How to Use Match Cuts in Editing?

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filmmakeranto · 2 months ago

This is a great youtube channel that's full of practical information.

Match cuts have to be thought out in the production, Achieving seamless matches requires meticulous planning during shooting. Sound transitions also matter a lot while maintaining narrative flow. The best one is Jurassic Park match cut.

Match cutting is considered one of the most difficult video editing techniques, because finding a pair of shots that match can take days, if not weeks. Then executing it seamlessly without the audience noticing it is real skillful mastery of the craft.

A fact, Netflix has a MatchCutting tool. They are always finding collaboration opportunities and hiring great machine learning engineers for building out the tools in editing. Their trailers and Stranger things series has extensive use of this.

A promo was made using a series of action mat cuts from Extraction, Red Notice, Sandman, Glow, Arcane, Sea Beast, and Royalteen.

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adeno_gothilla · OP · 2 months ago

Yes, contrast cut seems much easier to plan, both logistically & creatively.

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adeno_gothilla · OP · 2 months ago

For more Editing Basics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KannadaMovies/wiki/editing101/

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Imaginaryrider · 2 months ago

Excellent post bro

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adeno_gothilla · OP · 2 months ago

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The Power of Match Cuts in Filmmaking

Posted by tonivgenov · in r/videography · 4 years ago

One of my favourite cinematic techniques is the match cut.

In fact, I think it is one of the most powerful storytelling tools we have. It allows you to say something, without saying anything, to imply things without showing them, to make metaphors and much, much more. It is such a simple, yet brilliant way to bring context to your story.

So for Anything Goes Sunday, I'd like to share a video I made diving into how filmmakers use it to enhance their stories + some great examples.

But I also want to start a discussion. What are some of your favorite cinematic techniques? What is something that if you see in a movie it immediately makes you feel like the filmmaker truly cares. Would love to hear it!

Cheers!

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colincrunch · 4 years ago

great video. i've always liked match cuts too, but now i know the name for them :)

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tonivgenov · OP · 4 years ago

You are very welcome, happy you enjoyed it and now you know what they are called as well :D

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CosmicAstroBastard · 4 years ago

I miss “obvious” editing being more common in movies. Match cuts, wipes, jump cuts, dissolves, etc. The whole “editing should be invisible” and “you should never notice an edit” philosophy is one way to approach things but it’s not the only way. A good match cut can grab the audience’s attention and pull them further into the story.

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tonivgenov · OP · 4 years ago

Absolutely! I love it when I "notice" something intentional, it immediately makes me enjoy the movie more as it feels like everything has purpose and the director really cares about it.

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Frydog42 · 4 years ago

Very cool!! I learned match cuts

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jessegaronsbrother · 4 years ago

Back in my TV news days you were judged by your match cuts.

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tonivgenov · OP · 4 years ago

That's interesting, mind telling more?

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Iwasborntostare · 4 years ago

I’m currently in tv news. I’m curious on what you mean by this.

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jessegaronsbrother · 4 years ago

Here goes my attempt to explain.

Solid, beautiful match cuts help the viewer disappear into the story. They trick they mind into seeing seamless action, or movement. Much more so than a wide-med-tight sequence. A match cut can fool the viewer into thinking there were no edits at all, or that there were multiple cameras at a shoot. You can edit any type shot coming out of a match cut. This type of shooting and editing shows dedication to craft and storytelling.

It takes time to shoot this way, an eye to recognize a capture opportunity, very comfortable subjects, receptive action, without staging, and an understanding reporter. You see them most often in feature stories as those are usually shot apart from the daily news grind.

There are great examples of stories with match cuts out there on the web. I use to take a bit of pride with my match cuts back when Betacam roamed the earth and we edited tape to tape. My personal fav was a feature on a Blacksmith who made two ton furniture. That shoot was tailor made for match cuts. I wish I had it.

The editing may be easier now but shooting for match cuts will never change.

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internauta · 4 years ago

Nice video, thanks! I'm gonna explore your channel for more content.

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tonivgenov · OP · 4 years ago

Thanks, happy you found it interesting!

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Most efficient way to match cut?

Posted by WaveringPengu · in r/davinciresolve · 2 years ago

I'm making a video with a lot of match cuts of my subject in that same position, different settings, and my goal is to make a head turn like this.

