Premiere Pro Guru: Better Transitions

Course details

Learn how to create better transitions by combining Premiere Pro's built-in transitions with filters and other effects, and then find out how to customize and save your results. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Rich Harrington covers best practices for applying, refining, stacking, and saving transitions to produce more-creative, more-professional projects. This course focuses on how to master the existing Adobe Premiere Pro transitions as well as how to use top third-party solutions. Additionally, in-depth coverage is given to creating custom transitions such as blurs, flash frames, fades, gradient wipes, and more.

Learning objectives
Applying transitions between clips
Positioning transitions in the Timeline
Customizing default transitions
Trimming shots
Combining effects and transitions
Creating a blur transition
Creating and applying custom gradients
Saving transition presets
Working with third-party transition plugins like Red Giant and CoreMelt

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Applying, and Working with, Transitions

03 - What are clip handles
04 - Applying transitions between clips
05 - How to use transitions when you don't have enough handle
06 - Clip-based transitions

2. Refining Transitions

07 - Refining transition position in the Effect Controls panel
08 - Positioning transitions in the Timeline panel
09 - Controlling duration, direction, and advanced options
10 - Setting and customizing default transitions
11 - Using single-sided transitions and hold frames
12 - Trimming shots with transitions applied

3. Working with Effects and Transitions

13 - The layered transition stack
14 - Creating a blur transition
15 - Creating a flash-frame transition
16 - Luma fade
17 - Applying the gradient wipe
18 - Creating custom gradients using images
19 - Creating and applying custom gradients from Photoshop
20 - A better cross-zoom
21 - Transitioning with a flare

4. Saving Transitions

22 - Copy and paste a transition
23 - Apply a transition to multiple edit points
24 - Creating transition presets
25 - Storing transition presets
26 - Organizing, and backing up, presets

5. Essential Third-Party Plugins

27 - FilmImpact
28 - Red Giant
29 - NewBlueFX
30 - Sapphire
31 - CoreMelt

Conclusion

32 - Next steps