Transition Help

Agent of Kaos

Agent of Kaos

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I've been trying to figure out how to do the transition you see a lot in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz where say a car drives past and the scene transitions with a kind of wipe that follows the car. Don't know what it's called and couldn't find anything about it. Any of you guys know?
 
I'm not sure if there's an easy pre-set template or standard way to do this. But, you could always animate the "car" (which already is pre-matted or that you rotoscope yourself) to move across the screen, and then simply wipe one clip in behind it.

This would be pretty easy to do in After Effects. Since I don't have lots of experience in Premiere, I don't know how easy it would be to do within PP itself. Still, I'm not sure how many responses you're going to get, so I figured I'd pitch in what I knew.

Does that help at all? I haven't seen Hot Fuzz in awhile, so I don't really remember the wipes you're talking about.
 
Can't really do it in Premiere, the masking tool is too imprecise. This is something you need a compositing program for.
 
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Really? I've seen it done in some old films with really low budgets. Looks like it should be simple but I can't figure it out.
 
Agent of Kaos said:
Looks like it should be simple but I can't figure it out.
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It is relatively simple, any VFX novice can do it in about 15 minutes, but Premiere does not have the tool for it. At a minimum you need a program with a masking tool that allows you to create and adjust the mask shape and feather the edges; Premiere doesn't have that.
 
I got After Effects. If it's just to do with masking, etc then I can do that but I thought it was much more complicated than that.
 
Agent of Kaos said:
where say a car drives past and the scene transitions with a kind of wipe that follows the car.
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I haven't seen either of these films in some time, but I think I understand the kind of effect you are talking about -- and I think it's a simple cut, whcih can be easily done in Premiere.

Shoot location a. Drive a car past the camera., making sure the car fills the frame.
Shoot location b. Drive a car past the camera, making sure the car fully leaves the frame.

Cut from shot a to shot b while the car fills the frame and while there's a fair amount of motion blur. Unless the lighting or the car is extremely different, nobody will see the cut.
 
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