in this video, I'm going to show you five
of my favorite transitions in adobe premiere pro that you can use to spice up your edits.
Hey what's going on my name is Peter Sarellas i'm a videographer and editor from Toronto
Canada i specialize in sports and videography and in this video I'm showing you five of my
favorite transitions in adobe premiere pro so that you can use them in your edit
to add a little spice to your videos all right so the first transition that we're going
to do is kind
of like a two-for-one we're going to be talking about a speed ramp transition which a
lot of you are probably already very familiar with as well as like a slow-mo ramp which is like
kind of the opposite but I think I like using the slo-mo ramp even more than they're like using
a speed ramp but we're gonna get into it and I'll show you how to do so first let's look at the
actual clips that we're using for this transition let's make this bigger so you guys can see it and
we're going to start
by doing the speed ramp i'll go through this pretty quickly because i get it
that you're pretty familiar with it probably so to access the properties of a clip that you have
in your timeline in premiere you have to right click it and then you go show clip keyframes time
remaining speed in the menu and you click on that and that will allow you to then
manipulate the speed of a clip you can see you can like drag it up and down
and as the percentage of the speed changes so over 100 is faster
than regular speed and below
100 it's lower than regular speed so we want to do a uh now you know what i said we're going to do
the speed ramp let's do the slo-mo ramp first because i'm more excited about it and i think this
clip works well for it so we have this clip right here of this player taking a shot and it goes
in i think it'd be really cool to slow this clip down right here so you can really see like the
flick of the net like that as the ball goes in so let's hold command or contro
l depending on your
mac or pc and then you left click and you get this little arrow dragging thing i don't know what it's
called and you can just drag this out to make a ramp and on this side of the ramp you can drag the
clip to below 100 which is going to make it slower than real life this clip was filmed in 120 frames
per second which means we can slow it down to 20 speed because 120 is five times bigger than 24 and
we're working with a 24 frame per second timeline if that was confusing t
o you i have a whole video
of a frame rate and you can go check it out right here it'll make a lot more sense but anyways
we've got this clip slowed down to 20 speed and you can see that we have the slow motion but
it maybe doesn't hold for as long as i would like so let's make that slow down a little faster that's better let me even give that
a couple more frames to breathe and now we want to slow down the start of the
next step as well because we don't want to just quickly go from slow mo
tion to fast motion
again it's nicer if it can kind of stay slow and then gradually ramp up so we're going to
do exactly what we just did right click show clip keyframes time remaining speed left click
and then we're going to hold command or control left click to get our little arrow thing we'll
drag it out to make a ramp and on this side of the ramp the side that is close to the end of the last
clip we're going to slow the clip down to 20 speed just like that and you can see that a lot
of
this clip is slowed down now we probably made this ramp too big so we're just going
to grab and drag here we're going to adjust and this is from two seconds and five frames all
the way until two seconds and thirteen frames maybe we want it to be slower for a little bit
longer than a few frames but let's see what this looks like that's pretty good so now we have this
clip the player takes a shot goes in slows down slows down to a celebration and then cuts to the
next shot of the celebration
but i think that we can make this even better by speed ramping in to
that switch from the second shot to the third shot where we go from the back angle of the celebration
to the front angle of the celebration so let's do exactly what we just did we're just going to hold
command and click drag this out and lift it up to make it faster let's speed this up to like 150
speed which is 1.5 times faster than real life and then we're going to extend this clip
so that it's faster for a little longe
r so now you can see it played through and
it kind of speeds up right at the end this clip is already like zooming in with the
camera so it looks like a speed ramp already just because the camera is moving so
quickly as this videographer zooms in from the wide shot to the tight shot the
clip already kind of speed ramps so the effect is already looking pretty good
but if we do the same thing we just did drag this out like we did last time and then
we're going to speed this clip up to 150 pe
rcent now maybe we'll make the
speed last a little longer now it looks a little better in my
opinion and when we have that all done this is what our clip looks like with our slo-mo
ramp and our speed ramp together in one sequence the next transition that we're going to be
covering is an overlay transition and i love using overlays for transitions because they
are just so versatile and there's a bajillion different overlays out there on the internet that
you can go get or you can create you
r own overlays and you can make them look
totally different there's no limit to what you can do with like combining
overlays and by the time you're finishing an edit your overlays are going to make your edit look
distinct and going to kind of like be a reflection of your style so we're going to use an overlay
transition for this series of simple shots we have a player going in he makes the game-winning
layup and then we have the celebration shot and we're gonna use some overlays to spice th
at
up so i've got these two overlays here i have this vhs transition and honestly i don't even
remember where i got this from i just kind of had it in my effects library so we're going to use
it and i have this rainbow flicker overlay which is actually one that i made and it's just like
a long series of well you can see it it's like a rainbow flicker with some grainy noise to it and
this is part of actually a transition pack that i'm slowly working on i'm trying to put together a
whole bun
ch of different transitions for you guys and this is going to be in there there's
