Hey everyone. I've been getting a lot of questions about transitions. If you understand transitions and you're not confused by them at all. Go ahead and skip this lesson. But if you're adding transitions in premiere pro and you're getting weird error messages. If you're not able to extend your cross dissolves. If you can't add transitions to specific clips, watch this video. I hope that it helps explain why that's happening. So I have two clips here that I've added to my timeline. These were shot in Joshua tree on a recent camping trip that I just got back from today. And they are completely full clips. You can see that I can shorten this first clip, but if I try to extend to the right, that's as long as it goes, there's no more footage to the right of that. On the second clip. If I try to extend to the left, there's no more video because this is where we started filming and this is where we ended filming. And for this first clip, this is where we started, this is where we ended. So if...

I put these two clips together and then I add a transition, say the cross dissolve. And I put it on top of this transition. What we're going to get is an error saying insufficient media this transition will contain repeated frames. What this does is premiere pro will actually duplicate frames from this clip from both clips so that it creates a fade or a transition. But and it's extending the clip to the left and to the right. So it's extending this first clip to the right and this second clip to the left, but only by duplicating frames and we typically don't want to do that. So that's one error. People have been getting into say we have this first clip where we say we want to edit it and we end right here, we don't want to go to the end of this clip, so we just drag this part of the clip over and then we put these up together. So now we have this clip and it cuts to this next clip. Remember this for the second clip? This is the very beginning of that entire video clip for this first clip though we have some media over to the right of this clip. So say I put this actually up here and let me just actually delete all my audio because I don't need that. I can extend it to the right because we have more footage over to the right. So let's put these on the same layer. Now now I drag my dissolve over. And what happens is I can't put it in the middle of these two clips. I can't put it on the left side, I can only put it on the right side. And that's because only that first clip can fade into the second clip in this situation. There's no footage from that second clip on the left side of this cut to fade from. So if I drop this down now, this first clip fades because there's still footage for it to fade from here during this cross dissolve. Now if I extend this it's only going to extend to the end of that clip, which is another error people have been complaining about. They say they see that they have this cross dissolve, but they're trying to extend it, but there's no way to extend it. They just can't get it to go. Well, that's because there's no more video clip to extend past this part right here, at this frame where the cross dissolve ends, you can only go as far as the media allows. Hopefully that makes sense. And if I click this now, I can't drag it to the left at all because the second clip again, it starts right here. It can't go to the left at all. Now let me show you something, let me just leave this cross dissolve. Say we start this second clip right around here. Remember there's still media from the 2nd clip right here. And if we move this clip over to the left to meet, let's just go over this one more time to make it really clear. So for this first clip there's still media to the right of this cut. We can see that by moving this to the second track and extending this clip c with this second clip we know there's media to the left over here, we can extend it like. So so with this cut, it's cutting from clip one clip two, but there's media for both clips on either side of the cut. So now if we add a cross dissolve, we can choose whether we want it to be placed in the middle of the cut. Exactly like so or we can put it on the left side of this cut, or the right side of this cut. So if we put it on the right side like this, it transitions from the first one to the second one. And the cross dissolve starts right after the cut we had made before. And then lastly, one other thing that I get people asking about is say you have a situation like this and you have this cross dissolve in the middle and you want to make the cross dissolve longer, but it doesn't allow you to go any further. Well that's because you can only go as far as the media allows. This cross dissolve is now starting at the very beginning of this clip and it's ending at the very end of this clip. So it's longer. But we can't go past that. And if we try to move it to the right or left, it's only going to allow us to move if there's media space, we can move it to the right just a little bit because there's a little bit of space left from clip this first clip, but I can't move it to the right anymore and I can't extend it anymore. If I make it shorter, then we have more room to play with because there's enough media from both clips to have that transition. Hopefully this is clarifying things for you. Hopefully it's not confusing you even more, but this is something that I keep getting questions about. So I wanted to just add a little bit to the previous lectures about adding video transitions. Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.

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Trouble with Transitions

Trouble with Transitions

Lesson Info

26. Trouble with Transitions

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