WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.150 --> 00:00:00.983 Hey, everyone. 2 00:00:00.983 --> 00:00:03.372 I've been getting a lot of questions about transitions. 3 00:00:03.372 --> 00:00:06.121 If you understand transitions and you're not confused 4 00:00:06.121 --> 00:00:08.604 by them at all, go ahead and skip this lesson. 5 00:00:08.604 --> 00:00:11.267 But if you're adding transitions in from your Pro 6 00:00:11.267 --> 00:00:13.275 and you're getting weird error messages, 7 00:00:13.275 --> 00:00:16.552 if you're not able to extend your cross dissolves, 8 00:00:16.552 --> 00:00:19.054 if you can't add transitions to specific clips, 9 00:00:19.054 --> 00:00:20.838 watch this video. 10 00:00:20.838 --> 00:00:23.448 I hope that it helps explain why that's happening. 11 00:00:23.448 --> 00:00:26.667 So I have two clips here that I've added to my timeline. 12 00:00:26.667 --> 00:00:30.252 These were shot in Joshua Tree on a recent camping trip 13 00:00:30.252 --> 00:00:31.880 that I just go back from today, 14 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:34.602 and they're completely full clips. 15 00:00:34.602 --> 00:00:37.852 You can see that I can shorten this first clip, 16 00:00:37.852 --> 00:00:39.960 but if I try to extend to the right, 17 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:41.644 that's as long as it goes. 18 00:00:41.644 --> 00:00:45.452 There's no more footage to the right of that. 19 00:00:45.452 --> 00:00:48.531 On the second clip, if I try to extend to the left, 20 00:00:48.531 --> 00:00:51.555 there's no more video, because this is where we 21 00:00:51.555 --> 00:00:55.849 started filming and this is where we ended filming, 22 00:00:55.849 --> 00:00:57.694 and for this first clip, this is where we started. 23 00:00:57.694 --> 00:00:59.500 This is where we ended. 24 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:03.218 So if I put these two clips together and then I add 25 00:01:03.218 --> 00:01:06.670 a transition, say the cross dissolve, and I put it 26 00:01:06.670 --> 00:01:11.354 on top of this transition, what we're going to get 27 00:01:11.354 --> 00:01:14.255 is an error saying insufficient media. 28 00:01:14.255 --> 00:01:17.467 This transition will contain repeated frames. 29 00:01:17.467 --> 00:01:21.162 What this does is Premiere Pro will actually 30 00:01:21.162 --> 00:01:25.245 duplicate frames from this clip, from both clips, 31 00:01:26.262 --> 00:01:30.089 so that it creates a fade or a transition, 32 00:01:30.089 --> 00:01:34.256 and it's extending the clip to the left and to the right. 33 00:01:37.890 --> 00:01:40.463 So it's extending this first clip to the right 34 00:01:40.463 --> 00:01:43.474 and this second clip to the left, 35 00:01:43.474 --> 00:01:45.837 but only by duplicating frames. 36 00:01:45.837 --> 00:01:47.795 And we typically don't want to do that. 37 00:01:47.795 --> 00:01:51.066 So that's one error people have been getting into. 38 00:01:51.066 --> 00:01:55.798 Say we have this first clip where we, say we want 39 00:01:55.798 --> 00:01:58.897 to edit it, and we end right here. 40 00:01:58.897 --> 00:02:00.978 We don't want to go to the end of this clip. 41 00:02:00.978 --> 00:02:04.163 So we just drag this part of the clip over, 42 00:02:04.163 --> 00:02:06.401 and then we put these up together. 43 00:02:06.401 --> 00:02:10.958 So now we have this clip and it cuts to this next clip. 44 00:02:10.958 --> 00:02:14.268 Remember, for the second clip, this is the very beginning 45 00:02:14.268 --> 00:02:16.654 of that entire video clip. 46 00:02:16.654 --> 00:02:20.842 For this first clip, though, we have some media 47 00:02:20.842 --> 00:02:23.425 over to the right of this clip. 48 00:02:24.313 --> 00:02:27.874 So say I put this actually up here, and let me just 49 00:02:27.874 --> 00:02:31.727 actually delete all my audio because I don't need that. 50 00:02:31.727 --> 00:02:34.244 I can extend it to the right because we have more 51 00:02:34.244 --> 00:02:36.415 footage over to the right. 52 00:02:36.415 --> 00:02:38.891 So let's put these on the same layer now. 53 00:02:38.891 --> 00:02:43.047 Now I drag my dissolve over, and what happens is 54 00:02:43.047 --> 00:02:46.190 I can't put it in the middle of these two clips. 55 00:02:46.190 --> 00:02:47.996 I can't put it on the left side. 56 00:02:47.996 --> 00:02:50.362 I can only put it on the right side. 57 00:02:50.362 --> 00:02:54.906 And that's because only that first clip can fade 58 00:02:54.906 --> 00:02:57.734 into this second clip in this situation. 59 00:02:57.734 --> 00:03:00.292 There's no footage from that second clip 60 00:03:00.292 --> 00:03:03.638 on the left side of this cut to fade from. 61 00:03:03.638 --> 00:03:08.322 So if I drop this down now, this first clip fades 62 00:03:08.322 --> 00:03:12.408 because there's still footage for it to fade from 63 00:03:12.408 --> 00:03:15.367 here during this cross dissolve. 