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  1. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  2. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  3. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  4. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  5. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    7. Creating specialty clips
    8. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  6. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  7. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Smart Trim
    6. Change clip speed and duration
    7. Split clips
    8. Freeze and hold frames
    9. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    10. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    11. Replace footage
    12. Working with source clips
    13. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    14. Trim clips
    15. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    16. Artistic effects
  8. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  9. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  10. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  11. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  12. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  13. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Align and transform objects
    9. Motion Titles
    10. Appearance of text and shapes
    11. Exporting and importing titles
    12. Arranging objects in titles
    13. Designing titles for TV
    14. Applying styles to text and graphics
    15. Adding a video in the title
  14. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  15. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

Learn to add transitions to connect two video or audio clips in Premiere Elements.

What are Transitions?

A transition is a visual effect used to smoothly connect two video clips or sequences. In Premiere Elements, you can select from a variety of transitions, ranging from subtle crossfades to more stylized effects, to enhance the overall flow of your video.

Transition Control panel

The new Transition Control panel opens when you apply a transition between clips or double-click the transition in the Sceneline or the Advanced view timeline. It helps customize a transition as required. You can change the transition duration by entering any duration in the Duration field. You can also set the start and end points of the transition using the Start and End input fields.

The Alignment of the transitions can be changed using the alignment dropdown. The Show Actual Sources option displays the real clip thumbnail rather than placeholders A and B, which are used to denote the two clips. You can also preview the clip by clicking on the play button.

You can reverse the transition by clicking the Reverse checkbox. Some transitions have a custom dialog to customize them; you can access it by clicking on the Custom button from the transition control panel.

Transition Controls Menu

Adjusting transition properties

All transitions have properties that you can adjust in the Transitions contextual control. Common properties are the location of the center point, the start and end values, the border, and the anti-aliasing quality setting. (For some transitions, you can also change the orientation.) The following list describes the most common controls and options you can use to adjust transition properties.

To open the Transitions Controls, double-click the transition in the Sceneline or the Advanced view timeline.

Transition Properties

Duration

Sets the duration of the transition. The default duration is one second.

Alignment

Controls how the transition is aligned between clips. By default, transitions are centered between clips.

Start/End Points

Set the percentage of the transition that is complete at the start and end of the transition.

Show Actual Sources

Displays the thumbnail of the clips.

Border Width

Allows you to adjust the thickness of the border surrounding the transition effect.

Border Color

Allows you to choose the color of the border that appears around the transition.

Reverse

Plays the transition backward. For example, the Clock Wipe transition plays counterclockwise.

Anti-Aliasing Quality

Adjusts the smoothness of the transition’s edges.

Custom

Changes settings specific to the transition. Most transitions don’t have custom settings.

Adjust transition alignment

You can change the alignment of a transition placed between two clips in the Sceneline or the Advanced view timeline using the Transition Controls. A transition need not be centered or strictly aligned with a cut. You can drag the transition to reposition it over a cut as desired. The Transition Controls also contains options to specify alignment.

Whether clips have trimmed frames determines how you can align a transition between them.

Determine alignment options

  1. In the Sceneline or the Advanced view, position the pointer over the cut in a transition and note how the pointer changes:

    • Between clips: This is the default option. The transition is evenly distributed between the two clips, starting halfway through the first and ending halfway through the second, creating a balanced blend.
    • Start at Cut (Right clip): The transition begins at the point where the two clips meet (the cut). The transition occurs during the second clip, starting at the cut and extending into the second clip. This is useful if you want the transition to begin exactly when the second clip starts.
    • End at Cut (Left clip): The transition ends at the cut, meaning it begins in the first clip and finishes right where the second clip starts. The transition occurs during the first clip, and the second clip begins cleanly afterward.
    • Custom start: In some cases, you can manually adjust the transition’s placement using handles, allowing you to fine-tune its start and end points relative to the clips.

Adjust alignment for a transition

  1. In the Sceneline or the Advanced view timeline, select the transition and do any of the following:

    • Position the current‑time indicator over the transition, and then zoom in so that you can clearly see the transition. Drag the transition over the cut to reposition it.

    • Double-click the transition and reposition it using the options in the Transition contextual control.

Adjust transition duration

You can edit a transition’s duration by dragging the end of the transition in either the Sceneline or the Advanced view timeline. You can also use the Transition contextual control to edit the duration of a transition.

  1. Select the transition in the Sceneline or the Advance view timeline and do one of the following:

    • Position the pointer over the end of the transition until the Trim‑In or Trim‑Out icon appears. Drag the Trim‑In or Trim‑Out icon to the left or right to adjust the duration.

    • Double-click the transition and readjust the duration using the Transition contextual control.

    Note:

    Lengthening a transition’s duration requires that one or both clips have enough trimmed frames to accommodate a longer transition.

Set a default duration for transitions

The default duration for transitions is initially set to 30 frames for video and 1 second for audio. You can change the default duration to a value that better suits your movies. Although the new setting has no effect on transitions already placed in the movie, all transitions you subsequently place will default to this value.

  1. Choose Adobe Premiere Elements > Preferences > Timeline.

  2. Change the value for the Video Transition Default Duration or Audio Transition Default Duration and click OK.

Note:

Video transitions are pasted to video tracks and audio transitions are pasted to audio tracks.

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