- We're about to run through how to use
video transition effect in your favorite
video edition software, the easy way,
in this step-by-step
video transition tutorial.
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Hey it's Justin Brown
here from Primal Video,
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So let's jump into it.
Now when used correctly, video transitions
can add a whole new
dimension to your content,
and unlock a ton of creativity.
But the wrong transitions,
or overuse of video effects
can quickly become
distracting for your viewers,
and detract from the overall
video quality of your videos.
Now personally, I don't
use transitions too often,
but there are definitely
scenes when they add a lot
to the overall feel of the video.
A lot of transitions can
look pretty advanced,
especially some of the
more cinematic ones,
but don't worry because
we're gonna step through
how you can easily use
professional video transitions,
just like those, in your videos,
no matter what software you're using.
But, with great power comes
great transition responsibility,
and before you go plastering
that new transition power
all over your next video,
make sure you stick around
because once we've finished the tutorial,
I'm also gonna give you my number one tip
to remember while you're
using your transitions.
And also, the transition
that I use most, and why.
Alright, so by now, you've
probably figured out
that most video editing software has
some sort of built in transition option.
Whether it's the infamous,
Style Wipe, a Fold, a wipe,
a slide, whatever.
A lot of these just look
like they are from some sort
of PowerPoint presentation and in general,
unless it's some cheesy high
school graduation video,
or a slideshow for your grandparents,
I'd probably avoid them.
So how do you go, or where do you go
to get good transitions for your videos?
Well there's an awesome source
for a ton of pre-built templates
that you can easily customize
to fit your own style,
and your own brand, and to use
in any of your video editing projects,
and it's called VideoHive and I use it
on all of my professional projects.
So, we're gonna jump
over now to the computer,
and I'm gonna walk you
through the process.
Okay, so here we are on
videohive.net, and there is a heap
of different graphic element
transitions, stock footage,
3D elements that you can use
in your videos on this website,
so it's really really cool.
Specifically looking at transitions,
which is what we're talking about today.
You can come up here to Motion Graphics,
and you can see down here,
you got Transition elements,
under Apple Motion, you've
got Transition elements
under Elements, you've
got them specific for,
that would be Premier as
well, and also, After Effects.
So if you're using After
Effects, Adobe Premiere,
Apple Motion, or even
Final Cut, these will work
with Final Cut, then
these are the ones to use.
If you're using video editing software
that is something else,
other than one of those,
then you'd be after the generic ones here,
which should work on most
video editing software.
And just come down to transitions.
But I will cover that off, very very soon.
But for this tutorial, I'm gonna
show you in Adobe Premiere,
and we're going to go to elements.
And you can see already, the
types of things you got here,
as we mouse over some of these,
these are some Lower Thirds,
of some titles, that are
literally just drag and drop
and you can use them on your videos.
These are some Call Outs,
we've got some Heads Up
display effects and some more titles.
Then we go to Transitions,
we got some transitions down
here, we can narrow this down
by hitting Transitions here.
Now the best way to buy
these normally, is in packs.
And actually I think
most of the ones here are
in transition packs,
meaning that you get a heap
of transitions with the one off purchase.
So this one here for example,
for $38 you're getting 510 transitions.
And as you can see,
they're really high-end,
high quality transitions,
and the way that they work is
that you literally just
drag and drop them,
in Adobe Premiere in this case,
into your video editing software.
But there's heaps of other ones here
if you're after something specific.
So you can go through and
pick the one that matches
what you're after.
There's generally a
pretty safe bet to pick
a high-end transition pack like this one.
So we'll click on this one here,
so we're gonna go ahead
and purchase this one here,
Modern Transitions for Premiere
Pro, $38, and links again
to videohive.net and to
this exact transition pack
that we're gonna be running through,
I'll throw down in the description box.
So once, you've downloaded
the transition pack,
the installation process
might be little bit different
depending on which template pack you get,
and obviously we're using
Premiere versus Final Cut,
Apple Motion, After Effects,
that process might be
a little bit different.
But what all of them will have,
is some sort of instructions
or tutorial videos here,
to show you how to use it,
or how to install it.
So in this case here, you
can see that this video here,
is showing us how to apply
and use this transition.
But I'm gonna show you how to do that too.
When we go across to
the actual files here,
the Pr files, the Premiere
files, in here we've footage,
which is some sample
footage that they've used,
we've got some sounds that
come with the template,
and we've got our Premiere File here.
