Smooth transition
Seamless
by design
Smooth is the transition you use when you do not want anyone to notice the transition. One scene dissolves into the next, with the AI holding the subject in place while everything around them changes — light, background, wardrobe, weather.
Most editing apps do this with a crossfade, which is why most of them look cheap: a crossfade is two images fading through each other, so for half a second you see both and neither. Smooth generates the frames in between instead. The subject stays solid the whole way through, which is what makes the change read as one continuous shot rather than two clips glued together.
It is the right default for anything where the story carries the clip — a before and after, a location change, a time-of-day shift. Save the louder effects for when the change itself is the point.
Best for
- Before-and-afters where the subject should not move
- Same location, different time of day
- Outfit changes and product variants
- Anything you want to feel filmed rather than edited
Shooting for it
- Frame both photos the same way — same distance, same angle, same crop
- Keep the subject in roughly the same part of the frame in both shots
- Match the lighting direction if you can; the AI will handle the intensity