[cinematic music]
Hello everybody! And welcome back to Gal. Today we are going to be talking about
transitions, how to apply them, and modify them in Premiere we're going to start
with built-in transitions and then I'm going to show you how to use this
awesome 500+ seamless transition pack by Vamify, so without further ado
let's go ahead and jump on in. I have a sequence of different landscape stock
video shots from Storyblocks, if you guys are interested in the stock video
from Storyblocks I'll put a link in the description. So one thing to note when
you're applying transitions is you don't want to overkill it, you don't overdo it
you don't want to put too many transitions. Every transition should have
an intention or a purpose in your cut Now I made a whole video on creative
cuts and one of the cuts is a match cut if you want to watch that video put a
card in the upper right but essentially these first two shots have the same
movement it's forward movement on a drone so it's a great match on action
right? It's a very simple one but to make it even more fluid we could apply a
simple cross dissolve between them so it's more seamless and fluid the first
way to apply the built-in cross dissolve is by right-clicking between
the two clips and applying a default transition because by default the cross
dissolve is the default transition in Premiere. So if you right-click between
these two clips and apply default transition, you will see the cross
dissolve is applied and let's see how it looks
Looks pretty fluid. If you need to make the duration longer you can just grab
either end and you can see the duration appears just below it and it shows you
how many more seconds you are adding so if you want to speed 3 seconds just stop
there and you'll see that it's also symmetrical so there's a same amount of
duration on the left of the cut and on the right of the cut and that's because
the alignment is "Center at cut" if we change this to "tart at cut" you'll see
that the transition shifts over to start at the beginning of the first cut or you
can change it to "end that cut" so it'll start towards the beginning and "end at
the cut" more often than not you're going to use the "Center at cut." A couple other
ways that you can change the duration that is cool to know about you can right
click and you can set transition duration this way or you
can go up to effect controls and let's say you wanted to make it two seconds
you can just change it there and you can see it automatically adapts so that is
the cross dissolve. Another thing that you may need to do when you are editing
let's say you're editing to the beat of the music and there's a beat about right
here and you don't want to change the transition what you can do is hit "n" on
your keyboard to enable the rolling edit control and you can roll this edit cut
point to meet the playhead and the transition stays the same so you can
move this at any point you need and the transition remains the same it's a
pretty cool tool that I use all the time so the second way to apply transitions
is by going to the effects panel going to video transitions and opening up this
folder now you can see that I have a bunch of different transitions here some
of them are built-in and a few of them are paid for plugins so the dissolve
folder, the immersive video, which are transitions for 360 video, that comes
built-in premiere, iris, page peel, slide, wipe, and zoom. These are all built-in. Now
if I wanted to apply a wipe between these two clips I would just open up
wipe and I would take the wipe transition click and drag in place
between the two clips and now you can see it just as this nice wipe now I
probably wouldn't use a wipe in this context this is just for demonstrating
how the transition works but this transition would work really great for a
before and after video so if you were showing what the house looked like
before it got renovated and then after this would be a great effect to use and
if you click on it you can see you have more controls so you can actually add a
border so if I increase this to like 25 you can see a thick black bar here if
you wanted to change this to white you can do that I mean if you wanted to
change the direction because right now it's going from left to right you can
change this by selecting the transition and selecting reverse and now it goes
from right to the left which is pretty cool so that's a wipe transition if you
ever wanted to make any transition the default transition let's say you didn't
want cross dissolve to be the default and for some reason you wanted the wipe
to be the default you can just right click on wipe and set selected as
default transition. Another thing you can do that's really
handy is set the default duration for all of your transitions you can go up to
Premiere Pro preferences and then go to timeline and this is where you can
choose the default duration of a video transition and I recommend changing this
to seconds and you can change it to whatever duration that you want let's
say to. And the reason why I prefer seconds is because if you choose frames
then the duration is different depending on the frame rate for the different
sequences so you can hit OK and that's all good. Another transition I wanted to
show you is actually one of the dissolve transitions and it's "dip to black" so I
can just drag and drop the dip to black right here and you'll notice that it
doesn't default to the center cut like this if you click on this it defaults to
"start at cut" and that's because there's no more information in the front of this
clip if I drag this up this is the start of the clip I can't expand this out here
