Narrator: Hey, welcome to
a fun practical exercise lesson.
Today I'm showing you how to take
an ordinary cross dissolve like this one,
and turn it into something a little bit more special
like this one.
So it's kind of hard for you to see the differences,
but this one is just your normal cross dissolve.
This is a cross dissolve
with a custom blur transition added.
And we're going to be creating this custom transition
with the blur effect in animated key frames.
So go ahead and download the practise files in this lesson.
There's a zip file with Anthony clip one
and Anthony clip two.
These are two shots that we shot with the Osmo camera.
It's a cool little steady cam camera.
And import them into a brand new Premiere Pro project
or wherever you want to practise.
Now since we haven't learned a lot of the aspects
that I'm going to be teaching in this lesson
including using effects and adding key frames,
I'm just going to walk through it with you right now
and then I'll have you do it at the very end.
I'm just going to drag Anthony clip one into a new sequence.
Into this new item button down here.
And then put the Anthony clip two next to it,
just like so.
Now they are butted up against each other.
I'm going to then drag in the end of this first clip
to about, let's play through this.
And there you see this kid in the background doing a,
or trying to do a kick flip.
He goes, jumps, almost lands it.
Something right there.
And then with this next clip, I'm going to drag it
just before we see this lady right here walking
and Anthony has to go around here.
So drag it in right there.
And then just move these to butt up against each other.
So before I add the cross dissolve,
I'm going to add a blur effect.
So if you go to your effects bin, go up to window effects.
In the search bar, just type in fast blur.
You'll see fast blur pop up down here
and simply drag and drop it onto the video clip
on your timeline starting with Anthony clip one.
And we can also go ahead and do it on Anthony clip two.
If you see now in our effects controls tab that pops up,
we have this fast blur effect.
If we increase the blurriness number from zero
to well, just up, the video gets more or less blurry.
Zero means no blur at all.
So we want to create an actual animation of this blur
from zero to say about 50 or so.
So just put your timeline indicator just anywhere
on this clip, and set a key frame for zero.
The way we set a key frame is by clicking this little time,
stopwatch right here, that says toggle animation.
And then I'm going to go forward in this clip
by pressing the Shift button on my keyboard
and then right arrow key three times.
We'll just try that for now.
And you can see that our timeline indicator moved ahead
about 15 frames.
And then change the blurriness number,
just click on it like so.
And type in 50.
You'll notice that the edge of this clip
gets a little bit dark
and that's just what happens when you blur it.
So we're going to click this repeat edge pixels,
which will repeat the edge pixels,
the video part of the edge,
so that you don't get this dark blur.
Now if we go back on our timeline,
either by clicking down here on the timeline
or up here in the timeline of the effects controls,
we can see that we go from zero blur to blur.
Kind of cool, right?
We're gonna do the same thing.
We're gonna move these key frames around later on,
so it's in the right spot of the clip.
But let's just go ahead and add the same type of effect
for the second clip,
but instead of going from no blur to blur,
we're going to go from 50 blur.
So I'm going to set this to 50.
Click the stop watch.
And then shift right arrow three times or so.
And then change the 50 to zero.
So now it goes from the start of the clip.
I'm going to click repeat edge pixels.
And if I play through this, it goes from blurry to unblurry.
Now let's add the default transition.
So I'm just going to right click
and say apply default transition.
So now if we play through this, we get this cross dissolve,
but we have to move the key frames of the blur
to the right spot.
So I'm going to actually first just drag this.
Select Anthony clip one.
I'm going to drag the second key frame up here
for 50 blurriness and drag it all the way to the right.
Then I'm going to put my timeline indicator right here
at the start of the cross dissolve
and put the first key frame right there.
And then with this Anthony clip two,
just select Anthony clip two and drag the first key frame
all the way to the left, to the start of the clip.
Put your timeline indicator at the end of the cross dissolve
and drag that key frame right there.
So now let's play through this.
And that's pretty good.
The blur isn't as pronounced as I would like.
And one way to make it more pronounced is either
increasing the blurriness of the second key frame
or just making it start to blur before the cross dissolve.
And to do that, I'm just going to drag this first key frame
of Anthony clip one, a little bit forward,
so it starts to blur a little bit.
And then with the second one, drag the second key frame
for blurriness zero out a little bit as well.
So now it starts to get a little bit blurry,
and it stays a little bit blurry and gets into focus
after the cross dissolve.
So that's how you can create a custom transition.
And you can do that with all kinds of effects.
We're going to learn about more effects later one.
But if you go through any of these video effects down here
and anything from colour correction
of making things do sort of a overblown exposure transition
to distortion and bending your image.
All kinds of things, you can add those effects to your clips
and have them transition from being off to on
with these key frames.
And then adding a cross dissolve in between two clips
allows you to create a very cool custom transition.
Now it's your turn.
If you haven't been practising , go ahead,
download the Anthony clip one and Anthony clip two files
from this lesson and import them into Adobe Premiere Pro
and then add your own custom transition.
Play around with the different strengths of the blur.
And also where you put it.
How long the transition is, from on to off.
Where the transition is
and even how long the cross dissolve is.
You can come up with different ways
to make this a custom effect.
Thanks for watching.
Have fun and we'll see you in the next lesson.