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Transition… How to.
I’m editing some work and want to do a transition between two scenes that essentially amounts to flickering back-and-forth between shot A and shot B before finally settling on shot B and carrying on.
Is there a in-built transition that can do this or a plug-in?
Failing that any tips on how to achieve this without a whole lot of cutting and dividing my footage?
Also, there are at least 2 iris style transitions that are in Final Cut but both work in the wrong direction for what I want. They seem to go from A starting with B as a dot in the centre of the screen and expanding out until B finally fills the screen. What I’m after is starting with A, B then begins at the outside edges and comes in until A dissapears as a tiny dot in the centre of the screen and B takes over. Remember the cartoons where the black shrinks in around the character until just his head is stuck in the middle of the screen usually resulting in him extracting it with a pop! That’s what I want.
Any ideas what I can do to acheive such an effect? I’m probably missing something very obvious.
Thanks for the help. Great forum!
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For the iris, just press the little reverse effect button in the transition window. Double click trans to bring that up. But if you want to keyframe it you’ll have to do a matte effect instead. But if you just need a linear reverse iris effect, then just click the reverse button.
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And for the first one…sorry, just need a whole lot of cutting.
Who said editing was easy or fast? It isn’t…not by a longshot.
(Who said editing was easy?)
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Thanks Guys!
Just tried the iris and Yes it works just like I wanted. Thank you Bret.. Thing is the reverse button doesn’t really make itself clear as to what it is or does. Probably why I never noticed it before, must have jiggled every other slider on that transition though.
And Shane, thank you for confirming what I suspected regarding the flicker transition. As you say, not easy, but not to hard either.
Thanks heaps.
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To make the “flicker” faster to edit:
Overlap the beginning of clip B on a video track ABOVE clip A.
Then, just start “slicing” and removing very short sections of the B clip, shorter and shorter, (8 frames, 6 frames, 4 frames, 2 frames, etc.) until you just leave B up full.
This will allow the 2 clips to be alternately seen until just B remains full.
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Or stack up the clips, add the blink filter and keyframe it.
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Hmmm, Kevin, where, oh where did I just learn about the blink filter???!
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What can I say superstar? 😉
It was great having you in the San Diego Seminar Deb.
That was fun, wasn’t it?Kevin Monahan
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More fun than a hot tub full of cheerleaders! < tee hee>
And it’s paying off already! I’ve mocked up a couple of the techniques we worked on during the seminar for a project I’m starting this week. So far, the producer loves all of them! Now it’s just a matter of letting the client decide which one she likes best!
Thanks, Kevin!
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