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Applying Video Transitions in Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro Workflow

1

Import Media

File → Import or drag into Project panel.

2

Build Sequence

Drop clips on timeline, J/K/L to play, I/O for in/out points.

3

Color & Audio Pass

Lumetri Color for grading, Essential Sound for audio cleanup.

4

Export

File → Export → Media. H.264 for web, ProRes for archival.

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In this video, we'll take a look at a few of the more common techniques for multiple transitions, as well as finding innovative transitions for text as well as video clips.

Video Transcription

Hi, this is Margaret from Noble Desktop. Today, we will be talking about video transitions.

One thing editors can do if they want to have a lot of transitions is to highlight a series of clips and use the default cross dissolve by pressing Command + D. The cross dissolve is located in the project's effects panel under "Dissolve".

You can also set a new duration for your video transitions by going to Premiere Pro preferences and changing the timeline video transition default to whatever time you'd like.

Additionally, there are fun video transitions located in the Effects panel such as the whip transition in the slide category. You can also use a slide transition, dip to white, and dip to black to achieve different looks. There is also a VR transition that can work with non-VR 360 footage.

I hope you've enjoyed this video on transitions. This has been Margaret from Noble Desktop.

Video Transcript4 sections

1Full Video Transcript

Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop, and today we will be talking about video transitions. One thing that editors do if they want to have a lot of transitions is they could select a series of clips, highlight them like so, and then Command+D, which is your default cross dissolve.

Your cross dissolves are here. Here's your project, here's your Effects panel, here's your video transitions. Your dissolves are located under Dissolve, and you can notice how there's a blue highlight around Cross Dissolve because that's your default. Now, all transitions—all video transitions no matter what they are, they can be any of these—are one second. That's the default.

2Setting Custom Transition Durations

Maybe you know that you want to create a lot of long dissolves for this piece. To do that, the long way would be to double-click on this—this would be three seconds to create a long dissolve. But doing this for all of them would be quite a bit, so I'm going to Command+Z.

One way to set a new duration for your video transitions: we go to Premiere Pro, Preferences, Timeline, and actually the very first thing is Video Transitions Default. You can see this is one second zero frames. Your audio transitions are also a second. Your still image—this is quite long, this is something you actually might want to change in general.

But I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to say three, and that translates to three seconds zero frames. Let's say okay, and now I'm going to select everything and then say Command+D. Now this time I have a series of three-second dissolves on all of these clips.