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Should I be using Motion for a time-lapse morph edit?
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Hi David,
Thank you for taking so much time in thinking this through. And you are right in the reason I am here, for professional like you who have been down this road before give advice.
Perhaps, I should explain the shot a little better. This is for a short moment in a documentary. What I am trying to do is make it look real, and perhaps instead of “magical” it’s more demonstrating someone having to do “little to no effort” to achieve results that normally take a ton of dedication and time for everyone else.
The weight loss is only about 25lbs. From 140-115lbs. The outfit is small sports bra and very short tight shorts. Going from flab to firm. So, it isn’t biggest loser style weight loss. But, it needs to be noticeable.
Do you really think this should be shot on a blue screen or green screen for to work?
Thank you again. – Julie
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“Morphing and dissolves require time, 15 to 60 frames for each transition.”
Morphing yes, but dissolves can be 2 frames. It’s done all the time. Old school guy’s used to call these ‘soft cuts’.
If this was done well it might look like stop frame animation. -
What was I thinking.
I meant you can have a 1 frame dissolve. AKA the ‘Soft Cut’. -
How do you do a 1 frame dissolve?
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A 1 frame dissolve gives one frame that is a 50-50 overlap between the two adjoining shots. It is most often used to soften the look of a cut edit, when it just needs ‘a little something’ to make the cut look smoother, while still retaining the look of a cut.
Sure, not a dissolve in the traditional sense, but just another tool in the bag.
Check out the opening montage’ of the MGM film ‘Grand Prix’ sometime. There are a lot of these ‘soft cuts’ in there.
You can also use these to simulate a camera flash in a shot. Do a cut to a solid frame of white, then a 1 frame (or 2) dissolve back to the original shot. Add a camera or flash S/FX to help sell it, works great.
As a transition between two different shots you can go for 5 or so frame dissolve. -
[Julie Steele] “How do you do a 1 frame dissolve?”
BTW my other post I was assuming you meant ‘how do you use’ or ‘is that really a dissolve’, which I may have read completely wrong.
In a literal way, to do a 1 frame dissolve, you just need to set the FX duration for 1, but this would be in FCP, not Motion, as this thread might be OT in the Motion forum. -
This is at worst (unless just shot horrible) a day or 2 of work. You need RE:FLEX or other morpher (shake Nuke what ever that has a morpher) I can do one for you if you want to send me once transition. This is simple simple stuff if just you have to know how to do it. Once you see it done you will go OH THAT’S IT?
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