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Using transitions with restraint
Once you discover the cornucopia of possibilities that transitions in Premiere Pro offer, the temptation will be to use them for every edit. They can be great fun.Despite that, I urge restraint.Watch some TV news stories. Most use cuts-only edits. I'd be surprised if you see any transitions. Why? Time is a factor. But more and more stations these days have ready access to nonlinear editors (NLEs) such as Premiere Pro, and it takes almost no time to add a transition using an NLE.The principal reason for the dearth of transitions is that they can be distracting. If a TV news editor uses one, it's for a purpose. Their most frequent newsroom editing bay use is to take what would have been a jarring editsuch as a major jump cutand make it more palatable. An oft-heard newsroom phrase applies: "If you can't solve it, dissolve it."That's not to say transitions don't have their place in carefully planned stories. Consider the Star Wars movies with all their highly stylized transitions like obvious, slow wipes. Each of those transitions has a purpose. George Lucas purposely created a look reminiscent of old serialized movies and TV shows. Specifically, they send a clear message to the audience: "Pay attention. We're transitioning across space and time."
Adding whimsy
Transitions can lighten up a story. Here are a few examples:
- Start on a tight hand shot of someone cutting a deck of cards and make a Swap transitionone image slides to one side and another slides over itto another cardrelated shot.
- Start with a tight shot of a clock (analog, not digital) and use the aptly named Clock Wipea line centered on the screen sweeps around to reveal another imageto move to another setting and time.
- Get that James Bond, through-the-bloody-eye effect using the Iris Round transition.
- Take a medium shot of a garage door and use a Pushone image moves off the top while another replaces it from belowto transition to the next shot of the garage interior.
- With some planning and experimentation, you can videotape someone pushing against a wall while walking in place and use that same Push transition (after applying a horizontal direction to it) to have that person "slide" the old scene off screen.
Adding visual interest
Transitions can give your video some pizzazz:
- Take a shot of a car driving through the frame and use a wipe, synchronized with the speed of the car, to move to the next scene.
- Transition from a shot of driving rain or a waterfall using the Slash Slide transition, in which streaks, like driving rain, slice through an image revealing another image behind it.
- Use the Venetian Blinds transition as a great way to move from an interior to an exterior.
- A Page Peel transition works well with a piece of parchment.
During this lesson, I encourage you to experiment with all that Premiere Pro has to offer.
