Page Turn — effect skill for transitions

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Shot A peels or turns like a page and the next shot lies underneath.

What it does

Built on InvertedPageCurl by hewlett-packard (gl-transitions), MIT. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

A corner curls up (or the page swings around its spine), casting a light shadow on B.

When: Storytelling, scrapbooks, recipes, children's content, magazine looks.

Watch out: Fast-paced action edits; the metaphor slows things down.

Timing: 0.5–1.0 s (CapCut Page Turning 0.47 s, Fold Over 1.0 s)

Also called: Page Turning, Flip Page, Fold Over, page curl, book flip

In FFmpeg

No page curl in xfade; use editly + GL InvertedPageCurl or BookFlip (names identical in 1.x).

In HyperFrames

transitions-3d block, or rotationY around transformOrigin: "left center" on #s1 (0 → -180) with backface-visibility: hidden.

In Remotion

import {TransitionSeries, linearTiming, springTiming} from '@remotion/transitions';
import {bookFlip} from '@remotion/transitions/book-flip';

<TransitionSeries>
  <TransitionSeries.Sequence durationInFrames={90}><ShotA /></TransitionSeries.Sequence>
  <TransitionSeries.Transition presentation={bookFlip({direction: 'from-right'})} timing={linearTiming({durationInFrames: 24})} />
  <TransitionSeries.Sequence durationInFrames={90}><ShotB /></TransitionSeries.Sequence>
</TransitionSeries>

Total = 90 + 90 - 24 frames: the transition overlaps the two shots. Shader presentations are built on Remotion's HTML-in-canvas: renders work out of the box (--gl=angle, or --gl=swangle without a GPU); the Studio preview needs Chrome with chrome://flags/#canvas-draw-element enabled. Curl: glTransition({name: 'InvertedPageCurl'}).

In CapCut

Transitions tab → 3D / Slide → Page Turning, Flip Page, Fold Over. Desktop: drag the tile onto the cut between two clips and set Duration in the right panel ("Apply to all" reuses it on every cut). Mobile: tap the small white square between clips, pick the transition, drag the duration slider, tap ✓. Tab labels and placement change between versions and regions.

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/5d95936f9b3c/lib-gl-transitions-inverted-page-curl.mp4 — Preview of the InvertedPageCurl component that builds this take (credit: Rendered by varg from the library’s own code (GL Transitions · rendered by varg), https://gl-transitions.com/editor/InvertedPageCurl)

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