- We're about to run through how to use
video transition effect in your favorite
video edition software, the easy way,
in this step-by-step video transition tutorial.
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Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
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So let's jump into it.
Now when used correctly, video transitions
can add a whole new dimension to your content,
and unlock a ton of creativity.
But the wrong transitions, or overuse of video effects
can quickly become distracting for your viewers,
and detract from the overall video quality of your videos.
Now personally, I don't use transitions too often,
but there are definitely scenes when they add a lot
to the overall feel of the video.
A lot of transitions can look pretty advanced,
especially some of the more cinematic ones,
but don't worry because we're gonna step through
how you can easily use professional video transitions,
just like those, in your videos,
no matter what software you're using.
But, with great power comes great transition responsibility,
and before you go plastering that new transition power
all over your next video, make sure you stick around
because once we've finished the tutorial,
I'm also gonna give you my number one tip
to remember while you're using your transitions.
And also, the transition that I use most, and why.
Alright, so by now, you've probably figured out
that most video editing software has
some sort of built in transition option.
Whether it's the infamous, Style Wipe, a Fold, a wipe,
a slide, whatever.
A lot of these just look like they are from some sort
of PowerPoint presentation and in general,
unless it's some cheesy high school graduation video,
or a slideshow for your grandparents,
I'd probably avoid them.
So how do you go, or where do you go
to get good transitions for your videos?
Well there's an awesome source
for a ton of pre-built templates
that you can easily customize to fit your own style,
and your own brand, and to use
in any of your video editing projects,
and it's called VideoHive and I use it
on all of my professional projects.
So, we're gonna jump over now to the computer,
and I'm gonna walk you through the process.
Okay, so here we are on videohive.net, and there is a heap
of different graphic element transitions, stock footage,
3D elements that you can use in your videos on this website,
so it's really really cool.
Specifically looking at transitions,
which is what we're talking about today.
You can come up here to Motion Graphics,
and you can see down here, you got Transition elements,
under Apple Motion, you've got Transition elements
under Elements, you've got them specific for,
that would be Premier as well, and also, After Effects.
So if you're using After Effects, Adobe Premiere,
Apple Motion, or even Final Cut, these will work
with Final Cut, then these are the ones to use.
If you're using video editing software
that is something else, other than one of those,
then you'd be after the generic ones here,
which should work on most video editing software.
And just come down to transitions.
But I will cover that off, very very soon.
But for this tutorial, I'm gonna show you in Adobe Premiere,
and we're going to go to elements.
And you can see already, the types of things you got here,
as we mouse over some of these, these are some Lower Thirds,
of some titles, that are literally just drag and drop
and you can use them on your videos.
These are some Call Outs, we've got some Heads Up
display effects and some more titles.
Then we go to Transitions,
we got some transitions down here, we can narrow this down
by hitting Transitions here.
Now the best way to buy these normally, is in packs.
And actually I think most of the ones here are
in transition packs, meaning that you get a heap
of transitions with the one off purchase.
So this one here for example,
for $38 you're getting 510 transitions.
And as you can see, they're really high-end,
high quality transitions, and the way that they work is
that you literally just drag and drop them,
in Adobe Premiere in this case,
into your video editing software.
But there's heaps of other ones here
if you're after something specific.
So you can go through and pick the one that matches
what you're after.
There's generally a pretty safe bet to pick
a high-end transition pack like this one.
So we'll click on this one here,
so we're gonna go ahead and purchase this one here,
Modern Transitions for Premiere Pro, $38, and links again
to videohive.net and to this exact transition pack
that we're gonna be running through,
I'll throw down in the description box.
So once, you've downloaded the transition pack,
the installation process might be little bit different
depending on which template pack you get,
and obviously we're using Premiere versus Final Cut,
Apple Motion, After Effects,
that process might be a little bit different.
But what all of them will have, is some sort of instructions
or tutorial videos here, to show you how to use it,
or how to install it.
So in this case here, you can see that this video here,
is showing us how to apply and use this transition.
But I'm gonna show you how to do that too.
When we go across to the actual files here,
the Pr files, the Premiere files, in here we've footage,
which is some sample footage that they've used,
we've got some sounds that come with the template,
and we've got our Premiere File here.
