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Let me close out this section of the tutorial on Transitions with a demonstration of the various methods of customizing your transition settings. Each Transition in Premier Pro CS3's Effects window has its own collection of customizable settings. There are quite a few of them over here in the Effects window. Although many Transitions have settings in common, the options available depend on which Transition you're modifying. To actually modify a Transition you'll need to apply it to a cut first, so notice that only when I click on the Transitions Applied down here in the Timeline that this Effect Control Panel changes. So let me go through and describe some of the settings you'll find in many Transitions. This is from the Adobe Premier Pro CS3 Help section. First you have your start- and end-sliders here. This changes the initial and final appearance of the Transition. You can hold down the Shift key to move the start- and end-sliders together. Next you have the Edge Selector setting. This changes the orientation or direction of the transition. Most of the Transitions do not have this setting, but for example the Barn Door Transition can be orientated vertically or horizontally. I have an example of a barn door there, and notice that this setting; it's a little bit obscure, somebody pointed out, is these arrows or triangles up here at the top; notice that this changes the orientation from vertical to horizontal so if you look over here in the Program view you can see that this is a horizontal Transition. Let's change that to vertical by clicking on the other set of arrows, that one there. Notice that now I have a vertical; oh, that's the horizontal. Let's go back to vertical, clicking on that set of arrows, and look over here where my mouse is and you can see this is now a vertical barn door. Actually this isn't previewing or updating here in the Program view, so you'll want to render that sequence, but you can see over here that's a vertical transition. The Show Actual Sources option displays the starting and ending frames of the clips instead of the generic A and B graphics. This is probably a better way to demonstrate the barn door there, in horizontal or vertical. The border color is found in many of these Transitions. This specifies the color of the transition's borders. Go ahead and use the color swatch or eyedropper to choose the color. The Reverse Isis setting plays the Transition backward. For example, the clock wipe transition plays counterclockwise instead of clockwise. Anti-aliasing Quality: low, medium, or high, adjusts the smoothness of the Transition's edges. And let's choose High and see the difference. Ah, that's a little bit; let's look at the actual source, as well. This is another one of those cases where you'll probably want to render the sequence. Notice that over here in the Band Wipe I also have a Reverse and Anti-aliasing Quality. And lastly, you'll have a Customer Channel Map setting. This changes the setting specific to the Transition. Most Transitions don't have custom settings. I should point out that most Transitions included with the Premier Pro CS3 work very similar and use similar settings. There are a few Transitions, however, that work a little differently from the rest, and although I can't cover every Transition in detail here, let me cover a few you'll want to give special attention to. One is the Channel Map, another one is the Luminance Map; let me move down here to the Map Category, and let's drag and drop a channel map onto that barn door. Remember to replace a Transition, just drag and drop a new transition on top of it. So here's Channel Map. Now let me drag and drop Luminance Map on there to replace that and Preview. Another interesting Transition is the Gradient Wipe. Let me demonstrate that next one here, and then preview it for you. That there probably is the best way to see this one. And the last one I want to demonstrate is Displace, which is found in the Special Effect bin. Let's drag and drop that one on there. Displace looks like this. Again, notice that each of these has different settings, some fewer, some more. Notice that this one is a little bit different. It doesn't have your start and end settings there. We can see a little bit of this one over here in the Program view; kind of interesting. So there you have a short survey of some of Premier Pro CS3's Transitions and how to customize your Transition settings. That'll wrap up this section of the tutorial on Transitions. In this section, you've got an introduction to this very important concept. A movie going into the details to help you understand how Transitions work. You've learned how to apply Transitions, how to adjust them, and then how to customize their settings. Let me now move on to the next section of the tutorial on how to Create and Work with Titles.