Episode 005 - Car Crash, Teleportation and Nudity

Tim is playing chess against Emily until Josh "appears out of nowhere." Josh reveals that he has the ability to teleport, to which he takes Tim along in a series of misadventures. Later, Josh, Arris and Kyleen are stuck in a car, in which Tim intends to destroy. And nudity. Maybe a censoring tutorial is appropriate.

Teleportation Effect with Adobe After Effects

 * Difficulty: HARD
 * Needs:
 * Adobe After Effects
 * Cost: $0
 * 1) When shooting the teleporting effect, have your actor play out the scene and at the point of teleportation then do some sort of bracing movement, kind of like something about to hit you. It makes for a much more interesting effect when there is motion involved.
 * 2) Move your actors out of the frame and get a clean plate.
 * 3) *Shoot on a tripod to avoid motion tracking later.
 * 4) Import your footage into After Effects and put the footage of your actors above the footage of your clean plate.
 * 5) Select the pen tool (a.k.a. the "Masking Tool") and move the timeline cursor to the point where you want your actors to start teleporting.
 * 6) Go frame by frame for five frames, masking your actors out of the footage to reveal the clean plate behind them.
 * 7) Feather the mask by five pixels for better blending.
 * 8) Add a radial blur filter to the actor footage and have it increase over the life of the mask. Repeat this step except you are using the CC glass filter.
 * 9) Create a white solid over the footage of your actor and apply a trapcode "Form" filter to it to add a evaporating particle look.

Teleportation Effect without Adobe After Effects
You can still do this effect without After Effects from in your video editor.
 * Difficulty: Medium
 * Needs:
 * Video editing software
 * Smoke effect asset
 * Cost: $0
 * 1) Have your actor playout the scene then move out of frame. Get a clean plate of the background.
 * 2) Import your footage, clean plate and smoke effect asset (can be found on DetonationFilms) into your video editor.
 * 3) Cut in between the footage of your actor and the the clean plate to make it look like your actor disappeared.
 * 4) Add a fade (e.g. fade out) to smooth out this transition.
 * 5) Add the footage of the smoke asset on top, key out its background and move its position on the timeline to match the point where your actor disappears.

Fake a Car Crash using the Reverse Effect

 * Difficulty: Easy
 * Needs:
 * Video editing software
 * Cost: $0
 * 1) Position the front of the ramming car against the side of the target car. Film the driver of the ramming car to floor it in reverse and the actor in the target car act in reverse.
 * 2) Bring in your footage into your video editing suite and then reverse the footage. Add a sound effect for good measure.  Cut the footage before impact and done!

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