So in this case here, we actually don't need
to install anything into Adobe Premiere
to be able use these templates.
It's literally a Premiere Editing Project File
that you can open inside of your video editing project
to have access to these transitions.
Okay so I'm here in Adobe Premiere now,
I've just gotta really basic project set up,
with two video clips in the timeline.
Playback is gonna be fun, because of the screen recording,
but it pans across past the chairs
and then over into the pool.
Now we're gonna drop some transitions on this cut here,
just to show you the types of things we can do.
So the first thing we're gonna do is import
that project that we just purchased from VideoHive.
I wanna suggest that you do here, is tick the box
to create a folder for the imported items,
so that way it's all contained, in the one place.
So you can see here,
we got a new folder here, Transition Pack.
And then we got a heap of different transitions
and things down here too.
So you can see that while
there's 23 different projects inside,
it says of Swipes, there's 12 of them,
of IGV Swipes there's 12 of those.
There's a heap of different options in here.
So let's look at Zoom Spins.
Double click on it to open up that time line.
And as we scrub through here, we'll be able to see
the different effects that we get.
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It's really just a matter of going through
and finding the transition in here
that you like the look of.
There's a heap of different ones that we can try,
so let's just grab this one here, I'll just zoom in
on the timeline here, just pressing the + key
on the keyboard.
So what we need to do is grab these two
transition video layers here and if we want the audio
to come along with it, then we'll grab that audio track.
You can just hold down Shift when you're clicking on these.
We'll then copy that, CMD + C or CTRL + C,
we'll go back over to our timeline,
and we'll just paste these at the end of our clip here.
And what you wanna do is pick your transition up
and lift if up a layer so it's not going
to be overriding your video layer,
but so it's gonna sit on top of it, and just drop it there.
We'll come over here, we'll zoom in,
and we'll position this transition
where that marker is on our cut.
So that the transition happens at that marker point.
And just looking at the quick preview that we've got here,
you can see that the transition is actually happening
inside of our video, so what that tells me is we got
4K footage in the timeline here,
and the transition has come in at 1080.
So if that happens to you, what you need to do,
is select your two clips, right click and chose,
Scale to Frame Size.
And then that transition is now scaled up to the right size.
So if we scrub through this, you can see that we now
got that transition there on our timeline.
I'll just render out this section.
So as we play that back now, we can see
that we're panning across the furniture, looking outside,
we're now looking at transition, zoom in, spin,
and now we're back on our way.
Again apologies for the stuttery playback.
Okay so we'll remove this transition
and show you another one as well.
We'll come back over here, and let's try try Lens Swipes.
So we double click on the sequence,
lets play through a couple of these.
A little bit faster, really fast.
Okay cool, so they've actually named them here,
right right right left left left, then we got one going up,
down, cool so we're gonna want the right,
because our pan is moving across that way.
So again, we'll select these two video layers,
hold down Shift, grab the audio as well.
CMD + C to copy it, come back to our timeline,
paste it on the end, move our video layers up one,
drag it back along, and drop it where it snaps
to that marker, which is right there.
Now we're gonna play this through.
So you can see we're able to get some really cool effects,
literally drag and drop or copy and past onto your timeline.
It's going to save you so much work, and you'll be able to
get some really professional looking transitions
in your videos.
Okay, so that's Adobe Premiere,
now Final Cut is almost exactly the same.
So if we go back over here to Apple Motion
and choose Elements and then we go to Transitions,
and we've got some Transition Packs, exactly the same.
Now with these you will actually need to install them
into Final Cut to be able to use them.
But all the instructions as I said, they give you
in the template that you purchase.
So then, in Final Cut, the process
is almost exactly the same.
We've got a very similar timeline down at the bottom here.
We'll just come over to Transitions, and you can see the
transition packs that we've got installed.
We've got Clean Transitions, which is a heap of these here,
and we've also got Wipe Transitions,
and these were just transition packs
that we bought from VideoHive.
You can see that as you put your mouse over it,
you can preview what they're gonna look like.
And we just drag and drop them onto
that section between the two clips,
and that transition is now on.
So you can see how simple and effective it is
to use these in your projects.
We'll delete this one, I'll show you another one here now.
