• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Color Flash transition

  Posted by Cjahrens87 on July 31, 2006 at 6:11 pm

  I want to use a transition that is popular these days. I would describe it as a color type flash. It looks like an out of focus light or lens flare that sort of increases it’s size from a point to explode and take over a whole image. I have tried to make something by trying to take a light and key out a background, feather the edges and keyframe the size but never works right.

  Another way to describe it would be it appears a strong source of light is shooting through the image from under eventually overpowering it. I know this isn’t very clear but it is the best I could do.

  Help?

  Cja

  Jeff Carson replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  July 31, 2006 at 6:43 pm

  Graeme nattress has a film flash dissolve that works pretty good. http://www.nattress.com

  Eureka used to have a free transition called vapor across, but it really kinda sucked.

  The other thing you can do is use a combo of a blur filter and a levels filter. This way you can control the amount of blur, and the amount of bloom in your whites so that you stay within broadcast spec. You have to do some keyframing on both the outgoing and incoming clip, but you have the most control this way.

  Jeremy
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  Jeff Carson

  July 31, 2006 at 9:15 pm

  Have you tried merely using an additive dissolve?

  A more complex technique could be:

  Try duplicating the layers involved in the transition onto a new track, trim to near each side of the point of the intended transition (10 frames or so). Change the composite mode of each duplicate layer (on new track) to “Overlay” and 3-Way color corrector with whites/mids on full bright, at the moment and duration you want. Fade from Scene “A” clip from the original track (normal mode) to Scene “A” (Overlay mode) in the next track up, then use an additive dissolve from that clip to Scene “B” clip on new track (Overlay mode), then fade to Scene “B” (normal mode) on the original track. You would also need to do an additive dissolove (simultaneously with the additive dissolve on the new track) on your two scenes on the original track. Tweak to taste.

  This could get you going in the right direction.

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