Dissolve

Fades one image out while the next fades in, with a stretch where both are visible, so time and place change smoothly.

Dissolve AI Video Prompt

Dissolve: The image of the three walking forward in the corridor's cold light overlaps with the image of the deep-blue predawn light outside the rooftop exit; the first image slowly fades out while the second slowly fades in, with a stretch of overlap where both are visible at once. Kai is still holding the sealed box. At the end of the segment the three stand at the rooftop exit, with the signal tower in the distance.

How the Edit Works

The dissolve takes up roughly the first second: the shot of the three walking toward the camera in the cold corridor fades while a shot of them standing at the rooftop exit, backs to the camera, fades in. Between about 0.25 and 1 second both images are visible on top of each other. Once the dissolve finishes, the camera keeps pushing toward the exit and the red-and-white signal tower comes in on the right. The transition was requested in the prompt and produced within a single generation.

A dissolve reads smoothly when the main subjects sit in similar places in both images. Here the three are centered in both shots, so their figures line up during the overlap, and the cool corridor and the deep-blue sky share a similar tone. In the prompt, describe each of the two images, the overlap itself, and where the shot settles once the transition ends.

When your story needs to carry the audience from one place to the next, link the two scenes with a dissolve in the storyboard and let an AI film maker create the overlap.

Story Clip

Source film EP7 Shot 2 · Gate · 00:13–00:17

Shami, Zlatia and Kai, who carries the sealed box, walk toward the camera down the corridor. The image dissolves to the rooftop exit, where the three stand in the doorway with their backs to us, looking out at the deep-blue predawn sky, the city skyline and the red-and-white signal tower.

What to Watch For

Watch the first second: the corridor's bars and light strips are still there while the three figures seen from behind are already fading in, and at about 0.5 seconds both sets of figures are visible. By around 1 second the corridor is gone and only the sky outside the exit remains. The camera then pushes toward the doorway, and the skyline and the tower on the right grow larger. The three stay centered in both images, so the viewer's eye stays in the same place through the change.

Full Source Film