My Fancy Pants Parade video for JoCo Cruise 2021, and how I made it #JoCoVirtual
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2021-04-13

Wanna know who won? Look here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPj4UVjEKrA

For the Virtual Fancy Pants Parade of JoCo Cruise 2021, I made a retrospective of the ten previous JoCo Cruise Fancy Pants Parade winners, using my footage of those parades (from: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0i0HAcpqyUxUozs3GSIhPC9) and some photos purchased from Atom Moore of my winning ball pit fancy pants from 2014. I used some blue-green jeans I happened to have, and showed the other pants through them using a chroma key (green screen) effect in Final Cut Pro. This shows the final video as well as the steps I took to do it, so you can see what the actual pants look like and the full frames of the videos showing through them.

I've never used this effect before, so I probably haven't done it in the best way (let me know if you have any tips!) I know that there are still bits of video showing through blue-green objects in the background, but it's good enough for a ten-second clip in a fancy pants parade. I also didn't always have good footage of the winning pants.

I got the idea from seeing people in green screen suits and motion capture suits at previous real-life fancy pants parades. Thanks for the inspiration! I wonder if they have done something similar this year, but with better editing skills. Also, thanks to That Guy, from whose video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YMnt_8Zuk) I found out who won the parade on JoCo Cruise Crazy 2, as it's not visible in my own video. Be like that guy.