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How to best merge two clips with a 2 sec jump between them?
A Canon EOS D was used to film 32 min of HD footage in two clips of 20 and 12 min. Image quality is great, but unfortunately the camera has to shut off and then quickly turn on again because it doesn’t allow extended filming.
We lose about 2 seconds of footage, and unfortunately the subject didn’t stay still during the transition, so there is a jump from one clip to the next. It needs to looks like a seamless transition from one clip to another. So we can’t just use a fade transition or blur because it looks too different from the adjoining images. Might there a be a series of steps that would blend frames together so that it almost doesn’t look like there is a jump at all? (Maybe some combination of composite and layering, ripple sequence, or something better?)
Thanks!!
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Can’t use a cut away to cover the jump?
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the others have said it: you are trying to create footage that doesn’t exist, and it can get very difficult, very time-consuming, and very expensive.
the only morphing plugin i know of for FCP is from CHV:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_chv_morph_.htmlif the subject is moving a lot as you say it’ll be almost impossible.
can you do a jump cut, but maybe blow up the second shot, so itlooks like you are cutting in closer?
then at some later point zoom or cut back out to full frame?nick
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This response is probably too late, but…You could try this:
1. Export the two frames where the jump occurs. Bring into After Effects.
2. Put on timeline and enable Time remapping (right click on the frame clip).
3. Change Project settings and extend the sequence to two seconds. Stretch clip out.
4. Enable frame blending. (check little box button on timeline)
5. Make sure Pixel Motion is enabled under Layer – Frame Blending
6. Apply the Time warp effect to the clip and play with Speed and Vector Detail. After Effects will interpret the best match between the two frames.
7. Export and bring back into project and use the interpolated frames to fill the gap.Depending on how big of a jump results will vary, but it’s worth a try.
Note to other responders: Your advice is smart good answers but they failed to answer the question. It’s like if someone has shot themselves in the foot and is asking how to stop the bleeding and you give them a lengthy answer about gun safety.
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there is NO way to do this in an “automated” fashion the way you describe.
your best best would involve a fair bit of rotoscoping and lots of animation, sampling form adjacent / similar frames, etc, etc.even then, i’d be surprised if you could get away with 2 whole seconds of fabricated human right there in the middle of the screen.
i could be wrong.
i wonder what the OP’s solution eventually was?nick
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Thank you Joshua! This technique worked beautifully for me for in turning a jump cut (from an interview with static background) into a seamless transition. I had seen posts about various morph filters on the market, but this simple solution did the trick and saved me time and money. I only needed to create a few extra frames, not a 2 second transition. And I believe that is exactly what the original poster needed.
Dave, if you had read a little more carefully you could have seen that the poster was just trying to cover a jump cut (2 seconds were cut out), not re-create 2 seconds of material. Obviously whether this technique would have worked for them would depend on how much the subject and camera moved. But lecturing about what the poster should have done is beyond unhelpful, and cutaways are not always appropriate.
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