It actually makes me feel good that I learned most of these things on my own through so much trial and error and practice. all the new kids out there just starting out watching this probably don't understand just how helpful this video is lol but I did learn a couple things here too thank you so much Whanowa you're a legend.
I agree that learning by doing and finding stuff out for yourself is a good way of working. I've been doing it like this since I was a kid. And no, I'm not a legend. I'm just a regular guy struggling with life like everybody else.
I've been making films for 30 years and have just started making something with GTA V. The shots/scenes etc. I can get here would be impossible in real life, it's an incredible tool. Your videos are very well explained and have given me a bunch of inspiration, my movie is about to go up a level. Thanks.
Even five years later this video is massively helpful. I've tried my hand at some various 'music videos', but I haven't tried any panning shots. This will really help me overcome some of the limitations I've run up against and had to work around in other ways.
moving all the markers to the left for faster scenes is such an essential tip it should have its own video. can't understand why smooth blend isn't WYSIWYG but here we are ;0
"Rope" by Alfred Hitchcock is a great example of designing shots for cuts that give the impression of one long take. Thank you so much for your knowledge and time in making these tutorials. This is awesome stuff...
Even for me making r* editor videos for over 8 months. This tutorial is in depth and you explain perfectly. It helps me improve more as an editor! Great job man. It would be an honor to subscribe.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm always glad to help. I've got a lot more tutorials in my playlist and even more coming up in the future. If you like my content, share it with your friends or on social media. This would greatly help me :-)
Just wanna come back go this video and say that my friend has been having me do the camera for his machinma's on his TH-cam channel and that I've been using all of this.Very amazing tutorial.Thank you master whanowa!!!!
I totally agree. Like you said, you have to play with the camera a bit. I learned a lot from watching your videos , as well as Duggy's, Bloodlust180, and a few others to work on my machinimas. Only thing is that I have a PS4, so it's kind of limited. But I make do with what I got. It's very fun indeed.
I think the smooth camera is shit. You can't have the camera follow the player and then move in front of the player because it just doesn't move in front. It's too slow. So please explain to me why it's so "good".
I think I gave plenty reason in the video why the smooth blend is good for your videos. A tool can only be as good as the person using it. There is a reason all big machinima creators use the smooth blend. As I said in the video it takes some practice to get the hang of it. If it's too slow you need to move the markers further left or move the camera further to compensate for the transitions between the markers. Admittedly it's nowhere near perfect but it's better than having a static camera or linear blend.
I love this and thanks. I always wondered why my smooth blend always looked a bit off. We need a good comprehensive tutorial for scene director like this. That is something thats really hard to work with.
Awesome. I have been using it on and off for a few months and there are not good tutorials to really help with it and setting everything up. Can't wait for it.
Ya or longer there is a lot of stuff to do. There are a lot of stuff I learned myself but the harder things like setting up a scene where actors do things and go to certain points of foot and with a car just escape me. my actors always end up in the middle of nowhere even with waypoints. Their cars also end up trashed lol.
This is such a great tutorial just as always ,I actually really needed help with action scenes and just plain walking scenes so it didn't look boring thank you master whanowa XD
I don't do a lot of smooth blending if it involves more than point a to point b. For now, that's how I avoid some of its problems - they don't kick in when I do that. I might have to experiment with longer clips though. As it is, I do quite action packed videos with a lot of changing camera angles.
first making mistakes and than watching this, to learn, whats the reason and solution for weird behaviour of the camera, helped me a lot . Thank you sir!
I also consider myself at the decent to low decent range, and I really appreciate the help this video has given me. It’s nice to see some aspiring talents in the comment section
You're welcome mate! It is annoying but the workaround is fairly easy. What's more annoying is the damn wiggle which can really ruin a clip if you don't have enough flesh.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank Yoooooouuuuuuuuuu!!!! Working on a small clip episode 1 and have already rendered but for episode 2 I will have some knowledge and do my best. Awesome video and very helpful thank you.
Thanks! Definitely helped although hard to track vehicles at high speed, have to move the markers forward a lot more. I made a couple of my own cinematics using your tips, any change you could give feedback?
