(electronic music)
Hello this is Ben Brownlee from Boris FX
and we're gonna be looking at how we take a humble
push transition and turn it into something a lot more
modern using S_Blur Motion Curves in DaVinci Resolve.
The transition that we use to move between
different locations and different times
is really, really important.
We take at look at our timeline here,
you can see we're just
cutting between the different locations.
If you want to add transitions for a better flow
for example for a travelog, then we should consider
how we're going to do that.
Go to our clips here, adding a simple transition.
We could use a basic dissolve if we wanted to.
That's one way of easing the viewer between
different places but the whole point of the dissolve
is to smooth that harsh cut.
So obviously it's not gonna have that sort of
bite or edge to it.
Another classic way of doing it, is to use a push.
If I add a push in here, and we'll take that down
to about 12 frames.
And we'll just play that back.
There we go, I mean, that's got something to it.
The default push is always just that.
It's just a little push.
I mean we could come into our inspector
add some feathering, add a bit of a border
between these two, try to smooth the edge out
a little bit, but you're still left
with a basic boring push.
If we're using the Sapphire filters and some of the
transitions here, we do have a really nice one that's
called S _Whiplash.
And if I bring this over the top,
and I'll just change up the duration
so we have right about the same sort of time
as we had previously.
And I'll change the shift over here
so we're only getting the equivalent of that push.
If we compare that to the original push
it gives a nice sort of fast way of getting between objects.
And I like this one, this is looking pretty good.
And we don't have to do a simple push.
We could do things like, if we come over,
if we come over to a later shot here,
I'll add another whiplash.
And take this again to that 12 frame duration,
come into my controls,
and instead of shifting at all,
we can use the scale,
we can use the scale to pull out from our image,
and maybe add in a little bit more motion blur
as we need to.
We can even add some rotation in there as well.
And that's a nice fast way of doing things.
Another way of doing this effect if you really want
complete control over it, is to use a different filter.
And it's another Sapphire filter and it's called
Sapphire Blur Motion Curves, or S_BlurMoCurves.
I'll come into another timeline and show you
how we can use this.
And here we are, now in preparation for doing this effect,
I've actually come in and added some extra edits here.
Now this isn't absolutely necessary but it is just
easier for me when I'm showing you the effect.
If we take our first edit, we've got this close up
of a girl running cutting to a much wider shot
of her running as well.
Now I want to do a nice dramatic pull out on this.
And I'm gonna use S_BlurMoCurves to do it.
So I'm gonna apply the effect and I'm gonna come in
and look at my controls.
And because we're doing a pull out
I want to used the Z-Distance here.
So I'm gonna make this smaller at the end.
So we'll take this to right about 1.3 ish
we don't have to be too exact for this.
And I'm gonna come down and see how this is going to wrap.
Cause at the moment it's been scaled down
so there's nothing to fill in those black edges.
So I'm gonna hit reflect on both the X and the Y
just to kind of hide those black edges.
Now if we just play that through,
you see that nothing really looks like it's changed
all that much, we've just got a cut,
and then a cut back out.
Now this effect only really comes to life
once you start key framing it.
So I'm gonna add a single key frame in the Z-Distance
and come to the start of my clip.
And take my Z-Distance back down to one.
This will automatically add another key frame for us
so we don't have to worry about that.
Now as we move forward, we're getting a nice bit
of motion blur on top of that zoom out.
Our effects only last six frames.
This type of effect generally works better
on shorter transitions anyway.
So we've got the outgoing transition now,
I'm just gonna copy this clip.
And then right click on the next clip
and go paste attributes.
And then I'll make sure that the only thing
I'm taking over is gonna be the plugins.
Hit apply on that, and this will then copy
my S Blur Motion Curves onto the next clip.
Just gonna reset the Z-Distance
cause I don't need any of those key frames
right this second and what I'm gonna do
is just take this down in the opposite direction,
so that we're zooming in to the incoming clip.
Add a key frame on that, our wrap is still the same
of course so I'll come to the end here.
End frame is that one,
and once again set our Z-Distance to one.
So now if we play that back.
You can see we get a nice kinda transition
starting to appear.
Now a few things we can do to make this even better.
First thing you'll notice is on the incoming clip
when we start, we actually don't have any motion
blur at all.
So this is kind of giving a bit of a jolt to the eye.
So you kind of blurring out coming back into focus,
blurring out, coming back into focus again.
It's all right, it's not what I want.
