People have often like called me saying, I'm trying to put transitions on, they're not working, why? And then I tell them, well look are you using the entire clip? Yes, on both sides. And I bring this up for a very important point. Here I've used every single frame of video. And I'm emphasizing this, let me go back to the other clip that I added some, but I'm going to go ahead and bring it back out again, double click. I have extra space to put in my transition. If I take these same clips, and I double click on them to load them into the viewer, you can see here's my in point, here's my out point. So that's the key, you need a little bit of handles. If I wanted to do this, I might have to trim the head, so now I have a few frames to dissolve out of the first one and into the second one. So that could become a challenge if I'm trying to put a transition in because I have no extra handle to transition between, to dissolve between. And I know it because I see this little diamond right there, so if you look at a clip on your timeline, and you see this little diamond in the corner, that means you have used all the media that's available. Now you saw, if I can zoom up a little bit here, that I was trying to pull this and I wasn't getting any extra handle. I can go ahead and put a dissolve in, but I would need to have extra space, and the reason I wanted to do this on a separate part is I'm going to actually put this on two lines just so you can see what's going on, and if I need to dissolve from here to here, I need a little extra material at the head, and a little extra material at the tail. So if I was going to do a transition here, and actually a cut ideally would work, but let's say I needed to smooth it out. So now I just made a copy that I can work with. That's what happens when you talk and you don't look at your fingers.
If I hold down the option key when I drag something, it makes a copy of it, should of made a copy. Is if I wanted to dissolve between, I'm going to hold down because I want to teach you a new technique.
So if we were to see this visually, and I'm going to go ahead and just use the end of my timeline for this. So when you put a transition between two clips, and I actually have one there I'm going to remove, you need some overlap when you put a dissolve in because if I'm dissolving from one clip to another clip, and I'm at the end of both clips, there's no extra media for them to see as one fades out and the other one fades in. And one of the things I want to talk about is handles. We have Colin, and then we're going to talk about putting some transitions here.
#ADOBE PREMIERE TRANSITION ON ONE SIDE PLUS#
And we're going to go ahead, and I'm going to hit select this window, which is my timeline window, and let's bring our shift plus to make these nice and clean. And that's just going to bring us back to our traditional editing layout. And I'm going to go ahead and reset to saved layout. And what I want to do is I want to switch from that. We were in the sound panel, the essential sound panel, which is a specific layout. Use them for the purposes that you need them. So you look at a lot of things, and it's like, oh I'm going to do a star wipe, I'm going to do a pan. I'm sure there's a lot of folks out there that have gone to a restaurant and whoever designed the menu discovered there were 43 typefaces in their Word processing program, and everything had a different typeface, and boy was that an annoying menu to read. Just because you can use the transition and a variety of them, doesn't mean you should. There's a lot of transitions you can add as third party plug-ins. There's a lot of transitions built into Premiere. Those are the basic three, and as a matter of fact, the transition you should use the most is the cut. They had the wipe and that was even longer because that was also location. So a dissolve historically meant that you know time had passed and we're moving to another day or another week. Sometimes a transition is used to denote a change of. So that's one of the things that I would do. So I might put a dissolve between say the exterior and Colin speaking. I will use it because maybe the color temperature or the scene is really bright, and I'm cutting to something that's dark, and I don't want people to just like be shocked by it. Sometimes it's simply to smooth out a cut. Now why do we add transitions? Well, a couple of reasons. So this is where you start smoothing things out.
We're going to look at applying these as default, changing their durations and modifying transitions. And we're not talking about gaining weight and losing weight, those are love handles, something completely different. We're going to talk about the need for handles, and we're not talking about luggage.
Working with transitions, and here's the list of what we're going to hopefully cover.