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Placing two clips side by side in the timeline window will create what is called a cut; I have a variety of examples of cuts here. Notice that the last frame of the first clip is followed immediately by the first frame of the second clip in all of my examples here. However you can emphasis or embellish this transition between clips with a variety of effects that Premiere Pro calls logically enough transitions. Transitions calls wipes, zooms and dissolves. Transitions are stored here in the effects panel; notice that there are two kinds of transitions audio transitions involving audio clips and video transitions involving video clips. Notice that they are organized by kind, dissolve transitions, 3D motion, iris map, page peel, slide, stretch, wipe and zoom. Adding a transition is as simple as dragging it from the effects palette onto the timeline. Let's go ahead and add a dissolve, cross dissolve, notice that I drag and drop it right on the video track there, video one track. And now if I preview this notice that I have one clip dissolving into the second, let's add another one and let's do a third here in my first clip. Notice that I can attach this dissolve to both clips or to the second clip or to the first clip, notice that I have option of where to place it. Here's the cross dissolved placed on the first clip and the reason you would do that is you would want to keep the in point and out points of both of those clips. So notice that I'm not effecting the in point of the second clip by placing the cross dissolve on the first clip. If I undo that and now let's place the cross dissolve entirely on the second clip, you can make adjustments to the duration as well as the placement of your transitions by dragging them in the timeline, much the way that you move and trim clips. Let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit on these and notice that I can take this cross dissolve, move it back into the middle but also I can adjust the duration both in the in point and the out point to make it longer. So in this way the cross dissolve will occur much slower, much more gradual. If I trim this in and make it shorter the cross dissolve will appear more rapidly. It almost instantly cross dissolve into that second clip, Premiere provides a special area called the effects controls panel where you can adjust your transitions with much more precision. You'll use both the effects palette and the effects control panel here to add and adjust your filters. Notice for example that you've got quite a bit of settings here as well as a more detailed view of your clips where they overlay as well as the transition there. You've got alignment options, duration, start and end options, reviewing this effects controls panel is beyond the scope of this movie. But again I do cover this in detail in my full Premiere Pro tutorial for VTC. The effects palette over here to the left is where Premiere organizes all of the effects including all the audio and video transitions. By default the effects panel contains five folders, pre sets, audio effects, audio transitions, audio effects and video transitions. The items found here depends on the number and type of effects and transitions you have in Premieres plug-ins folder. You can't remove or rename these folders but you can add and name custom folders and place copies of your favorite items in these bins. They are called bins in the Adobe Premiere documentation and you can create this custom bins by just clicking on the new custom bin icon at the bottom of the panel there. Notice you have your custom bins there when you can place your most used presets, audio effects, video effects, or audio or video transitions. Let me provide now a quick survey of some of the more important or popular of these presets, effects and transitions. Under presets you have graphic presets such as beveled edges, blurs, mosaics, these are similar to the Photoshop filters if your familiar with those. Under audio effects you have three bins. 5.1 stereo and mono. Most of the effects in each category are the same you would just apply them to different types of audio 5.1 stereo or mono. Here you have coarse, space, eq, low pass, notch, phasers, and you have your audio transitions. Which are primarily just cross fades, two different types cross fade with a constant gain or a constant power. Under video effects you have quiet a few video effects here, blur and sharpen, channel, distort, generate, king which will allow you to remove a single color in a clip. Noise and grain, perspective render effects, so you can render an ellipse. Stylize, time transform, transition utility and then video effects including time code. And then you get to the video transitions, I've showed you one of these cross dissolve, but there's quite a number of transitions organized into dissolves, Iris', maps, channel maps and luminance maps, page peels, slides, center merge, multiple spin push, special effects such as displaced texturizer and 3d. Stretch wipe and zoom, and then you have your custom any of your custom bins that you've created. The best way to learn about all these effects, transitions, and presets is to apply them to some clips, render a movie and then look at the results. So there you have a quick review of the video transitions that are available in Premiere Pro CS3 as well as a very quick survey of some of the other effects available.