Shooting tip: make sure you have plenty of footage (shot with a tripod) of your scene without any actors in it -- so you have an empty environment you can use to "fill in" the spot where your actor is, one s/he's supposed to have left the frame.
Marking a point in the timeline:
Pull marker icon from far right of timeline (just above the top layer), or move the playhead to where you want the marker and hit *. To edit the marker label, doubleclick the marker and a dialogue window will show up.
To duplicate your layer, select it and hit command-D.
To cut the footage in the layer, hit alt-]. (alt-[ will cut footage at the at the start of the playhead).
To freeze-frame your footage, right-click on the layer, and in the new menu go Time > Freeze Frame. (It's a little confusing in the tutorial, bur he's freezing the second layer from the top, and then cutting the topmost, unfrozen layer at the point where he want time to freeze on that second layer).
Mask out your actor on the frozen layer.
"Soloing" a layer - if you click the box below the circle (next to the microphone icon) on a layer, it will hide all non-solo layers.
To change the position of your masked actor - select your masked layer, and hit "P" to reveal the position values (rotation might be relevant too, if the actor is spinning as well).
The "hitch" on the jump initially in the tutorial is caused by the moving footage essentially repeating the frame that's frozen in the frozen layer - so he cuts the moving footage back by a frame.
For the blur effect, you can right-click on the layer (or alternately go to the "Effects" menu) and keyframe some blur options.
The video copilot action essentials toolkit is here:
For the rain effect – Layer > New Solid (or Command+Y).
On that layer, Simulation > CC Rain
To blend it with the other layer, he toggled switches/modes (there is a button below the layers that allows this - otherwise, hit F4). Then he chose "screen" as a blending mode.
Colorista, which he used for color correction:
How to do a camera shake:
Set two keyframes in the Position property of your footage layer, select them, go to:
Window: Wiggler
Adjust the paramters there, and apply.
Tutorial here:
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