Thank You so much for the tutorial man! This helps me a lot for cinematic projects, thou some scene didn't work smoothly but the rest did thx to this tutorial. If u mind, why in the begining of every timeline always have this weird speeding or slowing scene? Thank you once again
I see thanks a lot by the way! One more thing, on making cinematic chase should i follow player or i have to move camera point to point? I'm sorry i have to ask about this because i didn't understand correctly from your explanation
@@-crispychips-9187 You can activate subtitles if that helps and always pause to see the settings in editor. Watch in full screen mode! Everything is in there. You CAN use "follow target" but that isn't what smooth blend is about.
@@whanowa I've got one video this year that has blown up in the last month over 900mins watch time, if you would you don't need to could you check my channel and give me some feedback thanks and much appreciated, merry christmas to you and all your sub's
God I have such good on foot camera knowledge but when I try doing car shots it’s a fuck fest i can never get the camera to actually keep up with the car:/
You have to move the markers to the left a lot more. If there's not enough room for that, move the camera farther to where the cars will be instead of where they are. It sucks, I know.
This tutorial really worked for me and my scenes looks better, but at the end the smooth blends sped up to the last marker like in 3:00, but setting another marker doesnt do anything and idk what to do anymore :/
You cut that part away in your editing software because the speedup always happens at the last marker, no matter if it is the 5th or the 50th marker where the blend ends.
Can someone help me, the smooth blend does some really weird stuff sometimes and i really cant figure out why. i know that its often too slow so u need to move the markers but sometimes it stops completly and jumps forward in the last second before the next marker. Ive always used the linear blend because of this but i wanna make more complex camera movements. Is there a way to explain or do i just have to learn from 'trail and error' which takes alot of time.
Yo this video is the bomb thank you now can I ask a personal preference what do you use to render to upload to your TH-cam like what video editing program?
Thanks this was a big help. Couple of questions. Is the letter boxing an option in rockstar editor? Is there a technique to get two clips with camera movement pass from one clip to the other seamlessly? Or is that time to hide the cut with a passing object.
1. No. 2. There will be a tutorial about how to pass on camera settings to other clips but this only works for shots like this: th-cam.com/video/yHHiKdriFjE/w-d-xo.html
![GTA V: How To Create Unique Scenes For Cinematics [TUTORIAL | Rockstar Editor]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/N7uu9OaLDRY/mqdefault.jpg)
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It actually makes me feel good that I learned most of these things on my own through so much trial and error and practice. all the new kids out there just starting out watching this probably don't understand just how helpful this video is lol but I did learn a couple things here too thank you so much Whanowa you're a legend.
I agree that learning by doing and finding stuff out for yourself is a good way of working. I've been doing it like this since I was a kid. And no, I'm not a legend. I'm just a regular guy struggling with life like everybody else.
Legend hairy
Zumie Fiasco same but i didnt know THIS
Same lol I had a computer class in HS but that was like 4 years ago I just have trouble with transition over new clips
Trial and error always helps but it’s always good to hear it from someone else the first time
This is THE most useful video that explains how to correct the smooth blend issues I've had.
bro the new kids dont know the struggles, i remember when i used to cut to the camera angle i wanted and it looked so bad, this was so helpful
For real bruv I tried this rockstar editor one time and it turned not well but wasent that bad at all
Crazy how much better the game looks with intense depth of field.
I've been making films for 30 years and have just started making something with GTA V. The shots/scenes etc. I can get here would be impossible in real life, it's an incredible tool. Your videos are very well explained and have given me a bunch of inspiration, my movie is about to go up a level. Thanks.
Even five years later this video is massively helpful. I've tried my hand at some various 'music videos', but I haven't tried any panning shots. This will really help me overcome some of the limitations I've run up against and had to work around in other ways.
This video is only helpful five years later because Rockstar refuses to publish GTA VI hehe
Aweseome tutorial! Editing will go so much smoother now. As always, thanks for sharing your excellent knowledge!!
Thanks!
moving all the markers to the left for faster scenes is such an essential tip it should have its own video. can't understand why smooth blend isn't WYSIWYG but here we are ;0
damn, i didnt know arnold schwarzenegger did rockstar editor tutorials
Lmao he DOES sound like Scharzenegger hahaha
@@ItsJustGilly No lol
@@jahsgameplayhdr816 yes he does lmao
"Rope" by Alfred Hitchcock is a great example of designing shots for cuts that give the impression of one long take. Thank you so much for your knowledge and time in making these tutorials. This is awesome stuff...
You're a connoisseur I see. Hitchcock is just legendary and I think it was a very exciting time for cinema.
