Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

152 LESSON 7 Creating Transitions

Getting started

You will modify scenes in this lesson’s project by adding transitions in stages. But

fi rst you’ll review a fi nal version of the project you’ll be creating.

1 Before you begin, make sure that you have correctly copied the Lesson07 folder

from the DVD in the back of this book onto your computer’s hard disk. See

“Copying the Classroom in a Book fi les” in the Getting Started section at the

start of this book.

2 Launch Adobe Premiere Elements.

3 In the Welcome screen, click the Open Project button, and then Open folder.

4 In the Open Project dialog, navigate to the Lesson07 folder you copied to your

hard disk.

5 Within that folder, select the fi le Lesson07_Start.prel, and then click Open. If a

dialog appears asking for the location of rendered fi les, click the Skip Previews

button.

Your project fi le opens with the Monitor, Tasks, and My Project panels open.

6 Choose Window > Restore Workspace to ensure that you start the lesson in the

default panel layout.

Viewing the completed

movie before you start

To see what you’ll be creating in this lesson, you can play the completed movie.

1 In the Edit tab of the Tasks panel, click Project (

). In the Project view,

locate the fi le Lesson07_Movie.wmv, and then double-click it to open the video

in the Preview window.

2 In the Preview window, click the Play button (

) to watch the video about

a visit to the water park, which you will build in this lesson.

3 When done, close the Preview window by clicking the Close button (

) in the

upper-right corner of the window.

About transitions

Transitions phase out one clip while phasing in the next.  e simplest form of a

transition is the cut. A cut occurs when the last frame of one clip is followed by the

fi rst frame of the next.  e cut is the most frequently used transition in video and

fi lm, and the one you will use most of the time. However, you can also use other

types of transitions to achieve eff ects between scenes.

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Transitions

Using transitions, you can phase out one clip while phasing in the next, or you can

stylize the beginning or end of a single clip. A transition can be as subtle as a cross

dissolve, or emphatic, such

as a page turn or spinning pinwheel. You generally place

transitions on a cut between two clips, creating a double-sided transition. However,

you can also apply a transition to just the beginning or end of a clip, creating

a

single-sided transition, such as a fade to black.

When a transition shifts from one clip to the next, it overlaps frames from both clips.

The overlapped frames can be either frames previously trimmed from the

clips

(frames just past the In or Out point at the cut) or existing frames repeated on either

side of the cut. It’s important to remember that when you trim a clip, you don’t

delete frames; instead, the resulting In and

Out points frame a window over the

original clip. A transition uses the trimmed frames to create the transition eff ect or,

if the clips don’t have trimmed frames, the transition repeats frames.

—From Adobe Premiere Elements Help

Using Transitions view in the Tasks panel

Adobe Premiere Elements includes a wide range of transitions, including 3D

motion, dissolves, wipes, and zooms.  e animated thumbnail view that appears

when you click on a specifi c transition gives you a good idea of how it might

be applied to your project. Transitions are grouped into two main folders in

Transitions view: Audio Transitions and Video Transitions.

1 To access Adobe Premiere Elements transitions, click the Transitions button

(

) in the Edit tab of the Tasks panel. Hover over or select a transition to

see an animated preview.