The art of transitioning

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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Bauzi » Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:35 am

Kitsuner wrote:
Bauzi wrote:The scene is too static?
Crossfade! Or slight zoom in/out

How would a crossfade solve that problem at all?

The static image is not too obvious and too... static? When you add a crossfade to a next scene. You're not that much bothered.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby EvaFan » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:11 am

Perhaps we need a real cross/fade to explain how they work best. :ying:
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby AaronAMV » Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:02 pm

use vegas transitions
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby NS » Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:05 pm

Just keep movement going, and ease through. Don't just have a sudden stop or action. Ease into it by slowing or speeding. And try to pay attention to color schemes in clips, in can help to have two adjacent clips look somewhat the same visually.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby nommay » Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:50 pm

Phantasmagoriat wrote:I get the impression conventional editing techniques try to hide transitions. Yet when there is music involved, I prefer to see those transitions go along with the music. In this way, I would say that editing AMV's adds a whole new element in terms of synchronization. If you want to have good sync, I think you have to make transitions more obvious, and consistent with the music. So if a note is held for a long time in the music, a long cross-fade may be suitable; and a fast note would benefit from a simple cut. Most of the time, a good transition will look like what you are hearing.
[Assuming you want sync in the first place...]

I've never really thought of it this way. I guess this is pretty much how I feel about transitions
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Taite » Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:56 pm

I pretty much agree with most views here, but that's only because there are so many ways to do transitions. Everyone has their own opinion, so I don't think they should be shot down because of it, but it is pretty simple-minded to say "this transition is better than this one"... I mean, really? :|

If you think of all the slow AMVs, pick out a few, and look at their transitions, do they all have exactly the same type of transitions? No. Which is why I agree Phantasmagoriat. I think most all transitions will differ depending on the music used and that person's style.

Of course, there are so many ways to do transitions, as I said earlier. Zoom, fade, crossfade, hard cut, masking, through the eyes, whatever. The number of transitions is infinite. But the best transition that can be used is entirely dependent on your sources (meaning you, your style, your anime and song, and even your program.) But one specific transition is not better than the other :nono:

All of this is still my opinion, of course.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Bauzi » Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:42 am

In cut-theory class they say:
Show me a fade festival and I show you a bad editor.

Of course a music videos has different theory behind it, but in some videos this could be the case.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby xPiikanyaa » Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:31 am

I don't use transitions much, 'cause I don't really like the ones on Vegas or WMM. I usually just go for a crossfade, or do flashes to match the beat.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Kitsuner » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:36 am

xxCheesecake wrote:I don't use transitions much, 'cause I don't really like the ones on Vegas or WMM. I usually just go for a crossfade, or do flashes to match the beat.

Crossfades and hard cuts are both transitions. As long as you connect two different pieces of footage, the bit between them will be a transition. The only way to not use any transitions is to make your entire video one long scene. The closest I've seen to this in (standard-length) AMVs is CrackTheSky's Hold On, but even that isn't quite what I'm talking about.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:13 pm

Eva-Fan wrote:You can usually have really smooth transitions without much work if any... if you just follow the first scenes movement. If the first scene ends moving left (or something in the scene) then have the next scene begin at a point where its moving left (or again something in the scene) and the overall transition just comes out looking cleaner/softer even if its a hard cut.

There really isn't much more to say than this. It's a really powerful method of doing things that, if you can manage to pull it off, can do wonders in tying even multiple sources together in a clean way.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Knowname » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:07 am

I miss rubber bands~~.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Bauzi » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:34 am

Knowname wrote:I miss rubber bands~~.

Please... Vegas has them. Premiere Pro CS4 (as far as I remember also CS3) has them. Choose your weapon of choice.
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Re: The art of transitioning

Postby Knowname » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:31 am

Premiere returned to rubber bands?? like music to my ears xDDD
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