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Bloom/Burn Out/Film Look Transition in FCP
Greetings,
I am looking for a way to create a quick transition that I’ve heard called “Bloom” or “Blow Out” or “Vapor Across” (as made by Eureka (but I’m not sure if they have a version for FCP 6)…
but basically mimicking the look of a transition that is naturally on a roll of film between shots, where the highlights expand and taking over the image before it goes into another. I’d really like to stay in FCP 6 for this and try to not go third party. Let me know if you know any good techniques! (Any advice is appreciated.)
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Nattress Big Box of Tricks has this exact transition. It’s a Glow Dissolve.
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Eureka! works fine in FCP6, but the transition you’re talking about is not one of those. There’s a plugin for AE that does the “film end” thing, I can’t remember at the moment but I will look for it. What I saw is EXACTLY like a film end, better than Eureka! or BBOT. They may be close, but no cigar.
Sorry for the memory lapse, but I will find it.
Have a wonderful day.
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Notice that the original poster said that he wanted to stay within FCP, and NOT go third party.
The best you can do in FCP is do a Dip to Color and change the color from black to white…but the results are not nearly as good as Nattress or Eureka.
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Oopps, sorry everyone.
Have a wonderful day.
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Other than using Eureka or Nattress transitions you have these options (from my experience)
1. use Digital Juice (or other stock) tail and head burns over the cut fading in and out. Not a universal method, but depending on your footage it may give you a very nice organic transition.
2. color correct the two clips you cut between, keyframe the tail and head of the respective clips to increase brightness and saturation and flash to white or near white with a burn-out effect. takes time but it’s all internal to fcp, no plug-ins or stock footage needed.
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Hey alichek,
Thank you so much for your advice! I have a question about #2 of your response. When you say:“2. color correct the two clips you cut between, keyframe the tail and head of the respective clips to increase brightness and saturation and flash to white or near white with a burn-out effect. takes time but it’s all internal to fcp, no plug-ins or stock footage needed.”
Are you talking about the 3 way color corrector, or? IF you are, which layer of it are you key framing when you do this? (There are so many elements to that filter.)
Thank you and thanks to everyone for the valuable information!
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The Nattress “Film flash” I think is very good, And Eureka have the “Vapor across” FREE.
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I would usually use the basic color corrector and keyframe whites, mids, blacks and saturation according to my mood. if you want to get fancy you can control the colors as well. three-way would work the same way, with a little more control. oh yeah, and if you’re on a slower machine rasor blade the area around the transition into separate clips so you have less to render.
frankly, it is a pain in the butt to do and i tend to avoid it lately. but it gives you a lot of control over the image. and it’s totally free :).
eureka’s flash across does a great job. on simpler work i just flash to white. rafalaos, vapor across does a completely different job; very nice, i use it a lot, but different.
alec
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Artbeats.com
search for “film burn” and you will get fifty clips from Film Cutter, reels one and two.
Expensive for a single download ($200-$400 WHEW!) but if your project depends on selling the effect it’s cheaper than trying to recreate it at $100/hour that can’t be billed.
bogiesan
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