--- title: Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick | daily.dev description: A tutorial on creating seamless location-jump transitions in video using AI video generation tools. The technique involves filming matching poses in two... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/easy-time-travel-editing-trick-fky4sn733 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick | daily.dev og:description: A tutorial on creating seamless location-jump transitions in video using AI video generation tools. The technique involves filming matching poses in two... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/easy-time-travel-editing-trick-fky4sn733 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fKY4sN733.png og:image:alt: Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick **[Matt Wolfe](https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A tutorial on creating seamless location-jump transitions in video using AI video generation tools. The technique involves filming matching poses in two locations, extracting the last and first frames from each clip, then using an AI video tool (Runway, Leonardo, Cling, etc.) with keyframe support to generate a smooth transition between them. The generated clip is then dropped into a video editor between the two real clips with a crossfade to hide the seam. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai-video-generation](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-video-generation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/easy-time-travel-editing-trick-fky4sn733) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/easy-time-travel-editing-trick-fky4sn733","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/easy-time-travel-editing-trick-fky4sn733"},"datePublished":"2026-07-14T14:38:25.291Z","dateModified":"2026-07-14T14:38:40.921Z","description":"A tutorial on creating seamless location-jump transitions in video using AI video generation tools. The technique involves filming matching poses in two...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KzJkS00Ztd8/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KzJkS00Ztd8/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Matt Wolfe","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Wolfe","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JWE7fI4Q--/f_auto/v1716024560/logos/mreflow","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/easy-time-travel-editing-trick-fky4sn733","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-video-generation","timeRequired":"PT1M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick","description":"A tutorial on creating seamless location-jump transitions in video using AI video generation tools. The technique involves filming matching poses in two...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KzJkS00Ztd8/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-07-14T14:38:25.291Z","duration":"PT1M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/fKY4sN733","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KzJkS00Ztd8"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Matt Wolfe","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Easy “Time Travel” Editing Trick"}]} ```