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Trying some transitions: Lesson 6-1
Premiere Pro ships with nearly 80 video transitions (plus two audio transitions that I cover later in the book). Some are subtle, and some are "in your face." The more you experiment with them, the more likely you are to use them well.Applying a transition between two clips starts with a simple drag-and-drop. That might be enough for many transitions, but Premiere Pro gives you a wide variety of options to fine tune transitions. Some transitions have a Custom button that opens a separate dialog box with sets of options unique to each. And most offer tools that allow you to position the transition precisely.
Adobe Certified Expert exam objectiveDescribe the tools, options, and process required to add transitions. |
| 1. | Open Premiere Pro and open the Lesson 6-1 project. |
| 2. | Select Windows > Workspace > Effects.This changes the workspace to the preset that the Premiere Pro development team created to make it easier to work with transitions and effects. |
| 3. | Open the Lesson 6 Finish sequence in the Timeline and watch that sequence. |
Lesson 6 Finish by the end of this lesson. It has too many frame-specific edits to be a practical learning tool. On the other hand, you will work with all the transitions and options I used to create it.
| 4. | Click the Lesson 6-1 Start tab in the Timeline. |
| 5. | Drag and drop Video 6a and Video 6b to the Video 1 track and press the backslash key to expand the view. |
NoteThere are little triangles in the upper right and left corners of both clips (highlighted in the next figure). They indicate that the clips are at their original, full length. For transitions to work smoothly you need handlessome unused head and tail frames to overlap between the clips. Trimming both clips will give you those handles.
| 6. | Select the Ripple Edit tool (shortcut B) and drag the end of the first clip to the left to shorten it by at about 2 seconds (note the time in the pop-up display). |
| 7. | Use the Ripple Edit tool to drag the beginning of the second clip to the right to the point where the dancer starts dancing (to create a match edit with the previous clip) at about 2 seconds into the clip. |
| 8. | Press the backslash key (\) to expand the Timeline view, and press V to switch back to the Selection tool. |
NoteSince you used the Ripple Edit tool, these two trims should have no gap. If there is a gap, right-click it and select Ripple Delete.
| 9. | Open the Effects panel and open the Video Transitions > Dissolve bin. |
| 10. | Drag Cross Dissolve to the edit between your two clips on the sequence, but do not release the mouse button just yet. |
Lesson 2, Cross Dissolve has a red box around it indicating it's the default transition.
Changing the default transition and duration
 | There are two primary uses for the default transition: when automating a storyboard to a sequence or as a quick means to add a transition using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D. As I mentioned in Lesson 2, you can set a different default transition. To do that, select the transition you want to use, open the Effects panel's Fly-out Menu, and select Set Default Transition. A red box will appear around that transition. If you select Default Transition Duration, that opens the General Preferences dialog box where you can change that setting. |
Transitions on any track
Lesson 6-2.
| 20. | Open the Page Peel bin and drag Center Peel to the Cross Dissolve transition between the two clips. That replaces Cross Dissolve with Center Peel. Play that transition. |
NoteThe next step calls for the use of a GPU (graphics processor unit). If your PC does not have a GPU with enough horsepower to handle the GPU effects in Premiere Pro, those effects will not show up in the Effects panel. In that case, skip the next step.
Additional transitions to try out
Here are the transitions I used in the Lesson 6 Finish Sequence that you have not tried yet: Page Roll, Push, Three-D (the only one in the Special Effect bin relevant to this lesson), Wipe, Zoom Trails, Iris Round, Split, and Funnel. You will work in greater detail with most of these in Lesson 6-2.To find them one at a time in the Effects panel, start typing their name in the Contains box and they'll appear as shown in the next figure.
Sequence display changes
When you add a transition to a sequence a short red horizontal line appears above that transition (highlighted in the next figure). That red line means that this portion of the sequence must be rendered before you can record it back to tape or create a file of your finished project.Rendering happens automatically when you export your project, but you can choose to render selected portions of your sequence to make those sections display more smoothly on slower PCs. To do that, slide the handles of the Work Area Bar (highlighted below) to the ends of the red rendering line (they will snap to those points) and press Enter. Premiere Pro will create a video clip of that segment (tucked away in the Preview Files folder with an indecipherable file name) and will change the line from red to green.
