在Netflix的比赛剪辑。寻找具有平滑视觉过渡效果的剪裁

By Boris Chen, Kelli Griggs, Amir Ziai, Yuchen Xie, Becky Tucker, Vi Iyengar, Ritwik Kumar

作者：Boris Chen,Kelli Griggs,Amir Ziai,Yuchen Xie,Becky Tucker,Vi Iyengar,Ritwik Kumar

Special thanks to Anna Pulido, Luca Aldag, Shaun Wright and Sarah Soquel Morhaim

特别感谢 安娜-普利多, 卢卡-阿尔达格, 肖恩-赖特 和 Sarah Soquel Morhaim

Creating Media with Machine Learning episode 1

用机器学习创造媒体第一集

Introduction

简介

At Netflix, part of what we do is build tools to help our creatives make exciting videos to share with the world. Today, we’d like to share some of the work we’ve been doing on match cuts.

在Netflix，我们所做的部分工作是建立工具，帮助我们的创作者制作令人兴奋的视频，与世界分享。今天，我们想分享一些我们一直在做的匹配切割的工作。

In film, a match cut is a transition between two shots that uses similar visual framing, composition, or action to fluidly bring the viewer from one scene to the next. It is a powerful visual storytelling tool used to create a connection between two scenes.

在电影中，匹配剪辑是两个镜头之间的过渡，使用类似的视觉框架、构图或动作，将观众从一个场景流畅地带到下一个场景。它是一种强大的视觉叙事工具，用于在两个场景之间建立联系。

[Spoiler alert] consider this scene from Squid Game:

[扰流警报]考虑一下《乌贼游戏》中的这个场景。

The players voted to leave the game after red-light green-light, and are back in the real world. After a rough night, Gi Hung finds another calling card and considers returning to the game. As he waits for the van, a series of powerful match cuts begins, showing the other characters doing the exact same thing. We never see their stories, but because of the way it was edited, we instinctively understand that they made the same decision. This creates an emotional bond between these characters and ties them together.

玩家们在红灯绿灯后投票离开游戏，回到了现实世界。经过一个艰难的夜晚，吉雄找到了另一张电话卡，并考虑返回游戏。在他等待面包车的时候，一系列强有力的比赛剪辑开始了，展示了其他角色做着完全相同的事情。我们从未看到他们的故事，但由于剪辑的方式，我们本能地理解他们做出了同样的决定。这在这些人物之间形成了一种情感纽带，将他们联系在一起。

A more common example is a cut from an older person to a younger person (or vice versa), usually used to signify a flashback (or flashforward). This is sometimes used to develop the story of a character. This could be done with words verbalized by a narrator or a character, but that could ruin the...