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rickyj89135955
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January 15, 2021
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Pan up transitions Stranger Things

  • January 15, 2021
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From :19 to :30 second mark how would you do this transition?  I know it is used a lot but most Youtube tutorials I found have been mostly quick cuts and transitions for music videos.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs-paBOf2kU&t=30s

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Community Expert
January 15, 2021

The only trick to that cut is timing, direction, and color. The way to analyze something like that is to take a look at it one frame at a time. It has been a while since I did that so I took a few minutes and put the cut under the microscope. In the screen recording that I made the cut happens at 1:29. Here's frame 1:20:

Here's frame 1:30:

I added an arrow to the timeline and animated its position as the camera tilt's up, then checked the speed of the movement. It came in at about 150 pixels per second and it was constant.

I then checked the speed that the hand moves down in the second shot and it starts at about 5,000 pixels per second and accelerates to about 11,000 pixels per second as the drawer enters the frame.

 

The luminance values of the darkest part of the background are nearly identical so even though the saturation and hue shifts from heavy on the blue to neutral in the darkest part of the shots, the precise placement of the cut plus the mostly dark first new frame and the acceleration in the same direction of the lightest pixels make it appear as if there was a transition instead of a cut. If you have footage that will work, careful color grading right at the cut can also add to the effect. 

 

I've spent a lot of time in my career as a filmmaker analyzing cuts, timing, and color grading. It is probably more important to train your eye and your memory to look for shots that will cut together in ways to tell the story than it is to be able to plan those shots in the field. Planning is important, but gaining enough experience so that every cut adds to the story is the mark of an outstanding editor.

OussK
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 15, 2021

Nothing fancy with this transition, a quick sliding for the footage you use, Mask the hand for a few frames with strong motion blur and you must have suitable footages can be used to create a similar transition

Mylenium
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January 15, 2021

It's probably simply a hard cut on top of slowly fading out the pan. Really nothing to it. This is as basic as it gets with the real trick being to shoot the footage suitably in the first place.

 

Mylenium