How to Apply a Cinematic Speed Ramp Transition on Shotcut - The Hack That Will Solve It

so here's a tutorial that's probably long overdue finally i'm going to show you a workaround for creating the speed ramp transition but first you gotta listen to my intro i'm just a normal person with no video editing background i wanted to start making youtube videos and maybe cool transitions and effects i don't really plan on being a professional video editor so i was looking for a free easy to learn video editing software luckily i stumbled on shotcut a free open source video editing program that can do many of the tricks you can do on more enterprise video editors like adobe premiere or davinci resolve but with a much simpler and leaner interface thus dramatically shortening the learning curve it just takes using your imagination so let's learn together first before we get started i want to make sure that you know what version i'm using for this tutorial so in this version i'm going to use the shortcut version 20.09.27 so as i mentioned before this is actually a workaround to the speed ramp transition only because if you didn't already know speed ramping is not a native functionality of shot cut unfortunately even though the developers have promised that it's in the road map it's on the road map that should be done by the end of the year but at this point for the rest of us who want to create cinematic videos that include speed ramping we would have to come up with a workaround and this is one of them so in order to show you this technique i'm going to show you two examples of how to do it so we're going to start out with the first one here and i have two videos to begin with so i'm going to drag the first video onto the timeline and i'll play the end part of it looks like that and then i'm going to drag the second video that it's going to transition into and really what the speed ramp transition is is at the end of this video it's going to need to speed up into the second video and starts out at a high speed and then slows right back down again let me just make sure that these videos or these video clips match because the second one here the aspect ratio is a little different because you can see little black bars there so i'm gonna need to go into filters for this second clip and go into the the scale actually rotate the size position and rotate and i'm going to need to increase the size a little bit so that it fits the screen okay so that's better if you've used other video editing software before speed ramping is really simple because it's one of those filters or one of these effects that is key frameable so you can change the speed so you don't just want to instantaneously go from one time speed to 30 times speed without it gradually leading up to the 30 times so what you want to do is you want to slowly graduate from 1 to 30. um unfortunately we can't do that here so we're going gonna have to get a rig it a little bit so here's how i would do it here i would go into the first clip go to the very end of it and then cut out four seconds so how do i do that so if you look at here we are at 27 14 and so 27 my that's 27 seconds and 14 milliseconds so 27 minus 4 makes it 23 14. and so at this point i'm going to go into the split icon and i'm going to split it there so this one here this length here is four seconds right after that i'm going to go to the very beginning where i split it i'm then going to cut another two seconds so here if you notice there we're at 23 14 23 minus 2 that becomes 21 oop accident deleted so go in here and we need to go to 21 enter and then while that's selected we're also going to split that so once again this is this spot here is four seconds this spot is two seconds and then after that from this spot on we need to cut another one second so 21 minus 1 is 20 we're going to cut another one second so one two and four so the first place we wanna go to is this spot here and right now this is playing at regular speed and so this spot here we're going to need to go to properties right there and it says there it's once one time speed we're going to need to speed that up eight times so i'm just going to type in the number eight enter and all of a sudden if you notice it's actually shrunk it because now it's going at eight time speed so we're going to leave that alone for a little while we're going to right click this empty area and just click remove to move the next clip right against it and so the second the second block here instead of eight times speed we're gonna go here under properties and we're gonna type 16 so this one needs to be 16 speed once again shrunk it we're going to right click remove this spot here finally this piece here that originally was four seconds long we're going to go into the speed setting and we're going to set that to 32 and this one's going to shrink that dramatically and then right click remove so once again we go here here let's zoom in a little bit we go here and this is eight times speed we go here this is 16 times speed and we go here that's 32. so let's see if this thing is going to render because once you start doing the the speed the speed ramping or changing the speed my computer might not be fast enough to render this let's see if it applies the speed let's set the previous scaling to 360 here see if it does it okay yeah okay so seems pretty normal right now now because this is a workaround and this isn't really what it's meant to do while i was developing this technique i actually ran into a bug and i don't know why it does this so when you do speed up the clip don't just trust the settings that it's doing exactly what you want it to do because sometimes what happens is when i shrink or when i speed up a clip of a video it adds additional frames to it which is a weird thing and you know it's something that i might have to take up with the developers and ask them if this is a bug so how i found it is by playing the frame one by one so let's choose this one that is the eight time speed so we're gonna play it frame by frame you notice that at the very end so i'm going to play it again it went backwards once see that so what ends up happening and i'm going to zoom in a lot more so you can see is i end up having that back up by one frame and just removing it and then moving the next one in there and so if i play this frame by frame again all of a sudden it's okay but that's what you're going to have to do and it's odd that it only did it on this on this particular one and it's going to do it again in the second one and i'm going to show you so so this is the first part of the speed ramp transition and just just to remind you what i did so this first part i sped it up eight times the second part i sped it up 16 times and the third part i sped it up 32 times so we're going to do the reverse on the second clip so first and foremost once again we need to cut a four second clip so from where we are we are at 21 at the 21 second point we're going to need to add another four which means that goes to 25 enter right there let me zoom out a little bit so you can see what i'm doing so this is the four second mark so i'm going to add a split right there and then from that point we're going to add another another two seconds so i'm going to have to go here and go to 27 there add