Hi Anirban,

Here is my effort. I used SpiceMaster Pro to make the transitions, one of the Climatic spices or masks (Fog2), and made various adjustments to the timing in the transitions, edge softness, texture, borders and glow. I chose that particular mask as it looked similar to what I saw in your example video. There are other similar masks and the combinations and permutations are limitless.

I took the pictures in India in 2006.

See my tutorial on Pixelan SpiceMaster Pro to see how this is done.

Dear John and John, 

Thanks againg for your kind help. Just one qick quesry: Can I also use a chroma like ink scatter ? 

Also how was the black and white followed by colour achieved? 

Thanks again.

Hello Anirban,

I presume that you are referring to my video.

There are 5 transition; the last one is a fade out. Which transition are you referring to?

Here is the screen shot of the fade out parameters:

Note the B&W image which is the mask. Is this what you mean by ink scatter mask?

Since this was to be a fadeout and I wanted it to happen from the outside towards the inside, I inverted the mask. Otherwise, the ink blot fadeout would have started in the middle, which is the way the transitions are normally done.

The mask in the image has some softness and texture applied and this can be varied. However, the B&W image of the mask is just an image to show what the default mask looks like. The image at the left shows the result with parameters applied.

Look at the Edge parameters. If I remove the Softness and Texture, here is the result (in the left image):

Look at the right side under Shadow/Glow and you will see that Color is reddish and it comes under the 2nd clip, which puts a reddish glow on the image.

I switched the glow to under the 1st clip and here is the result. As indicated above, I inverted the mask so 1st and 2nd clip effects are inverted from normal (just in case someone tries this at home).

Here is the same thing but this time without the reddish glow; harsh and no effects:

Going back to the ink blot, do you mean a mask like the one shown below in yellow?

In order to do something similar to a SpiceMaster mask without any softening or colouring, you have to keyframe the mask to start from 0 zoom and then expand and move it so that the mask entirely exposes the 2nd clip.

Here is the result with a hesitation in the middle of the transition:

You would be hard-pressed to even come close to doing what can be done simply in SpiceMaster. The SpiceMaster masks all easily go to full-size, meaning that the 2nd clip comes completely into view. You would have trouble doing this if your ink blots were numerous and small.

Did you look at the tutorial?

Hi Anirban

A repeat of my method ie Fades, Effect fades, Fire between images/videos and a coloured image below to add the colour then with added black + white to colour transition - ie Keyframes and the Video effects, Colour, Saturation setting

John EB