Hi dear All,



So, say I have two video clips, the fist one ends with me sitting on a sofa, holding a glass, looking at the camera. Second clip starts with the same picture, everything is the same, only it filmed next day, so the picture is not identically the same. Of course I wear the same clothes, lighting is the same, I make the same stupid face. But...



How do I merge these two clips into one so that the transition from one to another is not noticeable ?



I'm thinking it is possible somehow, there's gotta be a tool somewhere that does that. May be there is some tool that say takes 100 last frames from the movie 1 and 100 first frames from movie 2, finds a best matching pair, and morphs them somehow...



Anyone, please, any ideas?



Thanks a lot

Henry

WinMorph looks like something that can come in handy, it's free for personal use and their page mentions an upcoming linux port (no date mentioned though).

I guess you should post this in the sub forum Video Effects and Transitions.

I think the transition "luma" is what you are searching for:

Put your first clip on the track 1 and the second clip on the track 2.

Drag and drop the second clip so that the 100 first frames are superposed to the 100 last frames of the first clip.

Right-clic on the first clip, and add the transition luma.

Choose the smooth 50, and reverse transition.

PS: i have Kdenlive in french, so it could be that the parameters have another name.

Hi,

I guess it might also depend on what you want to achieve by concatinating these two clips. You could just shoot a little cutaway like a three second sequence of a clock at some wall in case you wanted to express that some time elapsed and put that between the two clips. If the last and the first frame of clip one and two are not too different nobody will probably notice the jump cut. If that's what you want to achieve.

Matthias