64 00:03:15.367 --> 00:03:18.801 Now if I extend this, it's only going to extend 65 00:03:18.801 --> 00:03:21.443 to the end of that clip, which is another error 66 00:03:21.443 --> 00:03:23.906 people have been complaining about. 67 00:03:23.906 --> 00:03:27.534 They see that they have this cross dissolve, but they're 68 00:03:27.534 --> 00:03:30.109 trying to extend it, but there's no way to extend it. 69 00:03:30.109 --> 00:03:32.390 They just can't get it to go. 70 00:03:32.390 --> 00:03:35.763 Well that's because there's no more video clip to extend 71 00:03:35.763 --> 00:03:39.519 past this part right here at this frame 72 00:03:39.519 --> 00:03:41.419 where the cross dissolve ends. 73 00:03:41.419 --> 00:03:45.002 You can only go as far as the media allows. 74 00:03:46.327 --> 00:03:47.914 Hopefully that makes sense. 75 00:03:47.914 --> 00:03:51.051 And if I click this now, I can't drag it to the left at all 76 00:03:51.051 --> 00:03:55.626 because this second clip again, it starts right here. 77 00:03:55.626 --> 00:03:57.946 It can't go to the left at all. 78 00:03:57.946 --> 00:03:59.939 Now let me show you something. 79 00:03:59.939 --> 00:04:02.636 Let me delete this cross dissolve. 80 00:04:02.636 --> 00:04:06.819 Say we start this second clip right around here. 81 00:04:06.819 --> 00:04:09.363 Remember there's still media from the second clip 82 00:04:09.363 --> 00:04:12.605 right here, and if we move this clip over 83 00:04:12.605 --> 00:04:14.272 to the left to meet. 84 00:04:15.162 --> 00:04:16.660 Let's just go over this one more time 85 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:18.440 to make it really clear. 86 00:04:18.440 --> 00:04:20.906 So for this first clip, there's still media 87 00:04:20.906 --> 00:04:23.288 to the right of this cut. 88 00:04:23.288 --> 00:04:25.369 We can see that by moving this to the second track 89 00:04:25.369 --> 00:04:26.943 and extending this clip. 90 00:04:26.943 --> 00:04:28.480 See? 91 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:32.647 With this second clip, we know there's media to the left. 92 00:04:33.949 --> 00:04:36.949 Over here we can extend it, like so. 93 00:04:37.946 --> 00:04:42.113 So with this cut, it's cutting from clip one to clip two, 94 00:04:43.688 --> 00:04:47.405 but there's media from both clips on either side of the cut. 95 00:04:47.405 --> 00:04:51.070 So now if we add a cross dissolve, we can choose whether 96 00:04:51.070 --> 00:04:54.800 we want it to be placed in the middle of the cut exactly 97 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:58.967 like so or we can put it on the left side of this cut 98 00:05:01.597 --> 00:05:04.097 or the right side of this cut. 99 00:05:05.699 --> 00:05:08.458 So if we put it on the right side like this, it transitions 100 00:05:08.458 --> 00:05:13.082 from the first one to the second one, and the cross 101 00:05:13.082 --> 00:05:17.249 dissolve starts right after the cut we had made before. 102 00:05:18.441 --> 00:05:21.969 And then lastly, one other thing that I get people 103 00:05:21.969 --> 00:05:25.623 asking about is, say you have a situation like this 104 00:05:25.623 --> 00:05:27.739 and you have this cross dissolve in the middle, 105 00:05:27.739 --> 00:05:31.995 and you want to make the cross dissolve longer, 106 00:05:31.995 --> 00:05:35.123 but it doesn't allow you to go any further. 107 00:05:35.123 --> 00:05:37.062 Well that's because you can only go 108 00:05:37.062 --> 00:05:39.754 as far as the media allows. 109 00:05:39.754 --> 00:05:42.347 This cross dissolve is now starting at the very beginning 110 00:05:42.347 --> 00:05:46.514 of this clip and it's ending at the very end of this clip. 111 00:05:49.127 --> 00:05:53.282 So it's longer but we can't go past that. 112 00:05:53.282 --> 00:05:55.925 And if we try to move it to the right or left, 113 00:05:55.925 --> 00:05:59.638 it's only going to allow us to move if there is media space. 114 00:05:59.638 --> 00:06:01.761 We can move it to the right just a little bit because 115 00:06:01.761 --> 00:06:05.928 there's a little bit of space left from this first clip. 116 00:06:07.335 --> 00:06:09.433 But I can't move it to the right any more, 117 00:06:09.433 --> 00:06:11.565 and I can't extend it any more. 118 00:06:11.565 --> 00:06:15.705 If I make it shorter, then we have more room to play with 119 00:06:15.705 --> 00:06:18.394 because there's enough media from both clips 120 00:06:18.394 --> 00:06:20.956 to have that transition. 121 00:06:20.956 --> 00:06:23.253 Hopefully this is clarifying things for you. 122 00:06:23.253 --> 00:06:25.987 Hopefully it's not confusing you even more. 123 00:06:25.987 --> 00:06:27.961 But this is something that I keep getting questions 124 00:06:27.961 --> 00:06:30.135 about, so I wanted to just add a little bit 125 00:06:30.135 --> 00:06:34.164 to the previous lectures about adding video transitions. 126 00:06:34.164 --> 00:06:36.384 Thanks so much for watching, and have a great day.