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Help making ‘slide show’ less mundane
I have a project which is basically a montage of snapshots over a music bed – TRT around 3:00. I really want to make this not just the usual parade of cross-fades and pan-n-scan images. I have 5.5 & a lot of the standard plug ins – I’d appreciate any suggestions/links/examples/etc to help make this project not so formula and cliche’.
Proactive thanks,
Steven Bump
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I don’t know … if the content is important to the audience, dissolves are fine in my opinion. I don’t think of it as cliche, just unobtrusive. I don’t think you want the audience to focus on the transitions. If the shots are good and cropped well, possibly panned to reveal the focal point well, the audience will focus on the content.
The only other transition that comes to mind is a gradient wipe based on the image brightness, or a more filmic dissolve from one of the plugin manufacturers. Darn. Who was that? Digital Film Tools?
Steve
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I was thinking of creating a background of a flythrough of all the pix spaced on the z axis – and have a tight DOF set on the camera – and maybe parent some lights to the camera for added depth… Then just mute the constrast or otherwise tone it back somehow… I’m not trying to make it overtly ‘flashy’ – just trying to avoid it looking like a screensaver set to music – you know?…
Thanks for the reply.
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