110 LESSON 6
Adding Video Transitions
Applying transitions to multiple clips at once So far you’ve been applying transitions to video clips. However, you can also apply
transitions to still images, graphics, color mattes, and even audio, as you will see in
the next section of this lesson.
A common project that editors encounter is the photo montage. Often these mon-
tages look nice with transitions between photos. Applying transitions one at a time
for 100 images would not be fun. Adobe Premiere Pro makes it easy to automate
this process by allowing the default transition (that you define) to be added to any
group of contiguous or noncontiguous clips:
1 Open Lesson 06-05.prproj. Notice there are 40 JPEG images of sunsets already
imported into the Project panel.
2 Select all 40 JPEG images in the Project panel, and drag them to Sequence 01.
3 Play the Timeline by pressing the spacebar. You’ll notice the JPEG clips are all
five seconds long.
4 Press the backslash key (\) to zoom out the Timeline to make the whole
sequence visible.
5 With the Selection tool, draw a marquee around all the clips to select them.
6 Click the Sequence menu, and choose Apply Default Transition to Selection.
This will apply the default transition between any clips currently selected.
7 Play the Timeline, and notice the difference a Cross Dissolve transition makes
between images in a photo montage.
More than one way to batch transitions The method described in this exercise is the most flexible way to add the default
transition to multiple clips. However, Adobe Premiere Pro provides another method
via the storyboard feature: Automate to Sequence. You explored this feature in
Lesson 5 but did not apply the transitions. Feel free to repeat that exercise, and this
time apply the default transition to all clips when you automate to the Timeline.
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Note: The selection
of clips does not have to
be contiguous. You can
Shift-click clips to select
only a portion of the
clips on the Timeline.
