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Ease into or out of a transition in Premiere Pro?
I’m transitioning from Sony Vegas and I’m enjoying Premiere so far; however, one thing I can’t figure out how to do is to change the speed of a transition. Take a crossfade, for example; when I add it the transition is perfectly linear. In Vegas one could choose from four presets – slow, fast, smooth, or linear – that would allow you to ease in, out, both, or none on a transition. For further control, one could even add a transition progress rubber band and keyframe it. Is there any equivalent in Premiere? Many times easing in to a long fade looks far better than a linear fade. Many thanks in advance for any help.
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I’m not sure whether transition effects can be changed. However, you can achieve the desired result by varying opacity with bezier keyframes instead of the standard linear curves.
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Ivan,
Many thanks for the reply (Due to a spam filter I didn’t realize you had replied until now – sorry!). Not an ideal way to achieve the desired effect, but it will certainly work in a pinch and I wouldn’t have thought of it myself.
Thanks again!
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did you ever find a way to do this? Seems silly that in Premiere we have to go to so much trouble to create a smooth dissolve. Why would the default be a clunky linear cross dissolve?
I’m also a Vegas user transitioning to premiere (and not enjoying it so much).Tim Neighbors
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Hi Tim,
Been through several major versions of the software and no change that I am aware of despite my repeated requests in surveys :/
I will say that after a year or two I became more comfortable with Premiere than I ever was with Vegas. I still miss the dissolve options, but I’ve found that I don’t use them as much as I thought I did and I’ve gotten very comfortable with keyframing them if needed (Ctrl-click on the horizontal line on the clip to create a keyframe).
For me, the additional pro functionality that Premiere has that was missing in Vegas (at the time I left anyway) more than makes up for the minor things like this that I miss.
For what it’s worth, I took an introductory course on Premiere Pro using a Lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning) subscription and made sure to actually complete the exercises and it got me used to the software in no time. I highly recommend this or a similar course in the beginning.
Hope that helps!
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I use the free Impact Dissolve so i can easily easy in and/or ease out the dissolve. Impact Dissolve is superiour to the standard Cross Dissolve or Film Dissolve. Impact Dissolve can be set to either cross dissolve or film dissolve
https://www.filmimpact.net/blog/impact-dissolve-in-depth-video-tutorial
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