here are presets -- unfortunately only for premiere http://www.chungdha.nl/?p=3997

but if we email him enough w request for vegas presets, he might make them :)

Yep... that's why I want to find out if we able to make it using the tools available inside Vegas Pro...

I would use pan/crop with events on separate tracks.

I would use pan/crop with events on separate tracks.

Yep, that's what I did... only still challenging on recreate the motion blur, and the timing need to be fast.

@set

Did you make any further progress with this?

I am trying to achieve the same look, and made some progress using Pixelan's inexpensive BlurMaster plug-in. There are youtube videos showing how to make these transitions in Vegas pro, but they require Sapphire's S_BlurMoCurves, which is too expensive for me.

I find the zooms easy enough to achieve, but I am stuck on the sideways shifts ("slide transitions?") because I need more pixels to slide around - the mirror effect sort of does the needed transform except it doesn't mirror outside of the pan/crop box so you can't pan across it.

Anyone have an idea how to do this?

I have a project file for this in AE. The motion blur looks much better than in Vegas. One thing I'm noticing that you're not doing that is done in the AE preset is you zoom way out beyond the limits of the edge of the screen, so much so that you have to tile the image in order to fill in the missing screen space. To see what I mean, look at the original video frame by frame. You end up with the original image in the center of a bunch of tiled (and flipped) copies of itself, and you rapidly zoom out on that as you transition into the next image.

When zooming out that far, you aren't going to be able to get enough pixel detail out of the next image to fill in the blanks without being noticeable, so you tile the first image around itself to fill in the space. That, with a healthy amount of motion blur, is enough to pull off the effect without anyone noticing.

You also have to shoot the image carefully so that you can zoom out our into another shot that is within or surrounding the frame of the original shot. If you don't start with the right source material, it won't turn out right.

I sometimes use this effect, as well as the pan transitions seen elsewhere in the video, in the music festival recaps I produce.

Hmmm.... How do I put this? OK, the reason, and the WHOLE reason I feel the original "transitions" work is:

1] The viewer is not aware of there being a transition.

and then ironically,

2] The whole progression from A to B is really a tiny video in its own right that transitions the viewer's experience from A to B. This being recognised it's incumbent on us in doing right by the viewer by exploring just how to do it. And often a straight cut will do it. And, dear hearts ♥️, if that isn't available, then the realisation has to come that the Video or Stills in the first place weren't shot for the edit. Now that's a novel thought? 😉

OK, when I look at the mastery of the Hawaii sampler I can make myself consciously aware of the art direction involved in attaining the fluidity, the authenticity, the relevance of the transitions to making the whole thing work. In that piece there has been much thought and downright, straightforward artistry in understanding the value of shape, both positive and negative shapes, layers and subtlety of movement.

Too often in our craft, there's an over exaggeration, preponderance in spending time on the search for a "better" tool. In my opinion we have all the digital tools we need, saving one, and it ain't digital. Its the tools we were given at birth. It's our own brain and eyes and ears, and these guys are completely analogue, and guess what, they're free!

Bottom line? If I notice the transitions, rather than the flow and movement of the video, then I get fidgety and impatient with video, and that's not good.