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aligning a retake
Hey there guys,
I thought this was a basics question and am a little embarrassed that I couldn’t figure this one out myself.
I have two clips of the same subject (a person) and same camera angle. The second clip is a retake. Now that the retake has been placed in the timeline against the preceding clip, the subject is close to the same spot but not exactly aligned and therefore there is a jump between clips. I’ve tried various customized transitions and cannot get the subject to look continuous and appear unedited. How do I get these two clips to look seemless?
Thanks for your help.
Roberta -
6 Replies
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Aside from doing something overly complicated in after effects, like masking the subjects and stamping a separated background for more control.
Maybe compositing the shots with a slightly feathered mask and the motion tracker…If it is that important that you have a continuous shot, it might be easier to reshoot.
Unless you can get the shot you want, I’d try embracing the challenge as you’ve done by experimenting.
Maybe a 1 or 2 second dissolve. Maybe a simple wipe to show a passage of time.
If you deinterlace, maybe you could try a dissolve with zoom.
Again, if you deinterlace, maybe you could do a small upscale so you could transition showing the subjects in clearly different positions.Maybe make the jump into a theme and drop frames in other portions of the video.
I guess I’m saying that I’d try to do something creative rather than trying to hide a jump.
Maybe get someone else to look at it to see if they can see the jump.
Vince
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Thanks Vince,
Some good options there. I have tried several transitions. A custom cross dissolve looked ok leaning into clip 1 and barely into clip 2. I could live with this but not happily.
I may try the masking in AE as I don’t think there will be any trouble with the background because I’m using blue screen, so it’s only the person I need to connect.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Roberta -
Is it not possible to cut briefly to some b-roll footage then cut back to the subject?
Cheers
Eddie -
Just use “Dip to white” keeping the transition length down to several frames. It looks like a photo flash, looks very natural and hides the jump cut very well. I see this on TV often and it works great for me.
Since the white frame, however brief, breaks the continuity between the 2 different clips, the visual cortex accepts this as normal, while a dissolve or transition just screams for attention, “Look at me!”
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
Eddie,
No, that wouldn’t work because it is in the flow of dialogue.
Thanks anyway,
Roberta -
This is an interesting idea Jeff. I’m going to try this and see how it comes out. Thanks,
Roberta
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