because there's no information so it automatically defaults to start at the
cut and if I change this to center at cut you'll see these stripes and
whenever you see these stripes it means there's no information in the clip to
follow the cut and if for some reason you wanted it at the center cut I can
just hit command X to cut this and what I can do is I can roll this edit in so
there is information there and then push this over and then expand this out and
now if I dip to black here you'll see that there's no stripes because now
there's information so you see this is a very common dip to black it's almost
like a cross dissolve and then there's just a moment of black and this is used
in a lot of trailers for a cinematic effect. Again, be careful with your
transitions you don't want to overdo it unless it's underscoring the theme or if
you're trying to be cheesy or you're trying to have some sort of emotion you
can use as many transitions as you want but remember think about how is this
transition adding to the value of the story or the theme of the video so these
are the built-in transitions there are other types of transitions where they're
not located in effects and their actual project files that you drag and drop
into the project panel and Vamify has this new
pack of 500+ transitions, they're seamless transitions and they're really
cool and you import them into the project panel now I reached out to them
and they gave me the pack for free and they also sponsored this video so if you
guys use my code GAL10 you can get 10% off this awesome pack so after you
download the Vamify transitions, if you go into main project you will see
that there's a project file for each type of resolution so depending on what
resolution you're working on you'll import that transition project file so
I'm working in full HD 1920 by 1080 so I'm going to drag and drop
that into the project panel now a little pop-up will happen and you want to make
sure to import the entire project, create a folder for the imported items, and also
allow importing of duplicate media then hit OK you know we'll just take a second
to import the project you'll get a little rainbow wheel most likely but
don't have to worry here it's just trying to find all the media at the
moment and import it correctly into your project now you may get something pop-up
here that says uh-oh! I can't find the media and you need to link the media there's
no reason to be alarmed here it's just telling you that it can't find Felix's
desktop which is what this pack was made on so all you need to do is tell
Premiere Pro that actually these swishes these audio files are actually located
on your drive now. To do that you're going to hit locate and then you're
going to go into Vamify transitions and then under main project you're going
to follow this path so footage/audio/swishes so we're gonna go to footage
audio, swishes and then find swish-01.wav and then hit OK and what this will do is
will locate all of this missing media and you don't have to worry about doing
it for each individual one and then it says it can't find some rendered files
just ignore that and hit skip all. So now that that's done now we can actually
play around with all the transitions so what you can do is you can open up any
of these transitions there's flat, glitch, panoramic, perspective, spin, stretch, warp,
zoom, a bunch. So let's say we wanted to use a spin transition what we can do is
open up one of these subfolders here let's say
we wanted to use the elastic and what we can do is double click to open up this
bin and then click on the icon view and you can make this bigger and it will
show you a preview of how this transition looks which is really cool so
what these transitions are are essentially sequences that they've put
together so that's why there's actual images here if I double click to open
this up you will see that there's a sound effect as well so because this is
a sequence with footage there is one little trick you need to do before you
drag and drop them in the timeline so let's say you wanted to apply this
center rotation left in between these two clips one thing to remember is
because there is footage on video layer one you want to make sure that v1 is not
highlighted blue so make sure that this is turned off and that this icon is off
here so when I drag and drop this it's just taking the transitions, not the
images of Los Angeles here that is part of this transition sequence. So now what
we can do is hit return or enter to render out this transition so we can see
what it looks like it just takes a second or so. Great and now we can play
this back. It's the exact same philosophy for every single one so if we go back to
the project transitions here and let's say we wanted to apply a perspective
transition elastic in if we double click to open this up we can go to icon view
and we can preview the transitions that we want so this is up smooth this is
down left so let's say we want the perspective in down for this next
transition you can select it now watch what happens when I select and drag and
drop it it's not showing the transition it's just has the audio why is that why
is there no video? Well that's because if you look over here none of these video
layers are selected on what we need to do is turn on these sources here so it
will import them so now if we drag and drop it you can see it takes video layer
two and three so now if we play it back you
can see it works so always be sure to make sure that you have the video layer
sources turn on so that way it'll be imported okay? So have fun play around
with these transitions remember to use my code GAl10 to get 10% off and I'll
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