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Your favorite recipe for white popsPosted by Dan Brockett
Hi all:
I know, there are a million ways to do them. What are your favorite methods for doing the classic visual "white pop" that is accompanied by a character having a flashback and are often accompanied by a big reverbed whoosh? Trying the dip to color dissolve and I just can't get it to look organic and smooth. Thanks, Dan
Too Much Too Soon, called "Flash Frame" or something. It's free too.
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There are a bunch of different things to change up the look. Try a little blur on the images ramping up down with the dissolves. Use a color correction filter and drive up the blacks and whites during the dissolves. Take a glow filter and ramp it up to extremes and back on the new shot.
I have seen folks just use a straight cut to and from the white field as well.
I have a secret recipe (in AE) = It includes a Glow / Compound Blur / Bulge (sometimes) / Add (transfer Mode) - all used on a white solid Adjustment layer. Tweakers have at it.
Lazy = White solid / add transfer mode / 3 frame fade up / 7 frame fade out. Tweak to taste. When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
My flash frame recipe is on my blog at [alex4d.wordpress.com]
Short version: 1. Add a "Dip to Color Dissolve" transition 2. Change transition settings to Threshold=0, Soft=80, Color=White(!) 3. Set the duration to 6 frames 4. Set the transition alignment to "Start on Edit" (keyboard shortcut: Option-1) ___________________________________________________ Alexandre Gollner, Editor, Zone 2-North West, London alex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com + .com
Don't be lazy, Dan
An aperture flash should BLOOM to it's highest point then come down...not just fade to white. There is a "Bloom" filter in FCP. Use that at the end of one clip (cut out last 7 frames and apply it) and the beginning of the next (cut out first 12 frames and apply it). I hate a plain 'ol "white flash". Looks cheesy. When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.
Too Much Too Soon is a family of effects. The package contains both filters and transitions. It's a bit overused, but that's because it is convenient and looks good.
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The ideal "white pop" in my opinion simulates a light leak in film, where light exposes the end of one reel. Light leaks were common in early roughly edited films, such as newsreels, where one reel was spliced onto another, because they wanted to use all the footage possible.
Light leaks have become common in broadcast commercials and used as stylistic elements in features. I use an HD light leak element from Artbeats with a composite mode of "screen"... can't really simulate that particular look with filters. Working on a tutorial on that subject at the moment!
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