Shotcut Additional Transition Set Created

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I created a set of transition luma files for everybody to use.

The linked ZIP-file “TS-Transitions.zip” contains 26 mostly basic transitions for Shotcut (and other video editors which use Luma-files for transitions), i.e. grayscale PNG-images.

In Shotcut you can use them as custom transition in the transition properties settings or place them in the user app directory subfolder “transitions” (on Windows by default C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Meltytech\Shotcut\transitions).

With the corresponding inverted effects you get over 50 ready-to-use transitions. Most are very basic/generic, but still extend the default set in a useful manner, I hope. They use wide stripes, screen quarters, or diagonal sections. Some are slightly fancier, like the ones based on a hexagonal pattern, the cross and spots transitions, or the “wipers”. Some may even yield a slightly different efffect when flipped horizontally or vertically. The individual transition PNG files are:

  • ts_cross_inside-out.png: Moving from the vertical and horizontal center cross lines to the corners horizontally and vertically
  • ts_hexagonal_central.png: Moving from one intersection of a hexagonal pattern to the opposing one
  • ts_hexagonal_down.png: Moving (partially diagonally) downward inside a hexagonal pattern
  • ts_hexagonal_inside-out.png: Moving from the centers to the edges in a hexagonal pattern
  • ts_hexagonal_radial.png: Moving clockwise in a hexagonal pattern
  • ts_hexagonal-simple_allway.png: Replacing the video in the hexagonal pattern stepwise from the sides
  • ts_horizontal-wide-stripes_down.png: Moving down in four horizontal wide stripes on the screen
  • ts_horizontal-wide-stripes_sideways.png: Moving from one side to the other in opposing ways in four horizontal wide stripes on the screen
  • ts_horizontal-wide-stripes_updown.png: Moving up and down in opposing ways like double blinds in four horizontal wide stripes on the screen
  • ts_opposing-diagonal-down_sideways.png: Moving diagonally in opposing ways from the sides with a diagonal border going down from the upper left to the bottom right corner
  • ts_opposing-diagonal-down_updown.png: Moving up and down in opposing ways from the sides with a diagonal border going down from the upper left to the bottom right corner
  • ts_opposing-diagonal-up_sideways.png: Moving diagonally in opposing ways from the sides with a diagonal border going up from the bottom left to the upper right corner
  • ts_opposing-diagonal-up_updown.png: Moving up and down in opposing ways from the sides with a diagonal border going up from the bottom left to the upper right corner
  • ts_opposing-double-diagonal_down.png: Moving from the horizontal edges to the center and from the middle to the vertical edges in screen sections created by diagonal borders from each corner to its opposing one
  • ts_opposing-double-diagonal_radial.png: Moving from corner to the counter-clockwise neighboring one in screen sections created by diagonal borders from each corner to its opposing one
  • ts_opposing-double-diagonal_right.png: Moving from the the middle to the horizontal edges and from the vertical edges to the center in screen sections created by diagonal borders from each corner to its opposing one
  • ts_quarters_radiagonal.png: Moving diagonally from the middles of the screen edges to the diagonally opposing screen edge middle inside each of the four quarters of the screen
  • ts_quarters_radial.png: Moving horizontally and vertically from the outer sides to the center in four quarters on the screen
  • ts_quarters_sideways.png: Moving horizontally from opposing sides in four quarters of the screen
  • ts_quarters_updown.png: Moving vertically from opposing sides in four quarters of the screen
  • ts_spots_random.png: Moving from the center of random spots to the outside
  • ts_vertical-wide-stripes_right.png: Moving to the right in four vertical wide stripes on the screen
  • ts_vertical-wide-stripes_sideways.png: Moving from one side to the other in opposing ways like double blinds in four vertical wide stripes on the screen
  • ts_vertical-wide-stripes_updown.png: Moving up and down in opposing ways in four vertical wide stripes on the screen
  • ts_wipers_horizontal-corners.png: Moving counter-clockwise around two off-center points on the halves of the screen starting with the horizontal edge from the bottom-left and upper-right corners
  • ts_wipers_vertical-corners.png: Moving counter-clockwise around two off-center points on the halves of the screen starting with the vertical edge from the top-left and bottom-right corners

Descriptions of transitions are notoriously misleading or confusing me, so I created a two minute demo video showing each transition once.

