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Whip Pan Transition?
I’m wondering if anybody knows how to create a whip pan transition. It’s like it appears as if the camera is quickly moving (whipping) to the next shot. Even if shot A is in the US, and shot B is over in China.
An example of this can be seen in the trailer for Magnolia. At the start of the trailer, each character is saying their name, and it does a whip pan transition to a shot of them doing something.
Is this an effect done in post, or done on set with specific camera movements, or both?
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the best transition is done by 3 sections at the filming stage-
firstly start with position A on character A – pan fast away from the character about 90 to 180 degrees.
(optional) secondly film a large spining shot to get that spinning motion – this is used to determin how much running time your transition needs to be
finally (this ones tricky) do a fast pan and stop abruptly on character B at position B – if it is a quick shot then it is easier to film this in reverse (i.e. start on the character and whip in opposite direction, then reverse in post- watch out for blinking eyes !!!)
put all sections together and watch the cuts – sometimes they work great depending on colour scenarios – at other times you may need to put a slight cross dissolve in.
this should give a great effect
good luck with it.
Lee.
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you can fake this in ae if they’ve shot nothing;
at the end of the action, move your vision quickly to the left with a big fat horizontal fast blur. if u like, put another bit of vision in – following your first – it doesn’t matter what it is as you’re blurring it so much. repeat this if you like; depending on how long you want the whip pan to be…
then bring in your next clip from the right, fast blurred as well, and settle it centre of screen, keyframing off your fast blur quickly.
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Thanks for the info guys. Maybe i’ll try both out for a super-awesome whip pan transition!
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