Creating Cool Video Transitions Using Blender

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1. 1 Apollos Nov 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

   It's great to see blender used in this fashion, for video post production. Video transitions have a way of getting stale and tiresom, so seeing these gives me some great ideas. The 3D camera model transition is just terrific. =D

2. 2 jahmaica Nov 27th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

   Caballero, the skater =D

3. 3 Felix_Kütt Nov 28th, 2007 at 12:14 am

   fancy transitions = bad, in a cinematic sense, but i'm sure theres still plenty to learn from it.. :)

4. 4 Adam Doyle Nov 28th, 2007 at 12:52 am

   Not true, Felix, fancy transitions are like exclamation points. Just as you wouldn't end every sentence in a newspaper with an exclamation point, you don't use fancy transitions for every transition either. You use them conservatively. They help make certain parts jump out and others not to.

   Here's two great videos from Digital Juice about transitions and cuts (i know it's a little offtopic, but definitely worth the watch if you ever plan to edit video):

   Transitions:
   http://www.digitaljuice.com/djtv/segment_detail.asp?sid=167&searchid=38773

   Cuts:
   http://www.digitaljuice.com/djtv/segment_detail.asp?sid=131&searchid=38774

5. 5 DramaKing Nov 28th, 2007 at 1:24 am

   That's some good stuff. I can see how it would be useful.

6. 6 Gez Nov 28th, 2007 at 3:20 am

   Allan:
   Marcos isn't using those transitions in the sequence editor. His intention is to use pre-designed transition templates for rendering via command line and use the resultin strips in open media editor.
   His idea is to create a kind of "Hollywood FX" for free editing packages.

7. 7 Allan Brito Nov 28th, 2007 at 3:54 am

   Hi Gez, You are right. Now the text is correct! Thanks.

8. 8 Felix_Kütt Nov 28th, 2007 at 9:32 am

   yes, basically what i meant was that they are not to be abused, guess i should have been less cryptic about it.. :)

9. 9 Marcos Caballero Nov 28th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

   thanks for the post people, and YES, i talked about using blender as an external app for a video editor like OME, Cinelerra, or kino.

   http://www.openmovieeditor.org/board/viewtopic.php?id=400

   but this stuff could be used in the sequencer also in a faster way, I mean blender can already take undenrered scenes in the sequencer, so how cool would it be that blender could automatically recognize the in/out of each clips and PREVIEW in low res (no commandline in between needed).

   the benefit: we could have A LOT of transitions created by users, and not have to wait until coders imagine what we need.

   In the comercial apps this idea is implemented in Pinnacle HollywoodFX, Canopus Video FX and canopus SoftXplode.

   Marquitux

10. 10 Marcos Caballero Dec 3rd, 2007 at 5:42 am

    I started a Blog with alex, explining how this works, if someone knows a way to apply it in blender-sequencer, please contact us, Open Movie Editor will put this feature, I hope more apps do the same.
    gvfx.blogspot.com

    marquitux

11. 11 Marcos Caballero Dec 3rd, 2007 at 5:46 am

    you can visit out blog, we will explain there in detail how this works and how we will organize the project.

    http://gvfx.blogspot.com/

12. 12 Marcos Caballero Dec 18th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    English explanation
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Gbu1HRN2Q

    Explicación en español
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ZBPjPVKZo

    http://gvfx.blogspot.com/

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