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Applying video transitions between clips - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training
Applying video transitions between clips
Like most other video programs, After Effects has ability to add transitions, which is basically what happens when you go from one video clip to another video clip. In most dedicated video editing programs, such as Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro, the animation that happens is automatic. But here in After Effects we need to, typically, manually transition from one clip to the next. So, to set this up, what I have done is I have got two clips here. One are these clips of these flowers moving from right to left. Then we can remove the visibility of this top layer, and we could see that we have these candles that were moving from left to right. So, it's kind of like a similar motion here. The camera is basically going from left to right. So, what we are going to do is we are going to transition from one clip to the other clip. For that to happen, you need to have overlapping clips. But basically you could see here we have one clips stacked on top of the other clip. So, what I am going to…
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