Smart Splitting Events

Sometimes you want to cut out parts of a longer video recording, say an interview, shot from a fixed camera position. Because the speaker's head has moved in the cut out part but the rest of the picture stays unchanged, you would get a so-called "jump cut" where the head jumps into the new position.

To conceal those cuts you can use the Smart Split command:

1. Select the event.

2. Make a time selection over the part that you want to be removed.

3. Choose Smart Split from the Edit menu, press Alt +S or click the Smart Split button from the The Transport and Editing Toolbar

4. The selected time is removed from the event, the second event is moved over the first one for the short time span of five frames and a Warp Flow transition is applied. The two events are grouped.

   The Warp Flow transition uses sophisticated optical flow technology to add new intermediary frames that smoothly morph the last frame of the first event into the first frame of the second event.

TIP This works best with no camera movement and no movement in the background of the video.