Flash-Warp Transition

The TikTok / AMV "frame-swap" on real footage. Five house-style clips cut every 2 beats of the track — each cut dressed with a flash, a vertical blur, and a centered zoom punch, fired on the same frame. Hit Slow-mo to watch the three stack. The zoom is uniform & middle-out — no sideways drift.

Auto-playing muted — tap "Sound on" for the music.

1 · Flash (exposure spike)

Brightness ramps on a parabola — 0 → near-white → 0 — centered exactly on the cut. Parabolic reads as a "pop"; a linear ramp would just read as a fade.

2 · Vertical blur

Directional blur (horizontal = 0, vertical = 22) active only in that same window. Sells motion instead of a static bright frame — you can see it streak the text.

3 · Zoom (center punch)

A uniform ~14% zoom-in on the cut, snapping back — same factor on both axes so it grows straight out of the middle. The earlier version stretched wider than taller, which read as a sideways slide; this one holds the center.

4 · RGB split — OFF

A 2–3 frame chromatic aberration at the peak pushes it from "flash" toward "glitch". Not applied here — documented for the glitchier variant.

How it's built: one ffmpeg filter chain, no plugins. Cuts are beat-locked — the track is 128 BPM, detected with a numpy kick-drum onset finder, and clips are 2 beats (~0.94s) each so every switch lands on the beat. Footage is the studio's own house-style demo clips, alternated dark/light so each flash has contrast to pop against.

Audio is a short clip of the reference track for demo only — not cleared for publishing.