Cream light-leak sweep onto a black card
About 0.3 s after a hard cut to a black word card, a warm cream and lavender light leak sweeps in from the left and bleaches the frame, then clears to the card; the same leak returns when the card ends. Moving from the talking head into a text-only interlude or out of it, when the cut alone feels abrupt.
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Use this transition between my clips: "Cream light-leak sweep onto a black card" from the 24fps video editor library.
Preset JSON: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/transitions/cream-light-leak-sweep-onto-black-card-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 (4.1s) over preset.dur (0.35s), 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: Elevate (AI Edit)
- Technique
- Warm film light-leak plate (cream with a violet corner and a diagonal shadow) laid over a cut; ~0.3 s up and down, peaks at about 85% white. 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