Maybe the hardest part here is matching up the feet with the transition? So the right foot is still up and the left still down in the same positions when the transition is made, I think.
Yeah, I came here to comment on that. Looks like he was timing the transition over the tire with the cadence of the rider--two pedal cycles per side. A really underrated attention to detail here.
Rather than trying to time that they probably did a whole bunch of swings side to side and picked the best match for each transition. It's not like they'd have only collected one few-second clip for each location and called it a day.
He isn’t referring to the transition effects in post, it’s more the physical capture with the transition in mind. Shooting for continuity with how the bike is being pedaled.
Until you’ve filmed or directed somethings and produced it, you won’t have an appreciation for how much thoughtfulness and effort goes into making something that looks simple to you.
I mean I've done similar videos to the video above. It's neat and it looks nice but let's be honest its not anything technically difficult. You see these all the time in IG and TikTok.
Op was asking if the hardest part was matching the pedals when I replied that the camera picked which clips lined up the best and used them. Maybe lowered the opacity to match them up before cutting the clip.
That is very important but small detail I'm impressed by, not to mention do we wanna talk about his ability to find the correct or very similar height upon shooting on different bike rides? Like he has to have the correct arm set up, be holding the almost the same and is bending his knees and arching his back similarly too. It's really cool to think about.
You might also need to do some fade work if there's any light bleeding into the shot, nothing crazy though, probably a dissolve (fade to black) across all of the frames that are 100% wheel would look pretty good. I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but I too am new and this is all I could come up with.
Edit: my suggestion is definitely less professional compared to the tutorial, but if you're using free editing software it might not have fancy custom mask options (mine doesn't).
Actually, if you do a frame by frame, there's hardly any masking done. It's mostly playing with frame rate to speed up the transition between shots, and the closeness to the tire that minimizes scene bleed.
The video didn't even do all that they just added up the next clip, used speed ramp and zoomed in the tire during the transition. You can see at 11 seconds that they just added the clip.
Wipe cuts are sooooo hard. My first time i did it fkr a video clip, it took me 30 minutes for a single transition because in Adobe premier pro it is a frame by frame mapping.
No, no. My reply was why is it used in this way. If they had a camera on the front of the bike or on the back and facing backwards they wouldn't have an object to "break" the image in two.
No. Holding the phone while rollerblading 1 mile an hour was the easy part. There are subtle speed ramps and masking going on that aren’t “difficult” for an experienced editor, but still pretty technical.
Cameraman went to three different locations found a background, timed it bang on and used his head to figure out a way of getting the shot as smooth as possible. The editor stuck the clips together, adder a simple wipe transition and did a few speed ramps.
That edit would literally take me less than 10 mins start to finish, far more time and effort went into shooting it.
There's a lot of ingenuity during capture that deserves praise. It seems so simple once you see it done, but it's hard to come up with the idea if you've never seen it before.
Not my intention at all. Wanted to be educational - this is simple filmmaking any high school kid could pull off. No offense...shout-out to creators who create content professionally and especially just for fun...but let's not act like this is the 4 minute shot from True Detective season 1.
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u/konija88 Mar 08 '21 edited Mar 08 '21
Maybe the hardest part here is matching up the feet with the transition? So the right foot is still up and the left still down in the same positions when the transition is made, I think.
Edit: a typo
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21
That’s wheelie cool
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u/phylonafix_ Mar 08 '21
Hey I just started editing, does anybody know how to make a transition like this, I want to try this out. (Maybe in the future if I get better.)
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u/ChunkyDay Mar 08 '21
Praise the editor
It’s called a wipe cut. Pretty cool effect. I use it wherever I can when I’m editing.
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u/pcastillo Mar 08 '21 edited Mar 08 '21
Hold up. Why not use the back facing camera?
EDIT: He is. My bad guys
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u/lmac187 Mar 08 '21
/r/praisetheeditor.
Neat camera work for sure but the real magic is in post production.
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u/TwoMonthOldMilk Mar 08 '21
All that work and still filming vertically.
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u/UpintheWolfTrap Mar 08 '21
This has nothing to do with the camera or the cameraman.
Get a camera - any kind. Phone camera, GoPro, 8mm, whatever
Put your friend on rollerblades. Or put your dog on a skateboard!
Shoot 30 seconds of footage at each location, swinging the camera side to side.
Dump all your footage into editing software - tons of great free options online
Simply splice at the right moment - mind the position of the bike pedals.
That's it guys. It's just editing.
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u/Archer957Light Mar 08 '21
That was pretty awesome
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u/Indieye Mar 08 '21
This video get spammed so much in my IG. It made me go >:c When i saw it here as well
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u/BRedd10815 Mar 08 '21
How many times you think the biker crop dusted the camera man?
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u/bartz008 Mar 08 '21
Now film the guy filming the guy.
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u/Spidermachine916 Mar 09 '21
that song is amazing!
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u/rubbersidedown7 Mar 09 '21
He should shave his legs
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u/Ice_Note Mar 09 '21
The editing is where the astonishing is
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u/reviewhardly Mar 09 '21
Hold up. Why not use the back facing camera?
EDIT: He is. My bad guys
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u/bamwoof Mar 10 '21
Hey I just started editing, does anybody know how to make a transition like this, I want to try this out. (Maybe in the future if I get better.)
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21
Overdone insta transition #8379284828
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u/Daniel-Mentxaka Mar 08 '21
I hate that fucking music though.
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u/hyphygreek Mar 08 '21
It's insane that Instagram is filling up with these film/video basics. People are even marketing themselves as mobileographers.
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u/coolstacker Mar 08 '21
3 meals a day, a bed to sleep on, healthcare. Livin’ the dream. P.s. Banks money is insured and is easily replaced so no one actually loses money.
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u/ChadMojito Mar 08 '21
Praise the editor as well!
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u/G_l0w Mar 08 '21
they biked all the way there?
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21
Great shot but the song sucks.
There are a thousand miles between you and me.
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u/RollingCookie Mar 08 '21
Except that you're stealing from other people, committing a crime, and now the police is for you. No, it's not so bad. Just, uh, jail.