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Smooth Cut for jump cut edits - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

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Smooth Cut for jump cut edits

- Another headline feature that's kind of worth looking at because I think it's actually pretty well implemented is the smooth cut. It's a morph dissolve for the edit page. Let's take a quick look at how this one works. So I've got a simple little timeline set up and let's do a jump cut edit right here. What I'm going to do is blade just anywhere in the middle of this clip. Go to the trim mode and I'm just going to shorten this up a little bit. We'll shorten it up just before the camera move happens. I have to be careful not to let the camera move get caught in our dissolve. So I'll go back a couple of frames from there and it'll also shorten up this edit ahead of time. Just before her facial move. And now let's play through the edit and see if we see the jump cut. And we do, there's a little bit of a jump cut there. So let's try this smooth cut, see what happens. Now I'll click on the smooth cut, open it up in the inspector and I'm going to change the number of frames to four because we want this to be a hidden move. Not something we call attention to. Head back to the beginning of the shot, hit play. And it didn't play through, why? Because the smooth cut transition is computationally intensive. I'm running this on a laptop. For me to get this to actually play through I'm going to switch over to the smart render cache which will automatically detect this transition and cache off this effect or blue, let's hit play. And there you go. Let's take a look at it again. Just really clean, I mean you can almost not see that at all. If I go through frame by frame you can kind of see, it's kind of a pseudo dissolve almost. Let's try looking at this as an effect. So I've got these two shots right here. And I want to do an effective kind of transition. Let's throw the smooth cut on there. Let's leave it as it's default length. Let resolve do the render cache. And let's see what happens. (laughs) And that is a morph transition. And if you take a look it really is a true morph. It's not just a dissolve. You see that resolve is kind of picking points between the two sides of the transition and moving them so that they kind of morph together in a very traditional morph-like animation.

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