learn how to clone yourself in Adobe Premiere Pro

Cloning is an editing technique in both videos and photos to give the impression that two or more look alike characters are interacting with one another or are seen in a scene.in this context, I will be talking about cloning yourself with Adobe Premiere Pro. Filmmaker Peter McKinnon has done a tutorial on how to create such an effect.I learnt this technique from him in his YouTube channel. Let's get started.

Cloning yourself looks complicated but very simple to do. To do this technique, there are a few things that you need to do to so as to accomplish it. First you have to shoot twice each video reacting to the other. Have your camera mounted on a tripod and do not make any camera movements while shooting the videos. Give yourself enough space between you.

Another thing you have to do while shooting is timing yourself and make sure the timing is correct. This can also be done by having a script. A script because you have are having a conversation with yourself and you don’t want to forget what you were talking about at the first video.

Next you want to make sure you’re lighting in consistent. This is done so as to have the same lightning in all the two videos. Different lightning may ruin your final output video.

After shooting and having your 2 videos, we head into the post production and start by importing all the two videos. Stack the two clips on top of each other. Make sure you have inserted them into a proper position. At this point only one video will be seen. Click on the top video go to the effects control and select on the masking tool.

choosing the pen tool and adjusting the masking feather and expansion to blend.

Draw a rectangular shape on one side (the side your clone should appear).

drawing to reveal the frame

this is done to reveal the frame underneath and after finishing the clone would appear.

However, there will be a hard line separating the two videos of which it’s supposed to be eliminated. To get rid of the hard line, adjust the masking feather and masking expansion making it to blend in. Adding to it you can create an adjustment layer to colour correct and add up your own luts.
That’s how you clone in Adobe Premiere Pro. Quite simple isn’t it? Below is a video I created.