Transition

In 1877 Eadward Muybridge of US first set the 24 still pictures as the motion picture. This movie is recreated from Muybridge's horse race. In 1889 Thomas A. Edison invented the kinetoscope, the first movie machine.

In 1915 Thomas H. Ince introduced a "factory system" where different films in various stage of production would be worked in the pipeline. Then major Hollywood studios started to use pipeline to create the movie industry.

In the 1922 Russian Film maker Levkuleshov experiments the motage that insert a shot befor other shots. Sergei eisenstein use montage effectively in his movie "Potemkin". Montage basically is a cut technology.

In the 1975, George Lucas created ILM to generate special effects for the movie Star Wars. Lucas has used 363 special effects in the movie.

Effects

A shot is a sequence of pictures in the movie. In Ladybug Studio^XP a shot is refered to as a single picture. To move one shot to another, a movie maker can use cuts, fades, wipes and other transitions to generate cinematic effects.

Cuts simply insert and replace one shot with another. It is a standard approach in video and film editing. A movie maker can drag and drop a frame of video or a clip of video into a new video. Timeline is the reference to synchronize the shots. Standard video timeline is 30 still pictuer per second.

Fades generate transition effects by gradually blending one shot to another. Usually fade to a single color such as black/white or a rainbow color are used to the end of a scene.

Wipes compose two shots on three areas of a screen. The first area shows the first shot in that space; the middle area shows the blend of two shots; and the last area shows the second shot. Circle wipe reveals the middle of the new shot in the center of the picture and expands the borders of the shot in a widening circle. Horizonal and Vertiacal wipes reveals the new shot from left to right or from top to left respectively. Clockwise wipe made a transition line follow the path of a clock's hand around the screen to reveal a picture.

Ripple generates a wave from the center of a shot and then expands to borders. It looks like to throw a stone into water and generate water wave.

Dissolve separates an object into pieces to generate the effect of explotion.