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Now, if you're anything like most video editors, you hate masking.

It's just tedious.

Now, whether you love it or you hate it,

you can make some awesome looking video effects by using masking.

So that's why in this video I'm going to teach you

five creative masking effects that the pros use.

So all of that stuff and more coming up.

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But let's get into it.

Now, the first masking effect is called the layer lapse.

The idea of this effect is if you have a stationary time lapse

that goes from like daytime to nighttime, we can actually use masks

to show an object in that time lapse, like a road,

for example, at a different time than the rest of the video.

So in a bid to resolve on our timeline, we have our one clip right here.

What we're going to do is duplicate this layer by holding

all clicking and dragging it up to video layer to.

Now what we'll do is hit our on our keyboard and go to reverse

speed right here.

So now video layer two starts from night and goes today

and then video layer one starts from day and goes tonight.

Now we're going to jump into the color tab right here.

What we'll do is go to the window tab right here

and go down to the pen tool and click on that.

And now I'm just going to pick an object to mask out.

So for this, I'm going to use the bridge.

So now I'm just going to draw a mask around this bridge.

And let's say you just mess up a point to remove that.

What you'll do is hover over the point

and hit your middle mouse button like this, and I'll just delete it.

So just continue to mask out the bridge.

All right, So now that we've got this mass,

you can go ahead and readjust any point if you really need to.

If not, great. You've done well.

Next up, go into our node section

right here and right click and go to add alpha output.

Then grab your blue alpha output like this and connect it to your blue

node alpha output thing right here.

So if I go back to the beginning, you can see that, yeah,

we got like the nighttime kind of look at daytime right here,

which is pretty awesome.

Now we have one last thing we got to do to make this all pretty and stuff.

So if we want to soften the edges, go down here

to the power window section right here and click on off.

By turning that off, we can really get a good idea of how harsh

our mask is and go down here to the softness

which is under the window tab and bring it up ever so slightly.

So I think right there, that's pretty good.

So moving on to that second masking effect, we have that blurred

face effect that you see like people that witness protection.

That is done by masking my friends individual resolve on our timeline.

We have our clip right here.

What we'll do is go right to the color tab.

Now, in that same window tab, grab our circle mask right here and drag it

over his face and just resize it to where it's covering his face nicely.

Yeah, that looks good.

Now we need to make sure that circle actually stays to his face.

So we got to go to the tracking tab right here and hit track forward,

and it's just going to track our mask to his face throughout the whole clip.

So now that we've tracked his circle mask to his face, get that blurred.

Look, we can do a few different things here.

Now, in the open effects menu, type in JPEG damage

and drag it on to our node like this.

Now bring the quality up to like 60 or 70 or whatever.

Just have it high and then under resolution.

And we're going to bring that up also and you'll see that

it really just does a good job at masking his face.

And if it's not enough, you just bring up the resolution even more.

It's as easy as that.

And if somebody swears, you just track the mask to their mouth

and do the same thing.

Now, moving on to our third

masking effect, we have that classic text reveal effect.

So on our timeline, we had this clip where this truck is just moving by

and we want the truck to actually reveal the text right here.

So to do that, we're going to actually jump into the Fusion tab this time.

I know it's different. It's not the color tab.

We got this.

So jumping into the fusion tab,

you see that we have our media in one and our media out one.

This is the beginning and this is the end.

First things first, let's type out our text.

So on the hot bar right here, we'll grab the text plus node

and drag it down and then grab the output of the text

one node and drag it to the output of the media in Node.

And this is just going to create a merge node.

Now you can type whatever you want and customize the text in any way, shape

and form by using like fonts and colors and all that stuff.

Then we'll position our text where we want it to be revealed

and bring up the size or bring it down depending on where you're having it.

Then play the clip forward until you see that object

that's going to reveal our text.

So in this case, we want the end of the truck to reveal this text,

then go up to the high bar and click this polygon mask and drag it above our text

and connect the output of the polygon one to the fact mask and text one.

Now you'll see that it disappears.

Draw a mask at the end of this truck right here and have it be

relatively long like this.

Then we'll move forward a few frames

using the arrow key and highlight the mask and drag it forward

so that it's at the end of the truck like this.

Now, my default keyframes are enabled for the polygon mask.

However, if it's not enabled, you can go over here

in the inspector tab, click on the keyframe right here.

