description below… …and that way you can start a 7-day trial completely for free. So, there’re multiple complexity levels when it comes down to a cinemagraph. You can make it very simple like this rolling skateboard wheel.
You just film the skateboard from a tripod as you twist one wheel. In Adobe Premiere Pro you then place the shot of the skateboard in your timeline… …and make a duplication of it to video track 2. We’ll freeze the clip on the bottom, like shown here, and then select the upper layer,
Go into your effects controls and take the Pen tool from the Opacity… …to create a mask around the skateboard wheel. So now you have a freeze frame on the bottom, which is essentially a still picture… …and only that one wheel which is moving. This is the most basic cinemagraph you can think of…
…and it doesn’t really blow someone’s mind away because… …everything in your shot is static. In our blog, which you can find a link to in the description below, we have some more examples of some really stunning cinemagraphics. And what makes them stand out so much…
…is because the still picture is freeze from an actual moving object… …and not a skateboard on the ground. For example, us humans. Even when we sit still we kinda… …move because of our breathing. It happens organic. Just like rain, wind, water, animals and so on… …they all move organic.
So if we would make a cinemagraph like this, it becomes more interesting… …but also a little more complex. But it’s a lot of fun, so let’s see how to pull this one off. First up is the setup and there’re a few things in our shot that have to be still. Super still.
Namely, the coffee can and the mug. So I’m going to place a light stand on which I can lean the coffee can on. The same thing can be done with the mug as well. But if I would place a light stand underneath that, it would come in front of myself.
Essentially not a big problem, but this means that we’ll need to clone stamp this afterwards in Adobe Photoshop. So if you’re familiar with that you can do it this way. But if you wanna keep it all inside Premiere Pro,
Then what I suggest is to clamp the mug against your chest with any object you can find. Important is that you don’t see that extension object. And now you can just poor in the coffee, but as you do so… …do your very best to stand still as much as you can.
This is all shot on a tripod, which is very important… …because of the masks that we’ll create later on. And for the last step you wanna film an empty shot as well. So now you can take it all into Premiere Pro. Move the empty shot on the bottom…
…and the other shot of you pouring in the coffee on the track above. You already wanna take a duplication of that, just like with the skateboard example. I’m going to disable that duplication for a moment, because we’re going to first remove the light stand from the shot.
Take the Pen tool from the Opacity property and draw a mask around that stand. Make sure it’s precise and that you take time for this. You only have to draw this once. When you’re done, go into the mask properties and invert it.
This will leave a gap in the clip, but because we have an empty shot on the bottom, it will appear as you’ve magically made the light stand disappear. So these two clips can get freeze now by right clicking on them… …and choosing Frame Hold.
Because this is a still frame, you could have also exported this to Photoshop… …and remove any objects in there, which of course gives you a lot more control. But again, you need to know Photoshop for that, of course. Let’s enable the upper track again,
You wanna draw a mask around the coffee coming out. Look for a point where the coffee flows evenly, because the idea of a cinemagraph is that you have an infinite loop. So try to find a point where the coffee flow… …looks the same on the beginning as on the end.
By setting your playback in repeat, it could already come out great. But if that’s not the case, you might wanna add a little transition in between. Because it has to stay in an infinite loop, we can’t just copy and paste this whole bunch a couple of times.
We need to retain a short clip that can be played back in repeat. So we need to have our jump cut in the middle of that clip. What I’ll do next is make a cut in the middle of the clips.
I switch the left and the right parts. Now we have that jump cut in the middle… …and the beginning and the ending of the clip match perfectly now. So what I can do next now is add a Morph Cut transition… …on the coffee flow in the middle.
You can also try this with a cross dissolve. But this is how you can make your cut less visible in a repeated video. Now to fine-tune the cinemagraph, you could, for example, mask out other moving parts as well, like the coffee in the can itself.
Or what I also did was adding some steam in the coffee mug. I downloaded a smoke video from Videoblocks, which I could blend, reposition and mask to make it fit above the mug. And it are these details which makes it so awesome.
If you’re creating one of these cinemagraphs, make sure to upload it to Instagram… …and tag us in your post. We’d love to see what you guys are making. Thank you so much for watching… …and as always… …stay creative! -Ah! Fooled you! I’m not a moving picture!
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Only problem with these is quality of the still image is not good enough for a billboard. SMH 🤣
what did you save the file as ?
Awesome
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Great tutorial, well made! I did a cinemagraph compilation myself, check it out if you like, they are fun to do! Cheers!
AWESOME
It’d be nice to have more Pr, less other stuff.
Trying to use the first method as I'm new, and I've followed what you said but it just doesn't work
Booo! Says PHOTOS in the title…..
Really cool! Love it!
Thanks for the info, i have a question regarding this video
https://youtu.be/zPdEnz-hHCM
Can you please tell me – or do a tutorial – about how they are done it? The birds.. Etc .Many thanks in advance.
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Awesome as always
Ooooh this is cool. I will try this for sure!
I really like this effect. Thanks for the easy and interesting tutorial!
Who agrees that 2020 Jordy seems, like, ten years older than 2018 Jordy?
Nice
You guys are my zack king
Cool color Gradee BRUHH!!
Very very good teaching teacher 👨🏫
Great day
This is indeed one of my favorite channels on youtube.
Hello, my first Cinemagraph Music Video Clip 😉 https://youtu.be/0IGuSu_n5Ow
Wow
very very Good.
Thought you were pouring twizzlers.
What kind of file do u export it as?
wow
How simple.It's art of teaching.
Awesome! Photo into living one. Bro how to make you make this video thumbnail looks realistic and very contrast. Can you say ? Please …
I thought an other way, I'm 2 years late but I'm new, it's the wheel example, to loop an object you create the mask with whatever you want to keep on moving and you invert the reproduction, so it goes from the beginning to the end and from the end to the beginning, so it looks like it's always moving, it works on most of the examples but not on all of them, but for example in the last one with the coffee it's much easier the way I'm thinking, isn't it?
Almost 6 minutes of advertising upfront for an almost 6-minute long video with another advertisement included. Holy crap guys.
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Love your video!! Thank you very much!! How do export the cinemagraph?
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The question remains….
Why do you serve coffee from a pot while having a better Nesprosso solution right there! 😉☕️