What is up guys, today i want to show you my top seamless cinematic transitions and the best of it you don't need any fancy plugins for it or After Effects. We can do it completely in Premiere Pro or any other editing software. I also just released a brand new Cinematic LUTs Pack on my website, currently it's 50% OFF so if you want to check it out the link is in the description also make sure to subscribe to the channel and like the video and before we start I want to address one more thing that you need to keep in mind it doesn't matter what camera or gear you have. Almost all my shots are shot with this Sony A6000, and it's a 5 year old camera, it's fairly cheap but it has everything i need. It always depends in your creativity and the techniques you used. All the transitions you learn on this video, you can basically shoot on an Iphone or any other Smartphones. So stay focus on learning new things instead of worrying about if your camera or gears good enough, because it is good enough, trust me. So without any further ado,
let's jump right in to the first transition starting up with the first transition,
which is Speed Ramping, So what we basically do is we change the clip speed of those two clips I selected, but we don't want to change the whole speed of the clip. We just want to change parts of it, for the transition, the end of the first clip and the beginning of the second clip. Therefore, we are going to zoom in a little bit. I nest them before, so right click and nest. And now we go to the top left corner of the clip right click on the FX toggle time remapping speed. And now you can see this line in the middle of the clip. That's our clip speed So as you can see, when I pull it up, it's getting shorter. That means that the video is going faster. but we don't want to change the whole clip speed, We just want to change parts, as I said so what we're going to do is we select the part we want to speed up, go to the Effect Controls, Window, Effect Controls.
If it's not already there And then we have this time remap toggle, and we need to select the part we want to speed up. And when I click on the key frame,
it appears in the clip. And now what im going to do is I pull up the right part of it, so the end of the clip, but our problem is now we have a really hard change of speed and we want to have a smooth transition.
So we need to smooth it out. And therefore we click on the key frame and drag it to the right, as you can see now there is like this ramp and to make this even more smooth, we need to bend this blue line to make it linear to the speed ramp. And now we do the same for the other clip as well select the point where we want to
end this speed ramp - Time Remapping speed, Key frame it and scale it up I scaled both clips to about 750 ish percent. It always depends on the general clip speed - So you have to play with it until you're satisfied. Now, when we play back, we have a seamless speed ramp transition Continue with the second transition,
which is masking. I selected two clips, one in the subway train, and one on the cable car. And what we want to do is we want to mask out this pillar from the subway train shot and reveal the cable car shot. So first we're going to nest that clip we want to mask And then we go to the position where the mask should start and we want to start it after this pillar And what are we going to do is, we go to the effect controls it's in window, effect controls - and click on this little brush icon there, and then you will see mask one, so that's our mask We toggle on all of the time watches there Select the mask And have a look at the preview window.
Make sure you see the full preview window Sometimes it scale to a hundred percent and it makes it difficult to mask. So I usually do it to 25%, and then we draw our mask. As you can see, the left side is black now, but we want to mask out the other side. So what we're going to do is we go back to the effect controls and click on inverted. You can change the feather of the mask or the expansion. I usually keep it at like 10 and 5 in this case, but you can play around And now we go keyframe by keyframe and adjust the mask on the keyframe, adjust it, just one step forward until the whole window is only the mask. Alright and when we are done, and that's a really important part, we need to go back to our first keyframe and go 1 Keyframe forward and drag the mask out of the window, otherwise you will have this black bar in your video and we don't want to have that You can deselect a mask and let it play to see if everything is fine. And now the only thing we have to do, to put the second clip underneath the first clip. And you have to make sure that you put it exactly they are where the mask begins And when we play it back, we have a really nice masking transition Coming over to the third transition, which is frame blocking. And it's pretty much the same principle as the masking transition, but we don't mask here, What we want to do, We want to have a seamless transition between the ceiling - of the first shot and the railing of the second one. And we go to the part where the railing is - complete and frame, and when we put it next to each other and play it back as you can see, it's pretty good that way, but we want to make it a little bit more seamless.
So what we do is we put the second clip underneath the first one, same as with the masking. After that is done, we go to the effect controls it's in window, effect controls and change your - opacity for the last part of the video. As you can see on the first key frame, I choose 100% opacity, on the second one,
also 100% - And then I go all the way back to the last key frame of the video and change that to 0%. - So it fades out in a way. And now what we do, we put the second clip to the first keyframe of the first clip. And as you can see, when you play it back, it's a perfect, seamless transition. The next transition is the whip transition. And that is basically an in-camera transition. So you have to preplan your shot and make the transition in your camera when you're out there - filming. And the most important part of this transition is that both clips - are going into the same direction. So as you can see in my clips,
they are going from top to down And what we want to do is we select like the part where the motion blur and the speed is the most. So in that case around here, and then the second clip I choose around here, like where I'm almost in the frame, and then I put them next to each other, and now we have the perfect whip transition. This speed and direction transition is a really easy one with almost no editing involved The most important part is that both clips are going to the same direction, as well as roughly with the same speed. As you can see in my clips, there's this skateboarder and the first clip going to the right and the second clip, the car, what is also going to the right. And what we're going to do is we use this policeman as our transition of the first clip. So we wait until the policemen is in frame, trim it. Then we go to the second clip, and go to the pick up truck until it's full and frame to use it as our second transition start. And we put it next to each other and we have our seamless speed and direction transition. Continue with the match cut transition. And you basically need two clips who are identical, As you can see, I chose two clips of my friend, Rom, walking next to a river. And what we want to do is we want to sync them. And therefore we go to the effect controls and scale both clips up to about 105%. That's important for adjust the position later. And now we put the second clip underneath the first clip. Mark (?) above and bring down the opacity in the effect controls to about 20% - And now you're able to see in the preview window, both clips. And what we want to do is we want to sync them now. So you have to play around - to find a sweet spot. In my case, it is about here. I would say that looks good. And now what I do is I trim the first clip, bring back your opacity to 100% and have a look - And it's not looking too bad, but I think there's a little bit more room for improvement. so, what we do now is we adjust the position. That's why we scaled up the clip in the first place. Now we bring back the opacity to 100% play it back. And I think that looks really, really good. The color and shape transition for that transition, we use colors and shapes to create a seamless transition and in this case we want to use - the flashing lights of the elevator and the flashing lights of the light flares to create a seamless transition. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to the point in the first shot, where the lights appearing the most, trim it, go to the second clip, go to the point in the video where the light flares are almost covering the whole frame, trim it, bring it back together. And when you play it back, you have a seamless transition. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to subscribe and like the video. Let me know what you want to see next. And if you have any questions, see you soon.
