Film effects and transitions

[holymexicobatman]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone was familiar with taking digital footage and creating various film-like transitions. I suppose it's difficult to explain, but you would know it if you saw it. It's like when there is a quick white wash out between shoots, or what appears to be the edge of the 'film' slipped into frame, or sometimes the frames roll up or down and another appears below it/above it. I hope someone out there understand what the heck I'm talking about. the only example I can give is a band called Norma Jean; there new music video-- here's the link....

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-300485-videos--Norma-Jean

I realize most of the 'feel' they're achieving is through the cinematography. but just try and notice the various transitions used between shoots--it's not all in-camera effects....PLEASE HELP!!! i think this stuff is awesome. Is there any article out there that teaches how to do this? or maybe a plugin for after effects that helps achieve some of it???

[TC]

It can all be done through simple compositing in After Effects.

Make a white solid, and keyframe different opacities at different moments. You could construct a film strip with frames of the footage in Photoshop, and bring them into After Effects to animate a frame slip.

There's also Digital Hotcakes FilmFX. I've never used it, so I cannot comment on it.

http://www.animationsforvideo.com/html/hotcakes_vol_9.htm

[holymexicobatman]

Hmm... I've experimented with white flash framing and have achieved some good stuff, but I wouldn't know where to start with slip frames, markers, and crap like that. is there any sources for templates on no budget?

[TC]

You should be able to use the template provided by thie tutorial:

http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=http://www.creativecow.net/articles/hamad_serge/filmstrip/index.html