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Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

Lesson 58 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete Guide

Abba Shapiro

Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

Lesson 58 from: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Video Editing: The Complete Guide

Abba Shapiro

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Lesson Info

58. Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

Summary (Generated from Transcript)

The instructor discusses advanced editing techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, specifically focusing on transitions. He demonstrates how to apply default transitions to both video and audio, as well as how to apply transitions separately to the video or audio. The instructor also mentions the importance of recording room tone and using audio transitions to create smooth transitions between audio clips. He concludes by troubleshooting an issue with applying audio transitions to long sound bites.

Q&A:

  1. How do you apply the default transition in Adobe Premiere Pro CC?

    You can apply the default transition by selecting the edit point and pressing Shift D.

  2. Can you apply transitions separately to the video and audio?

    Yes, you can apply transitions separately by using the keyboard shortcut Command D (Ctrl D on Windows) for video transitions and Shift Command D (Shift Ctrl D on Windows) for audio transitions.

  3. What are the default durations for video and audio transitions?

    The duration of transitions is set in the Preferences menu under General. The default duration can be adjusted for both video and audio transitions.

  4. Why is it important to record room tone?

    Recording room tone allows for a smooth transition between audio clips and helps avoid abrupt changes in sound. Room tone can be used to fill in gaps or create a consistent background presence in the audio.

  5. How can you troubleshoot issues with applying audio transitions to long sound bites?

    Zooming in on the timeline and ensuring that the transition duration is appropriate for the length of the sound bite can help troubleshoot issues with applying audio transitions.

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Understanding Editing: Bootcamp Overview

07:25
2

Understanding Editing: Overview

25:25
3

Understanding Editing: Video Examples

25:07
4

Tour The Interface: Digital Video Workflow

16:38
5

Tour The Interface: Project Panel

12:28
6

Tour The Interface: Choosing Your Shot

07:18
7

Tour The Interface: Music And Voice Over

10:31
8

Tour The Interface: Video Tracks

05:26
9

Tour The Interface: Edit Markers

08:46
10

Building a Rough Cut: Cut Planning

21:46
11

Building a Rough Cut: Selecting Media

25:01
12

Building a Rough Cut: The Edit

30:50
13

Building a Rough Cut: Edit Points

13:43
14

Refining Your Edit: Preparation

10:29
15

Refining Your Edit: Making Cuts

25:19
16

Refining Your Edit: Using Markers

16:31
17

Refining Your Edit: J and L Cuts

15:57
18

Refining Your Edit: Replace Edit

05:04
19

Working with Audio: Overview

17:43
20

Working with Audio: Levels

13:36
21

Working with Audio: Music

10:00
22

Working with Audio: Mixing And Syncing

14:50
23

Transitions: Overview

13:44
24

Transitions: Effect Controls

09:31
25

Filters & Effects: Overview

18:05
26

Filters & Effects: Using Multiple Filters

22:18
27

Motion & Animation: Motion And Animation Overview

09:40
28

Motion & Animation: Movement With Still Images

26:56
29

Motion & Animation: Picture In Picture

10:57
30

Motion & Animation: Motion Effects

17:08
31

Titling & Graphics: Overview

27:11
32

Titling & Graphics: Advanced Tools

11:03
33

Titling & Graphics: Roll And Crawl Effects

08:01
34

Titling & Graphics: Working With Photoshop

12:17
35

Speed Changes: Overview

21:12
36

Speed Changes: Stills And Variable Speeds

06:23
37

Color Correction: Overview

07:39
38

Color Correction: Lumetri Scopes

11:32
39

Color Correction: Contrast

21:37
40

Color Correction: Advanced Tools

15:12
41

Color Correction: Adjusting To A Master Clip

07:45
42

Finishing: Prepping for Output

14:53
43

Finishing: QC Edit Points

24:56
44

Sharing & Exporting: Overview

29:05
45

Sharing & Exporting: Size And Quality

24:46
46

Ingesting Media:

