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lola ([personal profile] lola) wrote in [community profile] vexercises2022-06-13 08:33 am

VfXercise 2 drops

Hi all! For those of you who want to try your had at learning special effects/vfx, you can join in with the VfXercises (in addition to or in place of the regular vexercises, whatever you want!)

We're on to VfXercise 2: 

20-30 second edit, with transitions between shots (bonus if you use 3D transitions). You could put transitions between all of the shots, or just some of them.


Transitions are huge on tiktok and instagram edits, and there are a million tutorials for AE transitions (or video star); I played around with them, but also wanted to tone them down a bit for a more vidding-like aesthetic

I made two videos as examples/learning the ropes myself!

I used this tutorial for the glitch transition video - he goes super fast but I paused a lot :D 

And I used this tutorial (though just the radial wipe) for the stage mix
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[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-06-16 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
When the Last Light is Gone

I managed to kludge together a version of the first glitch transition with kdenlive – the color split one can get with 3 point balance, but I didn't spot any way to do a wiggle ... so I used the Transform effect and manually keyframed random wiggling for each layer individually. (Best values were between -10 and +10 for each axis; more than that and it was less glitchy than distracting.) I probably could've gotten the second glitch transition as well, but I will be AFK for the next 2 weeks and I still need to pack for my trip. :P The rest was me playing around with transitions and effects. Does it make sense? No. Did it tell me to be more adventurous with the Transform tool and also transitions? Yes.
naye: Text: Vidding! Background: Adobe Premiere window with clips from Guardian. (vidding - color)

[personal profile] naye 2022-06-20 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Went back to Moon Knight for some vfx action! Supermassive Black Hole

Still don't have AE, so I used the following selection of transitions in regular Premiere:
VR Mobius Zoom
VR Light Rays
Cross Zoom
VR Chroma Leaks
Additive Dissolve
Film Dissolve
Cube Spin
VR Light Leaks
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[personal profile] nu_breed 2022-06-26 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Right in at the last minute with mine All Yi Bang-won Does Is Win

I am just learning Da Vinci so not very exciting but I did chuck a few transitions in there (mostly zooms)
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[personal profile] trickybonmot 2022-06-30 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
OK I made this fairly meaningless little edit! OMG the fusion effects almost melted my computer, definitely working with a hardware deficit over here. I read up on how to improve performance, and it helped a bit but not 100%. In particular I learned to set the project resolution lower while working and also the timeline resolution, and I generated proxy files. Phew.

https://youtu.be/CqIpRgvtI88