Fade to white from a specific point

[David Battistella]

One way to do this is to put a white solid on the second layer of the video track.

1 Create White solid.
2. place the white solid on V 2 layer.
3. Add a dissolve to the white solid and adjust the duration.

This is the fast and easy way to get to white.

David

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[Charlie Johnson]

I didn’t explain myself very well. I’m actually trying to have a white point on the image which expands over a few seconds until it fills the shot.

[David Battistella]

Maybe the Film burn effect in After effects.

or you could use a circle wipe to do it.

or you could possibly do this with a Color correction effect as well.

David

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[Hans Damkoehler]

Hey Charlie,

Can you do it in Motion?

1) Drop that portion of video on your base track in Motion
2) Create a new layer and drop a white background on that track.
3) Then drop a circle mask over the white background (in the same layer.)
4) Set the mask blend mode to replace, fatten up the feathering and then animate the mask to grow how you want it over the time you want it to happen.

You could probably do the same in FCP, I just find that Motion works quicker for with this type of thing. Hope it helps or inspires an idea.

* Basically what David said, just in motion with animation (to get that effect you are looking for.)

Hans Damkoehler
VideoBloom, Inc.
Senior Video Editor/Producer

[Dave Brennan]

Charlie,

Here’s how to do this in FCP 7

Put the video you want to fade to white on video track 1

In the viewer click on the title generator button (bottom right looks like a film strip with an A in it) and select Matte -> Color Solid

Drag the video of a solid blue screen down to the Sequence on video track 2

Adjust the length of this slug to cover the video in track 1 from where you want the fade to start to the end

Double click the slug in the V2 track to edit the properties in the viewer

Select the Controls tab and click on the blue square, change to white with the color picker that pops up.

Now you need to matt the shape.

Select Effects -> Video Filters -> Mask shape, you should now have a white rectangle over your video

Go to the filters menu and change rectangle to oval

Drag the horizontal and vertical scale to 200 – this is your white out and should align with the end of the scene

click the keyframe button next to horizontal and vertical scale – it looks like a diamond in a circle with a left and right arrow either side

Now drag the playhead to the beginning of the slug

click the keyframe button next to horizontal and vertical scale again

You should see to the right of the keyframe buttons a green horizontal line with two black dots

Drag the horizontal and vertical scale to 0. This is where the fade to white starts. Note the green line now slopes upwards. The angle of the slope controls the speed the scale changes

Nearly there. You now have an expanding white oval that fills the screen over the video

To make it circular move the playhead to somewhere in the middle of the slug – you should now have a flat oval on the screen. Drag the right hand key frame for the vertical scale to the left until the oval becomes a circle, remembering to keep it at 200%. Basically what you’re doing here is getting the vertical scale to increase faster than the horizontal.

Render video and you’re done.

To adjust where the circle starts from adjust the centre control. to make it move around, keyframe the centre control

Hope that helps.

Dave

[Charlie Johnson]

Thanks for the advice Dave and Hans, I’ll let you know how it goes!