All of these were tested with Shotcut version 24.06.26.

Please use these transitions as they suit you!

Files:

Thomas

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Good job. Thanks for sharing :+1:

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Yay! Thank you @Thomas_Schall for these. You have spent a lot of time on this! Used sparingly and in the right context, these can be very useful. :+1:

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This reminds me - I posted on this forum about my 8 PNG luma files WAAAY back in 2018 (crikey, that’s 6 years ago!). The post is still there!! Complete with demo video I made, and download link to the images…

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I found yours before I started. They are really cool and were a great inspiration!

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I had some more ideas while preparing and documenting the initial set of transitions for the first post. So I created 18 more transitions.

I wanted to share these here as well. You can find them in the file “TS-Transitions-Extension.7z”. Generally the same info as in the first post applies here, too, especially that those were tested with the same Shotcut version as the other ones. I created a demo video for these also. The files in the archive are:

  • ts_circle-bottom.png: Move a half circle from the bottom center to the upper corners
  • ts_circles-curtain_up-from-bottom-center.png: Move circle sections from the bottom center to the circle center in the upper corners like lifting a curtain
  • ts_diamond_inside-out.png: Move a diamond shape from the center to the edges
  • ts_quarters-circles_to-center.png: Move like growing circles in each quarter from the quarters edges to each center
  • ts_quarters_turning-from-center.png: Move like two wipers around the centers of the two screen halves starting from the line connecting the two halves’ centers
  • ts_quarters_turning-from-top.png: Move like two wipers around the centers of the two screen halves starting from the four corners
  • ts_single-hexagon-circles_from-center-corners.png: Move in circle (sections) from the center and the four corners towards a hexagonal border in between
  • ts_single-hexagon_counter-clockwise.png: Move in six sections defined by a hexagon counter-clockwise
  • ts_single-hexagon_counter-radial-wipe.png: Move wiper in a hexagon and the opposite direction outside
  • ts_single-hexagon_double-radial.png: Move radially in opposing directions in the sections in- and outside of a hexagon
  • ts_single-hexagon_horizontally-inside-out.png: Move horizontally from the middle to the edges in- and outside of a hexagon
  • ts_single-hexagon_right.png: Move horizontally to the right in- and outside of a hexagon
  • ts_single-hexagon_sections-updown.png: Move upwards and down in the opposing sections in- and outside of a hexagon
  • ts_single-hexagon_sideways.png: Move sideways in opposing directions like double blinds in- and outside of a hexagon
  • ts_single-hexagon_triradial.png: Move like growing circles from the center and the vertical edge centers towards a hexagonal border in between
  • ts_single-hexagon_updown.png: Move upwards and down in- and outside of a hexagon
  • ts_spiral-left-bottom.png: Move between the opposing border sections of a left-turning spiral originating at the center of the bottom edge
  • ts_spiral-right-center.png: Move between the opposing border sections of a right-turning spiral originating at the center of the screen

Descriptions of transitions are notoriously misleading or confusing me, so I created a two minute demo video showing each transition once this time, too.

Files:

Have fun!
Thomas

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Woo! More goodies! Thank you @Thomas_Schall for these resources. Very useful to have! BTW what program did you use to create these? Curious!

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All of them were made with The Gimp. I mostly used the gradient tool with the “Default” gradient on a selection. There are other types/forms of gradient besides a linear one in the tool settings. Most of the trick is having some plan for your design creating some special selection for each image section to fill with a gradient. I heavily used custom reference lines and pre-colored shapes. These shapes were made with the path tool which allows to fill the path with the foreground color. Later you can select such a shape with the color selection tool to fill it with a gradient. Creating a tiled one made me even do the extra step of creating a tile which can be repeated seamlessly…

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Great, thanks @Thomas_Schall for this information. GIMP is very versatile. Great job!