Transitions FX

I've been working with various video editing programs lately. In some cases I've used a number of different programs in a single project.

It seems that every editing program you find has a number of special effects to be used. There is always the temptation to used a lot of them. It is also the best way to destroy potentially good video. I tend to use very few FX. I usually use a cross-fade between scenes and a very slow zoom on every still shot.

However, it is great fun to used the transitions effects and video effects as a means unto themselves. That is to say using the effects to create animation.

In the sequence at the left I used Ulead Video Studio 9, Photoshop 7, Epson NX400 scanner as well as video, and sound clips from the Internet and the obvious photograph of me.

This will make for a neat transition between longer videos on my DVDs.