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Teleport

Description:

You want an object/actor to teleport through time or space

Production:

This is fairly easy, you film a scene with your subject in shot, leave the camera running and remove the subject and film the background shot. If you stop the camera between shots the subject will abruptly disappear, which is how early teleports were done.

Digital Editing:

In Premiere put the object shot on track A and the background shot on track B then add a transition between them. A dissolve will make the object slowly disappear. Try other transitions for more spectacular effects.

For "Star Trek" style effects you will need to do some compositing in Photoshop.

Draw around the object to create a mask

Import a video 'texture' into an 'S' track

Select an Image Matte from the transparency menu and select the mask

You should get the 'texture' around the object

Computerless Editing:

The simple 'Jump Cut' will suffice, but if you have a vision mixer then take a still of the background, then simply mix between the live action to the still to make the object disappear.

Misc. Notes:

The Jump Cut was the earliest special effect, and it is still used today (mainly in childrens TV programmes) but it is simple, effective and cheap to do, no huge digital graphics budgets needed.

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	Description: You want an object/actor to teleport through time or space
	Production: This is fairly easy, you film a scene with your subject in shot, leave the camera running and remove the subject and film the background shot. If you stop the camera between shots the subject will abruptly disappear, which is how early teleports were done.
	Digital Editing: In Premiere put the object shot on track A and the background shot on track B then add a transition between them. A dissolve will make the object slowly disappear. Try other transitions for more spectacular effects. For "Star Trek" style effects you will need to do some compositing in Photoshop. Draw around the object to create a mask Import a video 'texture' into an 'S' track Select an Image Matte from the transparency menu and select the mask You should get the 'texture' around the object
	Computerless Editing: The simple 'Jump Cut' will suffice, but if you have a vision mixer then take a still of the background, then simply mix between the live action to the still to make the object disappear.
	Misc. Notes: The Jump Cut was the earliest special effect, and it is still used today (mainly in childrens TV programmes) but it is simple, effective and cheap to do, no huge digital graphics budgets needed.
	Internet links: