basic transitions question
- Thread starter bart
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Take your clip. Split it where you want the transition to be. Put the blur (or whatever) effect on the left clip; leave the right clip normal. Do not move them, but overlap them by dragging the edges into each other. Adjust to suit.
You can do it by keyframing effects, too, but I think that’s the quicker way to do it.
You can do it by keyframing effects, too, but I think that’s the quicker way to do it.
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
You're going to have to keyframe this one bart. Go into 'Video FX' my young grasshopper.
(sound of cane flutes and crickets)
(sound of cane flutes and crickets)
You don’t have to keyframe. You can if you want to, but you don’t have to.
I misunderstood you at first; I thought you wanted to transition into a clip with a blur.
Which is what you want to do, but you also want to transition out of another clip.
You can do the same as what I told you; you just need to do the opposite with your first clip, and then overlap your two blurred clips.
It would be this:
Clip 1 clean – overlap – Clip 1 blurred – overlap – Clip 2 blurred – overlap – Clip 2 clean.
I misunderstood you at first; I thought you wanted to transition into a clip with a blur.
Which is what you want to do, but you also want to transition out of another clip.
You can do the same as what I told you; you just need to do the opposite with your first clip, and then overlap your two blurred clips.
It would be this:
Clip 1 clean – overlap – Clip 1 blurred – overlap – Clip 2 blurred – overlap – Clip 2 clean.
Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
It can be done the way Jubal's saying, if you wanted to AVOID keyframing, but keyframing is your friend on your path towards more professional editing. Embrace it.
Kind of a combination of what both John & David are saying. Take your two clips, and transition them to taste, having the ends of the clip overlapping. Then you'll drop your blur effect (I think it's under Gaussian Blur - my spelling's probably off) that you'll findin Video FX onto both clips.
Then, go into your effects button on each clip. On the first clip, place a key frame at the end of the clip's timeline. Then place another one in the timeline at the point it's JUST starts to connect/overlap with the next clip. On that keyframe (do this to taste) drop the blur all the way to zero ... you may even want to move this keyframe a moment or two BEFORE the transition begins, your call. After you've done this, make sure your beginning keyframe is also set at zero for the blur levels.
This way, your clip will only begin to blur as it's about to transition into the next. Do the opposite order for the 2nd clip, and you should get the effect you're after.
Kind of a combination of what both John & David are saying. Take your two clips, and transition them to taste, having the ends of the clip overlapping. Then you'll drop your blur effect (I think it's under Gaussian Blur - my spelling's probably off) that you'll findin Video FX onto both clips.
Then, go into your effects button on each clip. On the first clip, place a key frame at the end of the clip's timeline. Then place another one in the timeline at the point it's JUST starts to connect/overlap with the next clip. On that keyframe (do this to taste) drop the blur all the way to zero ... you may even want to move this keyframe a moment or two BEFORE the transition begins, your call. After you've done this, make sure your beginning keyframe is also set at zero for the blur levels.
This way, your clip will only begin to blur as it's about to transition into the next. Do the opposite order for the 2nd clip, and you should get the effect you're after.
A fair point. Working with advanced techniques for even simple things will help propel you toward more advanced editing.
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
Yeah, a bit much for Bart at this stage. Damn noobs. 
Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
John, I still can't help but laugh when I see your icon's mug staring at me. Just picked up SNL's The Best of Christopher Walken .... LOVE his Prankster skit where he wacks the guy with a tire iron. If you've not seen it, get it today.
Does it have . . .
The Continental?
The Continental?
Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
I'm sure it does ... is that the one that has him dressed up, looking fance, monologing to the camera, etc.? I actually purchased it specifically last night for the Prankster skit ... skipping through the DVD to find it. I'll watch the rest later, but it's a good one. Also has the Blue Oyster Cult "More Cow Bell" skit that's on the best of Will Ferrel too.