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- If you wanna learn how to create a cinematic sequence
like the one you just saw, you've come to the right place.
Today, I'm gonna be talking about five cinematic transitions
that can add a lot of visual intrigue to your videos
and I'm gonna show you how you can recreate them for free.
We're gonna go over some of the do's and don'ts
of using transitions,
the camera movements you need to bring them to life,
and how to edit them,
even if you've never edited a video before,
in a free and easy to use online video editor,
called InVideo.
And make sure you stick around to the end of the video,
because I'm going to share an amazing hack that you can use
if you didn't shoot any transitions with your camera.
I've used this hack before and it's really come in handy,
so you don't wanna miss it.
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Before we get into these transitions,
it's important to note
the transition you're gonna use most often
is a simple cut from one shot to another.
The transitions I'm going to show you add
a lot of visual intrigue to a video,
but you wanna use them sparingly and intentionally.
They're mainly gonna be used for B-roll sequences,
like the one at the beginning of this video.
You usually don't wanna use any crazy transitions
if you're editing a talking portion of your video,
like this one.
If I start adding crazy transitions
in between clips of me talking,
it gets a little bit distracting.
So that being said, let's jump into number one.
Let's start off with a transition.
that's really simple and easy, but really beautiful as well,
and that is a sun transition.
This one you can use any time you're shooting outside
on a sunny day and you wanna transition
from one location to another.
So it works great for nature sequences.
It's super easy to shoot it.
For shot one, you're gonna pan up to the sun
and pan back down in one smooth motion.
And then for shot two,
you're just gonna do the exact same thing.
In the same direction, pan up to the sun,
then pan back down in one motion.
And you wanna make sure you complete
the entire panning motion for both of the shots,
even though we're gonna cut them in half.
If you stop in the middle,
it's gonna end up looking pretty choppy,
so take your two shots.
Head on over to invideo.io.
We're using InVideo because it's free
and it's super easy to use.
Even if you've never edited a video before,
you'll be able to edit using InVideo.
You're gonna wanna create a free account,
if you haven't already.
And then let's go ahead and open a blank project.
This is where you go to upload your videos.
So to create this transition,
go ahead and upload the two videos that you took of the sun.
All right, and then take clip number one
and drag it onto the background here.
That pulls up the video trimmer.
Go ahead and trim it to when the sun is right about
in the middle of your frame, and then hit Done.
And then you're gonna come down to your timeline
and hit the plus button, Blank Scene,
then drag your next clip on.
And this time, you're gonna wanna trim off the beginning.
So pull it until the sun is right about
in the middle of the frame again,
but this time, pull from the beginning, and then hit Done.
And there you go, that's your first transition.
Pretty simple, you can use it pretty much
any time you're shooting and it works great.
The next one on our list is the spin transition.
Now, this one you can also use to transition
from one location to another
but this one you could use inside or outside.
For shot number one,
you're gonna pan around the scenery slowly
and then start to speed up,
and then you're just gonna wanna spin
in a circle a few times,
kind of getting faster and faster as you spin.
And then for shot number two,
you're gonna start off spinning quickly,
and then you're gonna wanna land on something.
So pick out a subject, either an object,
or a person, or a landmark, or something,
and then you're gonna land on that with your camera.
So this whole spin transition is kind of a reveal
of whatever your object is.
All right, now the editing process for this one
is pretty similar to the last one.
Again, you're gonna wanna drag your first clip on
and then cut it in the middle of your quick spinning
and then add your second clip.
And you're gonna cut the beginning
until you're more towards the end of the spin.
And then I'm gonna add a little blur to this,
so click this little box right in the middle of the clip
and then come up to Transitions.
Find the one that says Fade,
and I'm just gonna add that one
so that it gives a little bit of a blur
in between the two clips.
And there you go, that's the spin transition.
All right, transition number three is really similar,
but instead of spinning your whole body,
you're just gonna be rotating the camera.
This one works great if you wanna transition
between two different objects,
or maybe between two different shots of a person
in two different locations.
You're gonna start with just a still shot
of object number one
and then rotate the camera.
And again, make sure you complete the whole motion.
Rotate the camera all the way around,
even though we're only gonna use half of it,
it's gonna make it a lot smoother.
