Dany Badillo wrote:
… Why should I do to get a smooth change between clips without using transitions?
You're looking for The Flow btw two shots.
To create the illusion of a continous movement from clipA to clipB, a few things have to be considered (and were mentioned before), on Recording AND on Editing:
• while recording, change position of cam - you can not 'cut' two shots from same place without 'jump'
• keep basics of film language in mind: establishing shot (=where, when), closer shot (=who, why); …
• record 'fillers' - audience, details, reactions (the infamous 'silent-nod-shots' from interviewers 😁)
• for the no-budget filmer: use a cheap still-cam to capture photos from same scenery; use stills to 'hide' jump cuts; on weddings, find some 11y-old assistent for this job - you'll be suprised, what photos will fill your harddrive.-
• in editing, never cut in the same scene (ok, this 'rule' was broken in Hongkong 50 years ago first, to create intentionally 'jump cuts' … if you do KungFu movies .....)
• 'hide' cuts in audio by placing one of your 'fillers' over it - for example: a long (…boring) speach; you record the speaker from one position (to catch audio); you have to cut (=shorten) - place a 'neutral' over it: a conter-shot of sleeping audience, a close-up of the hands of the speakers recorded after the speach, a pan around the flower-arrangement on stage recorded two days before .......
when you start to learn editing, an excellent exercise is
'ManThru Door' (could be a girl either …):
record from outside a person walking to a door, opening it, going through
record from inside a door gets opened, person entering the room
(keep Ben's advice in mind about the 30°-rule for the cam, but don't set the cam-positions 180° against each other, that creates a wrong over-the-axis-jump)
now, in editing, find the 'magic point' when the door moves continously/the person moves continously - that is Flow 😉. When you have found that Magic Point in clipA and clipB, the Trim-tool allows you to find the wanted 'cut' with a single move of the mouse .....