Then after that, it'll add keyframes every time you move the mask.

So now see that the end of this truck actually reveals the text.

Now, to remove the text, what we have to do

is pretty much the same thing, but opposite.

We'll just highlight all of our points like this.

Move forward a few frames, drag our mask forward and keep doing

the same thing over and over again until our text is completely gone.

Now, if our mask edge is a little

too sharp, we can always turn up soft edges and we can do it just like this.

So it just matches with the natural motion blur that's in the clip.

So now let's look at this effect.

Now, the fourth masking

effect that I'm going to teach you is called the vignette Masking Effect.

So individual resolve, we want to add that vignette effect

around the edges right here to really draw the attention towards this tower.

To do that will jump straight into the color tab

and the window menu will grab that circle mask right here

and increase the softness with this outer circle with the red point.

Next, once you got that size

right, you'll go down and hit this invert mask button right there.

Now, if you want that classic vignette effect, all you'll do is

go to gain and drag it down like so,

so that you can see it's darker around the edges.

However, if you want to really add that speed warp zoom

effects that you normally get with a hyperlapse,

what you'll do is reset again so that we don't have that outer vignette.

Then we'll select Zoom Blur and drag it on to this node right there,

right off the bat.

It's looking like it's kind of zooming forward.

Now, of course we can adjust the strength of this,

so if it's too strong, we can turn it down.

We'll also want to under border type, change it from black

to replicate so that we get those black borders around the edges gone.

All right. So let's look at this effect.

Now, moving on to our fifth and final masking effect.

This one is honestly one of my favorite masking effects

ever, just because of how awesome it looks when it's done correctly.

Now, if I was to put a name on this masking effect,

it would be called the 2.5 dx masking effect,

because it's not truly 3D, but it sure looks like it.

So individual to resolve.

We have our clip right here and it's of a drone shot

just kind of circling this steeple right here because it looks kind of cool.

We have to go ahead and drag

in that black bar overlay like this and extend it all the way out.

Then we'll duplicate this bottom layer

by holding alt and clicking and dragging the clip,

and we'll bring it up on the video Layer three above our black bars.

Now that we have that done,

we're going to click on the video Layer three right here and jump into color tab.

And now that we're in the color

tab, we're going to actually draw a mask around the top of the steeple right here.

So in the Windows menu, we're going to click on the free drop pen tool

right there and zoom in and draw a really nice mask around the steeple.

Now, once you've got that mask, we're going to bring the softness of the mask

up to about point 18 to make our mask stick to that steeple.

We're going to have to open up the tracker window right here,

and then we're going to hit the track forward button.

And you can see already it is screwing up, but I'm just going to let it

keep doing its thing.

The mask is completely off the frame and we still have a lot of steeple here.

So I'm going to show you a few tricks that are also pretty hard to explain.

So try to track with me.

I'm going to do my best on the tracker window.

You can see that we have a key frame placed right here.

This is actually going to be really important.

We need to make sure that our play head is on that key frame.

Then we're going to change it from clip to frame.

So now if I move my points, it's only going to really affect the frame that I'm

on. So now just make sure that our mask is really tight to that steeple.

Now, once we've done that,

we're going to head track forward again now and allow it to just track forward

like so.

And finally we'll get to a place where our steeple is pretty much out of frame.

And at this point, it doesn't really matter

if we keep this mask tight to this object because the black bars

are not going to be covering it up.

Move forward one frame, pass this keyframe and just move our mask completely off.

Now we're going to do the really fun thing, my friends.

We're going to make sure

that our mask really sticks nice and tight to that steeple.

And that's going to be probably

the thing that I speed up because it's really tedious.

All right.

So now that your hand has completely fallen off by fixing this

mask, all of we have left to do is to go over here to the node section

and right click go to add alpha output and connect our alpha outputs

to gether like that, you'll really be able to see

what this effect does and how cool it looks.

Now, if for some reason you want to add more of these masking pop out effects

to the same clip, you can do that by going back to the Windows tab like this

and adding another curve and then doing the mask thing again.

Now, speaking of all these video effects and transitions,

I need some suggestions from you.

Yes, you.

So a few weeks ago, maybe a month at this point, I don't actually know.

I created a shape offset transition back.

Now I want to add to it.

So if you have any suggestions, please put them in the comments below.

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