Transitions – moving from shot to shot
Our existing edited video used straight cuts as transitions, and 90% of the time, this suits our purposes. However, there may be an occasion when you need to add another type of transition to help enhance your story, such as Cross Dissolve to show the passing of time.
On the Cut page, open up the project you were working on in Chapter 1, or if you want an extra challenge, import someone else’s project so you can add transitions to theirs.
Key concept – transitions
A transition is basically how we move from one clip to another. Apart from the basic cut, all transitions consist of two clips that overlap each other slightly.
As we move from one clip to the other, the first one gradually disappears revealing the second clip underneath it. Transitions only vary in how they reveal the second clip underneath; for example, Dissolve slowly dissolves the first clip to reveal the second clip underneath it, whereas Star expands...