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Using transitions effectively - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro CS5 Essential Training
Using transitions effectively
Okay, so in my last movie, I basically give you the charge to go out and play with those video transitions and see what you can come up with, just kind of experiment and explore, play around. That's all fine and good. The problem is that many new users to Premiere come up with final projects that look like this. (Music playing) (Male speaker: Beautiful scenery.) (Male speaker: Plenty of places to ride.) (Male speaker: Beautiful weather.) (Male speaker: It just doesn't get any better than this.) Okay, so you noticed that there are all these crazy transitions from every clip. So first, there is like this Center Split, and then there is the Page Peel, the ever-popular Page Peel. And then we have the Cube Spin. We have an Iris Diamond, then we have Barn Doors. These are all just default transitions found here in the Video Transitions category, not changed or altered by me in any way. It's just the default settings. The problem with this is this is very distracting. Again, as we've been…
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