And then repeat the same shot with your second object.
All right, then we're gonna bring these two clips
into the editor.
Basically, do the same thing we've been doing.
Cut your first clip right in the middle of the rotation.
Hit Done, then cut your second clip from the beginning
right in the middle of the rotation.
And then if you didn't get it quite right,
you can always adjust where you cut the first clip
by dragging it on the timeline here.
And then I'm also gonna give it a little blur,
like the last one,
so click the box in between the two clips
that brings up the transitions.
And then under Animations, select Fade.
And there you go.
Before we move on to transition number four,
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All right, now moving on.
All right, transition number four
is a speed ramp transition,
and this one's a little bit more focused on the editing
than the shooting,
but you are gonna need to use a shot
that has a little bit of motion to it.
So the clip starts off being slow motion or normal speed
and then it just sort of speeds up at the end,
which kind of takes us away
from whatever was happening in that clip,
so that we can just go ahead
and transition into the next clip.
And it works best if you kind of pan across your object
so that at the end of your shot,
the object is out of the frame.
So once you get a shot like that,
go ahead and bring it into InVideo.
So what I'm showing you now is how to split the clip
into two scenes.
Start by dragging your clip onto the background
and then trim it right to the point
when you start to pan away from your object, then hit Done.
And now come down to your timeline,
click on your clip and you'll see there's a little icon
with two boxes and a plus sign.
Click on that to duplicate your scene.
And then click on the duplicate scene that you just created,
come over to the right-hand side, hit Video Edit,
Trim Video, that brings up the trimmer tool again.
And as you can see, it's trimmed to the exact same spot
that we trimmed it before,
'cause it's just a duplicate of the last scene.
And then you're gonna hit Add Section.
So that's gonna add a new clip
that picks up right where the other one left off.
All right, then just go ahead and click on your first clip
and hit the trashcan icon to delete it, then hit Done.
So now, if you play those two clips together,
you can see it's just the same video,
but split into two clips without anything in between.
And the reason we did that is because we want this video
to speed up just at the end.
So go ahead and click your second scene
and then we're gonna speed it up.
So come over to the right-hand side, click Playback Speed,
and then I'm gonna speed it up pretty significantly.
So that's gonna create the effect
of the video speeding up at the end.
And you can use this to transition into anything.
So you can really use whatever clip you want after this.
All right, that brings us to our last transition,
which is the bokeh transition.
If you're not familiar with the term bokeh,
it's basically when you have something in your frame
that's intentionally out of focus.
So a lot of the time bokeh is used in the background
to have kind of a nice, soft background behind your subject
and it can also be used in the foreground kind of
to frame your subject.
And that's how you can use it as a transition.
So if you have some leafs out of focus in the foreground,
pan over so that the leafs completely block the camera,
and then for your next shot,
you're gonna start with leaves being
in front of the camera and then pan away from that.
So you can be in a fully different location,
but if you have the same object covering the camera
in both instances, that's how you use it as a transition.
And then you can just cut the shot right as the frame
is covered with the leafs
and then just add your next shot right after that.
So that's how you can add a bokeh transition
using your camera,
but let's say that you forgot to shoot any transitions
at all on your camera,
that is where my hack comes in.
InVideo has a section of transitions called Light Leaks.
So I'm gonna go ahead and click
on the one called Omni Flash.
And as you can see, that makes it look
like there's bokeh in the foreground.
So even if you didn't shoot any bokeh,
this is a way to kind of fake it in editing.
All of the Light Leaks transitions
have a really cinematic look to them,
so that's my hack.
If you forgot to shoot any transitions in your camera,
just go ahead and use the Light Leaks transitions.
I love that video hack
and I actually have one more bonus hack to share with you,
and that is to shoot a lot
of B-roll anytime you're making a video.
Not only is B-roll really great for telling your story,
but you could also use it to cover up mistakes
in your video like jumps
and times when your camera goes out of focus,
times when there's an exposure shift
because the sun went behind a cloud.
So shoot a lot of B-roll.
That is the quick version of my hack,
but if you wanna learn more about B-roll,
click the video right here.
Thank you so much for watching.
If you liked these transitions,
be sure to comment down below which one is your favorite.
I'm Teresa with InVideo, and I will see you in the next one.