So in this case here,
we actually don't need
to install anything into Adobe Premiere
to be able use these templates.
It's literally a Premiere
Editing Project File
that you can open inside of
your video editing project
to have access to these transitions.
Okay so I'm here in Adobe Premiere now,
I've just gotta really
basic project set up,
with two video clips in the timeline.
Playback is gonna be fun,
because of the screen recording,
but it pans across past the chairs
and then over into the pool.
Now we're gonna drop some
transitions on this cut here,
just to show you the
types of things we can do.
So the first thing
we're gonna do is import
that project that we just
purchased from VideoHive.
I wanna suggest that you
do here, is tick the box
to create a folder for the imported items,
so that way it's all
contained, in the one place.
So you can see here,
we got a new folder here, Transition Pack.
And then we got a heap
of different transitions
and things down here too.
So you can see that while
there's 23 different projects inside,
it says of Swipes, there's 12 of them,
of IGV Swipes there's 12 of those.
There's a heap of
different options in here.
So let's look at Zoom Spins.
Double click on it to
open up that time line.
And as we scrub through
here, we'll be able to see
the different effects that we get.
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It's really just a matter of going through
and finding the transition in here
that you like the look of.
There's a heap of different
ones that we can try,
so let's just grab this
one here, I'll just zoom in
on the timeline here,
just pressing the + key
on the keyboard.
So what we need to do is grab these two
transition video layers here
and if we want the audio
to come along with it, then
we'll grab that audio track.
You can just hold down Shift
when you're clicking on these.
We'll then copy that, CMD + C or CTRL + C,
we'll go back over to our timeline,
and we'll just paste these
at the end of our clip here.
And what you wanna do is
pick your transition up
and lift if up a layer so it's not going
to be overriding your video layer,
but so it's gonna sit on top
of it, and just drop it there.
We'll come over here, we'll zoom in,
and we'll position this transition
where that marker is on our cut.
So that the transition
happens at that marker point.
And just looking at the quick
preview that we've got here,
you can see that the transition
is actually happening
inside of our video, so
what that tells me is we got
4K footage in the timeline here,
and the transition has come in at 1080.
So if that happens to
you, what you need to do,
is select your two clips,
right click and chose,
Scale to Frame Size.
And then that transition is now
scaled up to the right size.
So if we scrub through this,
you can see that we now
got that transition there on our timeline.
I'll just render out this section.
So as we play that back now, we can see
that we're panning across the
furniture, looking outside,
we're now looking at
transition, zoom in, spin,
and now we're back on our way.
Again apologies for the stuttery playback.
Okay so we'll remove this transition
and show you another one as well.
We'll come back over here,
and let's try try Lens Swipes.
So we double click on the sequence,
lets play through a couple of these.
A little bit faster, really fast.
Okay cool, so they've
actually named them here,
right right right left left
left, then we got one going up,
down, cool so we're gonna want the right,
because our pan is moving across that way.
So again, we'll select
these two video layers,
hold down Shift, grab the audio as well.
CMD + C to copy it, come
back to our timeline,
paste it on the end, move
our video layers up one,
drag it back along, and
drop it where it snaps
to that marker, which is right there.
Now we're gonna play this through.
So you can see we're able to
get some really cool effects,
literally drag and drop or copy
and past onto your timeline.
It's going to save you so much
work, and you'll be able to
get some really professional
looking transitions
in your videos.
Okay, so that's Adobe Premiere,
now Final Cut is almost exactly the same.
So if we go back over here to Apple Motion
and choose Elements and
then we go to Transitions,
and we've got some Transition
Packs, exactly the same.
Now with these you will
actually need to install them
into Final Cut to be able to use them.
But all the instructions
as I said, they give you
in the template that you purchase.
So then, in Final Cut, the process
is almost exactly the same.
We've got a very similar
timeline down at the bottom here.
We'll just come over to
Transitions, and you can see the
transition packs that we've got installed.
We've got Clean Transitions,
which is a heap of these here,
and we've also got Wipe Transitions,
and these were just transition packs
that we bought from VideoHive.
You can see that as you
put your mouse over it,
you can preview what
they're gonna look like.
And we just drag and drop them onto
that section between the two clips,
and that transition is now on.
So you can see how simple
and effective it is
to use these in your projects.