Even for me making r* editor videos for over 8 months. This tutorial is in depth and you explain perfectly. It helps me improve more as an editor! Great job man. It would be an honor to subscribe.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm always glad to help. I've got a lot more tutorials in my playlist and even more coming up in the future. If you like my content, share it with your friends or on social media. This would greatly help me :-)
whanowa no problem man. You definitely earned it.
Just wanna come back go this video and say that my friend has been having me do the camera for his machinma's on his TH-cam channel and that I've been using all of this.Very amazing tutorial.Thank you master whanowa!!!!
I love using the smooth camera blend. Especially, for car chases and action scenes.
Yes, it takes a while to understand all the nooks and crannies but it's worth it.
I totally agree. Like you said, you have to play with the camera a bit. I learned a lot from watching your videos , as well as Duggy's, Bloodlust180, and a few others to work on my machinimas. Only thing is that I have a PS4, so it's kind of limited. But I make do with what I got. It's very fun indeed.
I think the smooth camera is shit. You can't have the camera follow the player and then move in front of the player because it just doesn't move in front. It's too slow. So please explain to me why it's so "good".
I think I gave plenty reason in the video why the smooth blend is good for your videos. A tool can only be as good as the person using it. There is a reason all big machinima creators use the smooth blend. As I said in the video it takes some practice to get the hang of it. If it's too slow you need to move the markers further left or move the camera further to compensate for the transitions between the markers. Admittedly it's nowhere near perfect but it's better than having a static camera or linear blend.
I love this and thanks. I always wondered why my smooth blend always looked a bit off. We need a good comprehensive tutorial for scene director like this. That is something thats really hard to work with.
I am working on it currently.
Awesome. I have been using it on and off for a few months and there are not good tutorials to really help with it and setting everything up. Can't wait for it.
Will be a couple of weeks until release, though. I'm guessing it could easily be 20 minutes long.
Ya or longer there is a lot of stuff to do. There are a lot of stuff I learned myself but the harder things like setting up a scene where actors do things and go to certain points of foot and with a car just escape me. my actors always end up in the middle of nowhere even with waypoints. Their cars also end up trashed lol.
I used your suggestions in my last video and loved. Again, thanks bro!
This is such a great tutorial just as always ,I actually really needed help with action scenes and just plain walking scenes so it didn't look boring thank you master whanowa XD
Remember to cut your clips before the camera stops so that the dynamic of an action scene is kept alive all the time!
whanowa Sure thing thank you so much!
Thx so much this hypes me up knowing how cinematic you can make your rockstar editor movies i subbed to u bro and liked the video
EL3 Champ I’m sure understanding it gets anyone in a good mood
I know I know this video is old BUT ITS so useful I always saw people do these camera angles and stuff
yeah this tutorial is a timeless classic! until GTA 6 comes out lol
I don't do a lot of smooth blending if it involves more than point a to point b. For now, that's how I avoid some of its problems - they don't kick in when I do that. I might have to experiment with longer clips though. As it is, I do quite action packed videos with a lot of changing camera angles.
It always depends what you're going for. Some people wanna make long handheld oners and smooth blend is inevitable for that.
first making mistakes and than watching this, to learn, whats the reason and solution for weird behaviour of the camera, helped me a lot . Thank you sir!
Thank you so much, I am an upcoming GTA TikTok content creator and this jus made my videos 10x better. I appreciate it bro!
Thanks bro! I do GTA Machinimas and this helped a lot!
Man! You deserve a million subscribers!
12th of June ist my 10 year anniversary and I'm at 13.000 subscribers. I don't think 1M is ever gonna happen to my channel. :(
@@whanowa never give up bro! Keep patience and see one day you will reach that mile stone.
Best. Video. Ever. Helped me out so much!Dropped a like and will share with other creators i know.
Thanks!
Watched this video and then created a very good beginners drifting clip, thanks for the tip
Bro thank you for this.. I've been doing Short films for almost a year now and what you say it's true thank you :)
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED THANK YOU !
Check out my other tutorials as well :)
Wow thank you man! I'm glad you did this I've been struggling to make car videos and action scenes because I couldn't blend it right!
Will it blend? :D
Glad it helped :-)
Yeah I just wanted it to blend like Rockstar Games blends it on the videos lol
Now you know how. And practice, practice, practice :-)
I know this video is old but this is so helpful it’s incredible thanks mate!
