- In this video, we're gonna become familiar
with the new BCC+ Flutter C ut transition
inside of Borisfx Continuum 2023.5.
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So I'm gonna be demonstrating this to you
inside of Premiere Pro,
but this works in the exact same way
inside of Final Cut Pro,
Avid Media Composer
and DaVinci Resolve to name a few.
This is an extremely erratic
and fast-paced transition cutting
between the a and b side of the edit
otherwise known as the outgoing and incoming clip.
You've probably seen it in a music video.
Sometimes flutter cut is used to cut
to the beat of the music.
Other times it's used to add tension.
It's also used narratively in feature film
as we can see in this example from "Easy Rider."
So I'm here inside of Premier Pro.
I've got two clips in my timeline
and it just so happens I've done a search
under my effects tab
for BCC+ Flutter.
You'll find this in the BCC Transitions category
and I'll apply it into the edit point of my clip.
I'll move my play head a little bit earlier
and let's just give this a full screen playback
by pressing Ctrl Tilde
and I can see that quick cutback
between the A side and B side of the edit.
But if I escape out of here
and then just move my play head over that
some video glitch overlaid on top of the effect.
Now with any BCC plus effect, you can select it.
We can head
to effect controls
and at the very top is an effects editor.
If you click on that badge
we're gonna go into a separate workspace.
And on the left hand side you have the opportunity to choose
from a number of curated presets.
On the right hand side, you have the properties
of that transition or effect
that you've selected
as well as a dedicated workspace.
So in looking at some of these presets
I'll just select invert Mono.
You can see that effect overlaid
on top of the flutter.
We've got various levels of video glitch;
a pure monochrome effect with a dissolved built
into it as well as one with directional blur.
In this instance,
to become more familiar with this,
I'm gonna cancel out of the effects editor
choosing not to save any changes
and I'm back here in Premier Pro
where I can still see my effect controls
and I'm just gonna scroll down on the effect
to temporarily disable any type of effects on this clip.
I'm gonna set that to off
so we can just focus on the movement
between this outgoing and incoming source.
So if I direct your attention
to the top of the effect right now
there's a number of outgoing start frames set to two
and a number of in going start frames
matching that number.
If I move my play head to the beginning of the transition
and then start to press the right arrow
we can see that the incoming clip holds
for two frames followed by the outgoing clip.
One thing that we might wanna do first
is set up the duration of the transition first,
do a little bit of math and then plug some numbers
into that flutter cut ingoing
and outgoing clip duration.
I'm gonna double click the transition here in the timeline
and change it to 90 frames.
I'll follow that with the enter key,
transition gets longer
and under my outgoing clip settings
I'm gonna set this value to 10
and I'll have the outgoing
end frames match that 10.
I'll just tab down also to the incoming start frames
matching those values that I set.
in the outgoing clip settings.
What we're gonna see
is a much slower flutter.
I'll move my play head earlier
and we can see that now it happens over
a 10 frame duration.
You can check that out by
just pressing the right
and left arrow keys and counting the number
of frames before it flutters over to another clip.
Another handy thing about flutter cut
is that we can also introduce a little bit
of a fade out by changing the outgoing
and the incoming fade in,
two different numbers
in order to add a dissolve into the mix.
In this instance, I'll just set both
of these numbers back down to zero
and we'll follow this up by looking at the color section.
We can introduce a number
of color frames that will
be spliced into the mix
between the quick cutting of the outgoing and incoming clip.
In this case, I'll set color one frames to be five
and if I move my play head back once again,
press that space bar,
that 10 frame flutter cut
for my incoming
and outgoing clip and that insertion
of the white frames happening
for five frame increments.
You can change the color effect order to happen,
right now it's happening after both
the incoming and outgoing clip
but we can have it just
so it happens after let's say the incoming clip.
And that will change when
those white frames get interspersed in this cut.
In addition to this
you saw earlier that there's an effect section
and we can add a type
of effect during the transition period.
In this case, I'm just gonna stick
to a very simple monochrome look.
Right now the target is set to both
but we can have this effect be applied
to just one side of our edit.
So I'm gonna apply it to the outgoing clip
so we can see that this frame isn't affected.
If I move a couple frames back,
we can see that that outgoing clip
is the one that is monochromatic
and once again, I'll play that back
so we can see
how the flutter cut responds.
Now let's just see this over another example.
I'm gonna head here
and change to my effects workspace
to reveal my music video flutter cut timeline.
I'll go back to my effects tab
and add flutter cut to these sources
and just play back where we can see
the rapid cutting between these two shots.
Let's select the flutter cut
and with the outgoing
and the incoming frames
I'm gonna set the outgoing start frames to be 10
but the incoming, I'm gonna set that to one.
So just a quick rapid
incoming frame that we have.
We'll leave the fade outs as is.
We're not gonna add any color
but we will go down to the effects section
and actually change this from video glitch
to film grunge.
This film grunge, which is overlaid on top of the flutter.
We can bring down the effects amount
if we want it to be less harsh.
As well as if you scroll even further down,
there happens to be a film grunge section
which becomes highlighted.
That's here where we can randomize the pattern
of the grunge, which appears during the transition.
If I move my play head back
we can see that pattern intermix
between those two clips.
I'll head back to my effect controls
and see that if we
now go to video glitch,
same thing.
We have an effect amount
which we can increase or decrease
but video glitch has its own properties
further down,
a seed value to randomize
the glitch
not to mention an intensity which is set pretty low.
So if we wanted to increase this
we can drag up that intensity amount
and then just play with the overall effect amount
which acts more like a dissolve.
We can now scroll up.
Let's maybe add a few colored frames.
I'm gonna change this color, first of all
to an orange
rather than the standard white for color one.
And we'll intercut four colored frames at a given time.
Let's move our play head earlier
and I'll just do a full screen playback
so we can see this intercutting
of the video glitch
and the quick cuts between the outgoing
and incoming clip
based on the values that I've set.
And there's a whirlwind tour
of the flutter cut transition.
Check out some of those presets in the effects editor.
Not to mention the properties there
of effects that you could overlay on top today.
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