Hard cut to a black word card, caption carries over
Zero-frame hard cut from the speaker to pure black while the running caption keeps its position and style, turning the next few words into a title card. Opening a text-only interlude (receipt card, quote or list) without any visual bridge.
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Use this transition between my clips: "Hard cut to a black word card, caption carries over" from the 24fps video editor library.
Preset JSON: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/transitions/hard-cut-to-black-word-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 (3.83s) over preset.dur (0.15s), 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
- Straight cut at a phrase boundary; the caption layer is global so it stays on screen across the cut (3.83 s, 4.62 s and 5.4 s in the three clips). 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