1 00:00:00,750 --> 00:00:07,530 In this video, we're going to be looking at the is the mistakes we make when we put VFX into our timelines 2 00:00:07,890 --> 00:00:12,690 and also some tips of how to do it better in the future so that we don't make the mistakes in the first 3 00:00:12,690 --> 00:00:13,000 place. 4 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:17,970 So as you can see on my screen right now, I've got quite a boring movie of an airplane flying through 5 00:00:17,970 --> 00:00:18,400 the clouds. 6 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:20,350 It's not so important what the clip is. 7 00:00:20,610 --> 00:00:26,700 So if I stop this video right now, go to my VFX is click on the plus side and let's grab some text, 8 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:29,220 which is going to be a normal title. 9 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:33,230 And I'm throwing it all the way on top of my V1, my video, one track there. 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,270 Let's just resize some stuff so that we can see what's going on. 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,580 You can see that the sample takes of that. 12 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:43,650 I'm just going to say this is the sky, so it doesn't look so boring. 13 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:44,400 We're going to. 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:44,670 Right. 15 00:00:44,670 --> 00:00:51,570 Click over here and unfold so that we can see the text VFX all the way across the whole of that clip 16 00:00:51,570 --> 00:00:52,140 of video. 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,360 And here comes one of the most asked questions. 18 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:59,220 How do I not have a VFX take up the entire length of the clip? 19 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,350 Well, there's a couple of ways of doing it. 20 00:01:01,350 --> 00:01:05,730 If you've already put the VFX in and you want to fix it and I'll show you how to do that right now, 21 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:12,300 will disable the audio, disable the video, will move our play head to where it should be pressed, 22 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,860 see on our keyboard to press on our keyboard to cut. 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,750 I'm going to throw away the bits at the start. 24 00:01:18,750 --> 00:01:19,290 In the end. 25 00:01:20,380 --> 00:01:27,580 We'll go back re-enable our tracks like that, and you can then see that we have our VFX or our titles 26 00:01:27,580 --> 00:01:29,960 will only be where we want them to now. 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:36,580 What if there was a better way of doing that so that we didn't have to put a title in and then cut while 28 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:37,480 disabling tracks? 29 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,920 Because that can be quite annoying to have to do again and again. 30 00:01:41,350 --> 00:01:44,380 So let's just get rid of the title so we've got no VFX is anymore. 31 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:50,860 A better way of putting a VFX into your track would be to move the play head to where you think the 32 00:01:50,860 --> 00:01:51,820 VFX should go. 33 00:01:52,060 --> 00:01:57,400 So in this case, again, I'm going to put in a title and I'll say around 10 seconds is where I want 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:58,230 the title to go. 35 00:01:58,660 --> 00:01:59,710 I'm going to present in. 36 00:02:00,780 --> 00:02:04,650 And then I think to myself, well, I think it should be on the screen for about 10 seconds or so, 37 00:02:04,650 --> 00:02:06,960 at about 20 seconds, I'm going to put an out. 38 00:02:07,740 --> 00:02:14,340 If I now go to my titles, I can now put a title inside that in and out that I made. 39 00:02:14,350 --> 00:02:18,900 So the title itself will only be that 10 seconds that I chose. 40 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:25,140 And if I get rid of that just for a second so that you can see what the alternatives are, if I put 41 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:27,360 it in the middle, it will only take up to ten seconds. 42 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:27,930 I gave it. 43 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:33,930 If I go outside of that, it again defaults to being the whole clip. 44 00:02:34,230 --> 00:02:37,680 So it's worth knowing that Light Works really respects your ins and outs. 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,010 So you'll only put it inside the in and out if you choose to. 46 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:46,290 Now, this has the other advantage of being able to move your ins and outs like this. 47 00:02:46,710 --> 00:02:49,140 You can move them and you don't have to get rid of them. 48 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:55,650 And you can throw in a second title, for example, that makes life really, really interesting for 49 00:02:55,650 --> 00:02:57,240 us so we can have multiple titles. 50 00:02:57,550 --> 00:03:01,500 And, you know, I made a video before of overlapping text, so we talked about it there. 