How to show 2D animations downloaded from LottieFiles in videos. The Chroma Key and Size, Position and Rotation filters are then applied
shotcut
is one of the most used video editors because it combines ease of use with a good amount of functions, even very intuitive ones. It's a software
open source, free and installable on
Windows, Mac and Linux.
For its installation the
shotcut
and go up Click to download. The advertising banner is closed and the download page for our operating system is selected. who has one computer of Microsoft
will have to click on windows installer on one of two equivalent sites fosshub AND GitHub, Double click on the file .exe downloaded and follow the installation wizard dialogs. shotcut will open directly in Italian.
If it is displayed in English, you go to the top menu
Settings -> Languageyou select
Italian and restart the program. In this post we will see how to add overlays to videos of animations in two dimensions.
We have already seen how to add with shotcut of
animated images in GIF format
it's from vector animations from
Glaxnimate. In this article I will show you how to download animations from the website
Lottie Files
and how to add them to videos once you have them resized AND
repositioned and have it
erased the background colored.
About Lottie Files I'm almost there
2000 animations for free download after creating an account and logging in. On the homepage, click
Sign up
and then login with your credentials
Google, Facebook, Dribbble or Twitter. Alternatively, you can create a live account with
first name, last name, email and password.
This account is free but must be verified by clicking on the link that is sent to the address entered in the form. on the menu of
Lottie Files you go up
Discover -> Free Animations. we will visualize
130 pages,
each of them with 15 thumbnails for a total of almost
2000 animations. Click on one of them to open its tab.
I posted on
Youtube channel
a tutorial to illustrate how to add these animations to videos with
shotcut.
Scroll through the thumbnails and click on the one we are interested in downloading. The animation will play automatically and below we can customize the speedI colors of animation and background color.
Animation can be used through your url or the code
HTML
on one iFrame. Particularly interesting is the link to lottery editor inside Edit layer color to edit animation levels.
Without opening the editor, you can still change animation colors. he goes up download to download it.
You can get the animation in formats Lottie JSON,
ZIP file, gif,
custom gif AND MP4 video. On my
shotcut the format does not work JSON. When choosing the format ZIP, the file will always be downloaded JSON as file content. With
gif
it will download an animated image of 640 x 640 pixels.
When selecting the option Customize GIP we can choose another background color and the resolution between i
200 x 200 pixels It is 640 x 640 pixels. finally with MP4 one
video animation in that format.
In the rest of the post I will refer to the last option. he lets himself go
shotcut and click on
Playlist to open the window of the same name where you can drag the video AND animation in format MP4.
You drag the video to the Timeline then click on the menu of the latter and go to
Operation Track -> Add Video Track. A new track will be added above the one with the video. Yes yes
drag over animation and move the playhead so it's over the video and animation.
Being the animation in MP4 will have a
non-transparent background. To eliminate it, yes
select the clip with one click, you go up
Filters
and click the button More. You choose the tab
Video and go up Chroma Key: Simple.
Click the color picker in the shape of dropper and then click again anywhere on the background.
The animation background will disappear and no longer cover the underlying video. It may happen that they remain
two black sidebars on video. in this case yes
uncheck Chroma Key
in the window of Filters.
then go to the button More to add video filter
Size, Position and Rotation.
Acts on the cursor Enlargement moving it to the right until the whole screen is covered.
After doing that, he puts it back Checks to the filter
chromatic key which will now work on the screen.
You select the filter again Size, Position and Rotation to lower it Enlargement and place the animation.
If the animation is too short, with the
Copy paste we can make it last as long as it takes.
You select the animation clip with one click and then go up
copy of above Timeline. You move the playhead to the end of the clip by clicking the appropriate button below the preview. so continue To paste to paste as many clips as you want that will also have filters
chromatic key AND
Size position and rotation.
These filters will also have parameters set to the initial animation. To save the video with the animation overlaid, go to
Exportyou choose Template inside
Presets -> Assortment for a video on
MP4. click in export fileyou select the output folderyou give a first name for the video then you continue To save.
