Best "flash" effect for an interview jump?

meshuken · Post by **meshuken** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:45 pm

When you are displaying an interview and want to edit out a portion of it, I have seen on TV that editors use a "flash" effect, teh two splices are transitioned with a quick flash, almost like a camera going off, which makes the two segments look fairly smooth.

I have experimented with several of the VS 10+ effect transitions but can't seem to find a super simple "flash" transition.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

ME

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:06 am

There are the flashback transitions
You can also download the free Burger transitions which include
Bloom
B&W flash

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:49 am

Ahhh, Steve!

You have the Flashback transitions if in fact you have more than one in your installation of VS and that one does not work, even when customised!! Alas and alack! Woe is me!!!

Mind you, as you suggest, the Burger substitutes are more than adequate.

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:20 am

meshuken,

You can easily create your own camera flash transition. Drop a white color clip between two of your video clips. Now drop two crossfade transitions into the timeline, one on each side of the white color clip. Change the duration of the first transition to 2 frames and the second transition to 6 frames (yes, that's frames not seconds). Now change the duration of the white color clip to 8 frames. Now preview the project. You should have a nice white camera flash transition. You can always play with the durations to slow down the flash or speed it up a little more. But remember, a transition's duration can never be longer than one of the connecting clips.

Good luck,

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:52 am

How about making your own? Here's a quick tute on creating a camera flash..

Camera Flash According to Charlie Hill

Using a Cross-Fade Transition between 2 clips, and 2 white color clips.

Drag 2 white color clips to the storyboard, placing them between the 2 video clips you want to transition.
Place a Cross-Fade between Video Clip#1, and Color Clip#1.
Place another Cross Fade between Color Clip #2 and Video Clip#2.
Changing the durations in this order is important. Click on the Transition between Video Clip#1 and Color Clip#1. Change the duration in the Timecode spin box to 2 Frames.
Now Change the duration of Color Clip#1 to 2 Frames, in the same manner.
Now go to the Transition between Color Clip#2 and Video Clip#2. Change the duration of the Transition to 6 Frames.
Change the duration of Color Clip between this Transition and Video Clip#2 to 6 frames.

You should now have a Camera Flash transition. Your storyboard should look like this..

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:54 am

Meshuken,

Instead of using two white color clips back-to back with a 2 frame and a 6 frame duration, without a transition in between, you can just use one white color clip with a 8 frame duration. It does the exact same thing. I learned the exact same tip that Ron P. is showing you about 2 months ago after reading Charlie Hills' book, "Getting Results with Video Studio 9". I just condensed the effect down to using one white color clip. Ron and I are telling you the exact same thing and have learned the exact technique from the exact same source. Its great to confirmation from two sources within this forum. Ron is a great resource.

Have fun with it.

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:40 pm

Brian's correct. I used this effect professionally for quite a few years. My frame duration was also 8 frames...long enough for the eye to register and short enough not to interrupt the rhythm of the content.

Ilene · Post by **Ilene** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:42 am

actually I create a camera flash effect using one of the Burger transitions. I think it's called B/w Flash and I downloaded a sound byte of a camera clicking ( shutter opening and closing) and I put that on my audio time line. It actually works really nice.

This is not the effect though that i was referring too. The one I was referring too is a Boris Fx transition called Snap shot = the effect pulls the image away and puts it in a white photo border. I like it to stay a little longer - there are two ways to achieve this - neither is ideal.

THe first is to put a black color screen in the next frame - and in the middle of the transition I create a still image of the frame. Then I put the still image on the time line and put a cross fade in front of it and after it. The downside of this method is that I lose the motion path of the "pull away" to the snapshot.

The other way to do it is to make the transition longer. I can put a black color screen after my image but then I'm stuck with an extra black screen before I get to my next image or video clip and thats a bit of a nuisance as well.

I was hoping that using the tips in the original part of this thread might help in achieving what I want and was seeking advice on that.

Ilene

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:27 am

Ilene.
I think I can visualise what you are trying to do. Here's a suggestion.
Instead of doing it all in one pass which is a bit complex, use a multi-pass approach. As an Example we have clip A and Clip B.

Join clip A to a black color clip and then to clip B with crossfade transitions either side of the black color clip. Render that portion of the video to a new video file. This creates the backdrop for the next step.
Cut the above section from your exisiting timeline and replace the gap with the newly rendered clip.
Cut the new clip in half at a suitable midway point.
Insert your Freeze frame that you used in the method you previously described. This time use the Boris FX transition.

Although I'm not at my video Editing machine at the moment, I am sure that this method will work.

Ilene · Post by **Ilene** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:00 pm

thanks - I'm guessing that would work and I'm happy to try it. I was just hoping to find a way to avoid the intermediate rendering step.

IF ONLY WE COULD CONTROL TRANSITIONS BETTER!!

That's one of the features that I've seen in Adobe Premiere ....you can put the transition on it's own time line and control the overlap and the fade in/out of it.

Ilene