So what I'm gonna need to do to make sure that
the motion blur is there right from the very first frame
is change this value, the shutter shift.
And I'm gonna change that all the way up to plus one.
And I'm gonna come to the outgoing clip
and I'm gonna put my shutter shift all the way to minus one.
So we're biasing the motion blur in this case.
And if we play that back we get a much smoother transition.
Now of course I can do other things here as well.
I can change up stuff like rotation.
I'm gonna move this to plus three.
Add a key frame, come to my first frame.
Set that to zero.
I can add things like brightness as well.
So I just set a key frame on the brightness.
And then come to the last frame and tap that up
maybe to 1.5, don't need to put this too high.
That's it, so we've now added rotation of plus three,
brightness of 1.5, come to my incoming clip.
And do the opposite.
And we'll change those same values.
So on the brightness I'll bring it to 1.5, add a key frame.
On the rotation, because we want this to be
a continuous movement, if we go plus three
on the outgoing clip, we need to go minus three
on the incoming clip.
Minus 3.1, that'll do.
Come over to the last frame, and do the same sort of thing.
Zero,
tabbing away through, going to Brightness, hitting 1.
Now if we play this back, we get a little bit of a curve,
little bit of brightness bump before
it sits back down again.
Now if you wanted to manually do this on all of the cuts
you know that might take little bit of time.
But the nice thing about the Sapphire plugins,
is that we have presets that we can save out.
So we'll go to save preset here.
It's gonna open up my preset browser,
and I can give it a name, for example
this will be zoom out
spin counter clockwise or anti clockwise
and it is the incoming clip so I'll go, in.
Also brightening this up so I'm gonna call this one bright.
There we go, and I'm gonna remember this naming
convention so I'm gonna copy this
and just hit save on that.
And on this other one,
I'll come over save my preset here.
And I'm gonna just paste the old name in
and go out, because it's the outgoing clip.
Save that there.
So now we can use this again and again and again.
If I bring that effect over one more time,
come into my Open FX I'm gonna load up
that preset and in addition to the default presets
that we have for this particular effect,
I've actually created a number of different ones
which are doing this same kind of transition.
Now in this particular instance, I'm going
from a wider shot into a tighter shot.
So I want to have a zoom in.
And I've got those for me right here.
Let's just zoom these up a little bit
so we can see the full name.
And because this is the outgoing clip,
I'm going to choose, zoom in, spin clockwise,
extreme blur out, for outgoing.
I'm gonna load that in, and that's gonna give me
my end values.
So all I have to do to make this transition work now
is key frame up the values that have changed.
So we got Z-Distance, rotate,
the shutter duration is the things that controls my
motion blur, don't need to change that here.
I will change the brightness up though.
And come to our first frame.
And change these to Z-Distance to one
tabbing along, rotate to zero, tab, tab, tab,
all the way down till we get to brightness,
set that back to one again.
And now we've got the effect happening.
And I can do the same sort of thing on the other side.
Load in our other preset.
Come over to our favorites.
And we want zoom in, spin clockwise, extreme blur, in.
So let's load that one, and we do the same thing again.
Key frame the Z-Distance, key frame the rotation
and key frame the brightness.
Come to the end.
One,
zero on the rotate, and one on the brightness.
Play that back.
And we've got a much cooler, more modern
push style of effect, using S Blur Motion Curves.
Now I've included a link to all of these presets
down in the bottom.
So if you do want to use them, then all you have to do
is go load preset,
and then come out to file and import presets
in the Sapphire Preset browser.
You will need Sapphire 2019.5 or above to
load these presets in.
But obviously there's nothing to stop you
from creating your own versions of these presets
in earlier versions.
If you feel like this is too much like hard work
then you always have the S_Whiplash transition
available to you.
Where you get a similar effect,
but not quite we'll say manual controls
as you have here, but is a bit faster.
If we take a look at our finished timeline
you can see how flexible this type of push
or zoom movement actually is.
And all of those are contained within that new
little preset bundle.
Now before we leave I think one of the things
that's underrated is the importance of sound effects.
An interesting transition can be made
even more interesting with the aid of just
a very small sound effect.
Just a sound cue, again to help your brain,
move it's way between the two clips.
I've got a couple of sound effects here.
I've got a little swirly whoosh.
(whooshing)
And I've got a little bassy whoosh as well.
(deep whooshing)
Whoosh.
So let's see what the effect
of having these on our edit actually is.
