Hy that’s going on youtube jake here with venturevisuals and today i couldn’t be more stoked to be showing you guys these three easy transitions to recreate in Alight Motion
so i use each of these transitions i’m about to show you guys in a variety of projects like music videos creative edits weddings commercials you name it these transitions are very practical transitions and look good with most projects
so if you’re excited to learn about these transitions hit that like button down below and let’s get right into the video so this first transition i’m going to show you guys is just a simple wipe transition here in Alight Motion as you can see here it’s a pretty simple transition so on my timeline here you can see this first clip is him wrapping in the bedroom and then the second clip is kind of him standing in the doorway so the first thing you got to do is come up to your top clip and go ahead and hit the p button on your keyboard just keyframe the position right where it is so this clip is perfectly aligned with this composition now we’re going to come all the way to the end of this clip where we want the transition to end
we’re just going to go ahead and move this clip to the right and you do want to make sure that this first clip is lined up pretty close with the edge of the composition just like that so now we have two keyframes we have it right where it belongs and then we have it wiping to the right the next thing i like to do is just turn on motion blur for both layers motion blur just adds blurriness to whatever it is that you’re moving around the frame it just makes all the motion look a little more natural so the next step is just come to your second keyframe here where this second clip is totally revealed and
we’re just going to take this parent pick whip tool and connect it to our top clip now this is going to go ahead and move the second clip with the first clip so you see that happening now we have the first clip moving but as it’s moving the second clip is also moving into the frame it’s not just moving out of the way and revealing the second clip both of these layers are moving together now to add some extra sauce to this i’m going to right click this first keyframe come down to keyframe assistant and hit easy ease out and i’m going to do the same thing for the second one except i’m going to hit easy ease in and now we should get a really dope wipe transition now you can play around with these keyframes and shorten them up or make them longer depending on how long you want your transition to happen so technically we could make a really short transition like this you know very quick or we could elongate it and make it you know a little longer a little bit more time consuming so there’s a slower wipe right there it’s a pretty customizable easy transition to make
let’s jump into the second transition so the second transition is a mask transition and what a mask transition is is basically you’re taking a clip and something is moving across the screen whether that be a light pole a building structure a tree could be anything but you have something that’s moving across the frame so for this example you can see here i have this first clip on top that is my two buddies drinking some beers and as we go over to the right we see this light pole that starts to creep in to the frame over here on the left so as that light pull creeps in from the left it reveals the next clip underneath so as you can see it’s a combination of camera movement and having something slide across your screen and also creating this mask right here to get this transition effect
now we’re just going to recreate this from scratch
so i’m going to go ahead and reset everything quickly here okay so as you can see our top clip is lying above our bottom clip we want to scroll over to where the object starts to move across the frame so as you can see this light pole is really moving across the frame right at this moment so with that clip selected we’re just going to go ahead and hit this rectangle tool now you can also use the pen tool to make a mask but for this example we’re just going to use this rectangle tool and we’re just going to make this rectangle across the entire frame just like that so that’s gonna be our first mask point so now with our mask one selected underneath our layer
we’re gonna go ahead and hit a keyframe under the mask point like that and
now we’re just gonna scroll to the very end where the light pole is basically out of the frame we’re going to come up here to our selection tool we’re going to move these points that we’ve created for this mask on the left we’re going to move them all the way to time up with the lamp so you can see now we have the mask moving with the lamp across the screen now it’s not perfect and i can see here it’s definitely not connected to the pole as good as it could be so what i normally like to do is spend some time on this masking process where i’m just going to all these ind