28:39
47

Ingesting Media: Transferring And Importing

31:15
48

Media Management & Archiving

26:10
49

Multi-Camera Editing: Overview

14:26
50

Multi-Camera Editing: Creating A Sequence

20:04
51

Multi-Camera Editing: Switching Multiple Cameras

15:31
52

Multi-Camera Editing: Finalizing

12:37
53

Creating Timelapses: Shooting Strategies

18:04
54

Creating Timelapses: Editing Images

14:21
55

Creating Timelapses: Importing Strategies

18:47
56

Creating Timelapses: Animation

05:58
57

Advanced Editing Techniques: Take Command Of Your Timeline

22:36
58

Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

07:57
59

Advanced Editing Techniques: Keyboard Shortcuts

12:00
60

Advanced Editing Techniques: Preference Hacks

21:15
61

Thinking Like an Editor: Editing Choices

31:55
62

Thinking Like an Editor: Telling the Story

23:50
63

Special Tools: Warp Stabilizer

17:59
64

Special Tools: Morph Cut

06:56
65

Special Tools: Green Screen

20:16

Lesson Info

Advanced Editing Techniques: Transitions

Let's talk a little bit more about transitions. We learned, and I'm gonna go put the transitions, I guess, between some of these video clips. So I'm gonna use the Z key. We learned that earlier on. I use Z and I can select this range and now we're zoomed in. And I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna put a transition here. And one of the things we learned is that to apply the default transition it's Shift D, as a matter of fact, you know what, I am going to explore that with a clip that has both video and audio. So I wanna actually use one of the interview bites. Cause I wanna show you this, I'm gonna drag this out, so you can actually see this in place. So I have two clips next to each other. And if I go ahead and I select the edit point and I hit Shift D, which was our default transition, with a dissolve, it will put the dissolve on both the video and the audio. As opposed to one or the other. It automatically assumes, you want your video and your audio to have a dissolve if you use Shift ...

D. But what you also can do is you can use is if you just want to apply the video transition it's Command D, it's Ctrl D on Windows. So I'm gonna go ahead and undo that. If I have this selected, even though both are selected, I can hit Command D and it just puts the transition on the video. If, it's Ctrl, by the way, on Windows, if I just wanna apply the audio transition, it's again Ctrl, but now I'm shifting that from the video to the audio. So to shift it from the video to audio, it's Shift Command D, okay. And think D as dissolve, instead of obviously T for transition. But Shift D, Shift Command D, or Shift Ctrl D. And these are your default transitions. Default, think dissolve, think default. But those are the keyboard shortcuts that you would need. Now, when I do the traditional Shift D, the original video and audio, let me make sure that I have the right edit point selected, I do want to point out, doesn't let me put that there cause I already had a transition. Undo, undo, undo. There we go, zoom in, be more accurate. Talk to myself. Okay Shift D. The video and audio transitions don't necessarily have to, and possibly will not be the same duration. Because remember, the duration of your transitions is set in your Preferences. So you can do these separately. So if I look in my Preferences under General, I can choose the default duration of my video as well as my audio transitions. And talking a little bit about transitions, we did a whole section on it, but I do want to point out, you know, so I might have my video, usually my video is usually a half second, 15 frames; audio varies, and I use audio transitions for a couple of things. One, sometimes just I want a smooth transition between one cut of music and another cut of music. Another time is if I'm going and I'm editing and I have, cutting a narration up and I have quiet areas, I may want to fade it down so I don't hear an abrupt stop to the room tone. Because if you listen quietly whenever you're in any room, a room has a presence. And as a matter of fact, one good rule of thumb in production, and you'll see this sometimes when you're looking at somebody else's footage, is you record what's called room tone at the beginning and the end of the interview, or whatever you shoot and the reason you do it at both the beginning and the end is that the tone sometimes changes, and now you have something you can put in a separate audio track. And if you're cutting in and out of an interview, the room tone doesn't go away because you have, not artificial, but you've already recorded it so the presence stays the same rather they're talking or not. You don't have that sudden lack of sound. It's amazing how sensitive our ears are to hearing no noise. You can hear a hiccup of a 30th of a second if a frame is missing, you pull something apart, as like a hiccup of sound. So putting in some room tone is very useful. And it's important when you record room tone, that you actually record it right before or after the interview with everybody in place. Because we absorb and bounce sound very differently then when the room is empty. So you'll see in footage, and you can do this, is a lot of times you'll aim the camera at the microphone. So when you're scrubbing through you know it's room tone. And you say room tone and everybody stops for a minute and you just record with nobody moving, and then you do that at the end. And now you have something that you can use if you need to clean up your audio. And it's a very good tool. So a lot of times I'll put on maybe a four second soft audio dissolve and I may select all of my narration bites and literally throw on dissolves at beginning and the end just so they kind of are not as abrupt. It's a soft cut for audio. So, knowing that you can change that before you put it on can be very useful, so in reality I may go, Frames, and I may go just give me, you know, a six frame dissolve for my audio. Make sure I hit okay, this is why I have a tendency to change these when teaching and then hit cancel and wonder why they're not working for me. There we go, there we go, boom. So if I have points here where the audio doesn't touch, I could just select it all. Remember the keyboard shortcut, you're shifting from the video to the audio, so it's Shift Command Default. So that's an audio only, boom. If zoom in, if luck is with me, it should have put some transitions on here. Let's see if it did. Did I hit the right key? I love when I do something and it doesn't work. Let us think about this, it might be a drag and drop requirement. I thought we could do it this way, I may have to do this by a drag and drop. Sometimes I get fooled by this and people love when I make mistakes So I try to do it often. And with style. Okay, Effects, I wanna do a audio dissolve, Audio Effects, Audio Transitions, there we go. I'm doing constant power. Drag and drop on all these selected clips. Let's see if it worked there. Not sure why it's not working, I'll have to check on that, I wanna keep moving forward. Could be, did I have an end of clip, that should have worked, doesn't let me, and this is where you can go down a, ah. Brain sometimes works, let's try this, and I'll tell you what I did. Shift Command D. Oh come one. I just selected all of my edit points, you should have worked. Okay, we'll try it one more time and then I will punt and move forward. Gotta figure that one out. By the way, if I wanted to select all those edit points, instead of lassoing this way, I held down the Command key, and now I selected all my edit points as of selecting all of my clips. It's stills being kinda difficult. You know what it might be? It might be that these are long sound bites. And I just put in a dissolve that's 1/5th of a second and I wasn't patient enough to zoom all the way in. So it might have done that. Should I take a look and see if I'm vindicated, or if I'm just making stuff up. Okay, let's go ahead, we're gonna do Shift Command D this, make sure it's there. (exaggerated laughter) I wasn't, well maybe I am crazy, but it did work. So glad I figured that out as I was tap dancing. So yes, there you've learned a couple of techniques, and you've learned that you need to zoom in when you have really big sound bites and you're putting in a fifth of a second audio dissolve.

