Premiere Tutorial: Adding video transitions

For my tutorial, I’m going to show you how to add video transitions between video clips in Premiere. It’s really not that difficult, but it was something that didn’t come so easily to me at first when I was doing it, so I thought I would share this trick.

1) Click on the Effect Panel near the top of the screen. It should open up an Effects panel somewhere on your screen. In the screenshot below, the Effects panel opens up to the left of the screen.

You can see in the Effects Panel that there are a variety of video and audio effects. I have the video transitions tab lengthened, so you can see all of the different types of video transitions.

2) I’ve selected the dissolve tab to pick the transition I want that includes a dissolve of some type. As you can see in the screenshot below, there’s a variety of different transitions you can choose from this dissolve tab. I’ve selected the Dip to Black transition in this screenshot.

After selecting the transition you want and setting up the video clips you want to place the transition between, all you have to do is drag the transition you selected from the Effects Panel and drop the transition between the to video clips. In the screenshot above, I’ve just dropped a transition between two clips towards the right hand side of the timeline.

3) After dropping the transition effect on the timeline, it should look like the transitions on the timeline in the screenshot below. From here, you should be able to manipulate the transition. You can elongate the transition with the select tool or you can alter the transition’s starting point.