I'm kind of new and I was wondering if anyone had any tips on an efficient workflow? so far I've been just comparing clips and adjusting accordingly by trying to match up the last frame of one clip and the first frame of the second.

BTW, these are not stills or photos like in the tiktok video, these are clips I am ripping from the subjects music videos that roughly line up with out any adjustments. I also have Davinci studio 18.5 beta

Thank you!

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Horror_Locksmith_901 · 2 years ago

When I'm trying to do anything like that, I just turn the opacity of the clip on top down to 50% and see how it corresponds with the one below. Then set it back to 100, add another the same way and so on.

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WaveringPengu · OP · 2 years ago

yeah that's what I've been doing, I don't know much about Davinci so I was making sure I didn't miss any tricks or tips that could speed my process up lol

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Anyone made advance match cut like Johny Harris.

Posted by Dangerous-Garlic6855 · in r/davinciresolve · 8 months ago

Hello I'm trying to master the match cut . Can make decent match cuts . But somehow not been able to replicate match cuts that Johny Harris makes. Can someone help or share a project file where they made similar effects.

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https://youtu.be/Cl_JpCSvTpk?si=PNgML0RXQsiNSXgp

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avdpro · 8 months ago

Can you provide an example? Johnny Harris' content use a mix of techniques including a ton of motion graphics. They are very long videos, can you be more specific?

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Dangerous-Garlic6855 · OP · 8 months ago

They are usually in starting of the videos , bunch of newspaper reports match cuts or specific places or maps .

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wotfanedit · 8 months ago

Ah yes, where he lines up the text of several different news articles and switches between them.

For anyone wondering what OP means, imagine a bunch of milliseconds long clips of newspaper articles on screen played consecutively, but each clip is framed so that the word "crisis" appears center of frame in the same position. So your eye is drawn to the match cuts where the word crisis stays fixed (in different fonts and sizes and colors as per newspaper layout - but always in the same screen position) while the surrounding text and graphics change.

Short answer: you need to shoot your video for match cuts instead of trying to do it retroactively. Secondly you probably need to manually place an anchor point on the word for each and every different spot of a newspaper (let's say the bottom left corner of the C in crisis) then make Davinci Resolve move the frame so that the anchor point is always at the same xy position on screen exactly (I don't know how to do that, just describing the ask).

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elkstwit · 8 months ago

Help us to help you. Send a link and provide a timecode from the link.

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Dangerous-Garlic6855 · OP · 8 months ago

Here the Starting part

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elkstwit · 8 months ago

Ok - to be honest I’m not too sure what you need people to tell you that you can’t see from just watching it. It’s just d matching the size and position of the images. The images have been chosen so that it creates the effect of the head turning. The sound effect helps to sell the effect.

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Pingiivi · 8 months ago

I don't know who Johny Harris is, but if you want to make nice match cuts you need to shoot for match cuts. Forcing match cuts from whatever footage usually doesn't work that well.

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Anyone has any idea about how to do match cuts for action edits/ multifandom edits

Posted by deepfcuk0069 · in r/premiere · 7 months ago

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

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deepfcuk0069 · OP · 7 months ago

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

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capp_head · 7 months ago

Watch a lot of movies, there’s no easy way to do this.

You eat a bunch of content to create stuff like this, there’s no easy way or shortcut.

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SwiftSN · 7 months ago

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.

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NYC2BUR · 7 months ago

He use 2 things: Time and Patience.

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KingofHagend · 7 months ago

And research

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AggressiveDoor1998 · 7 months ago

The concept is on the name

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

What else do you want?

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the_real_TLB · 7 months ago

For the software to do the work for them.

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StudioJamesCao · 7 months ago

Cinema & images culture

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What to keep in mind when doing Match Cuts?

Posted by paolos1 · in r/Filmmakers · 5 months ago

I feel like every filmmaker feels like they can pull off a match cut transition from a scene to another but that’s hardly the case.

I would love to hear what tricks you guys learnt, dos and don’ts etc!

It would be cool to have a perspective from all departments involved, especially the ones that you wouldn’t expect being so involved in a seamless match cut transition.

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chatfan · 5 months ago

Bring transparent vynil cut to size of your monitor and a pen, shoot slightly wider if you are shooting 4K so you can zoom / match it in post.

