editing How do I make an invisible edit?

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harmonica44

I read how movies can have invisible edits, and saw how in the long shootout take in Hard Boiled (1992), it wasn't actually as long as you see in the movie and their is actually an invisible cut in place as Chow Yun Fat emerges from the elevator. There was that chase scene that someone posted on here a couple of weeks ago as well, where a man jumps out the window and lands. It looked like it was done in one take, but it wasn't.

How do you tie two takes together and make it look invisible?

Thanks.
 
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Invisible cuts don't happen during editing, they happen during filming. The easiest way to do it is to have a huge foreground object take up a good amount of the frame. That will be your end point of the sequence. Start at the same object at the beginning of the next frame and go from there.

Whip panning the camera also works too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IcjSgY4_jQ

Keep in mind that there's absolutely nothing special about the camera. It's a Sony consumer camera shooting at 30p.....
 
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The window jumping scene in The Man From Nowhere (South Korea's highest grossing film of 2010, currently being remade by Hollywood :/) looks like a continuous take by using CGI to blend the two.

If you get the film, there is a special features section that shows how they did the "invisible edit"

It's a totally different, and modern process, rather than something like the elevator scene or hitchcock's "Rope"
 
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Watch Hitchcock's "Rope" then read up on it online, lots of choreography of the set crew to make stuff happen in one take.

Youtube children of men single shot there are some BTS of how they did that one as well.
 
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LOL @ CTRL+X

H44, did you try to think about it yourself?

Can you find the cuts in this musicvideo?
And tell me, how many cuts are there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABnenFaaj5w

I also use it sometimes.
In this silly short I used it to change focal plane without pulling focus: I just cut to shots with the same framing, but a different focal distance.
http://vimeo.com/39208678
The moment his grey shirt fills the screen is where I did a 2 of 3 frame crossfade. Nobody notices when you plan ahead.

Btw, why are you asking this?
I hope you aren't thinking you can use it to 'fix' your actionscene in your first short you should have finished a long time ago ;)
 
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