9:06 just made me laugh way to hard hahaha
I’m still inexperienced but at least I know what to look for next time I try to even think about picking up a camera in this game 😂
That last one was sweet also that car chase.
I concider myself a decent machinimist, but i learned things here i thought i already knew, thank you
Thanks, and I learned that apparently "machinimist" is a word now :D
Just coined the phrase #machinimist
How about #machinimasochist?
I also consider myself at the decent to low decent range, and I really appreciate the help this video has given me. It’s nice to see some aspiring talents in the comment section
Brilliant video bro! I've been making GTA 5 Machinimas for years and although I knew a lot of what you said; I also learnt a few things so thanks!
You're welcome ;-)
I really enjoyed watching this. This is definitely useful for the video I'm planning to make. Thanks mate.
Always hated that speed up at the end with smooth blend. Thanks man.
You're welcome mate! It is annoying but the workaround is fairly easy. What's more annoying is the damn wiggle which can really ruin a clip if you don't have enough flesh.
whanowa That too. You really just gotta keep experimenting until the camera moves the way that you're fine with.
Incredible, thanks a lot. Im new in rockstar editor, you help a lot. Sorry for my bad english.
good tutorial and very complete. I have not seen another equal. Great job bro.
Thanks!
Thumbs up for the mad men wallpaper
thanks you so much for this tutorial ! its the most perfect tutorial i ever watch 😭❤️
I've got so many perfect tutorials in my channel you will cry your heart out :)
Man!! That was so awesome. Thanks.
The video I've been looking forrrrrr TENKYU
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.
Glad it helped! I've got more tutorials for machinima in my channel if you need anything else!
You are the Rockstar Editor God
Nah, if anyone is a god it has to be Duggy.
TyKing Gaming nobody can be god on rockstar editor
thx bro it improved my videos
thank you so much. the tutorial i was waiting for.
I know, that's why I made it :-)
Only for you
Dude thank you so much! Can't wait to go try this for real.
Good vid bro really like it the way you explain it :)
Woah your profile photo looks like an actual GTA character, nice!
bro thank you so much im building up a jet troop and starting to do a hopefully sick trailer with my mates
Awesome tutorial man!
Thanks, Henny!
Awesome video!
Ight,watched the WHOLE video
And it was 😐
Very helpful,thx whanowa😉
:D
good tutorial, i truly hate not knowing english perfectly
Don't worry, not even the English know english perfectly.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank Yoooooouuuuuuuuuu!!!! Working on a small clip episode 1 and have already rendered but for episode 2 I will have some knowledge and do my best. Awesome video and very helpful thank you.
Thanks, I'm glad it helped. Check out the playlist "Tutorials Galore" on my channel page to find more info on machinima making :-)
Thank you for the tutorial 😊
thanks for your comment!
😊 👍🏻
Man wtf, awesome video! thx
you’re so good man
Saul Goodman or John Goodman?
love your tutorial Bruh !!! love from india !!!!
check out the other tutorials as well :)
@@whanowa sure !!!!
nice, very helpful video dude
glad you enjoyed it :-)
going to try and use it, all your tutorial videos have been really helpful
i tried to use rockstar editor in my last video it actually went pretty good :)
THANKS MAN YOU REALLY HELPED ME
LOVE YOU
De nada!
@@whanowa LOL br?
Thanks man learned a lot💯
very informative video. thumbs up.
P.S. you sound kinda like werner herzog :P
lol
Very helpful man :)
I'm glad you liked it. :-)
Had me at "SIT STRAIGHT AND LISTEN" 🔥🙌🏾
Yes, I know you slump in your chair, Zane Stephens. Your back is going to thank you. :-)
Really Useful thanks whanowa 👍
The vid is 13 mins old u didnt watch the whole vid😂😂
Well, he wanted to be first and he knew it was gonna be helpful like all my tutorials #humblebrag
:-P
whanowa ur tutorials are always useful but what if this one wasnt?🙄
Then I would have failed as a tutor and commit instant sudoku.
:P
What a legend thank you
rockstar studio is awesome
this video is lit af, thanks fam
ayyy lmao thx bruh
Really helped, thanks!
You're welcome! Feel free to check out my other tutorials or machinima!
:)
Thanks! Definitely helped although hard to track vehicles at high speed, have to move the markers forward a lot more. I made a couple of my own cinematics using your tips, any change you could give feedback?
