Making Edits & Fades in Adobe Premiere

Video Transcript

"This is Kyle with Expert Village. We are going to be talking about editing; your edits and your fades. Now on the time line when you are moving around, you are going to go over to the project window and go your affects and scan up to either your audio transitions or your video transitions. You click down, you look for your dissolves. So your basic cross dissolve is the most basic of all probably video transitions. If you try to get too fancy with dissolves, sometimes it ends up making your project look a little cheesy. Now if you go with the audio transition, you just take it, drop it and drag it down there and it creates this smooth fade up between whatever your audio and video sources are and it also gives them kind of a match. Now if you put it over something else when it is not black, it is not going to fade up from black. It is actually going to fade directly into whatever is on top. Now if you take it away and you put it down on the same line, if you see it is just a jump cut. So if you want to create a little smoother cut and you both are on the same line, you take the cross fade, go to video transition, it cross fades. It is very simple. Now if you want to drag that fade out a little bit, you just grab on each side pull it out and let's preview it. Here's a real simple slower you know if the music is slower, the pace is slower; you may want to do that. "