as we work our way through this project. The next technique you need to learn as a video editor is the use of transitions, transitions are the way that one clip goes to the next so far. All of our transitions are just cuts straight cuts from one clip to the next. You've probably seen a range of transitions in your life from fades to dissolves to three D spins. And adobe premiere pro comes with a number of those transitions built in for you to use you can find them under the effects bin. If you don't see the effects bin make sure that you go up to window and effects to find a specific effect. If you have something in mind you can type it in in the search bar. But for those of you new to this you might want to just drop down the video transitions bin under there where we have categories three D. Motion dissolves, iris slides, wipe zooms page peels, play around with these so I'm going to play around with adding these transitions to this last shot. Going from here to here. So for example w...

e just take this three D. Motion bin. We open it up, we have this cube spin, what's that? To add a transition Just simply drag it onto the cut or the place in between two clips and you can see there that I can drag it and leave it on the left in the middle or the right however it's highlighted. So if I put it right in the middle let's play through this. You see what happens is it has this three D. Cube. Spin it looks like it's a cube and it's spinning. Let me zoom in here so you can see what's going on. I can make this slower or faster by taking the edge and dragging in or out. So if I drag it out it will be slower. If I drag it in it will be faster and I can also move it around. So if I click it and drag to the left then it will start faster and if I drag to the left it will start later. Okay one thing to know about transitions, let me just take these two clips and I'm going to teach you something Cool right here to quickly duplicate any layer or any clip on your timeline. Hold the option key down Also if you're on a pc and then click and drag I'm still holding it down or option and then let go. It duplicates that clip. I could also select them. Press Control or command C. On my keyboard. Then command V. To paste or control C paste and it will paste it into this layer that you have selected earlier. We learned about these track selection tools over here which have to do with the source monitor when you are selecting an overriding or inserting a clip these toggle track modes right here. This selects where you can copy and paste items. So say I'm going to delete that then I select these two and then say I want to paste it to the second track. I'll just like V two paste it. It's on the second track. Okay, enough of a tangent. That's a cool trick for you to do what I wanted to show you is say you have two clips that end and they meet together. So see how I dragged the end of this first clip to the right and there's that little corner piece right there that shows that that's the end of this clip. There's no more. I can't extend it any further. Same with this one on the right, to the left on the left side of the clip, there's no more before this. If I put these together and then I add, let's just say this flip over. What's going to happen is insufficient media. This transition will contain repeated frames. It's going to repeat frames because there are no frames afterwards. To extend this transition, it might make a little bit more sense if one of these is shorter and then this one is at the beginning of this clip. So this clip on the left, we still have footage on the right side. So after this point, but with this one on the left, there's no more before it. Let's just take a normal dissolve. Cross dissolve. This is your standard dissolve. If I take this and drag it over my clips. What happens is it doesn't allow me to put this transition in the middle of the clips because there is no middle, there is no footage to the left of this second clip. So when I add this, it automatically adds it just to this clip into the start of the next clip. I know that sounds really confusing, so it's just one thing you have to play around with. But I often get the question why can't I add a transition to this clip? Why can't I move or extend my transition. That's another thing. So say we have these two clips that they meet right there. Let me extend this one not to the end, but just a few frames in and then we add the cross dissolve. Then I tried to make the cross dissolve bigger. It's not going to let me go bigger or longer because there are no frames in both these clips to the right or to the left of the cross dissolve. Let me delete this. I'm going to drag this over to the left, drag this over to the right, bring them back together to meet. Now let's add a cross dissolve. Now, let's extend it and see how long we can extend it. That's because it's dissolving. Think of right here. This is where this second clip actually starts right here, it starts to dissolve on and then here over here, this is where this first clip ends over here. It's dissolving out, but if they meet at the end and there's no amount of time left in the clip, you can't add that kind of transition or increase the time of it. The last thing I want to teach you about transitions is that some transition have effects that you can change. So let's go over and check out this slide transition. This is one that you might use push So if I add push to this, you can see that is pushing the second clip from the left hand side of the frame. If we click on this push transition go to our effects controls window, which is up here on the left. We learned about that before we have some options for our transitions in this top left corner you have where the transition starts from the west to the east or the left to the right from the right to the left, from the top to the bottom, from the bottom to the top. So if I click that bottom to the top, you see that this transition moves from the bottom to the top. How about that? That's how you add transitions to your video clips. It's time to practice that. Go ahead, pause the lessons, go to your own project that you're working on And add a transition between two clips. We're going to come back. I'm going to review adding cross dissolves between two clips and show you an even faster way to do so with keyboard shortcuts, enjoy the practice and we'll see you in a few. Mhm.

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Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Lesson Info

22. Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video