I'd be interested to see what other people say about it. It's become "a thing" recently as people just snip bits out to remove ums and ahs from speech or whatever, and have this very disjointed tic-y hopping about jump cut thing. I don't particularly like it, but I'm from an era when if you needed to edit a bit you cut away to some B roll of some sort, or just changed to a different angle.

Also I feel like people practiced what they were going to say a bit more so they weren't quite so stumbly.

Classical thinking: jump cuts, lens flare, zooming in/out, basically anything that brings attention to the actual process of moviemaking is a big no-no.

French New Cinema has long broke most of the classic rules, so shoot in whatever style you like and call it yours. Just make it understandable. Or not, if you don't care about the viewers understanding what is happening.

P.S. I hate punching in/out that many youtubers who shoot with just one camera do - they think this adds energy to the video, but I find it extremely annoying. Cutting ums and ahs out is less annoying because at least it has a reason.

This has been a boil on my butt for 40 years now. As a local TV photographer, we were trained up hard to avoid jump cuts at all costs. Broll to cover, tight shots, letting people go in and out of frame. Yet immediately after our local news, you get the network news. And story after story full of jump cuts. It was hard to know if it was a speed/time crunch issue (likely) or no one at that level knew it was wrong. They made 5 times what we were making, but they were doing it “wrong”. Or….did the viewer even care?

I’ve been in this exact situation. Since I had no artistic attachment to the project I just let the client think they’re right.

As for a general rule for those cuts? Something I remember from a Hitchcock interview “The best cuts go unnoticed” (I’m paraphrasing) and I think that it’s true to an extent, but in the end it’s your vision and you know what you’re doing. And somebody watching out there will see what you saw.

I think interview J and L cuts can be pretty cool. Especially when it’s used in an emotional way.

You generally don’t use jarring J or L cuts in interviews when you are keeping the focus on the same individual in the next scene. It does not work and it causes confusion. The exact kind of confusion your colleague demonstrated.

The only time it really works is when you are cutting to or from b-roll footage that is illustrative of what the person being interviewed is saying. For example an author could start talking about the seaside town where they are born, and you could have b-roll of that town showing with the author talking before it then cuts to the talking head of the author.

If I'm reading this correctly I think it would be pretty jarring to have your subject speak, stop, then start speaking off camera while he's still silent on camera from the same shot. It makes it seem like there's a sync issue.

This could work cutting from a male to a female or vice versa but from the same speaker back to themself again? Not sure…

I think J and L cuts work best when the scene changes. Since you're staying on the same subject, a J cut isn't necessary.

I have used J and L cuts in interviews when going back and forth between people if the standard cut feels too jarring. Especially if I can't line up eyelines (people fidget). But I'm only using a handful of frames, so it's not even a full second of audio before the visual part of the cut. If you have someone speaking enough that you're aware they're not present yet, the cut may be too long.

In the end, it's partially a stylistic choice but it needs to serve the cut. If it doesn't improve the final edit, don't do it.

1. Measure everything. Distances to the house, actor, camera height, tilt, etc.

2. Get a way to overlay your previous shots on your monitors. You can literally draw with a whiteboard marker on the screen protector for example. Better ways to do it is to use SmallHDs overlay feature, or if you have a playback op on your shoot running Qtake they can easily make this happen

3. Shoot wider to allow reframing, so you can fine tune the alignment in post

These kinda transitions and he used filter *to match the clips for a transition in some parts how to do that

Literally just go and find shots that looks similar. You can do a bit of zoom manipulation or motion blur to hide the imperfections, but that's about it. Takes time and patience.

He use 2 things: Time and Patience.

Cinema & images culture

The concept is on the name

You have clips that match
You cut them to transition their matching parts

What else do you want?

I've always called this a form cut or form edit. In my editing classes we used form cuts to match shape color or composition of the previous scene or frame. Think the eyeball and drain transition in psycho. Someone else may correct me but that's what I have always called it.

EDIT: the word you may be looking for is montage instead of timelapse.

Match cut

I'd never heard of Brackhage but his work is exactly what I am after! Thank you!

It’s called a flicker film. It’s a common style of experimental short film.

I made one in college where I walked around San Francisco for hours using a super 8 camera to take single frame exposures of various building and house facades. It looked really cool when played back. I made a soundscape of construction noises to go with it inspired by the weeks long cacophony coming from the property next to my apartment at the time.

I also did a similar one with the wheels on cars that turned out really cool.

Stan breakage was quite the visionary

seizure core

Is there any reason you couldn’t render them separately and composite them together afterwards?

If I understand correctly, you can achieve the following look many ways.

I'm imaging this as like the Bojack Horseman introduction, where the camera is fixed to a face, and the background changes, without moving from the face.

You can render multiple scenes, and edit them together, probably the easiest method. Have each background in a Folder group and have them visible during the Render, and change visibility and Render again. You can probably keyframe 1 scene to appear and another to disappear at the same time, but that might just be asking for trouble.

Alternatively, render the scene with the character on transparent background, then render your scenes as needed without, then comp those together as layers.

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Looks like motion control to me. Camera on a rig that can have programmed, repeatable moves. Film different scenes with same move and then fade/cut between. VFX where needed to blend.

Film on tripod, one in day lightning, one in night lighting, same place for camera and tripod, cross dissolve in post with matching slight zoom in added in post as well.

Not entirely the same but I did a similar thing on this short..

Skip to .30 seconds in the trailer

https://youtu.be/t98DHrZSDVo?si=Q3nMNZvUh1decDRz

It was a carefully planned lighting coordination between 2 dimmer switches

And the reverse shot in the full short was shot in the day looking out the windows. I just had to match the color temp of the lights

Just a simple fade? 2 videos, overlap to fade on the transition?

I love match cuts

A cut, always a cut! If a cut doesn't work then the shots don't belong next to each other!

I'll say something a little more than just a cut.

I edit in Premiere...when I need to use a fade/dissolve for any reason, I use the Impact dissolve. It's a basic dissolve like the stock one offered in Premiere however it is a lot smoother.

I've had clients who did not like the stock Premiere dissolve so this also gives you some flexibility if you need to switch between the two dissolves.

Here is more info on it...

Star Wipe. Why eat hamburger when you can have steak?

Star-MOTHERFUCKING-Wipe.

Isn’t the alleged problem the excess in that it’s to the level of that scene from Taken where it takes Liam Neeson 9 cuts to climb a fence not the existence of the cuts?

Also is “cutting” to a different camera even a jump cut?

Isn't a Jump CUT when the editor removes frames from a shot to give the impression of speed or violence?

People haven’t bitched about camera cuts in a minute so he had to bring it back

He was literally on Wrestling Society X

Remember when Jack Evans was the only flippy shit guy and was king gringo down in Mexico. God time flies.