You can further refine a transition by selecting it in the Timeline and then going to the Effect Controls panel.A video transition is a way to cue your viewers to a change or development in your story. Transitions help create the mood for your video, and help set the stage for each scene.

To change this choose Premiere Pro > Preferences (Mac) or Edit > Preferences (Windows) then go to Timeline and change the Video Transition Default Duration.

The default transition duration is 1 second.

You can change the default to any transition by right-clicking it in the Effects panel and choosing Set as Default Transition.

The default transition is the Cross Dissolve.

Or the Playhead should be at an edit point between two clips. For this to work, you should either select a clip or several clips.

Use the keyboard shortcut Cmd-D (Mac) or Ctrl-D (Windows) to apply the default transition in the Timeline.

If you wish to change the duration of the transition, double-click it and adjust the duration value.

Most of the time you will want the transition to be centered between the two clips.

Drag and drop the transition into the Timeline at the edit between two clips.

Some of the most common ones are found in the Dissolve folder.

Open any of the folders to find the transition you’re looking for.

Go to the Effects panel by choosing Window > Effects from the top menu bar.

All of the Video Transitions folders in Premiere Pro How to Apply a Video Transition in Premiere Proįor those who are new to transitions in Premiere Pro, here is a quick guide on how to add them: And all transitions in the Immersive Video folder were also excluded because those are meant for 360 footage. The Morph Cut was excluded because that functions more like an effect rather than a transition. This video contains examples of the following transitions: In this video I’ll show you all of them in 2 minutes! Premiere Pro has a lot of transitions, but no way to preview them.

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