REAPER 5 Explained - 28. Video Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Reaper Tutorial - Video & Sound Editing

okay next we're going to check out video
in Reaper now with the release of Reaper
five came a lot more video capabilities
as you'll see as I've mentioned there's
only one type of track in Reaper so we
can put video on a track as well so
let's make a new track
let's add video to this track we'll open
the media explorer
and right over here I have a video file
on a work on we could drag it in and
just place it where we wanted to start
I'm not sure yet
so I'm just going to drop it anywhere
closed media explorer
and here's a video file now it looks
like an audio file because you don't see
video in a video item you see the audio
that comes in with it
I'm not going to use the audio for this
file so let's turn it off we'll right
click it go to source properties
we can see the attributes of the video
file the length the video type but down
here we could choose to ignore the audio
choose that
and the audio is gone
so if we play this file
we don't hear any sound or also not
seeing any video to see video in Reaper
you have to open the video window under
view
right down here is the video window and
as a key command that opens it as well
on the PC its ctrl shift V on the Mac
its command shift V just hit that
and the video window opens up now right
now it's a separate window but we can
dock it right-click it and choose the
docket we can switch it to fullscreen
preserve the aspect ratio resize to the
original size or open the properties
from here
let's move it down here
take a look at it
it's an animated music video
and we're going to add our own music to
it instead of the original music let's
find the start
right here before the eye let's grab the
cursor
and jog to find the start point
right when the eye opens up
and let's trim it right there we'll
split it and get rid of this piece then
we can move this to the beginning of our
song
right over here
let's see it now
it starts with the eye opening and then
goes to the weaves that open as well
that's what I want the song to start
in fact right with the leaves open
right here I want that spot to be the
downbeat of bar 2
let's turn the music on
so we can go to bar two with snapping
turned on
right in bar 2 and then drag this so you
can view exactly how to line it up where
the leaves open so if we move this file
around
the leaves show up right there
so drop it and now let's see if it lines
up perfect now in dealing with video you
might prefer to use pause instead of
stop
because every time we hit stop it goes
back to the beginning you might prefer
it to stay where you left off that's
kind of a standard when working with
video so to use pause instead of stop on
the PC hit ctrl spacebar on the Mac a
command spacebar and that'll pause
instead of stop so if he pause right
there it makes it easier to find our
edit points now one of the problems with
this video is that it was edited for a
different song so the edits aren't going
to be on the beat but we can fix that
what's read at this just like you can do
with audio and make them line up so it's
listen from here with the music
and notice right over here is where an
edit happened let's move that edit right
to bar 4 so it's in time with the music
so let's find it right there select this
split it now we can move this to bar 4
but right here now we can delete this
and move it over but what's even quicker
is to switch to ripple editing for one
track we don't want to do wall tracks
because you don't want to change the
music you just want to change the video
so now if we hit delete it moves this
over in one step let's check that out
and the Edit happened right in the bar
in between bar 5 and bar 6 there's
another edit that's at a time so let's
move that one earlier as well to the
runner right there select it split it
split it over here at bar five delete it
and it moves it over the same thing
happens between bar seven and bar a so
let's do it one more time
right the cliff select it split it
let's delete it so it goes to bar seven
now check it out
much better now our edits fit on music
now if you notice all the edits a hard
edits none of them crossfade because
video items don't work that way forget
nice and close and put in a crossfade
like this
it's still not going to crossfade
because we can't crossfade video in
Reaper like that this is going to still
work for audio and we're not using the
audio on this item so let's get rid of
this and I'll show you how to do that a
bit later now to add effects to our
video we'll do with a plug-in
let's go to our effects right here and
go to our filter and type in video
that'll show us this plug-in call video
processor if we open it up this plug-in
is now on this track so we can apply it
to our video let's check out the presets
the first one adjust the opacity zoom or
pan let's choose that and these buttons
show up over here we can just the
opacity
the zoom you can zoom in
the X offset left and right
and the y offset up and down
and we can reset these by
double-clicking and they go back to
their defaults so that's one preset
we could also do horizontal wipe
so to wipe horizontally
faded top the top is dark verse the
bottom before and after
we could crossfade which I'll show you
in a bit do a matrix of recent frames
so if I play it looks like this we can
adjust the frames
stage lighting which looks like this
you
and down here we can create titles words
that appear on the screen
now over here it seems a bit confusing
dealing with code but it's actually
pretty simple
right over here we can change our title
let's change it
- good morning
and then right here we could see how to
apply that
on the PC its control S on the Mac its
command s just hit that and it applies
it
see down here it says good morning let's
make it bigger just the text height
right here
the Y position up and down the
exposition but Center it
the border how big the border is the
brightness of the text
to get black or white the out for the
text which is basically like a volume
control turn it down it's gone
turn it up we can see the text the
background brightness make it dark
or bright
and the Alpha for the background
you can make it gray
a full black
by adjusting these let's go to a
different part of the video so we can
line up the text a bit better
let's go over here
to where the cat is let's put the text
right above its head
make it smaller
a little bit higher
make it a little smaller
right about there looks good
readjust the background so pops a bit
more right there looks good now to play
it back from the beginning
it looks good over the cat but right now
this titles going to stay on for the
whole track we don't really want that we
just want it on for one moment so the
way to fix that is to use automation or
envelopes
let's go to our envelopes right here
and down over here are the parameters
for our plugins this is the plug-in we
just created let me go down here to text
alpha and background alpha by adjusting
these we could use the effect just for
one section we could have used bypass
but then the effect will be either on or
off by using these two we could fade it
in so let's close this
let's automate it let's move this over
here now let's play the track
