

You can see it shifted a little bit to the right there. And it did a very good job of staying on the light. So I'm just going to skip through here and show you what it tracked. And then I just used the forward tracking, so what that'll do is, just like you would find in Premiere Pro or After Effects, the tracker basically just looks at all the pixels, looks for contrast, and it follows the clip as it moves, and then when that object begins to move, it tries it's best to stay on top of it. And I just drew a circle, basically where the headlight would be, and then I made sure that everything was tracking within, you know, approximate range of where it should be. So I basically used this tool right here, which creates an ellipse. Once Mocha opens, you can see where I've placed my tracker. I opened up Mocha, but just by clicking this within that particular effect that I applied to this clip.

So I knew I needed to use a motion tracker to follow that to make it as accurate and realistic as possible. The car's going to move from a frame right towards frame left and closer to the camera. So this is where he's warming up his tires. So I knew this shot begins static because this is the burn out before the car actually takes off on the race. It works with After Effects, it works with Premiere, and it works with several other NLEs. And the way I got that there was a couple of steps.įirst of all, remember that Boris is the maker of the Mocha Motion Tracking plug-in, which is extremely powerful. And then I dragged one onto here as an effect, so there's the right headlight. I knew I wanted the Lens Flare, so that's what I typed in the search box. So it's very easy to find just those effects. When you have Boris installed on your machine, when you go to search for things, everything begins with BCC. So we'll go back under Effects, and then I searched for Lens Flare, BCC Lens Flare. Then I needed to find a light source in Boris Continuum 2019 that actually looked like it could be a headlight. Adding Light and Tracking in Boris Continuum 2019

So I disabled my Lumetri Color and now it has better contrast here where the lights are so it makes it easier for the tracker to find it. So what I did was, I needed to put the lights in place without this filter so that the tracking could see it better. So there's my shot without the headlights, as you can see, putting that Day for Night filter on there make the places where the headlights should be almost disappear into black, but that's okay. Now let me turn off the lights for now and show you what it looks like without it first. And this is basically what I ended up with. and made a few adjustments to make it look a little closer to what I wanted. So I went under the other Settings, like under Basic Correction. And then I used the Blue Day for Night setting, and then I just tweaked it. And I just simply used Lumetri Color, which is here. The first thing I did was duplicated the clip and put the color that I wanted to on it. Making Color Adjustments in Adobe Premiere Pro Looks a lot more interesting, catches your eye a lot better. We're going to take this shot that looks pretty dull, and we're going to make it look like this when we're finished. But I decided I want to make it look a little bit more dramatic, so I'm going to add headlights. This one, you can see, actually has blanks where the headlights would be in this Mustang. Of course, a lot of race cars don't use headlights. If a car drives at night, it typically uses headlights. I could spend a lot of time bumping up the color and contrast on this to make it look nicer, but I decided to do something completely out there instead, and just make this look like it was shot at night. The light is straight down on top of this car, which makes the front and underneath just look really bad and dark. I shot these drag racing clips last summer and as you can see, it's the middle of the day, it's high sun in the middle of the summer down here in Tennessee, so the lighting is really harsh. The tools that I'm going to use are Premiere Pro 2019 as well as Boris Continuum plug-ins 2019.
#TRACKING MFLARE N PREMIERE PRO 2018 HOW TO#
Today I am going to show you a brief tutorial on how to take a pretty mundane, middle of the day, straight, harsh sun shot and turn it into something that looks like it's shot at night and is a lot more dramatic.
