Combining track mattes with effects for stunning visuals - Premiere Pro Tutorial

- When you combine track mattes with effects, you are merging two artistic forces. The matte defines transparency, while effects transform the visual appearance resulting in captivating compositions. Let's go ahead and open the sequence named 3.4 combining track mattes with effects for stunning visuals. So let's go ahead to chapter three and let's open 3.4. And here we have six sets of clips or rather three sets of double clips. Let me go ahead and zoom in. And first we have this effect. Look at the feet of the puffin, see how much orange they are? Let's see what happened here. And let's go ahead and solo the bottom clip. Let's go ahead and open the Lumetri color panel. So window, Lumetri color, and let's go to HSL secondary. And yeah, indeed there's an HSL secondary applied here. In the middle clip we have the track matte key, and in the top clip, we have the same graphic as before. All right, so let's go ahead and have it here. And here is the traveling matte, so I'm good with that. We don't even need to feather the edges. Now let's go ahead and select the bottom clip and let's just see the bottom clip. And here in the Lumetri color panel, let's go ahead and reset the HSL secondary so that we can choose it again. And go ahead and click on this first eye dropper and then click on the feet of the puffin. And now let's go and change the display to white and black. Now we're going to make this a little bit wider and we're going to move it. We're also going to make this one a little bit wider and we're also going to move it. And finally, the bottom one, we're going to make it wider and we're going to move it as well. And as we move it, we are choosing greater ranges of color, right? And we are isolating that one color and we're going to affect only that one color. So we see it here, it's hardly any. And then the puffin comes and then we see it very, very, very little, right? If you want to do it a heck of a lot more, notice that now you're getting some of the ground. If I deselect this, you see it as well. And in fact, let me change this to like a ridiculous color only so that you can see it. See how this is now turning yellow and all of that. We can now grab one of these other eyedroppers and we can just add to the color if we need to. But of course you can see now how the little feet are completely yellow, but also some of the grass, you may mind or not, right? So I'm going to go back here and I'm going to make it very orange, I'm thinking, and I'm digging that. So that's pretty good, so now let's add a track matte key to the middle clip. Let's make these back visible. Let's type track here, add it to the clip. And of course the track will be on video track three. And the matte alpha is what we're going to use. And do you see how everything is like orange-ish here? And the legs of the puffin are not that orange? That is because we need to reverse the track matte key so that it lets through what is inside of the mask instead of the outside. And this is what we have now. The ground doesn't turn orange until that puffin lands, that's not bad. Let's go to the second set of clips here. And this is almost the same scene, but what we have is really a very overblown bottom, the middle one with a track matte key. And the top one is this black and white almost, right? So let's go ahead and do that bottom clip. Let's increase the exposure a lot. So like this, the middle clip gets the track matte key, and of course it's going to be the one on video track three, and it's going to be the video, the Luma, and then the top one. We are going to make these two invisible and we are going to turn the saturation, off the exposure, but the highlights and the whites are going to be quite bright. I'm going to make it very contrasting and the blacks and everything else. And look at this, I'm getting a pretty good matte, so all I have to do now is make these two visible. And I'll reverse the matte in here. And you can see now that the effect is applied and it looks pretty good, it's washed out, it's a controlled bleach pass effect, you know? It looks really good. Finally, we have this lighthouse that is just like a Christmas light just going on and off, right? So let's see what this has. So the bottom clip has a Lumetri color applied to it, and it's dark like yea, right? And look at the contrast and look at the temperature, right? So we're going to attempt to do something similar to that. The middle clip, of course has the track matte key and a strobe light. And of course the top one is just the matte. So let's go ahead and this time, start with the top. So we're going to turn the saturation off, the exposure down a little bit. Contrast up, highlights, shadows down, whites up, and blacks down. And I want you to notice that in this one, it's actually quite more brilliant. You see it in here that it's like you only see that lighthouse. So we don't have a mask, we don't have anything. So what would we show in here? Well, we can show only the edited properties in here and notice that it has an HSL secondary applied as well. So let's go ahead and do that here. And now to this top one, I want to isolate only the lighthouse. So let's go ahead and do that. Let's go to the Lumetri color and to the HSL secondary and select just that color. We're going to make this black and white and I almost have it. I'm going to make it a little bit wider here. Maybe change it like yea. And oh, why not? We can select that antenna as well. And that's pretty good. So I'm going to leave it white and black because that's the matte that I want. And that's exactly the matte that I want. Now I'm going to make this invisible and I'm going to add the track matte key to the middle clip. And of course I'm going to go ahead and show all the properties again. And now the matte will be the video track three, and it'll be the matte Luma. And now I'm also going to add a strobe light effect. And finally, the bottom one, I'm just going to make it a little bit darker. And I have the effect like yea. As you combine track mattes with effects, you are sculpting visuals that evoke wonder and ignite creativity, experiment and create new and better landscapes that defy imagination.