Blur-pop reframe punch cut
A jump cut to a tighter or wider crop where the first 2 to 5 frames (0.1 to 0.2 s) are heavily blurred and slightly enlarged, then snap sharp; some pops fire twice in 0.2 s. Hiding a jump cut on talking-head footage and adding a beat at each new idea.
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Use this transition between my clips: "Blur-pop reframe punch cut" from the 24fps video editor library.
Preset JSON: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/transitions/blur-pop-reframe-punch-cut-e1x/preset.json (pass its "preset" to the engine).
Engine (MIT, no dependencies, ES module): https://24fps.dev/editor/engine.js. Download the engine next to your page (curl -O) rather than importing cross-origin, then import { mount } from "./engine.js" in a <script type="module"> served over http.
Wiring: root = a position:relative box at the video's size. media = { a, b }: two wrappers holding clip A and clip B, both filling the root. Clip A plays first; the cut happens at preset.at (1.8s) over preset.dur (0.2s), so start clip B at preset.at. Then const fx = mount(root, { kind: "transition", preset, media }) and call fx.render(seconds) every frame. It is seek-safe: drive it from the GSAP timeline in HyperFrames or call render(frame / fps) in Remotion. Before capturing frames, await (fx.ready ?? document.fonts.ready).
Field reference: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/llms.txt. Keep sizes as fractions of the frame height so it works at any resolution. Credit: 24fps.dev/video-editor- Same idea
- Also called: Prime (AI Edit), Flash Crop, Focus Twitch
- Technique
- Motion-blur-style pop on reframe cuts at 1.3 s, 1.8 to 2.0 s, 2.6 s, 3.1 s and 5.1 s; scale step of +14% (2.58 s) or to a wide second angle (2.79 s). Source preview audio is voice only (no music bed, no whoosh or hit visible in the spectrogram), so no sound cue is listed.
- Footage
- Man talking to camera, Pexels