Darkish Video Enhancing Magic
Some folks mentioned this episode could not be performed. Some folks even mentioned it should not be performed. That it is unnatural to place video inside textual content. Man wasn’t meant to wield such energy, and but I’ve wielded it anyway, and now you possibly can too!
This week’s Brief Cuts is fast and straightforward to do however offers you a enjoyable little instrument to maintain in your toolbox. Video inside textual content is superb for title playing cards, scene transitions, and one million different enjoyable little artistic makes use of.
Getting arrange
The very first thing we’ll do is create a plain again video inside Lightworks. That is helpful to know simply in a basic sense and for this tutorial.
All it is advisable do is right-click someplace inside your undertaking contents browser, go to make, and click on ‘video black’. This may add a clip for you that claims empty, however belief me — there’s a black clip inside that clip.
Now you’ve got made that, drop it down onto your timeline.
Textual content
The subsequent step is so as to add some textual content to this black clip. Head over to your VFX tab, and add some textual content to your footage. We now have different movies round how you can work with textual content, similar to this one right here: Brief Cuts #12: Get Artistic with the Rolling Title Impact in Lightworks
The trick right here is to be sure that your textual content is as giant and daring as doable, to verify there’s loads of actual property in your video to indicate by means of on.
Any fonts you have got put in in your pc will present up on Lightworks, so you possibly can at all times go looking for a greater font should you’re not feeling any of those you have got already.
Video Inside Textual content
Now we have to get some footage in place. Proper-click in your timeline, go to tracks and add a brand new video monitor. This may sit on high of your earlier one.
Now simply head again to our previous buddy, the VFX panel, click on + so as to add a brand new impact, go to the combo tab, and select mix. Add this to your footage, after which within the settings for the impact contained in the VFX tab, choose ‘darken’ from the tactic dropdown.
Voila! So simple as that, your footage will now be exhibiting by means of your textual content. Utilizing the opacity slider, you possibly can select how a lot white will be seen by means of the textual content.
Easy!
Like I mentioned, a brilliant simple trick, however one with a number of potential use to it. Give it a strive, and tell us the way you get on. Are you considering, ‘positive, video inside textual content is nice, however what if I do not need it on a black background? Or desire a completely different video in every letter’? Nicely, perhaps it’s best to simply preserve your eyes peeled for future Brief Cuts! 😉
Extra Brief Cuts
When you’ve discovered this information helpful and are in search of another cool issues you are able to do inside Lightworks, you could find all of our earlier Brief Cuts episodes right here:
Short Cuts #14: Time Journey By way of Your Edit with Milestones
Brief Cuts #13: Restore Deleted Footage or Sequences
Brief Cuts #12: Get Artistic with the Rolling Title Impact in Lightworks
Brief Cuts #11: Enhancing Video for Social Media within the Right Facet Ratio
Brief Cuts #10: Pace Up Enhancing with Proxies
Brief Cuts #8 & 9: Save Time Rendering Video
Brief Cuts #7: The Misplaced Episode — Pace Up Your Edit with Ranged Markers
Brief Cuts #6: The Key to Keyframes in Lightworks
Brief Cuts #5: Backup and Restore Video Edits in Lightworks
Brief Cuts #4: use LUTs (and 5 free horror film LUTs to obtain)
Brief Cuts #3: do Image in Image in Lightworks
Brief Cuts #2: Cloud Enhancing: Get Footage from Your Telephone to Lightworks. Quick