51 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:07,960 So this would be the correct way of getting your VFX is only where you want them to be in your clip. 52 00:03:08,460 --> 00:03:09,840 Now, let's get rid of these two. 53 00:03:11,310 --> 00:03:17,730 Let's get rid of the ins and outs and let's go old school and put in a title like this will unfold. 54 00:03:17,730 --> 00:03:24,240 It will again make it interesting like this. 55 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,500 So there's our title and we follow my instructions. 56 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:29,910 So we disable the audio. 57 00:03:29,910 --> 00:03:37,350 The video we see on the keyboard like this, we get rid of the stuff we don't want, re-enable the tracks 58 00:03:37,830 --> 00:03:40,380 and we have our titles exactly the way we want them to be. 59 00:03:40,650 --> 00:03:46,920 Now, a question that I'm asked more than any other, both in real life and online, is how do you stop 60 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,220 the screen from going blank when you move a VFX? 61 00:03:50,220 --> 00:03:51,810 I'll show you what I'm talking about. 62 00:03:52,410 --> 00:03:58,890 If we were to disable the audio and the video, move our title to a little bit closer to the start, 63 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,390 you can see that immediately our video goes black in the background. 64 00:04:04,740 --> 00:04:08,640 Now, there is no real fix for this by moving the timeline around. 65 00:04:08,670 --> 00:04:11,130 There is a fix and we'll go into that in a few seconds. 66 00:04:11,580 --> 00:04:15,060 But just know if I undo this now to where it was. 67 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,260 When you're moving VFX is around, don't disable anything. 68 00:04:19,410 --> 00:04:21,030 They will move quite happily. 69 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:25,080 In fact, you can have two or three VFX and you can move them around how you want to. 70 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:26,550 And nothing will happen. 71 00:04:26,970 --> 00:04:30,300 As soon as you disable something, the screen will go blank. 72 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,820 So what happens if? 73 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:41,620 You move a VFX, you switch a video track back on and you've got a black screen, and remember that 74 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:43,990 black screen will appear in your timeline as well. 75 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,640 So that kind of ruins your movie. 76 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:46,670 Well, not quite. 77 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:48,340 Let's go to VFX. 78 00:04:48,940 --> 00:04:52,430 And we talked about the graphs in previous videos, but we've never talked about routine. 79 00:04:52,810 --> 00:04:54,340 Let's actually click on that. 80 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,820 And what you can see is that the rooting tab actually has all the VFX and all the video clips we've 81 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:01,060 got. 82 00:05:01,330 --> 00:05:07,330 And what we're allowed to do here, which is quite cool, is we're allowed to apply effects to different 83 00:05:07,330 --> 00:05:08,550 clips, how we want them to. 84 00:05:08,830 --> 00:05:15,250 Now, in this case, you can see that the video clip is playing, that there is a text on top of it, 85 00:05:15,250 --> 00:05:17,730 but the text and the video are not connected. 86 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,240 Their connection is broken. 87 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,740 So let's click their. 88 00:05:21,730 --> 00:05:29,830 Move it down to there and you can see now that the titles, the one is now connected physically to V 89 00:05:29,830 --> 00:05:34,190 one, which is our airplane clip, and you can see rather than black, our taxes on top. 90 00:05:34,570 --> 00:05:39,370 Now, really interesting would be if I showed you what happens when we move things. 91 00:05:39,550 --> 00:05:44,700 So if I was to move this text around, you can see that the link is still there. 92 00:05:44,710 --> 00:05:45,730 It's not broken. 93 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:51,430 As soon as I disabled the video and moved the titles, you can see that the link is broken. 94 00:05:51,430 --> 00:05:55,300 It's almost like you're switching off the video track and then telling like works. 95 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:57,700 Well, I don't want you to actually connect these two anymore. 96 00:05:57,970 --> 00:05:59,850 I'm physically breaking the connection. 97 00:06:00,220 --> 00:06:06,520 So in this case, again, a really simple fix would just be to go and connect the two again and we'll 98 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,450 have videos in the future talking about this routine, because it's really, really cool. 99 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:16,600 But for now, this is a really simple way of fixing the black screen VFX problem that so many people 100 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:17,320 complain about.