We'll delete this one, I'll
show you another one here now.
So grab this one here, drop it
on, let's play that through.
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So you can create some pretty cool looks,
just by dragging and dropping.
You can also see that
they're much better than some
of the pre-built ones.
Okay, so we're back on
VideoHive, what do you do
if you don't have Premiere,
After Effects, Apple Motion,
well you want to go to Motion Graphics,
go down to Transitions.
And so all the transition packs in here
are pre-rendered matted
video files that you can
drag and drop into almost any
video editing application.
So let's take a look at this one here,
10 Graceful Matte Transitions.
And you can see straightaway
down here it says there's
10 transitions, very easy
to use, that's always good,
no plug-ins needed.
So you don't need any additional software.
So I'm here in Screen Photo,
I've got two video files
down here, or two video clips
down here in the timeline,
just to show you how to do it
in more basic video editing software.
We'll come over here to our files,
you can see I've got the 10
Transition Packs imported
into this project.
I'll just hit the + button, Add File,
picked the ten files that I've downloaded,
and they're in there.
Now we can pick the
transition file that we want,
so this one here, Transition Six
and drag it down to our timeline.
So as we scrub through that now,
you can see that as we go
through, get the white bars on,
the transition's started,
and it goes to full white.
So the difference here
is we actually then need
to put a second version of
this, so if we copy this
paste it right after it, then we need
to reverse the second one.
Right click on it, choose Reverse Clip,
and that will go from white,
back into the new shot.
So if we play through that now,
the bars come on, goes to full white,
the new shot comes in and we're back out.
So it's a little bit
of a different process,
but we don't actually need to
touch the clips underneath.
And again that process might
be a little bit different
depending on the types of transitions
that you're actually purchasing,
you may just need to drag
and drop them on and they could
be good to go straight out.
You may not need to
reverse them, and also,
depending on your editing
software, you may need
to actually apply what's
called an Alpha Channel Filter
onto your transition.
So I've got this one here,
set up that way as an example
so you can see that
we're actually not seeing
the original video file underneath it.
So with that clip selected in this case,
we'll come over to our
video filters hit the +,
go down to color effect, and we're going
to choose Mask to Alpha, and hit Add.
Now you can see that our
transition is taking place
underneath of our clip there.
So that's how easy it is
to get professional looking transitions
in your editing video projects,
so that you're not stuck
using the built in ones
that come with your editing software.
Whether you're working in
Adobe, After Effects, Final Cut,
Adobe Premiere, or even in
this example, Screen Flow,
or other video editing software.
Okay so, earlier in the
video, I said I was going
to share with you my number one tip
when you're using transitions
and that is to not overuse them.
A lot of people can go way overboard
and just use a transition
on almost every cut,
and that can not only
be really distracting,
it can really be pretty damn annoying
for anyone watching your videos.
So effective transition use
can definitely add a lot
to your videos, but too many
transitions can definitely
leave you worse off than
without using any at all.
The moment that they're too predictable
or way too far out of place,
they just become distracting and annoying.
So the number one transition that I use
for most of my editing is
actually just a simple jump cut.
So no special fades, dips, cuts,
starwipes, wipes, whatever.
It is literally just a
cut, at the right time.
So you can mix it up by
zooming in, adding a jump cut,
which I typically use on this channel
when I need to emphasize something.
So if I'm summarizing something
and I want to emphasize
that last point, or the
most important part,
or the takeaway message for you guys,
then I'll normally zoom
in on that section.
Or if I'm filming here with a big window
and the light changes
dramatically outside,
I might add a quick cut with a zoom
to change up the shot a little
bit so that you don't notice
how much the light has
actually changed in this room.
So you can actually use
really simple cuts and zooming
as transitions to help
break up your footage,
but also to help fix any flaws
that happen while you are filming as well.
So really it's all about
keeping things simple
and not going overboard
with the transitions
to the point that your
videos are distracting
or annoying for your viewers to watch.
And in a lot of cases,
keeping things simple
could actually give you
really good results.
Now if you're looking to speed
up your video editing process
and to make sure that you're editing
in the most efficient way,
without any rework or wasted time,
then check out the video linked on screen
to our complete video editing method.
And the other video linked on
screen is one from YouTube,
so I hope it's good, I
don't know what it is,
YouTube is suggesting that you'll like it,
so if it's good, let me
know, and I'll see you soon.
