Cool effect, how is it acieved?

[Ismail]

Hi i came across this effect, i dont know what it is called, its kind of cool, just wondering if anyone has experience or knows how to achieve the effect

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kLiagBbSryY

The effect takes place around 2mins 26secs and again at the begining of the 3rd min.

Any thoughts and suggesstions would be appreciated, i would be attempting to try this in final cut

Regards
Ismail

[zoostory]

yep, that would be called a facy transition. Give it whatever nick name you want (swap out, cut out. etc). It's not as hard as you think, but you'll, at the very least, need some photoshop skills and arguably it would be a whole lot easier to do it in after effects than FCP, but with some patience you could do it in FCP.

You need: a freeze frame of the LAST frame of your first cut and a freeze frame of the FIRST frame of your next cut. Make them both TIFs.

Then in photoshop you need to use the pen tool to draw vector masks around various parts and then marquee select the vector masks and cut and paste the selections into new layers. In essence, you're making the image a jigsaw puzzle. Try and stick to geometry, so if it's a room, grab one wall, then another, then the floor, etc.

Do that for both images. Then it's just a question of importing the PSD files back into FCP, and, in between your cut, positioning the various layers and motion tweening them in and out quickly in a way that looks cool to you. Basically, you're going to motion tween out one puzzle, taking the pieces apart while motion tweening in another puzzle.

If you don't understand any of the terms here I highly suggest you look in the FCP manual under motion or motion controls and learn them. The manual is really great and this is basic editorial knowledge in this day and age.

[ian lucero]

YOu can do this easily using FCP and Photoshop. Since you are just doing it to a still image it is a matter of opening the image in photoshop or whatever good photo editor that lets you mask. Making one image file that has the removed element and then another image file that has the element you want to "slide" into place.

Bring those 2 or 3 or however many pieces you have into FCP and use keyframes to bring the pieces together. It is helpful to have the original image (or complete/whole image) placed on the very bottom in the background and use that as a template. I would actually use that flattened image as the final image once the pieces come together.

So something like that.:beer: