A to B blur

[Simon Bonner]

1) place a keyframe in the position property for footage A.
2) skip forward a few frames (as long a duration as you want the transition to take).
3) change the X dimension of the position property until footage A is just off screen.
4) add footage B to the comp.
5) parent footage B to footage A. If the parenting pickwhip is not visible, right click the title bar of the timeline panel and choose columns / parent.
6) turn on motion blur for footage A and B and the comp.
7) add standard wooshy sound effect!

Simon Bonner

youtube.com/simonsaysFX

[Alon Hammer]

thank you.
but i already know how to do this, its not the effect im looking for, but i didn’t really explain what im looking for so thanks for trying, i don’t want to blur them together i want to ‘blend’ them together so it looks as if its one shot for instance:
actor 1 throws a knife at actor 2 and it gets stuck on his face.
so to film this i would use one shot (shot A) of actor 1 ‘throwing’ the knife at actor 2 and another shot (shot B) of actor 2 with a knife stuck in his head.
so to make it look real i would ‘blend’ the two shots together to make it look like one shot.

sorry for not fully explaining things in the original post,

thanks again alon

p.s.if this technique is done the same way as simon bonner posted then my apologies to simon bonner

[Simon Bonner]

A lot of times this effect is a simple cut, and before cgi the was the only way to do it. What really sells the effect is the sound editing. If the sound is realistic, your viewers’ brains will fill in the visual stuff.

Simon Bonner

youtube.com/simonsaysFX