Sure there are. Part 1, for instance, ends right as Unicron arrives at Darkmount and speaks the line "Minions of the Prime, prepare to be obliterated!!" There's a big trumpet fanfare accompanying this part that's meant to close it out in episode form, but in the movie form it is edited to seamlessly transition into the very next shot that is the beginning of Part 2.o.supreme wrote:There are no obvious act breaks.
This is how they did it for all of Prime's multi-parters that were later released on DVD in combined movie form. The final black screens of each episode were taken out and the music was scored in such a way that each episode's last composition would transition seamlessly into the first one of each next episode.
When the first three episodes of season 3 aired in Singapore as a single TV special, the beginning and end of each episode was blended together exactly like this, making the cliffhanger endings of the first and second episodes transition seamlessly into the first shot of the second and third episodes, respectively. When it first aired, it was really hard to tell where each part ended and the next part began because it genuinely felt like one whole piece instead of multiple pieces merged together.
Same with the DVD movie version of "Darkness Rising". Watching that version knowing where each part was supposed to start and stop, the moments of transition were so smooth that they never felt like the beginning and end of two different episodes stitched together, but like the same single episode five times longer than normal.
Meanwhile, "Transform and Roll Out" only feels like two parts merged together instead of three, as the transition between its first two parts is extremely subtle. Part 3's beginning, however, is very obvious since the music changes so drastically and the scene cut does go to black very briefly, but not brief enough to be unnoticeable. When "TransWarped" first aired as a movie, all three of its parts were likewise seamlessly woven together, much like the Prime DVD movies.