WMM and transitions

Angelkins · Post by **Angelkins** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:33 pm

I have a WMM question I'm hoping someone can help me with.

I'm remastering one of my videos because I made a big boo boo on it that I was unaware of.

I use a faster moving song with a lot of actions clips and I'm a newbie who didn't know any better and used the soft fade transition in between most of my clips.

So I am wondering, if the fade and soft transitions are a no-no, what is a way I can transition my clips that is not soft and slow like the fade that is acceptable in this sort of video?

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:39 pm

For fast song, either shorten the fade or just do a hard cut, where you don't combine two clips together. Although it does all depend on the song.

Angelkins · Post by **Angelkins** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:44 pm

That makes sense, the fade is a little long.

When you say hard cut, do you mean use no transition at all?

I'm using "Click Click Boom" by Saliva.

NS · Post by NS » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:50 pm

Click click boom isn't that fast and not hard. Just make the clips smaller and fades shorter. Also use fade to black instead of fade to white since that looks... harder.

And by Hard cut I do believe he means no transition just like cutting to a diffrent scene or whatever.

Angelkins · Post by **Angelkins** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:55 pm

Alright, thanks for the tip.

What is techincally a short clip?

I never use a clip longer than 2 - 2 and a half seconds. Is that still too long?

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:56 pm

Angelkins wrote:That makes sense, the fade is a little long.

When you say hard cut, do you mean use no transition at all?

Yes, no transition, so the clips are right next to each other without overlapping. This works better if you make these cuts on strong beats.

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:57 pm

Angelkins wrote:Alright, thanks for the tip.

What is techincally a short clip?

I never use a clip longer than 2 - 2 and a half seconds. Is that still too long?

For an action AMV, that should be about the limit (unless the scenes have a lot of fast movement and action in them themselves). Again, though it all depends on the sources and what you want the video to accomplish.

NS · Post by NS » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:46 pm

When i used to edit on WMM I would zoom in all the way or 1 away from all the way in when i edited. My clips would very often be fractions of a second when the song was fast. sometimes as short as wmm will cut clips. I think i got it to about .05 or so. idk. but the length pretty much just varies. I always used the wavelengths of the song and my ears to gauge what I would do.