CREATOR TOOLBOX

  Tool: Master Color Wash VFX in Kdenlive Description: It's pretty awesome to animate your own Lightsabers, like we walked through previously in https://youtu.be/W9JP_5c5l24, but what about the effect the Lightsaber should have by emanating its own light? Take your visual effects game up to the next level in Kdenlive by learning how to create color wash! Learn how to create a color wash special effect to characters and environments in this exciting addition to the visual effects tutorials.  Review: https://youtu.be/X0CnXskcBpc Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Learn How To Create Impressive Knife Throwing Visual Effects Description: Let's pull apart how to simulate knife throwing in Kdenlive, using out of the box effects in clever ways! See how using simple effects, such as Transform, Corners, and Box Blur can create power visual effects when used together.  Review: https://youtu.be/NuSguPEbcls Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Create the Warp Effect Description: Test out some creative uses of the Defish effect in Kdenlive and see how to invert the lens correction to make realistic space-bending, warp effects, just like in Star Trek! Walk through the layers and how this can be created in about four minutes.  Review: https://youtu.be/SukHxnhKz_4 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 2

Tool: Kdenlive - Space Ship Visual Effect Description: Following in the footsteps of "traditional" visual effects, I'm working with a model and creating motion in space using camera motion and post compositing. Walk through using Kdenlive to mask out the space ship model and learn how to leverage the "Mask Apply" effect - See how to bind effects to a masked area and shortcut creating complex masks over many frames.  Review: https://youtu.be/P1gdb5ivHAg Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 4

Tool: Kdenlive - Floating Apple Special Effect With No Greenscreen Description: Learn how to use Kdenlive to create the realistic floating apple special effect, using a traditional approach to special effects and powerful masking and keyframe animation features! The technique is simple, but very effective with a little planning and patience. See every step needed, including how to compose the shot and what to watch out for when creating the effect.  Review: https://youtu.be/S1kTzl-WNa4 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Make the Floating Text Visual Effect Description: See how to use motion tracking with AI algorithms to creation motion path keyframes in Kdenlive. It becomes very easy to reuse generated keyframes to create complex and realistic overlays, as in the example of floating text. Walk through also how to add perspective, shadow and surface blurring adaption!  Review: https://youtu.be/7PZHOnW9ONM Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Image Sequences - Creating Visual Effects Description: How to use Image Sequences in any video creator tool for visual effects Review: https://youtu.be/FXIE0LeneLk Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

      Tool: Kdenlive - Changes to Effects Controls Description: Kdenlive tutorial to explain new effects controls Review: https://youtu.be/_wvsmYl5cRA Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3  

Tool: KDEnlive - How to make Lightswords Description: Tutorial for how to create lightwords (lightsabers) in KDEnlive Review: https://youtu.be/BY3nyZFr6Jo Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3  

  Tool: KDEnlive - Chroma Key Tutorial Description: Tutorial for mastering chroma keying in KDEnlive Review: https://youtu.be/uqge5McjO7E Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 4