My first thought when I read the summer school assignment was "Was George Lucas actually just doing the summer vexercises when he was rudely pulled to the past?" since that man definitely has a slide cut fetish. So, I obviously made a vid for Revenge of the Sith: A Turn of the Wheel. The music, Volturian - Crimson Dust, was 1:10 on its own so I didn't do any cutting there.
Since transitions were the point of the thing, it sort of changed the editing mindset? So instead of cutting on the beat, clip-internal stuff happened on the beat. I also tried to do motion matching with the transition types – swirly spiral transition when they were going around, side wipe when someone was coming from the side etc – which sort of worked? The side wipe enhanced some of the sideways movement, though a lot of the rest was more handwavey, especially since there wasn't always much overlap for the clips. (I clipped EVERY lightsaber fight in RotS. Then I ended up only using the stuff from the first sequence. /o\) And if the transitions are silly, well, that's just canon-typical. :P
Kdenlive notes: 1. The first and last frames of the transition are always just one source. So if the transition is 3 frames long, only the middle frame will be a blend of the two clips! However, even if there's only 3 frames of overlap, you can safely extend the transition by one frame in each direction without any hinky effects. 2. You can download extra transitions at kde.org! I only figured it out too late for the vid, but some of those look pretty rad.
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Since transitions were the point of the thing, it sort of changed the editing mindset? So instead of cutting on the beat, clip-internal stuff happened on the beat. I also tried to do motion matching with the transition types – swirly spiral transition when they were going around, side wipe when someone was coming from the side etc – which sort of worked? The side wipe enhanced some of the sideways movement, though a lot of the rest was more handwavey, especially since there wasn't always much overlap for the clips. (I clipped EVERY lightsaber fight in RotS. Then I ended up only using the stuff from the first sequence. /o\) And if the transitions are silly, well, that's just canon-typical. :P
Kdenlive notes:
1. The first and last frames of the transition are always just one source. So if the transition is 3 frames long, only the middle frame will be a blend of the two clips! However, even if there's only 3 frames of overlap, you can safely extend the transition by one frame in each direction without any hinky effects.
2. You can download extra transitions at kde.org! I only figured it out too late for the vid, but some of those look pretty rad.