Adding Transitions with Adobe Premiere Pro
In this sample lesson from Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book 2024 Release by Maxim Jago, you'll delve into the art of using transitions in video editing. The lesson comprehensively covers how to understand, add, modify, and fine-tune video transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro. It explains essential concepts such as edit points, handles, and the various types of transitions that can enhance storytelling by indicating changes in time or location. This chapter also includes instructions on applying transitions to multiple clips and integrating audio transitions for a smoother sound. Practical exercises are provided, using project files available for download from the Peachpit website, ensuring that you can practice the skills as you learn. This lesson is designed to be completed in 75 minutes, perfect for enhancing your video editing skills in a concise timeframe.
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Understand edit points and handles.
Understand transitions.
Add video transitions.
Modify transitions.
Fine-tune transitions.
Apply transitions to multiple clips.
Work with audio transitions.
This lesson will take about 75 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at peachpit.com/PremiereProCIB2024. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of this book. Store the files on your computer in a convenient location.
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Starting the lesson
Although the most common transition is a cut—where one clip abruptly ends and another begins—there are great opportunities for creativity using transition effects you can animate.
In this lesson, you’ll learn to use transitions between video and audio clips to help your edits flow more smoothly. You’ll also learn best practices for choosing the most appropriate transitions.
For this lesson, you’ll use a new project file.
Start Adobe Premiere Pro, and open the project Lesson 07.prproj from the Lessons folder.
Save the project as Lesson 07 Working.prproj in the same folder.
Use the Workspaces menu to choose Effects. Reset the workspace to the saved layout.
This changes the workspace to a preset optimized for working with transitions and effects.
The workspace uses stacked panels to maximize the number of panels that can be onscreen at a time.
You can enable stacked panels for any panel group by opening the panel menu 
and choosing Panel Group Settings > Stacked Panel Group. The same option will toggle off stacked panels.
Keep stacked panels enabled for now.
You can click the name of any stacked panel to view it. In the Effects panel, you can click effect category disclosure triangles to display their contents. The stacked panel automatically changes height to accommodate the listed items.
