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Welcome to this new section of the Premier Pro course.
All about transitions.
Transitions are basically how you get from one clip to the next, both video and audio.
So what we've done so far is we've butted up different clips next to each other and it's basically just
a jump cut from one clip to the next.
A typical transition you might think of as like a fade or a dissolve, and all of our transitions that
we have in Premiere Pro can be found in our effects.
Bin So actually I'm going to close some of these bins or these panels that we don't need.
You could do the same if you want, because we're just not using them.
I typically only have my project panel and then my any bins that I have open and my effects panel over
here.
Under here we have all of our effects, which we'll get into in a future lesson.
But under video transitions, we have a number of transitions.
So if you look under dissolve, for example, we have cross dissolve, which you can now drag and drop
on the end of a clip, the beginning or in-between clip.
So let me drag it in between these two clips right here.
And now we have a dissolve.
Now you see that the dissolve is kind of highlighted, and that's because it is our default transition
transition.
And there's a keyboard shortcut and a quick way to add that by either selecting in between eclipse.
So see how when I click in between on that cut it highlights in red if I press the keyboard shortcut
command DX it adds that cross dissolve that default.
Okay.
I can even select multiple clips and Press Command DX and look at that.
It adds that already to all of them.
All right, so now let's say let's delete them, which you do by just clicking and deleting.
And let's just start with this first one.
And so say we want to make this dissolve faster or shorter.
You can hover over the end of this.
Transition and click and drag in and it's going to make it shorter.
You could also change the position of it so I can click it and drag to the left or drag to the right.
This is going to be a little bit more apparent when we're talking about transitioning from two different
shots.
So let's actually make some room.
I'm going to press a on my keyboard.
Click and drag that there.
And I'm just going to put this B-roll clip down here for now.
So now if I select here and you can also right click and choose apply default transition if you want.
So now if I it's kind of right in the middle, but if I drag over to the right now, this first shot
extends into the second shot a little bit more.
If I do the other way.
The first shot ends right at this part of the transition.
So it's just different ways to extend or make your transitions shorter or or longer.
You might run into a situation where.
Let me actually just take another clip.
Let's find another clip to show you a problem that a lot of people have.
So say I take just this entire clip and actually not the entire clip.
Let's just take a little part of it and put it in the beginning.
So notice on the timeline how this clip has this little thing in the corner that denotes that this is
the very beginning of the clip.
There's no footage to the left of the play ahead.
Right.
This is the very beginning.
So say add a default cross, dissolve.
Notice that I can't move it to the in-between of this clip like we did before.
Same thing if I click and drag, it's not letting me add it.
In between both.
And that's because I can't have a dissolve start before a clip starts.
Right.
So say I actually instead.
And visually what I'll do, I'll move this here for now so you can kind of see, say, I cut it here
and then I bring this clip down here.
Now we know that there's some room on the left of the play head.
So if I take my cross dissolve and now I can choose to put it right in between the clips and I can move
it around left or right.
But you might run into a situation where you're playing with clips and you're like, I can't.
I can't move the Dissolve to where I want it.
Just make sure you're paying attention to where your clip ends and begins as well.
Let's just look at a couple of these other ones.
So we've got an iris box, there's all sorts of them, and so you play through it.
Some of them are a little corny, I will say.
And so go through these.
See which ones you like, which ones you don't like.
I usually use just cross, dissolve or under.
Let's see.
Yeah, under dissolve.
We have dip to black and dip to white.
These are the two that I use.
Nice fades.
Also note that if you use a if there's no clips on the timeline underneath your clip, if I do a cross
dissolve, it's the same thing as a dip to black, right?
Because it's basically dissolving to black.
And you notice that when I added a default transition to both to this video clip with the audio, it
adds it to the audio as well.
We'll be looking at that in just a minute, though.
And so if this was over, this clip now.
It's not a dip to black, it's just a dissolve on to this clip.
But with the video that's underneath it, in the track, underneath it appearing.
So if you want a hard dip to black right here, for example, you would have to change it to the dip
to black.
And you can actually just quickly swap out transitions by selecting another one and dragging it over.
And it's going to swap it.
And it'll swap it with the same length that you had.
Edited it to.
Okay.
So it's not just changing out to the default, it's actually changing based off of the length and position
of it.
All right.
So that's how you add video transitions in the next lesson.
We'll learn about customizing them a bit more.