Avid Liquid 7 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide

8. Working with Transitions

A transition is a jump from one video clip to the next, or from one scene to another. Typically, this jump changes the location, but it can also indicate time passing or a simple mood change. Often, you accomplish this change with a cut, as described in Chapter 6, “Fine-Tuning Your Edit,” but occasionally you need to employ a more subtle approach—something that doesn’t visually jar the audience. For example, you need to gradually change the image from a rampant party to the aftermath of the room the next day so that the audience isn’t left thinking, “What am I looking at?”

Sometimes you don’t need subtlety; the change itself clearly alerts the audience that the scene is about to shift. An example of this type of change ...