-
speaking of transitions
What strategies do you employ when there is not enough media to apply a transition (or add handles and then apply the transition) yet the straight cut feels too abrupt? Obviously every scene should be shot with heads and tails in mind, but this is not always the case. Sometimes the extra few seconds in which actors stay in character and the camera is still rolling turn out to have wonderful moments that again you don
-
5 Replies
-
If the transition isn’t all that critical in placement, I’ll add one, usually getting that little 1 framer… then adjuse the edit point in the transition editor to create a longer one.
Jerry
-
make your own, move the first clip above the other one (by just a little bit) and than apply a blur and opacity change, i did about a dozen of these in my last little short which my cameraman and acotr where often leaving me with no handles, it has this really nice effect. put a white slug infront of your bottum clip and do a long crossfade with that as well, gives it a nice touch (white was my choice also i used a gaussian blur, they fade together ver very well)
Aaron Zander
student editor at brooks institute of photography
12″powermac g4 1.25gb ram, 1.5 GHZ macosx 10.4.6 1.3tb external space
finalcut 5.0.4 adobe cs2 afterefects 7pro
looking for partime work in l.a. area very eager -
The audio is very important in selling a transition at the end of a clip. Often if you can gracefully fade out the audio over seven frames or so, making the speaker sound like he or she was finishing, then you can adjust the video transition accordingly and it will seem to work better.
Another trick is to apply a slomo or speed ramp down to the frames within the transition rather than a freeze, as it keeps moving and doesn’t come to a screeching halt, which can look bad especially if the pace of the speaker was rather fast.
-
i use a combo of the mentioned techniques.
i extend the tail as long as possible by either freezing, slowing down, or reversing
then dissolve in the incoming shot ON ANOTHER TRACK.
the best way, in my opinion is to reverse the clip, if possible.
this gives you the best results as the grain or noise pattern will not change.
slowing is a bit more obvious as you’ll see the strobe on the grain or noise, and on the movement itself, of course.
and a freeze is the worst, as you’ve noticed.
if the freeze or slow-down is hidden WITHIN the dissolve, you can get away with it.cheers,
nick -
I backtime. That means that if I know I want to add a 30 second dissolve between two clips, I mark an out point on my outgoing clip 15 frames before the end. Or if the incoming clip has lots of handle, I drop in the whole clip and have my dissolve start at the tail of the clip, so that it starts 30 frames before the cut.
Dissolves take planning.
Shane
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up