Dissolves are one of the most well-known cinematic transitions.
It's the ability to slowly transition from one image
into another
and I'm going to show you how you can do them in Filmora
Let's open up filmora and work with a few pieces of video
that i shot on my phone at the beach.
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This is just a simple clip of some grass on the dunes
that I figured I might be able to use as B-roll footage somewhere.
First off, let's drag this into our timeline
and find a piece of it to use.
Okay, here's a section with a simple pan
from left to right.
That looks cool.
Let's isolate that,
cut it and eliminate the other sections we won't be using.
We talked about how to do all of these steps in the last video
So if you missed any of that or need to review it,
I'll put a link to it right now in the upper right hand corner.
Now, let's take a look at our footage.
It's pretty basic.
Nothing special to see here
but with a little video editing...
we can make this shot into something much more cinematic
than something I recorded on my phone at the beach.
Looking at this...
I'd actually like this better if it was slowed down a bit.
Here's a quick bonus lesson.
Click on the video portion and it'll open up an editing window in the upper left .
There's a lot that we can do with our video clip here
and I'll dig deeper into that in the future
but for now...
Let's just adjust the speed of the clip
by dragging this slider to the left.
You can see in the value window over on the right
A value of "1.00" would indicate the clip is playing at the speed it was recorded at.
If I moved it up to "2.00", it would play twice the speed and so on.
But I want to slow it down to about half the speed
which would be "0.5"
We can actually do this by typing "0.5"
in the value window
or by using the up and down arrows next to it as well.
Though, those are really more for fine-tuning the speed.
So now I've reduced the clip to half
let's hit OK and, as always
whenever you tell the software
to do something to your footage
make sure you render the project if the arrow is green
so that the playback is smooth.
Now let's do something really cool.
Back in the media tab where we imported our footage
if you look to the upper left
It says "My album"
which shows us whatever we brought in for video
images or audio to use on this project
But below it, see where it says "Sample colors"?
Click on that
and it opens up some different color images
that we can use in our video project
Let's grab the white and drag it down to our timeline
It has a preset length to the color clip
that you can either shorten or make longer.
This is probably longer than we need it, so let's shorten it up a bit.
We can right click on it
copy
then bring our playhead back to the beginning of our timeline
right-click and hit "paste".
Most of you are familiar with how to to copy and paste
and that's exactly how Filmora treats video clips.
If you want to duplicate anything in your timeline.
So now in our timeline we have a white clip
our slowed-down clip of the grass and the dunes
and another white clip at the end.
Now let's move over to our tabs
and you'll see there's a lot of things that we can add to our video project
but let's just focus on the transitions tab.
Look how many different transitions Fillmora gives you with your subscription.
Tons. Lots of really good ones too.
And they all be applied exactly the same way
as the dissolve transition I'm about to show you.
So once you've learned how to do a dissolve
you can experiment with
any of those other really cool transition effects.
Let's grab the dissolve transition
and drag it down to our timeline.
You want to put it right onto your video track.
For a standard dissolve between two video elements
you want to drop it right where the two clips meet
It kind of looks like a band-aid, doesn't it?
We can grab the edges of this "band-aid"
and drag them either inwards or outwards
to lengthen or shorten how long we want our dissolve to be.
In this case, I want the white screen to start dissolving into the video clip right off the bat.
So I'll stretch it all the way across
We also want to add the same dissolve to the end of our video
So let's repeat that same process on the back end
Now let's quickly render our project
so our dissolve effect will play smoothly
and let's see what we've got.
Look at that
A perfect dissolve in...
and a perfect dissolve out.
With a little tweaking and adding of a music track
Filmora can actually get this simple phone footage
to start looking like something pretty cool.
I'll be talking about exactly how to do those steps too
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Ahhh... crap. I'm dissolving.
Peace!