Take photos on your phone or camera of every setup

Of course you have to come up with the moments you want to use it first or your stuck trying to fit something in the edit that just slows everything down.

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How to Ensure Symmetry/Compositional Continuity Between Match Cuts

Posted by boomerdigitalstories · in r/cinematography · 17 days ago

Planning out a commercial shoot about a tradesman growing in his craft through his various jobs. Want to employ matchcuts between different houses to help communicate this. But I need help and advice on the setup and execution.

Here's the basic idea:

Long shot of house, head on. Maybe the tradesman is painting on ladder. Tradesman using small brush; ill-equipped. Bucket of paint falls off the ladder. Tradesman shakes head.

MATCH CUT

Same long shot compositon, as close as we can get it, on a different house. Tradesman using a bigger brush. This time maybe the tradesman almost knocks the bucket of paint over, but catches it.

MATCH CUT

Again, same long shot composition, a third different house. Tradesman has bucket of paint on a painter's hook. Tradesman is using a paint roller and tray.

So obviously we need to work out the details of what he's doing but that's besides the point. My question is: what can we do to ensure relative compositonal consistency and continuity between the shots? What steps can we take to make each house (obviously we'd look for similarly constructed houses) look the same and fill the frame in the same manner?

My first thought was onion-skinning and careful measurements of distance from the building and height of camera. Apart from this, are there any techniques or workflows that can help achieve this effect? Thanks for any advice you can offer. I apprecaite you all.

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JJsjsjsjssj · 17 days ago

Measure everything. Distances to the house, actor, camera height, tilt, etc.
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
Shoot wider to allow reframing, so you can fine tune the alignment in post

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boomerdigitalstories · OP · 17 days ago

Sweet. Thank you for the advice. Was curious how you measure tilt?

Was thinking of building a sort of mold/form to use as a guide for each setup. A rise/run thing out of wood to physically mark out the rough set up/alignment. Help us get in the ballpark before we check measurements.

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Editing Cuts I Use a Lot

Posted by yagmurozdemr · in r/Filmmakers · 3 years ago

Editing cuts are important for creating a cohesive narrative, showing the passage of time, and holding the audience’s attention. And as you can imagine the more editing cuts that you know how to use, the more creative options you will have for editing amazing videos.

So I wanted to share the most useful cuts I know & use frequently with you guys here, and if you can also share the ones you use I believe we can turn this post into a useful one.

Standard Video Editing Cut
Match Cut
Jump Cut
Cutaways
L Cuts and J Cuts

*If you are not familiar with any of these, I made a post with explanations, you can check them out here.

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TheCousinEddie · 3 years ago

I find venetian blinds to be superlative.

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six6six4kids · 3 years ago

i love a good star wipe

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dientesgrandes · 3 years ago

Lisa why have hamburger when you can eat steak.

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Match cut software

Posted by Business_Love_2505 · in r/VideoEditing · 2 months ago

I like to know is their any software that can help me record match cut like I don't want to work on it while editing footage because who know if it's record properly or not so I was thinking instead of editing it how about I record it perfect so if there's a any camera app or trick that can help me record it like I recorder 1 part right and now while recording second part I like to have the 1st footage with 45% opacity so I can match the subject and background in real time (I don't want no bullsh!t like golden ratio or grid lines or something)

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Business_Love_2505 · OP · 2 months ago

There are several apps like this for drawing where you take a reference image and put your phone on a tripod and like lowering your opacity you can just redraw the whole image but it doesn't work for my idea

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greenysmac · 2 months ago

I vaguely remember a tool that would allow you to 'ghost' exactly like this on iOS.

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Is there a way to auto detect and match cuts based on video?

Posted by Galadantien · in r/premiere · 4 years ago

I have an old piece I've edited that I'd like to upscale by remaking it with a higher quality version of the original footage. I wonder if there's a way to auto-detect visual similarities between the two clips so that the new footage can be matched to the original edit to save time, similar to synchronizing audio.

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

I don't think that there is such a plugin. If you still have the original PP project, you could replace the footage and change the sequence settings if desired.

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Galadantien · OP · 4 years ago

I don't in this case unfortunately, although that has worked for me on other projects. Thanks!

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UserKorea · 4 years ago

You could try scene detection on the older edit, then apply cuts at each scene cut, then match it with your new higher quality original footage and it’ll make it much easier to cut and match it.

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