Class Materials

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Abba Shapiro's Work File Information
Building a Rough Cut - Project Files
Refining Your Edit - Project File
Working with Audio Project File
Motion Effects - Project Files
Titling and Graphics - Project Files
Speed Changes - Project Files
Color Correction - Project Files
Finishing - Project Files
Multi-Camera Editing - Project Files (Large Download - 3.25GB)
Creating Timelapses - Project Files (Large Download - 1.25GB)
Thinking Like An Editor - Project Files
Special Tools - Project Files
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Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I've never even tried video editing before this class. I opened the program once and panicked. After only 9 lessons I was able to throw a short video together (basic of course, but still pretty cool). I wish all of my teachers growing up were just like Abba. He goes over everything without dragging anything on for too long. He repeats things just enough for me to actually remember them, and he is funny. He keeps it fun and shows that even he makes mistakes. I can't even believe how much I have learned in less than a quarter of his class. I have a long way to go and am very excited to learn more. This class is worth every penny and more! I was hesitant on buying the class because I have CS6 and he works with CC, but I have already used what I've learned in his course to create a video. The first 9 lessons were already worth what I paid for the entire course. Thank you, Abba! You are an awesome teacher! You have me absolutely obsessed with creating right now! I highly recommend! You won't find this thorough of a course for this decent price!

a Creativelive Student
 

Just bought this yesterday and cannot stop watching!!!! What a FANTASTIC teacher-- just love the way he explains everything. For someone like me (who has a zillion questions) it is perfect. As soon as he introduces a feature, he explains several aspects in such a way that's easy to grasp and remember. So, so happy I got this. Thank you Abba and CreativeLive!

a Creativelive Student
 

I am only on lesson 19 and I am so glad I bought this class, so worth it and Abba packs so much information into these lessons its crazy. I will for sure have to come back and watch again when I need to remember to do stuff or need a refresher. He is funny and quirky and a great teacher. I so recommend this to anyone wanting to become a better video editor!! I am coming from being self taught and using iMovie and he makes it so simple and understandable. Can't wait to learn more :)

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