How would you do these 2 transaitions

up_north wrote on 10/10/2006, 6:43 AM
I don't actually need these right now but was just wondering how they'd be done in Vegas - they're both similar to each other.

1 - Scene pans into a tree and as it comes out of the tree the scene has changed - so the tree is used as a transaition

2 - camera tilts up into a white sky and it seems like it keeps tilting but now we've seemlessly moved onto a bride's dress and the first we realise this has happened is when her face comes into view.

I'm sure they're really easy but I can't get my head round how they would be done.

Thanx

Ian

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Former user wrote on 10/10/2006, 6:45 AM
2) Long dissolve with the dress slightly blurred until her face comes into view. Tilt on the dress at about the same speed as the sky.

1) A little trickier, sometimes a dissolve works, sometimes you need a fake tree shot.

Dave T2
Jay Gladwell wrote on 10/10/2006, 6:49 AM

1. - Use a tree in BOTH shots. In the first shot you pan across the tree at the end.

In the second shot, you start by panning across another tree in another location.

In post, you do a dissolve from shot one to shot two--tree out with #1 to tree in with #2.

2.- You do the same thing in this situation, except you go from white sky to white dress.

The last image in shot #1 is the white sky.

The first image in shot #2 is the white dress.

Dissolve the shots sky over dress.


farss wrote on 10/10/2006, 6:53 AM
Perhaps the real trick here is to get the panning rates the same?
up_north wrote on 10/10/2006, 6:59 AM
That has got to be the fastest reply to any post on here! Thanx guys - I might try those techniques out - you never know when they'll come in useful.

Ian
Jay Gladwell wrote on 10/10/2006, 8:51 AM

Excellent point, Bob. For us old farts, that's a given.

;o)


Jim H wrote on 10/10/2006, 5:49 PM
For the tree pan you could trace the edges of the tree with a mask and use motion tracking on the mask to reveal the next scene. A little feather on the tree mask helps. If you make the pan fast there's only a brief time when the masking is on screne and no one will have time to study it before the transition is complete. I often use this trick to change scenes when some one walks in front of/past the camera.