Tilt Shift in Final Cut Express

We found this tutorial on how to execute a tilt shift in Final Cut Express.

http://www.mrjerz.org/insiders-look/how-to-the-tilt-shift-technique-in-video










A tilt shift according to Wikipedia is "Tilt–shift photography is the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital post-processing; the name may derive from the tilt–shift lens normally required when the effect is produced optically."

In other words it makes things look tiny. For example





Using the tutorial we created our own gradient.

We then created two layers of the same clip, one as the base layer and one to place the filters on.



Following this we added the filters image mask and gaussian blur, giving it the blurred look around the outside.



We then dropped the gradient into the mask box to add it to the image we were editing.



The guide then advised using colour correction to desaturate and give the image the 'toy town' look that is normally achieved by using the effect. However we made the decision that it did not work well with the overall look of the video and we were going to add the same filter as the rest of the video on to the clip.



We then added a strobe filter to give the clip the stop motion look, using about 3 frames per second. e experimented with this effect, which was decided didn't work with the clip and that the clip worked better in one fluent movement instead of using cuts.