How To Add Magic Effects to Your Videos in Filmora

So here we are in Filmora. I am going to head to the "Stock Media" menu, where I can grab my footage. Go to "Pexels,” “Video,” and look for “Hypnotize,” scroll down until you find this video. I can drag it right into my timeline next to the media.

Now I have the video of this rock just moving around on top of this lady's head. So, I am going to attach my magical powers to this rock. And because it is so well distinguished from the background, the motion tracking will be really simple. So first, begin by going to the beginning of your timeline. Click the video and then do “Motion Tracking.”

Once you press that, you should see this box, double click and place it right on that rock. Readjust the box so that it fits perfectly. Now we can “Start Tracking.” Make sure that you make these adjustments at the start of your video. Once we are done, we have the tracking data on the stone. Let's hit "OK" and start the magical power.

Head over to the "Elements" menu and look for magic. You should see some of the items. Choose whichever color you want, and then bring it right above your video. Now, because this is quite shorter than our video, we have some options. We can either trim out the bottom video because it is just a repeated pattern or slow down our element. So, I am going to do both; I have my video trimmed.

Then I'm going to grab my element. Go to “Speed,” "Uniform Speed," and I'm just going to slow this down by a tiny amount. Now, when I play it back, it's not that noticeable, but it gives a little room to work with. Now, grab your elements, double-click, and resize them on that stone. So, grab one of the corners here and readjust the size. Place it right at the center of your rock.

Then go back to your video, "Motion Tracking," and attach the element to the video. So, just choose it right here, and now this element is stuck to that rock. Let's make it look better. First of all, we have this little bit down here, which doesn't look that good. Grab your element, go to "Mask," "Circle Mask," and just remove that tiny bit.

If necessary, we can animate the mask, but it's good for now, so I'm just going to leave it here. You can also add some “Blur Strength” if the element were to hit the edges of our video mask. Now, to make the elements blend in a little better with our video, I'm going to go to "Basic," "Compositing," and change the "Blending Mode."

So, notice how it looks different, so either "Screen" or "Linear Dodge ."I'm going to go for "Screen." Now, we have our element, but it is a little bit out of place. So, what we want to do is to attach some lighting to make it look like this magical power was really inside this video.

Head over to "My Media," "Sample Media," then "Sample Color." We have tons of colors to choose from. Seeing that my magic spell is purple, I'm going to choose it from purples. Grab "Medium Purple" put it right above. It's going to cover the screen. Let's match the duration; double-click on your color "Mask" and hit a "Circle" mask.

So, you want to have it go around this magic spell on your subject space and the surrounding areas. Increase the "Blur Strength" so that it looks better. And then, we are just going to "Basic" and change the "Blending Mode" once again so that we have this purple hue on our subject.

So, I'm going to go with "Overlay" right now. If it's looking a little bit too dark, let's go inside the "Opacity" slider and reduce that amount.

Then, we can go to "Color" and increase the "Brightness." So, we have this soft purple hue around our magical spell. Increase that all the way; we can increase the purple by adding to the "Tint." And just balance the effect with all these available sliders. So, right on this frame, I made this color sit in the center of my magic spell.

Since the rock is moving, I need to animate this position. So, right on this frame, we are going to add a keyframe on the "Mask" section and just match the movement of the rock. So, now that it went this way, I need to grab this guy and pull it that way. So that it follows that rock, and we create appropriate keyframes.

Then go back to the first keyframe. You can click on this button to go right on that frame and just repeat it until you have the keyframes for the full video. Double-click, move it around, and now we have ourselves some position keyframes for this magical spell. Play it back, and that's how it looks. You can see how that purple just moves across the subject’s face as this person is moving this rock.

Now, the problem is that this glow shows up before our magic spell. So, we are just going to go to where the magic spell is there, double-click on the “Medium Purple.” Head over to “Animation," then to "Customize," and add a video keyframe at 56 percent "Opacity" or whatever number that's already there. Then, go back to the beginning and reduce it all the way to zero. So now, the glow shows up with the magic spell.

Now that I'm done with my effect, I am going to color-grade my video. You can, of course, skip this step, but color grading really helps find all the elements together. Let's head over to the "Effects” menu, “Filters & LUT," go to "Cinematic," and just choose something relevant to our scene. Let's try this "WashOut" filter. You can see that it added a nice purple hue all around our video.

Just double-click on any of these, see a preview, and then you can just drag it in and get a nice color for your effect. You can drag the effect right above, trim the duration, or double-click to just reduce the "Opacity" if it's too much. You can also head over to the original video, double-click "Color" or "Advanced," and just make the video a bit more gloomy to fit the setting.

To make things easier, I’m just going to add a “3D LUT." I am just going to choose the "Gravity" LUT to desaturate my video. Then go to "Color" and just reduce from "Brightness". Color grade it however you like, and now we are finished.