I Made Minecraft Look like a Movie

Minecraft cinematics this is something i’m sure  you’ve seen on youtube before beautiful shots of   minecraft that are incredible to see but just  don’t seem possible but how are these made and   how can you make some of your own let’s go ahead  and talk through how you can do this same thing  

With mods and just a little bit of cinematography  knowledge i’ll also talk through some professional   cinematography tips so you can learn not only  how these things can look better but if you want   to you can level up your own content and make  things look more beautiful than the competition  

It’s actually a lot more simple than you may  think and you might actually already have the   tools installed on your game to be able to pull  this off so now that you’ve been watching what’s   actually possible for a little while let’s  jump into how you can do this for yourself  

Hi there did you like that intro i spent  a long time on it so what’s the first step   well we need to get a few tools installed in the  game to make this happen if you’re not sure how  

To install mods well this isn’t a tutorial for  that so head on up to that gorgeous search bar   right above and figure that out it’s fine  we can wait i’ll take a short intermission   we interrupt this intermission to tell you  that i’m literally going to explode in five  

Seconds if you don’t hit subscribe five  four three come on come on you can do it intermission over we don’t have any time to waste  the main tool we’ll be using today is the replay   mod this will allow us to record and export some  really incredible shots with some super precise  

Positioning and control this is the way you get  those super long beautiful sweeping shots that   are super precise also time lapse content of  big builds and such and it’s also how you can   record yourself in the third person if you  don’t know how the replay mod works i highly  

Recommend this tutorial series from pixel riffs  it’ll be linked in the description next up we   want to make things look pretty shaders are an  incredible way for you to make your game look   just wow like oh my gosh this is beautiful to  look at of course maybe don’t run your shaders  

With you know this amount of stuff happening in  the world because it’s a little bit laggy but the   beautiful thing about complimentary is that i can  actually adjust a bunch of those things so it’s  

Fine i’m also gonna just turn that down a little  bit there we go now we’ve got some nice perform   look at this look at how beautiful this is this  isn’t even like a cinematic shot or anything   this is just gorgeous these do take a little  extra power to run the normal minecraft so  

If your computer isn’t completely unnecessary  for minecraft it might be harder to run than   thankfully there’s a ton of options for lower  performance shaders out there or you can just   record footage with vanilla shaders and that’ll  look just fine the mods i personally use for this  

Are sodium for performance and iris for shaders  but optifine works great too also i’ve been really   enjoying complementary shaders recently so that’s  what i’ll be using for the sake of customizability   and just pure beauty like oh my gosh it’s  beautiful out here on the subject of shaders  

You’ll probably want to choose a shader pack that  is uh you know first of all not gonna light your   pc on fire but secondly will look beautiful right  out of the box for this i’d recommend against path  

Tracing or ray tracing shaders just because they  have a lot of downside and they don’t look quite   as good naturally as something like complementary  or silders they’re super fun to play with like as  

You can see this looks great but uh yeah it uh  comes at the cost of performance also i tend to   get some weird artifacting with my gpu i don’t  know if that’s just specifically my gpu but uh  

Yeah it’s not super easy to run these they are  absolutely a ton of fun to play around with but   they kind of suck the life out of your fps so  uh you know that’s not ideal if you want to like  

Play the game so now that we have all our mods  installed and ready to go let’s go ahead and jump   into a minecraft world and get this all started  oh wait we’re already in one that’s crazy before  

We start filming though we’re going to want to  set a few baseline things you’re going to have   to ask yourself three different questions what’s  the subject where is the subject and what elements   do you want to highlight for the viewer these will  be the defining factors that’ll pretty much decide  

Where and how you’re going to shoot your footage  so for example let’s say i really like this   location i really like this you know ruined portal  over here let’s say i want to shoot this area i’m  

Going to start by asking myself what is my subject  i’m going to go ahead and choose this rune portal   itself as the subject where is the subject well  it’s out here in the jungle so i want to think  

About how i’m going to capture the jungle aspects  of this area and film that and then which elements   do i want to highlight for the viewer i really  obviously want to highlight this and i want to  

Highlight the area it is so on this sort of island  area there’s a beautiful mountain over there   things like that these are the elements that i  want to highlight so now that i’ve decided on   those things i’m going to go ahead and hit start  recording and that will start our replay i usually  

Try to just like move away or like bury myself  if this is like a you know a beautiful area so   that the uh i’m not in the replay file because uh  i don’t want myself in this shot i want it to be  

Beautiful and i’m not beautiful enough to make the  shot this is so sad obviously if the shot is about   you uh you can include yourself in the shot that’s  fine but for me i will be stuck in this hole  

Alright so now that i’ve hit stop recording i can  go ahead and quit back to the title and we’ll make   sure this replay saves and now that it’s saved we  can go ahead and open up this replay file and we  

Can get started with actually shooting the area  wow that is really weird to look at quick tip   on replay if you hit b on your keyboard you can  actually see all the players that are in the world  

And i can click on this and teleport directly  to me so hey look it’s me first thing you’ll   want to do is find your subject which is here and  there’s a couple things you’ll want to remember   i am steve first of all as you’re filming remember  that framing and composition is everything in  

