From the course: Premiere Pro: Mastering Effects and Transitions

Modifying a transition - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro: Mastering Effects and Transitions

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Modifying a transition

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take a look at modifying transitions inside of Adobe Premiere Pro. I'm currently in my chapter 1_2 sequence and we did do some modifications in the last movie. We adjusted the duration of a transition inside of the timeline, as well as showed the actual sources of our transition inside effect controls. We're going to continue on those principles in this movie. Now first of all, if you go to your Premiere Pro preferences and this is going to be available under the edit menu on a PC, head to your timeline settings, and at the very top are your settings for video transitions. The default duration on my system is currently set to 30 frames. I'm going to adjust this to be 20 as I use that a lot more in the content that I cut. There's also a audio transition default duration. Once making that adjustment press OK to close the dialog box and I'm currently in my effects workspace, you can go to window workspaces affects if you'd like to access that. And under the effects tab, I'll increase the size of this window and click on the disclosure next to the video transitions category. Under dissolve, I'll grab the film dissolve and apply that as a center at cut onto my shots here on the timeline. If I move it earlier, we can preview the transition and I'll make sure my play head is over the transition, so I can see any adjustments that I might make to it. With it selected, this time I'm going to press shift + 5 to reveal effect controls and you'll notice that show actual sources is currently checked. This might have something to do with the fact that we activated this in the last movie. I will click off of it, so you can see here that it will show you the A and B side of your edits, and that we can also adjust the duration of this transition here, which is now 20 frames based on the preferences of our timeline settings. I'll make this 15 frames instead by typing in 15 and typing return and notice that not only can we adjust the alignment like we saw in the last movie here, but inside effect controls where we see the transition icon, if you wait for this icon to appear, the little rectangle with two arrows pointing in both directions, you will slide the transition across the edit point to a specific location that you desire. I'm going to press command + Z or control + Z on a PC to undo that. And the other thing you can do is actually take the edit point and choose a new one by rolling it. So this is the roll tool inside of Premiere Pro. If I roll this a little bit earlier, the transition will go with it and then I can also adjust or slide that transition across these two clips. I'll move my play head a little bit earlier and press the space bar, so we can see that transition now and in the timeline, drag this out to make that transition longer and see how this looks between the two clips. The other thing we can easily do is switch transitions by dragging a new one on top of the current one. Now I'm going to grab the additive dissolve and apply that directly over the film dissolved by dragging and dropping in the timeline. Once I release my mouse, a new transition appears. I can see here that it's kept the custom start that we changed in effect controls. If I press the space bar, we'll get a preview of it. Now, certain transitions beyond dissolve have several settings that we can adjust. To see this, I'm going to click the disclosure triangle to close out the dissolve category and head over to the wipe section. I'll grab the wipe transition and apply that over the additive dissolve to swap them out and with that transition selected, in effect controls, see that in the preview there are these little arrows where we can choose where to wipe our clips from. I'll click south to north and then just preview with the space bar that transition after moving my play head. We can also add a border and once I enter a value such as six, a slight black border based on the border color now appears on my two shots. I also have controls for reversing the direction of the south to north wipe I chose as well as adding anti-aliasing quality, so the transition looks nice on big screens, I'll set it to medium for now. To see this in full frame, I'm going to press control + tilde after moving my play head a little bit earlier so we can see that wipe transition. And other transitions that we then add or replace with the existing transitions that we have, we can modify and see those additional settings that are available. And that's how you modify transitions inside of Adobe Premiere Pro.

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