TWIXTOR EDIT TUTORIAL

TUTORIAL ON HOW I EDITED A LONSOO.AVI STYLE VIDEO

TBH it isn't fair to call it a lonsoo.avi style edit since this kind of edit has been there before but his one got popular recently and people started quoting it as his edit, and some of them even tried to copy this style of editing and failed so i decided to make a tutorial on how to do it, but I haven't been into editing much theses days so my edit wasn't that good but i am sure if you are into it and you follow my steps you pull off a very good twixtor time remap effect ;)

Software used: Adobe After effects cc 2019 [ to add various effects and stuff ]
                          Adobe Premiere pro cc 2019 [to arrange the clips initially

Plugins used: 
*Twixtor
 [https://revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/] [must have / the free version will do]

*Motion Bro [https://motionbro.net/videolancer/free-presets/] recommended if you wanna save time while doing those slide transitions it's free as well just type the price as 0, you gareeb cunt. Also you dont need HST the free preset pack of motion bro will do the work
PS: It's not recommended if you want to improve your editing since its a shortcut tool !

Some other PLUGINS recommendation:
*Red giant universe [it's not free and you are indian enough to react awkwardly to the price so i am not even going to leave the link but if can get it from somewhere it would be nice]

Recommended SCRIPTS for the edit: 
*Motion Tools from motion design school
This tool is quite similar to a paid script that goes by the name of motion .

*Beatnik or Beat Assistant  [not free/not necessary] [anyone of them will do even though this isn't important but might help to speed up workflow ] 

The original post got deleted idk why copyright issue maybe but here’s a popular reupload of that:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2kIwgdgm_w/




First the Name of the Song since i saw most of you asking it in my post : It's a mashup of two songs The Less I Know The Better & Sexy Back [ https://youtu.be/3oZkf9dai9I ]

Once you are done selecting your song it would be nice if you knew the bpm might end up saving sometime if you want to get it done as quick as possible for this song though the bpm is 116  https://songbpm.com/searches/the-less-i-know-the-better , a simple google search usually reveals it incase of a mashup just google any one of the songs used in mashup and usually they are the same. There's an after effects plugin to know the bpm of a song more on that later 

Difficulty level: intermediate 
If you have never used after effects before then I don't think you will understand anything XD i recommend you to watch other tutorial preferably video and try using twixtor for yourself once or twice before referring to this tutorial.

Here’s a tutorial by camera boyz in hindi https://youtu.be/9CXJtv904mg
Its good but his method is  the most common one i will show you guys a different and faster approach but to know this faster approach you should be familiar with the general way first and that is why left a link to that tutorial above. If you don't find the tutorial good enough then there's another tutorial but it's in portoguese i guess here's the link : https://youtu.be/gFGNd3fwqtM

One common trend in these edits are that they tend to use a lot of keyframes which definitely makes it more customizable but makes the editing process more tedious 

So here’s my workflow less tedious but also less customizable but i will tell you along the way how to make it more customizable 

Step 1: sync and arrange the clips in premiere pro 

2. Once you are done select them all and nest 

3.right click on the nested sequence and click on replace with after effects 

This is where the magic happens

4.Now open the comp by double clicking on it and add the twixtor effect to the first clip inside the after effects composition
I used these settings [notice: even though i am using twixtor pro but the same will apply for the normal version of twixtor as well just the speed is what’s gonna matter ]
 
5.Now once you are done with this got to the very first frame and set a speed keyframe of 25% then go to the 7th frame and make it 300% and then go to the 14th frame and make it 25%
[This values are not restricted, I request you all to experiment with this and make a better version / the values that i wrote worked for me and I discovered them experimentally]


Once you are done with that select all the vales and alt click on the keyframe timer





Paste this value in the expression window :’) 

n = marker.nearestKey(time).index; 
if(time < marker.key(n).time){ n=n-1;
}
if(n==0){ n=1
}
t=time-marker.key(n).time;
thisProperty.valueAtTime(t)

What this expression does is it activates the keyframes only when there are markers in the layer hence saving you a lot of time that you would otherwise spend keyframing it 
to place a marker simple press the * key on you keyboard (laptop user who don't have the numpad can change and assign it to some other key)


Now copy the keyframes and paste it in the beginning of all the layers, after effects magically copies the effect and expression along with the keyframe values 
Make sure to paste it at the very beginning of each layer and not from where the video is starting, once you are done select all the layers [ctrl+a] and press u 
And it should look something like this [notice how the keyframes are at the beginning of each clip]