Reference to composition let’s talk a little bit  about what that means and we’ll use this chicken   as an example with composition there’s three  elements that you want to keep in mind that’s the   foreground the middle ground and the background  you want to make sure that each level is distinct  

From the other ones additionally you’ll want to  set your frame so that your subject is on the   left or right side that will also depend on which  way the subject is facing so in this case as you  

Can see the chicken is facing to the right side  of the screen we’ll want to put him on the left   this essentially gives the subject’s head room to  move in a direction if he wanted to uh obviously  

The chicken here is not going to be moving in  this frame but he could if he wanted to here’s   a quick tip too as well as you can see i have a  depth of field effect on my shader here and it  

Puts whatever’s in the middle in focus so like for  example if i’m looking this direction the chicken   is no longer in focus but if i hover over the  chicken the chicken’s in focus the best way to get  

This to work with the depth of field effect is to  render it out at about double the resolution and   zoom in in your editing software so in this case  instead of rendering at 1080p like a regular video  

I would render this shot at 4k and then i could  zoom in in post of course there’s more to framing   than just those factors but that’s a good start  second while you’re filming you’ll want to keep in   mind camera movement static shots don’t typically  work well for something to feel open and cinematic

So what you want to do is give your shot the same  energy that your video has overall so for example   if it’s a fast-paced battle scene maybe it’s  better for the camera to move faster to give the  

Scene more energy the second example is if it’s a  build or a world showcase you’re not going to want   to do fast moving shots because it doesn’t make a  lot of sense for the scene it makes more sense to  

Use slow steady shots for the viewer to take in  the scene additionally spinning the camera like   this oh my gosh really does not serve any sort  of cinematic purpose it really just throws people  

Off balance as much as it may seem appealing and  fun to include a shot that has a full 360. it’s a   pretty disorienting to the viewer and it  will probably cause them to lose interest   i’d suggest to try to accomplish the same  perspective with a shot that doesn’t go upside  

Down a little bit of spin left or right is okay  as you can see here this one has a tiny bit of it   but anything over about 30 degrees gets to be a  little bit much for the viewer the idea to keep  

In mind with camera movement is that we want the  viewer to understand what’s happening so if your   frame is going like this all the time people are  gonna be a little confused you’ll likely pretty  

Quickly lose people as you’re trying to do this  and uh yeah if you can’t make sense of where you   are then you’re gonna lose interest couple more  quick tips to keep in mind while you’re shooting   get more shots than you need you’re going to need  them typically you’ll want to overshoot your scene  

Rather than go to editing and not have enough  so for every time that you say to yourself that   seems like enough material go ahead and shoot one  more scene i know it’s a little counterintuitive   but you’re going to want more shots when you’re  editing if you get to the editing bay and realize  

Wow i did not have enough footage for this it’s  a little bit more of a pain to go back and shoot   more the other tip and the thing that i use a lot  is if you go into your settings and zoom your fov  

In all the way things look a lot more filming this  essentially emulates the look of a longer lens and   that actually is really good because it emulates  the look of something that isn’t the human eye it  

Gives you an alternate perspective and as you can  see here this looks a lot cooler this way rather   than something like this and of course there’s a  place for this ultra wide shots like this are cool  

In some cases but this in this circumstance the  zoom in is really nice so i’ve got my scene all   set up here and i’m going to go ahead and render  it out as you can see here i am rendering in 4k  

And uh 30 megabits per second is usually pretty  good that’s what i kind of go for and make sure   you rename your file depending on a few factors  like the resolution that you’re rendering at   the bitrate your computer’s hardware and a  couple other things uh this can take longer  

Or shorter i’m gonna go ahead and leave this  be so uh i’ll be right back see you guys later   all right so you’ve got all your footage here in a  folder and uh you don’t know what to do next well  

It’s time for editing the truth of the matter is  i have no interest in telling you how to edit i   actually think that you guys should figure out  your own editing style yourself but i will give  

You a few tips and tricks to use as you try to  figure it out first of all the best way to make   something look appealing is to cut the shots  on the beat of the music that you chose it’s  

Typically best to find music really early in the  process so you know what it’ll sound like as you   cut so that you can cut to the beat additionally  don’t use weird fancy transitions unless you   really need to a simple cut in the video  accomplishes the same thing that a blink does  

In real life humans can understand the transition  from one place to another over a cut as if it was   just them blinking to look in a new direction  the biggest tip i can give you with editing is  

This if you’re not happy with how a cut feels keep  tweaking it until you can tweak it no further then   if you’re still not happy and it’s worth it to you  reshoot something if you have to otherwise if it’s  

Not worth it or the shot feels fine to watch you  can call it good enough and move on editing takes   time but that time is worth it if you’re making  the video the best it can be sometimes the shot  

Won’t turn out the way you expected it to the  first time and that’s totally okay and super   normal it happens to me all the time if you don’t  like the way something looks you don’t have to  

Just accept it and use it you can actually shoot  another shot to make it feel better crazy 20 extra   minutes in the editing phase is nothing when the  final video is exactly the way you want it to be so i just logged back into this  world with the ruin portal on  

It to like finish out this video and i  found this the michael bay button well   before my curiosity gets the better of  me be sure to like and subscribe that   would be fantastic i’ll see you next time  whenever that is alright what does this do