Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 325)

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Effects and transitions
Last updated 11/6/2011
Transition overview
About transitions
A transition moves a scene from one shot to the next. Generally, you use a simple cut to move from shot to shot, but
in some cases you might want to transition between shots by phasing out one and phasing in another. Premiere Pro
provides many transitions that you can apply to your sequence. A transition can be a subtle crossfade or a stylized
effect, such as a page turn or spinning pinwheel. While you usually place a transition on a cut line between shots, you
can also apply a transition to only the beginning or end of a clip.
By default, placing one clip next to another in a Timeline panel results in a cut, where the last frame of one clip is simply
followed by the first frame of the next. When you want to emphasize or add a special effect to a scene change, you can
add any of a variety of transitions, such as wipes, zooms, and dissolves. Apply transitions to the timeline using the
Effects panel, and edit them using the Timeline and the Effect Controls panel.
In most cases you don’t want transitions to occur during the essential action in a scene. For this reason, transitions
work best with handles, or extra frames, beyond the In and Out points set for the clip.
Transitions are available in the Video Transitions and the Audio Transitions bins in the Effects panel. Premiere Pro
provides many transitions, including dissolves, wipes, slides, and zooms. These transitions are organized in bins
by type.
For a video tutorial that shows how to apply and adjust transitions, see the Adobe website .
For a video and a print tutorial on making transitions, see the Adobe website .
You can create custom bins to group effects any way you’d like. (See “ Work with bins ” on page 105.)
More Help topics
“ Work with audio transitions ” on page 220
“ About high bit-depth effects ” on page 264
“ Using effects from other products ” on page 264
Make a smooth transition in Premiere Pro
Transition workflow
For a video tutorial that shows how to apply and adjust transitions, see the Adobe website .
A typical transition workflow includes the following steps:
1. Add the transition.
You can add a transition by dragging its icon from the Effects panel into a Timeline panel, or by applying the default
transition using a menu command or shortcut.
You can add several clips to a sequence at once, and automatically add a default transition between them. (See “ Add
clips to a sequence automatically ” on page 162.)