Thanks for share your experience, it's very good tutorial
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Thank You so much for the tutorial man! This helps me a lot for cinematic projects, thou some scene didn't work smoothly but the rest did thx to this tutorial. If u mind, why in the begining of every timeline always have this weird speeding or slowing scene? Thank you once again
That's basically just a little bug the editor has. You gotta work around it because it can't be prevented from happening.
I see thanks a lot by the way! One more thing, on making cinematic chase should i follow player or i have to move camera point to point? I'm sorry i have to ask about this because i didn't understand correctly from your explanation
@@-crispychips-9187 You can activate subtitles if that helps and always pause to see the settings in editor. Watch in full screen mode! Everything is in there.
You CAN use "follow target" but that isn't what smooth blend is about.
For some reason I can’t edit the camera angle at all. I’m on PS5 and I’m trying to edit me in a Savage but I can seem to use the camera angle.
thanks for these tips bro very useful
Hey Can, bro! ;-)
whanowa bro i am releasing a machinima soon today hopefully you'd take a look and maybe give some feedback about it thanks :)
Very useful. Thanks!
Thank You! Amazingly informational!
Do something awesome with it
whanowa Of course man!
Thank you so much!
anyone else watching in 2019
Me too
When he said sit straight and listen I was like yes sir 😂😂😂omg this video was very helpful tho thx
awesome video
thx
thanks im trying to learn to make organic camera angles
Good video thank you!
This really helped me thx
How have you only got 8k sub's your content is great and very informative
TH-cam algorithm doesn't like people like me. But us replicants will prevail!
@@whanowa I've got one video this year that has blown up in the last month over 900mins watch time, if you would you don't need to could you check my channel and give me some feedback thanks and much appreciated, merry christmas to you and all your sub's
God I have such good on foot camera knowledge but when I try doing car shots it’s a fuck fest i can never get the camera to actually keep up with the car:/
You have to move the markers to the left a lot more. If there's not enough room for that, move the camera farther to where the cars will be instead of where they are. It sucks, I know.
whanowa yeah slowly getting the hang of it but still way harder than it should be
@@isaac.3347 It is, yet still easier than it was in GTA IV. So let's cross our fingers for the GTA VI editor.
whanowa everything’s better on IV:(
Expect you from Germany 😍
Germany Creativity is created
makes sense.
Nice bro my crews msking a music video thid was helpful💯👌👊👏👏
Glad it helped ;-)
could you help me? my dolly cam feels really delayed
This tutorial really worked for me and my scenes looks better, but at the end the smooth blends sped up to the last marker like in 3:00, but setting another marker doesnt do anything and idk what to do anymore :/
You cut that part away in your editing software because the speedup always happens at the last marker, no matter if it is the 5th or the 50th marker where the blend ends.
@@whanowa yeah that seems like the only solution, tysm for answering a video from 4 years ago 😅
Good shit g thx homie
12:45 is that a mod were you where placing down models or can it be done in game
Menyoo PC:
th-cam.com/video/NvxBWuNXRvw/w-d-xo.html
I wanna see you make a whole movie with rockstar editor
I wanna see me do that, too.
Can someone help me, the smooth blend does some really weird stuff sometimes and i really cant figure out why. i know that its often too slow so u need to move the markers but sometimes it stops completly and jumps forward in the last second before the next marker. Ive always used the linear blend because of this but i wanna make more complex camera movements. Is there a way to explain or do i just have to learn from 'trail and error' which takes alot of time.
I think I've explained the most common bugs in the video. Didn't that help?
@whanowa What's the video editor that you use shown at 11:30?
Premiere Pro CS 5. Meanwhile I'm using the CC version.
Awesome, thank you
very very good thanks you👍
Yo this video is the bomb thank you now can I ask a personal preference what do you use to render to upload to your TH-cam like what video editing program?
Premiere Pro, but if you wanna save money, use DaVinci Pro. It's free.
@whanowa thank you so much bro
Great as always, how to hold the camera like a video cover What animation gives this character?
you can search for "cam" to find the right animation
Thanks this was a big help.
Couple of questions.
Is the letter boxing an option in rockstar editor?
Is there a technique to get two clips with camera movement pass from one clip to the other seamlessly? Or is that time to hide the cut with a passing object.
1. No.
2. There will be a tutorial about how to pass on camera settings to other clips but this only works for shots like this: th-cam.com/video/yHHiKdriFjE/w-d-xo.html