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Tutorials a Safe Harbor blog Adobe Premiere Pro Transitions 0 Posted by Jeff Pulera April 10, 2009 If you enjoy this post, please share it! Adobe Premiere Pro uses a single-track editing style for applying transitions, so to place a transition between two clips, those clips must be butted together on the same track. Older versions of Premiere used a two-track system, which meant the two clips would be on different tracks, with the ends of the clips overlapped. The transition or wipe would be placed on an effects track layered in between the two video tracks, with the transition duration determined by the amount of clip overlap. Since clips in Premiere Pro are placed end to end on a single track, there is no longer any area of clip overlap in which to place the transition. Thus, the end of the first clip and the beginning of the following clips must be trimmed before butting them together, in effect creating some overlap, or extra material, available for the transition to take place in. The transition is then dropped onto the joint between the two adjacent clips. If I want a one-second dissolve between two clips, I would trim 15 frames (one half second) of video off each clip where they meet. This creates one second of overlap, so I can then place a one-second transition where the clips meet. If I decide to lengthen the transition, one or both of the clips would need to be trimmed more to provide the necessary frames of extra video "overlap" for the transition. In the event that you have two clips on the timeline and are unable to drop a transition between them, even though you’ve trimmed the ends, zoom in to frame level ("+" key on keyboard) to examine the area where the clips meet. A small gap of one or two frames may not be visible without zooming in, but would keep you from applying a transition since the clips are not touching one another. If you are coming from Premiere 6.5 or another editing application that used a transition track, it may take a little getting used to in order to remember to trim the clip ends before applying transitions between then. Once you get a handle on the single-track workflow, I’m sure you will find it much more productive to work with as I have. 0 responses to "Adobe Premiere Pro Transitions" Leave a comment You can use select BBCode tags to format your thoughts including: [b], [i], [s], [u], [url], [quote] and [code].

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