How to Create Bullet Time Effect Video

How to Create Bullet Time Effect

Welcome to tinkernut.com video cast. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at admin@tinkernut.com. In this video, I am going to show you how to create a bullet time effect like you see in the matrix movie and we are going to do this for real cheap, it only cost me a just a little more than $10 to do it. So that is the final effect which you are going to get and the parts that you are going to need are three or more disposable cameras, three or more clothes pins, the same amount of binder clips, a hot glue gun, poster board and string. And what you are going to do is you are going to take the clothes pin and saw one of the tips off of it and hot glue it to the top of the camera. Now, it is not going to automatically hit the button so what I did was I took an eraser from an old pencil and hot glued that unto the shutter button. And then once I had that stock into play so I took the binder clip and clipped it unto the clothes pin to hold it open and hot glued that to the top of the camera so that whenever you pull the binder clip off, the clothes pin would go down and set the camera off. So that is what it looks like with the string. Now, I did that for all five of the cameras I had and then I hot glued it to some foam poster board so that when you yank all the strings, all of them go off at the same time. So once you have all of your material, the video and the pictures, I will show you how to edit the pictures. Just put them all in the same folder and then open up paint.net which is a free program that you can get off the internet and import all the pictures into layers. Then select the second and first picture and reduce the opacity of the second picture so that you can drag it to sink up with the first picture. And once you have that, just drag the opacity back up and disable that picture into and do the same thing for the next picture. I only had three so I am just going to this for the third and the first picture as well. Just going to drag it over to sink it up and you can see that this picture ends quite abruptly so once I drag the opacity back up, I will show you hove to get rid of that. First, you want to get rid of the white lines so I am just selecting everything but the white lines and then go to edit and invert selection and that makes it select the white lines. And then I just tilt the lit. So, now I am going to save this once I got the white lines gone. I am going to save the entire project so that we can revert back to it later. Then go to layers and merge all the layers down so that it creates one layer. And now I am going to choose the clones stamp tool to get rid of all the overlapping. So, you just hold control and click on an area that you want to clone and then just left click to clone that area and get rid of the overlapping. Now, I am going to save this as a JPEG file, just going to call it kick paint03 cause this is the third picture in the series. And now, I am going to revert back to our original saved project and do the same thing for the second picture. And then once you have that complete, open up whacks which is a free video editing program and drag your video and the first picture in the series to the timeline. So, what I am going to do is I am going to drag the slider time line to where I want the picture to start and make sure they are kind of sink up in the same position. And now, I am just going to off the options for the picture and drag the opacity down so that I can see through it. And then I am going to drag a quick 3D option around and adjust the pictures so that it sinks up with the original video clip so it is the same size and same shape. And now, I am going to drag a second video clip down and what you want to do is go to the beginning of where you want the picture to start and shrink the first video clip down to that area and shrink the second video clip up to that area so that you have the start stop when the picture is. So now, I am just going to move the second video clip to the end of the picture so that when I go through it, it just picks up, the video just picks up where it left off. So I did that for all the pictures and that is what the final project looks like and you can mess around with it however you want but when you are through, go to project and settings and I am just going to choose x vid for my codec and you can also change the size and then click okay and then click the green render button. Alright, that is it for this tutorial, for more good tinkernut.com.

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Welcome to tinkernut.com video cast. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at admin@tinkernut.com. In this video, I am going to show you how to create a bullet time effect like you see in the matrix movie and we are going to do this for real cheap, it only cost me a just a little more than $10 to do it. So that is the final effect which you are going to get and the parts that you are going to need are three or more disposable cameras, three or more clothes pins, the same amount of binder clips, a hot glue gun, poster board and string. And what you are going to do is you are going to take the clothes pin and saw one of the tips off of it and hot glue it to the top of the camera. Now, it is not going to automatically hit the button so what I did was I took an eraser from an old pencil and hot glued that unto the shutter button. And then once I had that stock into play so I took the binder clip and clipped it unto the clothes pin to hold it open and hot glued that to the top of the camera so that whenever you pull the binder clip off, the clothes pin would go down and set the camera off. So that is what it looks like with the string. Now, I did that for all five of the cameras I had and then I hot glued it to some foam poster board so that when you yank all the strings, all of them go off at the same time. So once you have all of your material, the video and the pictures, I will show you how to edit the pictures. Just put them all in the same folder and then open up paint.net which is a free program that you can get off the internet and import all the pictures into layers. Then select the second and first picture and reduce the opacity of the second picture so that you can drag it to sink up with the first picture. And once you have that, just drag the opacity back up and disable that picture into and do the same thing for the next picture. I only had three so I am just going to this for the third and the first picture as well. Just going to drag it over to sink it up and you can see that this picture ends quite abruptly so once I drag the opacity back up, I will show you hove to get rid of that. First, you want to get rid of the white lines so I am just selecting everything but the white lines and then go to edit and invert selection and that makes it select the white lines. And then I just tilt the lit. So, now I am going to save this once I got the white lines gone. I am going to save the entire project so that we can revert back to it later. Then go to layers and merge all the layers down so that it creates one layer. And now I am going to choose the clones stamp tool to get rid of all the overlapping. So, you just hold control and click on an area that you want to clone and then just left click to clone that area and get rid of the overlapping. Now, I am going to save this as a JPEG file, just going to call it kick paint03 cause this is the third picture in the series. And now, I am going to revert back to our original saved project and do the same thing for the second picture. And then once you have that complete, open up whacks which is a free video editing program and drag your video and the first picture in the series to the timeline. So, what I am going to do is I am going to drag the slider time line to where I want the picture to start and make sure they are kind of sink up in the same position. And now, I am just going to off the options for the picture and drag the opacity down so that I can see through it. And then I am going to drag a quick 3D option around and adjust the pictures so that it sinks up with the original video clip so it is the same size and same shape. And now, I am going to drag a second video clip down and what you want to do is go to the beginning of where you want the picture to start and shrink the first video clip down to that area and shrink the second video clip up to that area so that you have the start stop when the picture is. So now, I am just going to move the second video clip to the end of the picture so that when I go through it, it just picks up, the video just picks up where it left off. So I did that for all the pictures and that is what the final project looks like and you can mess around with it however you want but when you are through, go to project and settings and I am just going to choose x vid for my codec and you can also change the size and then click okay and then click the green render button. Alright, that is it for this tutorial, for more good tinkernut.com.

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