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172 Chapter 8: Transitions The transitions included with Adobe Premiere Pro provide a variety of ways to replace one clip with another in video or audio tracks. Transition overview About transitions A transition moves a scene from one shot to the next. Generally, you use a simple cut to move from shot to shot, but in some cases you might want to transition between shots by phasing out one and phasing in another. Adobe Premiere Pro provides many transitions that you can apply to your sequence. A transition can be a subtle crossfade or a stylized effect, such as a page turn or spinning pinwheel. While you usually place a transition on a cut line between shots, you can also apply a transition to only the beginning or end of a clip. By default, placing one clip next to another in the Timeline panel results in a cut, where the last frame of one clip is simply followed by the first frame of the next. When you want to emphasize or add a special effect to a scene change, you can add any of a variety of transitions, such as wipes, zooms, and dissolves. Apply transitions to the timeline using the Effects panel, and edit them using the Timeline and the Effect Controls panel. In most cases you don't want transitions to occur during the essential action in a scene. For this reason, transitions work best with handles, or extra frames, beyond the In and Out points set for the clip. Transitions are available in the Video Transitions and the Audio Transitions bins in the Effects panel. Adobe Premiere Pro provides many transitions, including dissolves, wipes, slides, and zooms. These transitions are organized in bins by type. For a video and a print tutorial on making transitions, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_dv_tutorial_transitions. You can create custom bins to group effects any way you'd like. (See "Work with bins" on page 87.) See also "Work with audio transitions" on page 201 "About high bit-depth effects" on page 243 "Using effects from other products" on page 242 Make a smooth transition in Adobe Premiere Pro Transition workflow A typical transition workflow includes the following steps: 1. Add the transition. You can add a transition by dragging its icon from the Effects panel into the Timeline panel, or by applying the default transition using a menu command or shortcut. April 1, 2008