IMovie HD's Fade In, Fade Out, and Cross Dissolve transitions are 'desert-island' transitions—the ones you'd want when stranded on an island (perhaps while editing an episode of Survivor). But unless you are stranded on an island, don't limit yourself—experiment with other types of transitions.
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What's better than a whole bundle of awesome transition templates that you can use in Premiere Pro? A FREE bundle of awesome transition templates.
When you are trying to create a punchy, energetic sequence, fun transitions are the name of the game. When paired with the perfect track, a video that uses creative ways to jump from one clip to another is sure to engage a viewer way more than a boring, traditional cut.
20 Transitions Free. Creating videos that influence your audience is not easy. Use these simple. Dec 08, 2020 This iMovie effect is used to synchronize audio with two clips that have been cut separately and joined together. When used in iMovie, the split edit effect helps to enhance the quality of shots and comes with high flexibility. You get to make a choice of the exact audio for your prevailing situation.
Transition packs can usually run you about $20-100 per purchase, and when you want a wide array of them, they can get costly once you add them up. So, we went ahead and rounded up seven of the best free transition packs that the internet has to offer. So check your download speeds, create a new folder, and get ready to download over 100+ transitions!
Shutterstock's Video Editor Toolkit
I wanted to start off with this one since it's such an awesome pack for anyone looking for free assets. Shutterstock's Video Editor Toolkit comes with over 220 different assets, along with nine free transitions that you can use. So in addition to the transitions, you also get:
- Animations and Transitions
– Icons (46)
– Shapes (34) - Look-up Tables
– .cube LUTs (52) - Overlays and Elements
– Light Leaks (21)
– Dust (2)
– Volumetric Light (14)
– Sparks (45)
The transitions that come along with the pack are Track Matte transitions, which means that you will need to add a Track Matte key to the bottom clip, and then track it to the included transition video file. From there, adjust the composite to Luma Alpha, and the transition will be ready to go!
If you need a visual guide on how to use these transitions, follow along with Mike as he guides you through each type of asset included in the pack:
15 FREE Premiere Pro Textured Transition Pack
These 15 new textured transitions are easily customizable for anybody wanting to add a wholly unique spin to their project. When we say 'textured', expect to find torn paper, wiggly zebra stripes, and sketched pencil-styled effects. To use them, simply drag and drop them into the Essential Graphics Panel in Premiere Pro and start customizing.
16 Circle Transitions
These sixteen free circle transitions are some of the more energetic ones out of the bunch. These fun, engaging, and dynamic transitions are the perfect companion when creating a quick social video that cuts from clip to clip quickly. These are also Track Matte transitions, so follow along with the same directions to use them as the Video Editor Toolkit above.
Travel Film Transition Pack
If there's one type of video that demands creative transitions, it would be the travel video. There's hundreds of thousands of different travel vlogs and videos out there, and to stand out, you gotta make yours a little different than the pack. Austin Newman has created a pack of really neat transitions that are fantastic for flipping between shots out of your plane window to the streets of Tokyo. Or, the city that's like an hour outside of your hometown. No judgement here.
These are extremely simple transitions to use. Just download the pack of presets, and import them into Premiere by going to Effects > Presets > Import Preset. From there, it's just dragging and dropping on top of your clip to get the job done (along with some creative cutting).
Handy Seamless Transitions
These handy seamless transitions from Pixel Samy are simple, fun, and great to use for a quick project. They have a little element of color distortion and ghosting, so it adds even more depth to your transition.
These transitions are a little bit more hands-on to get done. It involves about four different layers that you have to duplicate and layer on top of each other (which creates the color distortion). Refer to the short video above to get a read on how to use the transitions most effectively.
24 Free Transitions from FILM CRUX
FILM CRUX has blessed us with twenty-four fantastic transitions that can be used in just about any situation. This includes zooms, spins, and whip pans, which have become increasingly popular for social video. These transitions are utilized by creating an adjustment layer above the cut point, and then adding the preset to the adjustment layer. Each transition comes with a suggestion for when to start the adjustment layer transition, which takes out the guesswork from trying to match up two videos.
Ink Splash Transitions
Now these aren't what you would call 'conventional' transitions, and even the tutorial doesn't advertise them as transitions. But trust me, these ink splash files are a super creative way to splatter your way through a multitude of clips. Just like most of PremiumBeat's free assets, these come as .MOV files that are used as Track Matte type transitions, just like the circle transitions mentioned above. You might be able to do some more intensive work in After Effects, but if you are more comfortable with Premiere, they are totally ready to be used as simple transitions.
