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The Dissolve
The next most common transition is the dissolve. This is the simultaneous cross-fading of one scene into the next. Unlike the cut, the dissolve implies a change in time and/or space. If we were to slowly dissolve from a scene of someone watching a sunset over the ocean to a shot of the same person at the breakfast table, we would understand it was the next morning.
While a cut is invisible, the dissolve is an effect. Slow-motion scenes flow together better with dissolves than with cuts. Moving from a wide shot of a performing pianist to a close up of his hands with a dissolve greatly softens the transition, even though no change in time or space is necessarily im…
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