Alight Motion Cinematic and Green Screen Effects

Do you ever wonder how content creators create those stunning cinematic visuals and flawless green screen effects? You don’t need expensive software or years of experience to get similar results. Alight Motion provides professional and accessible tools at your fingertips, where you can apply cinematic effects and achieve green screen effects to create stunning videos that stand out without needing advanced skills or expensive software.

This guide, we help you apply green screen effects with essential tools for an easy-to-use chroma key in Alight Motion.

.What are Alight Motion Cinematic and Green Screen Effects?

 Imagine creating videos where every frame feels like it belongs on the big screen.  Alight Motion holds this power with the help of green screen and cinematic effects to enhance ordinary video to match high-quality and big-screen projects.  

The most common  cinematic  effects  you can apply while using Alight Motion include:

• Color Grading  
• Motion Blur
•  Lens Flare
•  Vignette
•  Slow Motion and Speed Ramping
•  Text and Title Effects
•  3D effects and Transitions
•  Aspect Ratio and Cropping 

Why Use Alight Motion for Cinematic and Green Screen Effects?

1. Convenient and Mobile-Friendly:  Unlike complex software desktops, Alight Motion is a mobile application; you can easily create cinematic videos right from your smartphone, which makes it accessible for both beginners and experienced editors. 
2. Customizable Effects: Alight motion has the advantage of being customizable according to your project’s blur ratio, blending, colors, and aspect ratio.
3. Layer-Based Editing: Layer-based editing helps you to achieve polished,
4. Professional-Grade Tools: Alight Motion offers professional-grade tools such as blending modes, keyframe animation, color correction and adjustment. 

Step 1: Plan Your Shot: Pre-visualize and plan your shoot. For example, how do you want the lighting, camera movement, and framing for a shoot?

Step 2: Color Grading for a Cinematic Look: The second step is color grading, the core step in video editing. It helps you evoke specific emotions and shows creativity and aesthetic sense. Cinematic footage involves film-like color palettes like teal and orange with fantastic backgrounds. Moreover, you can add a contrast of different colors and make adjustments if needed. 
How to use the Color Grading effect?

1.  The  First step is to Import Your Clip into Alight Motion.
2.  Now Adjust Brightness & Contrast after taping the “effects. “
3. Apply Color Adjustment
4. Use LUTs: LUTs (Look-Up Tables) are used to apply professional color grading presets. You can use them by following the steps   “ Effects > Color > Add LUT.”

Step 3: Add Motion Blur for Smooth Transitions: Alight motion has built-in blur motion effects, and you can select the intensity of motion blur according to your shoot.

How to use Blur Motion?

1. Select your video or animated object.
2. Go to Effects > Blur > Motion Blur.
3. Adjust the Intensity according to the shoot.

Step 4: Apply Lens Flare: Lens flare is a visual effect that helps control the brightening light effect and add a natural effect to create a cinematic effect. 

How to use the Lens Flare effect? 

1. Select on Effects > Color & Light > Lens Flare
2. Position the Lens Flare
3. Adjust the settings such as Intensity and Glow 

Step 5: Use Visual Effects

Alight Motion has built-in visual effects like light steaks, particles, and procedurals. By adding visual effects, you can create vintage or dreamy footage. 

How to use Visual Effects?

1. Add Light Leaks, such as a vintage film-like appearance or dreamy footage

 Go to Effects > Color & Light > Light Leaks.

2. Add Particles: You can add dust or sparkles effect in Alight Motion, by taping. 

Effects > Particles & Procedurals.

Step 6: Fine-Tune with Blending Modes:

Blending modes help create a professional look; you can mix multiple layers in blending and customize the project according to your choice.

How to use Blending Mode

1. Select Blending & Opacity in the main menu.
2.  Now, choose a Blending Mode, Select Overlay, and multiply or brighten the effect to apply.  

Step 7: Adjust Speed Control

The final step is to control the speed of your shoot. A slow or fast speed helps create an aesthetic, motivating, and dramatic effect in your project.

How to Control Speed in Alight Motion?

1. Slow Motion:  Select speed and drag to the left to slow down the speed. Apply slow motion in emotional and packed scenes. 
2. Fast Ramping: Select the clip and choose the speed keyframe. Now, you can add dynamic speed, especially keyframes, at the shoot’s beginning and end. 

 Mastering Green Screen (Chroma Key) Editing in Alight Motion

The Green Screen effect replaces a solid, high-quality green background with any image or video of your project. 

Step 1: Record Your Green Screen Footage

Choose a good camera, avoid green clothing, and record your shoot using proper lighting. This will make editing easy and professional. 

Step 2: Import Your Footage

After recording, import the project in Alight Motion.  You can start by

1.  Opening a new project in Alight Motion
2. Choose a green screen background 
3. Add the background layer of your choice.

, Step 3: Use the Chroma Key Tool

Chroma Key offers you to replace the green background, with another video or image. 

Go to

 Effects > + Add Effect > Keying > Chroma Key

Now, Alight Motion allows you to choose the background you want to replace. Tap on the color picker, and your project will become transparent. You can also merge your background. 

Step 4: Adjust the Settings for a Clean Result

• Refine Edge: Adding threshold feathering effects on edges can make a look clean and clear. 
• Saturation and Brightness:  Use saturation and brightness to isolate the green effect from the shoot. 
• Fine-Tuning with Spill Suppression: When the green background splits, it causes a shadow and spill effect. Spill suppression removes this effect and makes the project look more natural. 

Step 5: Fine-Tune the Scene

The final and most important step in fine-tuning your project. You can do this by taking care of the positioning and scaling of subjects, adjusting colors,  adding shadows and effects, and using keyframe animations to apply motion tracking. 

Best Practices for CInematic Effects

1. Planning Your Shots

Always pre-plan your shoot. Without a strong plan, your creativity will fail, resulting in a poorly structured video. 

2. Simplifying Your Edits

• Art is simple, and less is more.
•  To add professionalism, simplify your edits and don’t overload the effects.  
• Use minimal transitions and keep  effects consistent, 
• Always match music with the edits

3. Consistent Theme

• A consistent theme is key to creating cohesive cinematic videos
• Apply visual consistency  by adding a specific color palette and then stick to it throughout the video
• Maintain consistent lightening, soft lightening works effectively.

4. Reviewing and Revising 

Before finalizing, review all technical details and ensure the flow is smooth and consistent. Get feedback from seniors and make necessary changes to add beauty to your shoot. Also, make sure your work works well with your story. 

Common Mistakes to Avoid While Using Cinematic Effects

1. Camera Distance and Perspective

Avoid being too close and wide, and match the camera focal length, height, and angle to the background.

2. Reduce Your Spill

Use black drapes, poly board, or black cloth on the floor to reduce spills.

Side lights (preferably dimmed tungsten) can help cancel the spill by casting opposing light.

3. Consider Whether You Need to Record a Log Image

• Avoid using LOG recording modes unless necessary; they waste data that could be used for better color information.
• Shoot in standard video gamma for better keying unless the background or other footage was shot in LOG.

4. Film the Right Way Up:

If you are filming a static full-length shot, rotate the camera 90 degrees (portrait). It will maximize the use of pixels and provide a higher resolution when the image is rotated in post. 

5. Don’t Compromise Lighting on Your Subject:

 Always lighten your subject because lightening your subject on a green screen helps to minimize the shadows. 

Conclusion

Alight Motion has introduced mobile filmmaking. It provides a flexible and accessible solution for filmmakers and content creators to create cinematic videos with professional tools and features, where you can transform simple video into polished and cinematic masterpieces by paying attention to the details of it.