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How to Make a Video of a Cat Having Fun at the Beach

Everyone who owns a cat knows how bothersome it is to bring them to the beach. What if you forget her tiny cat bathing suit at home, or her favorite treats? What if she gets sad when she looks at the big ocean and ponders the smallness of her life? And good luck trying to find flippy floppies that stay on her little toes.

Now, you and your cat can enjoy memories of beach adventures without all the hassle. All you need to do is use Adobe Premiere Pro to make a video of your cat having fun at the beach. Simply follow these 7 easy steps:

1. In a new project, import 2 videos: one of your cat with a green screen background, and one of a simple beach scene. Drag and drop these videos into the box in the bottom left corner that says “Import media to start.”

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2. Drag and drop the beach video into the Video 1 (V1) slot. Drag and drop the cat video into the Video 2 (V2) slot. You want to make sure the cat video is in a slot with a higher number than that of the beach video so that the cat will show up on top of the beach layer.

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3. Remove the audio from both clips (unless you’re ok with them meshing). To do this, simply click once on each audio segment and hit the delete key on your keyboard.

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4. Apply the “Ultra Key” effect to your cat video. In the tabs on the bottom-left box, go to Effects > Video Effects > Keying > Ultra Key. Drag and drop the “Ultra Key” effect onto the cat video. You’ll see the gray “fx” box (next to the cat video title) on the blue video bar turn purple. This indicates that you successfully applied an effect to that clip.

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5. Now you need to modify the effect. Open the cat video’s “Effect Controls” tab. You can find this tab in the upper left box. Go to Video Effects > Ultra Key. Click the eye dropper on the “Key Color” line.

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6. Using the eye dropper as your cursor, click the green screen background. The green background will disappear, leaving only the cat.

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7. Enjoy your new video of your cat having fun at the beach!

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4 thoughts on “How to Make a Video of a Cat Having Fun at the Beach”

  1. This “How to” was very creative and funny. I really enjoyed going through it. It was very detailed and easy to follow along. I can see how this technique can be used in various ways to do many things for projects. Was there a website or video that taught you how to do this that possibly teaches other things as well?

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  2. First of all, this was hilarious. But on a more serious note, I appreciate your step-by-step, numbered directions and the screenshots under each direction. Since brevity and clarity are some of the most important qualities in a tutorial, I think you created an excellent tutorial overall. I wish you would have included a video at the end so we could see what the final product looked like, but I know I had trouble uploading a video for my own tutorial, so I can’t really expect anyone else to have done so, I suppose!

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  3. I really enjoyed this. Always wanted to know how to green-screen something, so well done on making it easy and fun (and funny!) Looking forward to seeing if anything like this makes it into your final movie.

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  4. Thanks you guys! I agree that I should have added a video to show the end result. To research the tutorial, I just looked up Youtube videos and compiled ideas from there. 🙂

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