another split right there last but not least from this mark we need another one second clip and so i'm gonna go in here and go to 28 enter split oop and that needs to be selected okay so i'm gonna shrink it even more so once again this this part here that's a four second clip this part here that's a two second clip and this part here is once again a one second clip and so the reverse of that is this long four second clip now we go back to properties we go up here and we set this to 32. so right there and then we right click we remove that we go to the second clip here go to properties again and this one gets set to 16 there remove the gap finally the smallest the smallest clip here we go in here and we set this to eight and then we remove excess so let me zoom in we're now going to play the second half of it okay it's a little jittery only because my computer's not that fast but in order to spot check to make sure that it didn't add another frame we're gonna have to play it frame by frame so you notice here it didn't move so that means it added another frame here so we're going to select that i'm going to add a split there and i'm going to remove that additional frame and then i'm going to proceed to the next frame and see if it hangs there like here see that i'm moving it and nothing and so i'm going to have to go into this one here split that and then remove that one right there right click remove finally this last clip let's see if it pauses enough it see right there again i'm going back and forth and nothing is happening and so we don't really need that frame i'm going to split that again remove that bring this in here so let's start from the very beginning to see if there's any excess frames in this other one um see if you see something like this as i go back and forth see i don't know why it does that so i'm going to go back here again add a split remove that remove the excess okay and that's it so that's how i do that's how i do this transition you're not really going to see it only because my computer's slow so i'm going to have to render this and i'm going to show you what it looks like so stay tuned so i just finished rendering this clip and this is the end result see how it slowly ramps up he goes from 8 times speed to 16 times speed to 32 times speed and then it slows back down again in a gradual manner i suppose you can cut it even more and go from 2 to 4 to 8 to 16 to 32 or as many times as you want to cut it but i found that if you cut it from 8 to 16 to 32 that it's sufficient and this is the end result so now let's try this technique on a second set of clips so in this next set this time around i'm going to use some landscape type videos so i'm going to drag this first one here and this is what this thing looks like and then the second one which is also a landscape one but totally unrelated because this one's a snowy landscape and the second one is actually a desert so let's stick them together let's zoom in there so once again from that middle transition point we're going to count back by four so that makes this thing here ten we're going to split that from that point on we're then going to go back by two so that this needs to be eight split that part and then we're gonna subtract another one so this needs to be seven and there and we split that and so once again this is one second two seconds and finally four seconds here um while we're splitting we might as well do that on the other side so from this point on we're going to add another four to this mark here so that becomes 18. got to split there and then we're going to add another 2 which makes this 20. another split there and then finally we're going to add one more one here and we're going to split that okay so that's what let's zoom out a little bit so that that's what the components look like one two four four two one okay so let's start with this first one zoom into this one here we're going to go to properties again we're going to set this to eight eight times just going to shrink that we go to the second one here we're gonna need to set that to 16 times did that and then finally we choose this part here we're going to speed that by 32 times right and then i'm just going to right click all these green areas to remove all the gaps alright and then we're going to select this one here this is the beginning of the second clip and that starts at 32 and we're going to begin slowing it down remove that part here the second one from 32 we go to 16 and then last but not least this part here going down to eight times speed and then right click and right click and that's what we have again it's going to be a little bit juddery because i'm using laptops it's not really the fastest computer there is but we're going to need to start from this very beginning cut and we're going to need the spot check to make sure that it doesn't pause like this is a pause right here again it's one of those bugs that i found so i'm going to have to select that add a split there choose the frame that pause remove and remove it and then we're gonna continue spot checking here see whenever you run into one of these things where there is no movement whatsoever and i don't know why it does that we're going to delete it then remove that move to the next clip it's weird that it doesn't do it for every single one here it so the first half it only did it once in the second half it's already done it twice so here we're gonna have to select this part here delete that remove and then move on to the final part again here all three clips that i cut all had that dead frame or that frame that just repeats or doesn't move so now this is when it's slowed down okay let's see if i'm able to play this for you no it's not really doing it so once again i'm going to need to render it so that you see what this thing looks like so stay tuned so i just finished rendering the second video and this is what this thing looks like we're going to play it again but admittedly this technique is a little janky but as i said in the beginning this is somewhat of a workaround because of the lack of the native speed ramping functionality that shotcut has but considering that this was somewhat of a ghetto rigged version of a speed ramp it does succeed at least in attempting to replicate what speed ramping looks like don't you think let me know um and you know this is quick and dirty pretty easy to execute and hopefully it helps you out and hopefully it helps make your videos a lot more cinematic and adds this speed ramp transition to your arsenal so once again thank you for sticking along i know this one might have been a little bit lengthier as well as just like all my other videos i 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Channel: Ben Espanto

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Length: 24min 1sec (1441 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020

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[u/dasroight]

One of the most popular cinematic transition is speed ramping. Unfortunately, it is not yet available on Shotcut, but fear not. I found a workaround to creating a speed ramp transition on Shotcut. Let me know if there's something specific you want to learn about Shotcut in the comments and I'll make a tutorial video. Hopefully, I can help you learn Shotcut.