So grab this one here, drop it on, let's play that through.
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So you can create some pretty cool looks,
just by dragging and dropping.
You can also see that they're much better than some
of the pre-built ones.
Okay, so we're back on VideoHive, what do you do
if you don't have Premiere, After Effects, Apple Motion,
well you want to go to Motion Graphics,
go down to Transitions.
And so all the transition packs in here
are pre-rendered matted video files that you can
drag and drop into almost any video editing application.
So let's take a look at this one here,
10 Graceful Matte Transitions.
And you can see straightaway down here it says there's
10 transitions, very easy to use, that's always good,
no plug-ins needed.
So you don't need any additional software.
So I'm here in Screen Photo,
I've got two video files down here, or two video clips
down here in the timeline, just to show you how to do it
in more basic video editing software.
We'll come over here to our files,
you can see I've got the 10 Transition Packs imported
into this project.
I'll just hit the + button, Add File,
picked the ten files that I've downloaded,
and they're in there.
Now we can pick the transition file that we want,
so this one here, Transition Six
and drag it down to our timeline.
So as we scrub through that now,
you can see that as we go through, get the white bars on,
the transition's started, and it goes to full white.
So the difference here is we actually then need
to put a second version of this, so if we copy this
paste it right after it, then we need
to reverse the second one.
Right click on it, choose Reverse Clip,
and that will go from white, back into the new shot.
So if we play through that now,
the bars come on, goes to full white,
the new shot comes in and we're back out.
So it's a little bit of a different process,
but we don't actually need to touch the clips underneath.
And again that process might be a little bit different
depending on the types of transitions
that you're actually purchasing, you may just need to drag
and drop them on and they could be good to go straight out.
You may not need to reverse them, and also,
depending on your editing software, you may need
to actually apply what's called an Alpha Channel Filter
onto your transition.
So I've got this one here, set up that way as an example
so you can see that we're actually not seeing
the original video file underneath it.
So with that clip selected in this case,
we'll come over to our video filters hit the +,
go down to color effect, and we're going
to choose Mask to Alpha, and hit Add.
Now you can see that our transition is taking place
underneath of our clip there.
So that's how easy it is
to get professional looking transitions
in your editing video projects,
so that you're not stuck using the built in ones
that come with your editing software.
Whether you're working in Adobe, After Effects, Final Cut,
Adobe Premiere, or even in this example, Screen Flow,
or other video editing software.
Okay so, earlier in the video, I said I was going
to share with you my number one tip
when you're using transitions
and that is to not overuse them.
A lot of people can go way overboard
and just use a transition on almost every cut,
and that can not only be really distracting,
it can really be pretty damn annoying
for anyone watching your videos.
So effective transition use can definitely add a lot
to your videos, but too many transitions can definitely
leave you worse off than without using any at all.
The moment that they're too predictable
or way too far out of place,
they just become distracting and annoying.
So the number one transition that I use
for most of my editing is actually just a simple jump cut.
So no special fades, dips, cuts,
starwipes, wipes, whatever.
It is literally just a cut, at the right time.
So you can mix it up by zooming in, adding a jump cut,
which I typically use on this channel
when I need to emphasize something.
So if I'm summarizing something and I want to emphasize
that last point, or the most important part,
or the takeaway message for you guys,
then I'll normally zoom in on that section.
Or if I'm filming here with a big window
and the light changes dramatically outside,
I might add a quick cut with a zoom
to change up the shot a little bit so that you don't notice
how much the light has actually changed in this room.
So you can actually use really simple cuts and zooming
as transitions to help break up your footage,
but also to help fix any flaws
that happen while you are filming as well.
So really it's all about keeping things simple
and not going overboard with the transitions
to the point that your videos are distracting
or annoying for your viewers to watch.
And in a lot of cases, keeping things simple
could actually give you really good results.
Now if you're looking to speed up your video editing process
and to make sure that you're editing
in the most efficient way,
without any rework or wasted time,
then check out the video linked on screen
to our complete video editing method.
And the other video linked on screen is one from YouTube,
so I hope it's good, I don't know what it is,
YouTube is suggesting that you'll like it,
so if it's good, let me know, and I'll see you soon.