Transitions and Effects

When getting inspiration for my video I noticed that all the videos I watched used a transition effect between each scene that it changed to. This gave the videos a smooth feel and they weren't choppy.

At this point this is exactly how my video was, choppy and stutter, it didn't seem to transition well between clips, so I set about adding transitions.

There were a number of transitions available to me in Premiere however I only chose to use one as all the videos I watched seemed to use it plus I found it was the one that best worked for me, it was the dip to black transition.

In order to apply it to the video I clicked the effects tab in the project window, then opened video transitions, then opened the dissolve folder.

Then it was just a case of dragging and dropping the transitions where I wanted them on my timeline, which was between each clip.

By overlapping the transition across 2 clips it created a nice smooth flow for the video.

I wanted to add an effect to the space picture at the start of the video so it wasn’t a still image and it was as though the camera was panning across space. So I double clicked the image on the timeline to load it into the source window.

I then selected the effect controls tab.

From here I was able to apply the effect I wanted. I did this first by selecting toggle animation next to position.

Then using the positioning numbers I changed where the camera started on this picture and created a key frame.

Then I created another key frame at the end of the sequence with the camera in a different position, this meant that when played back it gave the impression of movement.