Help with transition.

farss wrote on 1/28/2009, 5:51 AM

This job is for a fashion house whose theme is pretty much all B&W (think Milan gothic punk). I have to cut a lot of their previous catwalk shows into a fast paced demo reel. Seeing as how I'm forced to use a lot of previously cut material my transitions need to match.
What has me stumped is the realistic optical dissolves used. Tried using the luminance dissolve in Vegas, doesn't cut it. Fudged around using the Glow FX in Vegas and then AE, AE is sure more optical / film like than anything in Vegas but still not quite good enough plus although I could cut it in AE, I'm getting better at wrangling AE but not that good and this is going to involve a heck of a lot of cuts.

What I'm looking for is the look of opening the iris on a film camera, the highlights bleed and flare into the lowlights until the frame is all white.

Bob.

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Former user wrote on 1/28/2009, 7:49 AM

http://exposureroom.com/members/AdrianFrearson.aspx/tutorials/post/44/

This might give you some ideas.

Dave T2

Rory Cooper wrote on 1/28/2009, 10:02 AM

i have some stuff i will e-mail you Bob hope they help

Rory

TeetimeNC wrote on 1/28/2009, 11:02 AM

Bob, if you are into some more experimenting you might try Scott's free SMLuminance at http://www.endor.demon.co.uk/. This lets you use your own bitmap to define the luminance dissolve.

Jerry

johnmeyer wrote on 1/28/2009, 11:18 AM

Bob,

There is this old thread I remembered from a long time ago:

Traditional film style optical dissolve transition

You actually were part of it. It links to a free plugin called:

SMLuminance

It claims to simulate "film-like optical dissolve." Not sure if this is what you want, but it's worth a look.

farss wrote on 1/28/2009, 12:57 PM

Thanks Rory,
email address is in my profile.

Bob.

farss wrote on 1/28/2009, 1:24 PM

Thanks John,
I've had and used the SMLuminance plug for quite some time. Unfortunately not quite the effect I'm looking for.
AE's glow comes the closest. If I have black text on a white background as I dial up the Glow the white bleeds into the black text from the edges of the text causing the text to become increasingly thinner. It's not quite perfect as it appears to only do it's calcs in one direction so the verticals get thinner but not the horizontals.

Nirvana at last:
http://www.borisfx.com/tutorials/GlowEffect.php

If you scroll down towards the bottom of the page you'll see the effect I'm after.

Red Giant offer something similar although only review I can find says it has problems with flicker on moving objects with fine detail.

Bob.

Rory Cooper wrote on 1/28/2009, 9:13 PM

Bob

I sent a mail off but I need to send of an attachment

From what I understand you want a composite glow with a shutter effect

The quickest would be vitascene that’s the exact effect you need, just insert the lumens map I am sending. You even control the wave loop, zoom,
Rotate etc

I use it often very quick and gets the job done. I was very surprised by the software. I will e-mail a few snaps to compare with Boris

in Boris just use the lumens map as your gradient with a glow

Rory