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Using adjustment layers to add spice to Premiere’s bland transitions
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You mean the “Kiki Wipe?” 😉
https://youtu.be/K1OVWfmynPwKevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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I hear you can do one of those with an adjustment layer. All you have to do is put a hold keyframe on the opacity so it goes from 100 to zero over the span of one frame.
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Oh my aching head – that demo was just what I wanted to see! I could only get through a minute and a half of it before the music bed made me want to chew my foot off and escape, but yes, that Kiki transition is exactly what Premiere Pro CS6 is missing. I’m going right to the features request page and ask for it by name. Thanks!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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so its basically the same idea as using filler in avid to make transitions? the only stock transitions i ever used in FCP were the standard dissolve, dip to black, and the cross zoom.
who nneds all the others ?
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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[Bret Williams] “Star wipe!”
I must confess that in all these years I have not as yet found a use for the star wipe.
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Jeeze guys,
Everyone knows that from the moment that the Video Toaster debuted the “Falling Sheep” wipe – the entire “best video effect ever” contest was called off on account of that bit of insane brilliance that will never, ever be equalled.
That you’re even bringing up a “tacky effect” discussion in light of this immutable history is nuts.
; )
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Alan Okey] “[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.
“Well, hopefully we on this forum will all use our transitions with enough taste and discretion to be shinning examples of our particular period, and not samples of what was wrong with it.
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By the way, you fine folks do know about the Gradient Wipe effect? You can customize your own transitions. Here’s the Adobe rundown on it:
Gradient Wipe effect
The Gradient Wipe effect causes pixels in the clip to become transparent based on the luminance values of corresponding pixels in another video track, called the gradient layer. Dark pixels in the gradient layer cause the corresponding pixels to become transparent at a lower Transition Completion value. For example, a simple grayscale gradient layer that goes from black on the left to white on the right causes the underlying clip to be revealed from left to right as Transition Completion increases.
For more information about using and creating a Gradient Wipe transition, see the following video by Dennis Radeke.
Original image (left), and with effect applied (center and right)The gradient layer can be a still image or a moving image. The gradient layer must be in the same sequence as the clip to which you apply Gradient Wipe.
You can create gradient layers in many ways, such as using the Ramp effect or creating them in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Transition SoftnessThe degree to which the transition is gradual for each pixel. If this value is 0%, pixels in the clip to which the effect is applied are either completely opaque or completely transparent. If this value is greater than 0%, pixels are semitransparent at the intermediate stages of the transition.
Gradient PlacementHow the gradient layer’s pixels are mapped to the pixels of the clip to which the effect is applied:
Tile GradientUses multiple tiled copies of the gradient layer.Center GradientUses a single instance of the gradient layer in the center of the clip.
Stretch Gradient To FitResizes the gradient layer horizontally and vertically to fit the entire area of the clip.
Invert GradientInverts the gradient layer’s influence; lighter pixels in the gradient layer create transparency at a lower Transition Completion value than do darker pixels.
Customize a Gradient Wipe transition
You can use a grayscale image as a gradient wipe. In a gradient wipe, image B fills the black area of the grayscale image and then shows through each level of gray as the transition progresses until the white area becomes transparent.Gradient wipe source image (far left) and resulting transition1.In the Effects panel, expand the Video Transitions bin and the Wipe bin inside it.
2.Drag the Gradient Wipe transition from the Wipe bin to an edit point between clips in a Timeline panel.
3.Click Select Image, and then double-click the file you want to use as the gradient wipe. The image appears in the Gradient Wipe Settings dialog box.
4.Adjust the softness of the transition’s edges by dragging the Softness slider. As you drag the slider to the right, image A increasingly shows through image B. Click OK.
Note: To change the gradient image or the softness, click Custom in the Effect Controls panel.
To preview the transition, drag the current-time indicator through the transition in a Timeline panel.The link to the above is at:
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “By the way, you fine folks do know about the Gradient Wipe effect? You can customize your own transitions. Here’s the Adobe rundown on it:
“Use it all the time, but usually with a plug-in that that gives me a little bit more control. I’ve still got the complete Pixelan library from back when the world was 4:3 SD.
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Awww. You guys are getting me all misty and nostalgic!
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