10 Freeze Frame Transitions
I thought it would be a crime to not mention music videos, one of the best use of creative transitions. So, here is one of my favorite free packs from Bryan Delimata that is best suited for that. These are pretty unconventional transitions (which is why I like them) that freeze frames to transition from one scene to another.
First, take two clips that you want to transition between. From there, create a frame hold from the end of the 1st clip and duplicate it onto the top video layer. Stretch it out over the 2nd clip.
Now, take the Crop effect, drag it onto your freeze frame, and crop out the person in your frame. At first, it will delete them from the frame, but you can reverse it by pressing the 'Invert' button in the effects tab. Then, duplicate it again, and add it onto V3.
This is where the transition pack comes in. Import the presets from the pack, and start adding effects onto the V2 freeze frame. It will include different types of effects like paint splatters, flames, and other cool visual backgrounds to your freeze frame. Experiment around, play with the opacity settings, and now, you've got a killer transition between two sets.
Want more on video transitions and other free video elements? Check these out.
You can add transitions between clips to smooth or blend the change from one scene to another. You can have a clip fade in or out, dissolve into another clip, zoom in to another clip, and so on.
You can add transitions to your project manually, choosing which effects to add between which clips. Or, you can set iMovie to add transitions automatically.
By default, iMovie makes all the transitions in your movie the same length. Standard transitions are one-half of a second long and theme-styled transitions (which are available only if you've applied a theme to your project) are two seconds long. You can change these default settings in iMovie preferences, and you can adjust the duration of each transition individually after you add it to your project.
Note: Because no transition can be longer than half the length of the clip on either side of it, the transitions in your project may be shorter than the default, depending on the length of the shortest clip adjacent to the effect.
To add transitions between clips manually:
With your project open in the Project browser, click the Transition button in the iMovie toolbar, or choose Window > Transitions.
The Transitions browser opens, showing all the transitions available. If a theme is set for your project, a group of theme-styled transitions appears above the standard transitions.
To preview the transitions, let the pointer hover over each one in the Transitions browser.
Select a transition by clicking it once, and then drag it between two adjacent clips in the Project browser.
The transition is represented by a transition icon in the Project browser. (Several icon styles are shown below.) The exact appearance of the icon depends on which transition type you added.
To add transitions between clips automatically:
You can set iMovie to automatically insert transitions in your project. When you do so, iMovie adds a transition almost every time you add a new clip to your project. If you have a theme applied to your project, iMovie adds some theme-styled transitions and some standard effects. If you already have some transitions in your project, iMovie replaces them with new ones.
Imovie Transitions Not Working
Using automatic transitions is useful when you want to apply transitions throughout your project quickly. However, with automatic transitions turned on, you can't add, change, or delete transitions individually. Therefore, to add transitions quickly and then edit them, set iMovie to add transitions automatically, and then turn off automatic transitions. You can then select just the ones you want to modify.
With your project open, choose File > Project Theme (the File menu appears in a light gray bar across the top of your computer screen), and then do one of the following:
To include transitions styled after a theme, select a theme by clicking it once, and then select the 'Automatically add transitions and titles' checkbox.
iMovie inserts standard cross-dissolve transitions between clips, with occasional transitions based on the theme. Not every space between clips gets a transition.
iMovie also adds a theme-styled opening title over the first clip and an end title over the last.
To include only standard, non-themed transitions in your project, click No Theme, select the 'Automatically add' checkbox, and then choose a transition style from the pop-up menu.
Note: If you already have a theme applied to your project and select No Theme, all theme elements are removed from the project.
Click OK.
With automatic transitions turned on, you can double-click any transition in a project and change its duration in the inspector that opens. Simply type a new duration in the Duration field, and indicate whether you want it to apply to all the transitions in the project.
To set how much transitions overlap with adjacent clips:
Whether transitions are added to your project automatically or manually, you can set how much they overlap with the clips they're adjacent to. This setting, which applies to all non-themed transitions in your project, affects the duration of your project.
With your project open, choose Edit > Transition Overlap, and then choose one of the following options:
All - Maintain Clip Range: The two clips are made to overlap by the length of the transition, and the transition is placed over the overlapping region. In this case, no additional content from clip ends is added. The total duration of your project decreases by the length of the transition.
Half - Maintain Project Duration: The transition is placed so that it spans the clips; one half of the transition overlaps each clip. In this case, additional content from the end of each clip is added to fill out the transition. The total duration of your project remains the same.
Custom Imovie Transitions
To change the overlap setting for a specific transition, double-click any non-themed transition icon in your project. In the inspector that opens, choose an option from the Overlap pop-up menu.