a few different variations on this as well and there's some other stuff that i'm working on
growing in i'm hoping hoping to get that done by boxing day fingers crossed i don't know how busy
my schedule is going to be but stay tuned because soon i'm going to have a new transition pack
coming out for you guys and i can't wait to share that but we're going to use this element from
that future transition pack in t
his tutorial today so let's actually start with the vhs transition
i kind of like how it looks so we don't need this whole thing it's over a second long maybe we just
take this first bit right here we'll just click ok to set an out point and then we'll drag the
video only i'll try to set this transition so it's over top of the middle of the two clips and you
can see here that this vhs transition layer is not filling up the entire frame so we're just
going to scale it up until it fills the f
rame and now this clip has a black background so if you
want to blend something with a black background so that black goes away and it's visible with
the clips below it you need to use an additive blending mode so under the opacity tab here in the
effects control panel we can click that and the additive blending modes are these ones light and
screen color dodge linear dodge add and lighten color so we're going to go with linear dodge add
now i recommend you usually use screen or linear dodg
e add but experiment and see what looks good
depending on your specific overlay so click linear dodge add and all of a sudden we have this vhs
effect that bleeds through onto our clips and just so i play this back now i think it's going
to look a lot better with that very simple change that was probably a bit long for my liking let's
shorten that up maybe let's make it a 10 frame transition so we have five frames this way and
five frames this way by the way if you want to skip five frames h
old shift from the left or
right arrow while you're clicking the timeline it'll just jump five frames for you anyways
that was probably a little bit long let's shorten that up even more take two frames off
each end so this is a six frame transition a little longer that's maybe higher
magic number i'm getting i'm really finicking with it and you should do this
with your transitions as well like really get in there and like adjust frame by frame
to make it look perfect in the way you want bu
t for the sake of this tutorial we're
going to call that good for a vhs transition and we're not going to leave it at this it's
kind of simple and that's not really like much you know what i mean so we're gonna also
combine it with this rainbow flicker transition that we got going here so again this is like i
made this really long just so you can go and like pick the part of it that you want or you have the
option to speed it up or slow it down depending on what you're looking for so i'm ju
st going to take
like one second of this i'll drag that onto the timeline and we're actually going to speed this up
so we get like a really fast color flicker effect so click r and that will give you the right
stretch tool and then you're going to stretch this back and what this what the right stretch tool
does is speed up a clip or slow down a clip by either pulling it in or pulling it out
respectively instead of taking frames off of the clips so if i were to just like click v and
grab a
clip this is adding more frames and this is taking frames away but if i grab the raid stretch
tool and then i do the same action for a clip this is making the clip slower but not changing
the number of frames in the clip and this is making the clip faster but not changing the number
of frames in the clip so it just makes things happen faster and there's a quick way of speeding
up your clips to get them to the exact length that you want so we're just going to speed this up a
little like that
and let's just cut the end off and we haven't gone through and set
the blending mode yet so we're gonna do the same thing we did last time
we'll set this to linear dodge add you know i kind of like the idea of the vhs
effect being over top yeah that looks better not bad i think the rainbow effect
is a little harsh right now maybe if we reduce the opacity to like 50
percent make it a little more subtle so just like that we combined two
different overlays made a couple tweaks to them change
the blending modes
and we got a transition that's unique in that you can't just go download
it from anywhere off the internet all right now the next transition that we're
going to cover is a pretty simple rgb glitch transition but we got kind of a unique way to
do it and we're going to make it so it can be a preset that you can save to your own computer to
use whenever you want so we're going to make this one on an adjustment layer and if you don't have
an adjustment like i already made i
n your project just come down to this little paper icon to
make a new item and click adjustment layer it'll already show the uh aspect ratio of your
composition or sequence rather so just click ok and then the adjustment layer will populate
here we're going to grab this adjustment layer we're going to drag it over top of the
two clips that you have in your timeline and for the this transition we're going to cut
it down to be 10 frames long so like i said we're going to hold shift and the le
ft arrow to go back
five frames and then drag this in and we'll do the same on the other side now we have a 10 frame
adjustment layer over top of these two clips and the effect that we're going to use for this is
called vr chromatic aberration so come up with the effects panel here write vr chromatic aberration
or as much of it as you need to get the effect to show up then we're going to drag that onto the
clip right here you can see right away it has like this like glitchy effect and right
here in
the effects control panel you can see we have parameters to adjust this so you can like make
the red go crazy you can make the whole thing more glitchy you can make the whole thing less
glitchy but we're just going to keyframe this so that it starts as not being glitchy at all and
then becomes like the look that it is right now first we already have this at the strength that
we wanted to be in the middle of the transition so we're going to add keyframes on any of the
aberration co
lors which in this case is the red and the blue that have a value other than zero
right now so click this little stopwatch icon to add a keyframe then we're going to go to the
other side and we're going to add keyframes again clicking right here at this add or remove