Now all you have to do is just add markers to the clip wherever there is a beat or you want the clip to speed up 


Well that was small secret and I guess once you understand that you can do the rest yourself just add markers and one more thing you will notice is that the scenes that you chose in premiere pro got misplaced after adding twixtor, that happened coz twixtor made the whole video slow [25%] till you placed your first marker so the solution to that is adding lots of markers from the point where the clip starts I will show it to you in the image below 
Here you can see how adding lot of markers in the beginning of the clips helps solve the problem

6. Now add the transitions i used motion bro to save time but i recommend you do it manually unless of course if you don't have time.
To do it manually, search : Whip Pan Transition tutorial
To do it automatically : motion Bro transition tutorial 

7.Once done with the transitions select all the layers and pre compose them 
Now its time to add the zoom in + shake effects if you want 
Now for this i plan to make a different well explained tutorial 
But since you all are very nice and I don't trust my dedication with tutorials so imma share it here 

8. Make a null layer mark the first keyframe at 100 then after 3 frames 125 then after 3 more frames make it back to 100 
Now select those 3 keyframes easy ease them and alt click on timer and add The same expression as before 

n = marker.nearestKey(time).index; 
if(time < marker.key(n).time){ n=n-1;
}
if(n==0){ n=1
}
t=time-marker.key(n).time;
thisProperty.valueAtTime(t)

Now add markers where there are beats, you can do this manually or add a script like beatnik or beat assistant where you to write the bpm of the song and the script adds the markers automatically [for this edit i used this shortcut] 
Previously i used to use a different technique where i used keyframes from the audio and made connected the scale value to it and customized it with an expression 

linear(value,40,80,100,125)  

Which i learned from this tutorial: https://youtu.be/FC1B4Y328Rk

9. Similarly you can add flashes by adding a adjustment layer and adding a glow effect on it and then making its opacity 100-0-00 in about 6 keyframes and use the above marker’s expression to link it to markers and done


10. You can even add shakes if you want using the above trick / add shake in the entire video select all the layers and pre compose it and then add a wiggle expression on top or use uni.camera.shake given you have red giant universe installed 

11. Apply color correction or some other shit like that if you want and you are done


BEST OF LUCK making your own shitty twixtor edit k bye                     


UPDATE(12th october): Aight so i made a couple of mistakes in my last tutorial which resulted in wacky output result, first big mistake was when syncing zoom-in to markers i should have moved the markers few frames ahead as the point of impact of those edits where supposed to happen right with the beats and not after the beat, even though it wasn't quite noticeable but the off-sync kinda killed the vibe of the edit so to improve the timing of scale and shakes all you gotta do it move all the markers a few frames forward, of if you were like using a diff layer like me you can just move the layers and if you were doing everything within the same layer then i recommend you use a script called marker conductor it will help you move all the keyframes at once.

Since my edit was heavily relied on automation i thought why not remove the use of manual keyframes totally and i tried to do that yesterday and succeeded 
Here’s the edit if you haven't seen it already

You can notice how well this is compared to the last video, and the reason being I automated everything 
[notice: I did not add any shakes or glow as it would have killed the vibe of the video] 
I don't think I have to explain everything on how i did this so what I will do instead is upload a timelapse of me editing this and you can have a look at it and try to figure out yourself 





I did use other 3rd party plugin for this and they are 
Sound keys they come with red giant suite i guess try and figure out yourself on how you can get these if you don't want to use this then default audio keyframes of ae is good too for music with prominent and loud beats like the one featured in my edit

So what I did in this edit is that i applied twixtor to layer and synced it to the sound key’s automatically generated keyframes, keyframes value went from 0 to 100 whenever it encountered a beat so I applied an expression to it - linear(value,0,100,25,300) so what this expression does is it makes the twixtor value go from 25% to 300% with every loud beat
[notice that I analyzed the graph and found out that the values dont go from 0-100 but from 20-90 something so i wrote an approx value of 30-80 in expression however writing 0-100 wont matter much, sorry if you don't understand any of these) :( 

Firstly, I added all the stuff to the main comp layer and then I copied those layers and pasted them inside the layer, else it would have made the video slower and all the time that i spent selecting and arranging those videos inside premiere pro would have wasted

Also i precomped each layer [moving all attributes inside the comp] to preserve the timing of the videos originally selected in premiere pro. 

And then finally i applied uni.VHS and cc vignette 


And that’s basically it 






           


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