Welcome to Creative Tuesday, friends. In this series, we’ll share with you some cool tips and tricks for filmmakers. And I’m a Geordie presenter from cinecom.net. Today we’re looking at 5 super simple yet amazing transitions you can do with your camera or a simple editing trick. We’ll start with a foreground offset. Place some foreground object into the frame, then simply move the camera, take the frame, and move the camera back. Now you can connect it to a similar frame where you are using a different foreground object.

You can move in the same direction during the transition, or in the opposite direction, creating a slight collision effect. I often used such transitions in a promo video for a boutique town. By the way, if anyone is interested in what cage I use for my camera, it is VARY-I DLSR for Panasonic Lumix. They sent it to me, but they are not sponsoring or expecting anything from this video.

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This next super simple transition is what I call a turn. Again, you need some object in the foreground. This time we will not move away from the object, but turn away from it. You can even adjust the sharpness of an object’s image. But make sure you move fast enough, of course, when you’re holding the camera in your hands. It will all be a little easier on a gyrostabilizer. Then in the next frame you start to rotate around another subject in the foreground and then return the camera to your subject. If you’ve focused on the foreground, don’t forget to focus on the foreground in the second frame as well. Then turn in the same direction and at the same speed and return the focus to the subject.

The next transition is shooting fast motion. You have two objects that are moving quickly in the frame. And in one direction. You can trim any of them, creating a cool transition. Here’s an example I made for that promo video. We can see the pizza flying up and falling down, but when the pizza falls we cut the video and cut to the t-shirt being placed down.

The camera’s next transition is to capture actions that are different from previous ones. The idea is to find patterns of different movements. For example, while playing basketball. A typical action would be someone hitting the ball, running to the hoop and throwing the ball there. But since we know that this action happens all the time in this game, we can film it from different angles, as well as different players. And during post-production you edit one player with another, but make sure the action flows logically. That is, if you cut the video just before the ball hits the floor, then your next frame should be of the ball hitting the floor. If we take several of these frames and edit them together in sequence, we might end up with something like this.

And this brings us to the last transition – acceleration. You need to increase the speed of the last part of your first frame. And then speed up the first part of the second frame. Combining these two frames will fast forward the middle and this will make the flow of the video very attractive. This technique works best if you are shooting while holding the camera in your hands and slowly moving in a certain direction, or if you follow a moving subject with your camera.