keyframe button in the effect control panel and now we're going to go back to the start of
our clip and we're going to set the value for the blue aberration of the red aberration to zero
and this is going to be the chromatic ab
erration completely go away and we'll just drag this so
that it's at the very end of the adjustment layer this creates an effect where you have
no chromatic aberration and then slowly the chromatic aberration appears as you get
closer to the middle of the clip and it holds on now we want this chromatic aberration to fade
off as well so we're going to highlight both of these keyframes we'll click command c to copy
them i'm going to copy those two keyframes that have a value of 0 to the end h
ere just like
that by clicking in the effects control panel and now you can drag these to the end of your
adjustment layer and you'll have this kind of fade off effect with the chromatic aberration as well
and when we play that through then you just get this little chroma glitch and the clip goes from
one to the next obviously if you want you can turn these values up to make them a little bit more
drastic so let's say we want to go like minus 20 and 20 and we wanted this falloff distance to
be 75 now this glitch is a lot more substantial and you can see that in the transition but
when you eventually get these to how you want you can come and click all of the effects
that you use to make this transition in the effects control panel which in this case
is just the vr chromatic aberration effect and we're going to right click and click save
preset and you can call this vr chromatic aberration transition and it's a 10 it's like
a 10 frame transition so it's very 10 frames and now
you can choose if you want to anchor this
to the end point anchor this to the out point or scale which basically means do you want this
transition to always be the same length starting from the start of the adjustment layer do you
always want this transition to be the same length we're at the last point at the end of
the adjustment layer or do you want this transition to scale relative to how
long or short your adjustment layer is i like to pick scale and then no matter how long
or short
i make my adjustment layer i can just place this effect on and the transition will be
longer or shorter accordingly so we're going to keep this at scale and then we'll click ok and
now if you make another adjustment layer let's just delete this off off of here i can come here
right vr chromatic aberration transition you see i have my preset that we just made right there and
i drag this on and the transition is already done so i made it once and now i can use it across
my videos however i wa
nt and this is a theme that we're going to be using in the next
transition as well so stay tuned for that so our next transition is going to be an
earthquake transition and we're going to use the same adjustment layer method that
we used for the last one so let's grab our adjustment layer we'll bring it back on and we're
going to make this adjustment layer 10 frames just like we did last time shift and left arrow
to identify five frames and then just shift and right arrow twice to skip 10 f
rames forward and
we have our adjustment layer and the effect that we're gonna use for this is the transform effect
so let's type transform into here and we'll grab transform drag it onto our clip and we're going
to manipulate this to get the effect that we want we want this like earthquake effect to basically
shake the screen and make things really blurry and distorted as we go from one clip to the next
so we're going to uncheck this use composition shutter angle and then turn the shutter
angle
up really high shutter angle is basically like shutter speed but for video cameras and without
getting into too much detail the highest shutter angle you can have 360 degrees and the higher
the shutter angle like the larger the number the blurrier movement within the camera is going to
be so in this case the blurrier movement between one keyframe and the next keyframe is going to be
so we're going to turn this all the way to the 360 because it's kind of excessive and like too blurry
but we can turn the shutter angle up to like 260. there's more you don't need to be precise
with it we're just going to put this at 260 just so we have a blurrier than what your eye
would perceive image as we go from keyframe to keyframe so now we're going to go to the start
of the adjustment layer here and we're going to add keyframes for scale and position at their
default values and we're going to copy these and then we're going to paste them and drag them to
the very end of our adjustme
nt layer because we want this transition to start and end with the
clip scaled properly and positioned properly but now in between we're going to start adjusting
the scale and position so this clip kind of shakes around as it's playing through so you can
just kind of start liberally making adjustments to position and scaling you want to make sure
that there's like a fair difference between the position and the scale at each frame you can see
i'm just like making it bigger making it smaller
there's no like real arch to this you
can kind of make it look how you like i'm going to speed this up by just grabbing
a couple key frames in here and copying them and then pasting them and we're done and
just like that when i play this clip back we're going to get a shake between one clip and
the next and it's going to give us a transition so in my opinion that was a little intense
right there, that's a really big jump so let's dial that back a little maybe we
bring this over a bit let's
scale it up there you go let's see what that looks like hey that's better in my opinion and if we want to
apply the same transition to this next clip here all we can we just have to click on this
adjustment layer hold option and drag and then you get your adjustment layer over top of
the next clip as an exact duplicate and when we play all three through you'll see that this
earthquake effect is now applied to both clips and you can save it the same way that we saved
that last preset for th
e vr chromatic aberration all right so that was five video
transitions in adobe premiere pro that i love to use in my sports videos if you
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back with you down there and have a discussion anyways that is going to be all for
this video so until next time peace out :)
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