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Using adjustment layers to add spice to Premiere’s bland transitions
(I posted this in the Premiere Pro forum, and was curious to see what people over here thought of the idea)
One of the big criticisms of Premiere Pro from the FCP switchers has been the lack of good transitions. This is a criticism I wholeheartedly agree with- but with CS6 I’ve found a remedy, which I think will be good to give transitions pizazz and originality even after the built-in variety gets improved.
What I did is start with a 6-frame cross dissolve, then put a 12-frame adjustment layer directly over it. I then added a gaussian blur to the adjustment layer, and keyframed it to start at 0 then go to 200 right over the cut, then back to 0 at the end. The end result was a “blur dissolve”.
I then played around with it a bit, and had it also became high in contrast in the middle, and tried a couple other effects, and really liked the results I got.
The effects that are applied to the adjustment layer can be saved as presets, and you can also set the duration of an adjustment layer in the project panel by right-clicking on it, so you could create one just for putting over transitions, then apply a preset to it.
There are a few more steps involved in this, but I thought it opened up a lot of possibilities. Having the entire arsenal of PPro’s effects available to liven up transitons is pretty cool.
(Now, if only you could use adjustment layers to change the SCALE of clips below them- then you could re-create that cool “cross zoom” transition from FCP…)
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You like the cross zoom transition?
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Core melt are in the process of transferring their plugins to PP. some teething issues at the moment, but I found myself using their transitions a lot in FCP so I’m looking forward to their appearance on PP.
For reference I bought polychrome v2
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I hear a CUT is a good transition. 🙂
Brian Mulligan
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[Bret Williams] “You like the cross zoom transition?
“I do. It can be really useful.
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[Greg Andonian] “What I did is start with a 6-frame cross dissolve, then put a 12-frame adjustment layer directly over it. “
Clever you, man. Classic approach and a good idea. I’ll play with that some.
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[Brian Mulligan] “I hear a CUT is a good transition. :)”
I’m with you there. Trendy and increasingly overused glow/blur dissolves and film flashes are going to look just as dated in a few years as gratuitous lens flares and light rays do now. Maybe sooner.
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Star wipe!
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Page turn with light source for me, it was the Holy Grail of transitions in my Online editing days
Steve Connor
“Sometimes it’s fun to poke an angry bear with a stickl”
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You know…I think it’s high time some of the fine Video Toaster transitions made a comeback – I’ve been yearning for that golf swing transition, and who can forget the night club stripper transition? Forget those arcane, outdated, so 2000-ish cuts and dissolves! I want my Toaster Transitions!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
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[Steve Connor] “Page turn with light source for me, it was the Holy Grail of transitions in my Online editing days”
Hey, if you’ve got to be quick, down and dirty with L3s, that page turn is a god-send.
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