The cut is not where you think it is
A vanish that lands on the exact frame the object leaves reads as a glitch. Moving the seam back by about 800 ms made every test cut believable.
6 min read
Journal
Working notes.
Things that turned out to be harder than they looked, written down while they were still annoying. Mostly about frames, light, and the exact moment an edit stops being believable.
Why your takes changed colour between shots
The framing matched perfectly and the cut still looked fake. The camera had quietly re-metered the room while I walked out of it.
5 min read
One frame of tracing paper
Why the reference overlay is a decoded video frame rather than a screenshot, and why you can scrub it to any moment in the previous take.
4 min read