Discover the techniques of video transitions including the use of cross dissolve, setting new durations, and experimenting with unique transitions like the whip transition, slide transition, and dips to white and black. These skills are integral to careers in film editing and other related fields, giving you an edge in the industry.
Key Insights
- The video discusses the importance of video transitions in film editing.
- Cross dissolve can be used by highlighting a series of clips and using the default cross dissolve with Command + D.
- The duration of video transitions can be altered by changing the timeline video transition default in the Premiere Pro preferences.
- Fun video transitions such as the whip transition can be found in the Effects panel in the slide category.
- Slide transition, dip to white, and dip to black can be used to achieve different visual effects.
- There is a VR transition that can work with non-VR 360 footage, expanding your editing capabilities.
Premiere Pro Workflow
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Import Media
File → Import or drag into Project panel.
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Build Sequence
Drop clips on timeline, J/K/L to play, I/O for in/out points.
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Color & Audio Pass
Lumetri Color for grading, Essential Sound for audio cleanup.
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Export
File → Export → Media. H.264 for web, ProRes for archival.
Video Transcription
Hi, this is Margaret from Noble Desktop. Today, we will be talking about video transitions.
One thing editors can do if they want to have a lot of transitions is to highlight a series of clips and use the default cross dissolve by pressing Command + D. The cross dissolve is located in the project's effects panel under "Dissolve".
You can also set a new duration for your video transitions by going to Premiere Pro preferences and changing the timeline video transition default to whatever time you'd like.
Additionally, there are fun video transitions located in the Effects panel such as the whip transition in the slide category. You can also use a slide transition, dip to white, and dip to black to achieve different looks. There is also a VR transition that can work with non-VR 360 footage.
I hope you've enjoyed this video on transitions. This has been Margaret from Noble Desktop.
Video Transcription:
Full Video Transcript
Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop, and today we will be talking about video transitions. One thing that editors do if they want to have a lot of transitions is they could select a series of clips, highlight them like so, and then Command+D, which is your default cross dissolve.
Your cross dissolves are here. Here's your project, here's your Effects panel, here's your video transitions. Your dissolves are located under Dissolve, and you can notice how there's a blue highlight around Cross Dissolve because that's your default. Now, all transitions—all video transitions no matter what they are, they can be any of these—are one second. That's the default.
Setting Custom Transition Durations
Maybe you know that you want to create a lot of long dissolves for this piece. To do that, the long way would be to double-click on this—this would be three seconds to create a long dissolve. But doing this for all of them would be quite a bit, so I'm going to Command+Z.
One way to set a new duration for your video transitions: we go to Premiere Pro, Preferences, Timeline, and actually the very first thing is Video Transitions Default. You can see this is one second zero frames. Your audio transitions are also a second. Your still image—this is quite long, this is something you actually might want to change in general.
But I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to say three, and that translates to three seconds zero frames. Let's say okay, and now I'm going to select everything and then say Command+D. Now this time I have a series of three-second dissolves on all of these clips.
Accessing Transitions in the Effects Workspace
Do note that your Effects tab in your browser is also a workspace called Effects, and you could find that right over here. Here are your video transitions up here. It's up to you—it's just located conveniently in your browser if you are in the editing workspace.
Creative Transition Options
There are definitely some video transitions that are fun and they have a lot of appeal. One of them is in the Slide category—there's something called Whip. Let's just drag it right in the beginning of this video. Maybe you want it to whip off as well—I'll put it on the other side. Maybe you want that to be a long one, I'll make that four seconds. Let's see what that looks like.
You can have this kind of look. There's a lot of great possibility for this, not only with text. I'm going to put that between two clips and see how they respond.
Looking at some other ones: a simple Slide, if you want your textures to slide in. As opposed to Whip, if you don't want it to be really small, maybe we want it to be four frames—it really almost just pops right on. Dip to White—you can have that kind of dreamscape feeling. Dip to Black is quite a nice one.
VR actually has to do with 360 cameras, but they can also work with non-VR 360 footage if you'd like to try them.
I hope you've enjoyed this video on transitions. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.