I want the title to come in on Bart - so
it's hold down shift right here and put
it a point and put another one right
here
bring this one down
and pull this one down as well
and now we have fade in for the text
let's do the same thing for our
background hold on shift is here again
bring this one down and do the same to
the beginning
so now a background and our text is
going to fade in at bar two and one beat
later it's going to be completely faded
in
but here with the music
now we want to feed it out after the cat
walks away
let's go over here so as the cat moves
its head right here we want to start
fading
well then shift on this one and this one
create two points great one here to hold
these down to fade them out
now it should fade out when the cat
moves its head perfect
now we've a title that fades in and
fades out exactly the spot that we want
now it's add another effect to this
is back up
now if you want to add more than one
effect we have to add another plug-in on
the same track hit add make another one
and the second one comes out to the
first one so each preset is separate but
they can be stacked on the track so
check out a preset down here call it
vignette
this is kind of like an Instagram filter
see right here before
and after
and we could adjust it with the alpha
with the size or the shape let's just
leave it on for now
and let's see how that looks
looks pretty good so far
now in dealing with video we can't have
more than one track but unlike audio we
can't mix them together so each track
has that a priority
so it's hide these envelopes right click
over here hide the envelopes just to
make more room how to make another track
and on the edit at bar seven
let's move it down to this track
now let's trim this out as if it didn't
have an edit so by default this track
down here gets priority
so if we mute it and play the track
the Edit at bar 7 doesn't occur it
doesn't change
but if we unmute it this one will occur
because this track takes priority over
this track but we can change that in the
project settings
if we go to video right down here we can
switch it by default the higher number
tracks replace the lower ones we could
switch it right here
and now it's not going to switch
unless you put this track
above it
so this track takes priority over this
one which is really useful for
cross-fading let me show you let's make
another track put it above it now this
track has priority now let's put an
effect on it now you're probably
wondering how is this going to work but
with video we don't need to have the
item on the track as long as this track
has priority any video effects we put on
it are going to apply to the ones below
so let's put a video processor on this
track
and this time let's choose crossfade
course a to inputs
that's going to do it's going to slowly
crossfade at this speed right here
between both items
so in a way we can combine them this one
takes priority but we could see both at
the same time but they're going to
crossfade back and forth watch
so across feeds goes from one to the
other
but we could use that just to crossfade
this edit if we turn it off it's a hard
at it
it goes right from this one to this one
but we can cause fate it by turning this
on
just for the beginning of it then we
could turn it off right afterwards so
it's use an envelope to do that go the
envelopes
down to a plug-in and go to bypass
now we can turn this on and off from
this envelope let's start with it off so
now it's bypassed
so hard edit then right in this bar hit
shift and turn it on like that and let's
find the spot where first course fades
but eliminate the other ones
John this through the video to see the
first cross feed stops
right about there but too far let's go
back right there so right at this point
with snapping turned off
we'll make a point then we going to
bring it up and make this easier so we
don't accidentally move to the side to
the left or the right we're going to
constrain our movement on the PC it's
ctrl + shift on the Mac its command +
Shift hold that down and if we move it
up it constrains up-and-down movement so
we can't lose the spot we just marked
so now let's see what happens it should
start cross-fading right here and then
stop chorus fading over here creating a
course fade edit right over here
perfect let's see with the music
let's see we have so far
perfect we have two hard edits right
over here and one course faded it over
here
making that transition look smoother now
at the end of this video
round bar ten I want to fade out the
video to create an end let's start by
doing that with the music it's I want a
folder right now hit V let's fade it out
from bar ten
bar 12 bring it down and should fade out
so the music fades out now let's fit out
the video
let's hide this
now let's hide this just to make more
room
now let's create a fade-out for the
video
to match the audio now we could do this
with the envelopes on the track right
here but instead we can create and
automate envelopes running the item so
let's create an item effect or take
effect right in this item instead of on
the track right click it
go to take go to show FX chain for that
take
at the plugin
and now this plug-in is on the item not
on the track
see there's no plugins on this track
let's go to our preset track opacity
and we can adjust the opacity
for the video
full-on fade it out so we want to
automate this
right click go to take go to take
envelopes
and besides doing volume pan mutant
pitch we can do our plugins so we can
choose a path city
then right on bar 10 hold down shift and
create a point do the same thing at bar
12 bring it down and it should fade out
based on the opacity
so it fades out with the music let's do
the same thing on the intro
let's have it fade in from the first
hi-hat to the first snare
a different item because on a different
track so it's do the same thing
right-click
go to take the effect on the take
change the preset to opacity now it's
automated
right over here
in writing the item we can adjust it
hold shift right here and here let's
bring this one down
and this one and right here is a fade
so fades in right on that I based on
these two drum heads so it works with
the music now let's see we have let's go
down over here and choose show Oh active
track envelopes
so we could see what we did our audio
fades out the video fades in right here
we have a title right over here a few
hard edits
course fate over here
and then a fade-out for a video along
with the audio but see it all together
pretty cool now we're done we want to
render this to a video file go to render
and we can render it just like an
audiophile
based on the time selection give it a
name know the other stuff we do for
audio except for the output format we'll
choose a video one instead of choosing
wave we can choose the video one here or
an mp4 or a video jiff let's choose an
MPEG
set up our settings right here then
we're done
hit render and we'll create a video file
with all the video effects any audio as
one file
so that's pretty much it that's video in
Reaper now there's a lot more to video
that I could possibly show you so
definitely check out the user guide for
more information on video so anyway
that's video in Reaper
let's move on
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