Quickly blend from A into B video clips with the gorgeous blur effects of Universe Bokeh.
Note that Bokeh Transition is particularly helpful for hosts that lack native camera lens blur transition effects, including Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, Vegas Pro, and Motion.
Presets
Bokeh Transition presets apply a range of Universe Bokeh-driven rising and falling blur actions, helping you slide between clips with compelling, beautiful smoothness. Find several options via the blue Open Dashboard... button or the Choose a Preset... button below it.
As with all other Universe tools, you can modify or create a Bokeh Transition look and then save it under its own name by pressing the Save Preset... button.
Apply the Effect
Begin by applying Bokeh Transition to your clip(s). Then, in Premiere Pro, for instance, you would adjoin your two assets, search for uni.Bokeh Transition from the Effects list, right-click the effect, and select Set Selected as Default Transition.
Right-click on the cut between the two clips and select Apply Default Transitions. The transition strip then overlays the two clips. Click on the strip to reveal all of the Bokeh Transition controls in the ECP.
Modify the Effect
In the ECP area under your Sequence heading, a white "play" triangle sits above a little rectangular window containing the letter A, representing your A clip. When you enable the Show Actual Sources box, this window displays the first frame of your transition. Click the play triangle to set the transition animation on a loop.
This ECP area offers two controls:
Duration establishes your transition's length. Keep in mind that the control uses frame notation, so entering a value of 5 and hitting enter yields a Duration of five frames (00:00:00:05), not five seconds (00:00:05:00). You can also set the transition duration by right-clicking the transition on your timeline.
Alignment offers four options: Center at Cut, Start at Cut, End at Cut, and Custom Start. If you drag the transition across the cut on your timeline, this automatically selects Custom Start. Note that some options may be disabled, depending on your specific scenario. For example, if you have a five-second transition applied on two four-second video clips (making eight total seconds of run time), there isn't enough time in the clips for Start at Cut or End at Cut to be possible.
As with the Bokeh plug-in, Bokeh Transition
offers a range of controls that let you fine-tune your bokeh effect's appearance.
Shape. You can select from eight shape styles for your bokeh: Triangle (shown below), Square, Circle, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octogon, and Star.
Blur Amount controls the amount of blur. To illustrate, the comparison below shows values of 150 (left) and 600 (right).
Blur Angle controls the angle of the blur effect. Shown below are values of 0 (the default, left) and 45 (right). We also used Blur Amount: 600, Highlight Boost: 80, and Bokeh Ratio: 19 (read more on these below) to make the angle adjustment more obvious.
Highlight Boost controls the luminance level of your highlights in both the transition and the underlying clips. Bokeh Transition defaults to a value of 60, but observe the differences in values of -100 (left), 0 (center), and 100 (right).
Bokeh Ratio "squeezes" your bokeh's shape. Lower values (10 shown at left, below) yield a vertical stretching, 50 shows no distortion, and higher values (95 shown at right) yields horizontal stretching.
