How did they do this?

[Lucas Windsor]

Most of that would have been done in AE. Its actually pretty simple. The person just used some green screens and then overlayed objects and used a 3D camera to create the perspective.

The blurs and other stuff are just simple filters inside of AE. If you want to see how these things are accomplished just visit the website below and watch some tutorials.

https://www.videocopilot.net

[Bob Harris]

I’m aware of how to Color Key. I’ve done it in After Effects, Final Cut, and Adobe Premiere.

I guess to be more specific, I just wanted someone to point me in the direction as far as altering the look of footage in regards to color filters and image manipulation.

I’m not specifically asking you to walk me through it, but just give me a general direction to go in. I’ve seen standard def DV footage look amazing after some color correction, color filters, and widescreen cropping.

I was just curious.

[Mike Gottschalk]

Hi Bob-

Personally I like to keep a lot of my adjustments on separate layers – this makes them easier to keep track of and easier to knock back through opacity adjustments. You can start by making a comp-size solid above your footage, checking ON the Adjustment Layer switch in the Switches Column, and then applying the effect to that layer, effectively applying the same effect to everything below it in the list. (My apologies if this is already familiar to you.) An advantage of this is that you can adjust the Opacity of the Adjustment Layer to control its strength. To start to get the look in your clip, I would probably apply Levels to everything – raising the Input Black and increasing the Gamma (that’s actually Gamma to the LEFT, counterintuitively).

Also, you can use a color solid above everything else in Color Mode to give it a warm or cool color. Again, Opacity at 100% gives you a monochrome, but try lower opacities to let some of the original colors come through.

I also sometimes duplicate my source footage and put the duplicate layer in a Mode on top of itself. Try duplicating a footage layer, applying Hue/Saturation to only the duplicate layer and bringing the Saturation all the way down (black and white). Now put this layer in Overlay Mode. It now interacts with your original to give it this filmy ‘bleach bypass’ crushed black ‘300’ kind of look from your clip.

Also try out the Lens Blur with using a grayscale gradient image as your Depth Map Layer – that can give you a lot of that soft edge “tilt shift” kind of look.

Best of luck,
Mike

[Bob Harris]

Thanks so much. I’m definitely going to try out your suggestions.

[Chris Wright]

A little known feature in AE in project settings, there’s a “blend colors using 1.0 gamma”, changes the way how AE handles mixing colors together at the color engine rendering level.

Here’s a free AE project that has brown, red, green, blue tunable spinning knobs for getting instant preview colors for the look you want. Knobs are under FINAL OUTPUT-combine green into magenta comp.
https://www.megaupload.com/?d=55ADRIS2