From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Better Transitions
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What are clip handles? - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Better Transitions
What are clip handles?
- When it comes to creating transitions, one of the key things you need are handles. Handles are the parts of clips that overlap. Now, for many of you who work with Premiere Pro or really any NLE, you're used to this concept, but we couldn't start to take a deep look at transitions without understanding how handles behave. So let's get that out of the way. If we zoom in here on the timeline, you'll note that this first clip has no extra handles on the end. These little tags that you see at the left and right edge of the clip indicate that the clip is at the end of the media. These little corner tags tell you that there are no extra frames that can be accessed. So, for example, if we try to add a transition here, let's just take the Selection tool, and we'll right-click and apply the default transitions. You'll notice the transition ends where the shot ends. That transition, by default, can't be moved or repositioned to be centered because there are no actual frames. The shot ends…
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