I'm gonna add my first transition which is the bassy whoosh.
Let's play that back.
(deep whooshing)
That sorts of fits in okay there.
(deep whooshing)
Let's move it out the way and see if this swirly whoosh
is gonna be any better.
Now when it comes to the transitions
what I wanna do is time the start of this big whoosh
to where the movement actually begins to happen.
Which is actually round about here,
coincidentally put the clip.
(whooshing)
It's a bit more of a subtle effect.
(whooshing)
I think that works for this edit.
Let's shorten it up.
Add a tiny little cross fade in there
just to make sure we're not cutting it off at the end,
I don't even think we are, but just to make sure.
I've got a whiplash effect in here.
(deep whooshing)
That's working quite nicely just as it is.
(deep whooshing)
Okay, so I'm happy with that.
And again, I'll just do a six frame fade,
just to take out the tails there.
Now I don't have any more transitions in my
bin at the moment so I'm gonna show you a creative way
of recycling these effects.
So we can use them across our entire edit
without it seeming like we've got the same
effect again and again and again.
Cause let's just see what happens if we do that.
I'm gonna alt click on my clip and just drag it over
so that I make it a duplicate.
And let's bring this on over.
And I think I like to do at this point
is just turn off snapping cause that allows us
to really line up the sound effect where I need it.
Let's play that back.
(deep whooshing)
And that's cool, but we've just heard that one.
And if you play that back enough and you've used the
same you know couple of sound effects enough
the ear will get used to that and it will go
oh okay, that's a bit boring.
And with Resolve it's really easy to do
a couple of things here.
First one is to change the clip pitch.
So if I take this down minus six semi tones,
minus five semi tones, there we go.
(bass whooshing)
We get a deeper (whooshing)
so we've got, (deeper whooshing)
(whooshing)
Much nicer.
Okay, here we've got a really fast cut.
There's actually only using the Blur Motion Curves
on the outgoing clip.
So I want something that's nice and fast.
I'm going to use my bassy whoosh one more time.
So let's just bring this over.
Line it up so alt drag one more time.
And I will change the clip speed.
Make this a bit faster, change the speed to 150%.
Hit change.
(high whooshing)
And maybe even bring the pitch up a little bit.
(higher whooshing)
There we go.
(higher whooshing)
Much better and much more in keeping
with what the movement is doing.
And I can build that along the entire timeline.
And we end up with a timeline that looks a
little bit like this.
There's one other thing I've changed on a couple of these.
We have a look at this transition here.
(high whooshing)
What I've done is use a clip equalizer as well.
And used a high pass filter just to chop off
all of the bass frequencies.
So we're left with something a bit more whiplashy.
(higher whooshing)
And on the opposite side of that
in this transition I've used a low pass filter
to chop off all the higher frequencies
so we end up something a little bit like this.
(deep whooshing)
So the before.
We get some more reverb.
And there those high frequencies are gone.
And all of this is really easy to do.
It's clip pitch, clip equalizer and clip speed.
And maybe even just adjusting up the
volume a little bit as well.
And if we playback our timeline now.
(deep whooshing)
We're just enhancing that feeling of moving
between these different spaces.
Depending on what type of effect we've used.
And in the same package with the presets
I've also included these two sound effects
for you as well.
And you can use these royalty free in any production
you want and when we bring in our music,
we're gonna have to you know, maybe mix the transitions in
a little bit differently but,
we'll end up with something a little bit like this.
(chill music)
(whooshing)
So in this tutorial we've looked at different way
of bring in those transitions.
In the beginning we looked at the boring push.
Followed up by the not so boring whiplash.
Before we came in and used blur motion curves
to really manually mix in our own custom
bespoke transition.
And we also looked at how we can save time with ease
by saving them out as presets as well.
And finally we came to the importance of sound
when it comes to making our transitions.
Even if something just little like a little whoosh
or a swirl or just a little air blast, something like that,
something that just helps you move between these
two different shots that can really help
to add to the dynamism of the piece.
So hopefully this has given you a bit of inspiration
about how you can begin to think about dynamic ways
of using transitions in your own project.
And to help you along remember, down in the description,
there's a link to all the presets that I've used
in this particular project, plus a couple more.
Plus these little sound effects that you can customize
up as you want to.
If you like this video and you want to see more
then leave a Like and a comment below.
If you have ideas for something else you wanna see
in the future, then again just let me know in the comments.
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