
Go to the Tracker Panel, and Press the Forward Play Arrow.
Select the Pen Tool, and Draw a Mask Around the Object. Adobe After Effects will launch with your two shots in a composition. Highlight Both Clips, Right Click, and Select Replace With After Effects Composition. Select Shots A & B and Aligned Them On Your Premiere Timeline as Previous. Or even worse, it seems like something that was intentionally stifled so it wouldn’t compete with After Effects so you’d have to subscribe to that too.īut if you’ve got AE installed, you can do this same transition a slightly different way to save yourself a little bit of time. To me, working in the Effect Controls panel in Premiere feels like I’m using something that was designed as an after thought. You have now completed a Mask Wipe Transition. Incrementing 1 Frame At A Time, Highlight and Adjust Your Mask to Manually Track the Object Until the Object has Exited Shot A. Click the Stopwatch Icon Next to Mask Path. In Effects Controls, select Invert to crop out the empty space in the image. In the Program Monitor, draw a Mask around the empty space as the object in Shot A exits the frame. Highlight Shot A and Enter the Effect Controls Panel. Identify the first frame of Shot A where the object begins to exit, and place Shot B on the video track beneath it, 1 frame prior. For the best results, select a shot that moves in the same direction (left to right, floor to ceiling, etc) as Shot A. Choose a shot that contains an object that enters the frame, fills it completely, and then exits frame. It looks a lot like After Effects but it’s just missing a lot of the features.īefore I come off sounding like Andy Rooney, I’ll promise you that I’ll first cover Editor Keys’ method then I’ll give you a tip on how you can do this a little faster in AE too. #Adobe premiere transition how to#
Mark Brown over at Editors Keys put together this great tutorial of how to create a quick Mask Wipe in Adobe Premiere Pro.Īs a longtime After Effects user, I’ve always found the Effects Controls panel in Adobe Premiere Pro to be a bit confusing. But the best transitions, those are the ones that are planned out, take time to create, and help engage the audience either because they’re smooth and slick, or jarring and intentionally distracting. Others are default, and can look like pretty lazy work (I’m looking at you, Cross Dissolve). Some transitions look amazing and are easily to drop into place. They can merge two ideas into one, transport us across space and time, or seamlessly combine shots together in a way that nobody even notices. Spins, flips, slides, dissolves, morphs, zooms, and star wipes every transition can have a meaningful impact on the story you’re telling.