Smooth Paper Stack Transition - Premiere Pro tutorial 2022

 

Smooth Paper Stack Transition;

create this awesome paper stacking transition effect i will show you how to make the

transitions then i'll show you how you can save them as a preset to used in

another project

okay let's stop wasting time move over to premiere and start some editing inside premiere

i've already got these two clips ready on the timeline we're going to use these

clips to make the transition in the first step we're going to put the second clip on top of

the first one for this transition we're going to use a

duration of around 2 seconds which you can see here next i'm going to enable the razor tool

by hitting the c key or click this icon here and then i'm going to cut the video

track in two parts

after that switch back to the selection click this icon here and then move the cutoff part

back to the first track okay so now we've got a cutoff part of clip 2 on top of clip 1.

in the next step we're going to move

over to the effects panel and there we're going to search for the transform effect you'll find

this one under video effects distort i'll select the effect then drag it over

to the timeline to apply to the cut-off

part then make sure you've got the cut-off part selected and i move over to the effect control

panel and in there i'm going to enable keyframes for the position by clicking

on this stopwatch icon here

then move that keyframe that you juste created to around two-thirds of the transition time

and create a second keyframe by moving the clip out

of the frame and by the way you can do this into any direction that you prefer left to the

right from the top to the bottom for this demo we're going to make it

move from the left to the right and so

far we've now created this basic animation next i'm going to take the first keyframe and

put this at the beginning of the transition then i'm going to right click on the

second keyframe and then select ease in

and this will make the animation go a bit more smoother next i'm going to open up the

keyframe graph and there i'm going to change the curve by adjusting

the blue handle here and after that the curve should look

something like this let's do a quick playback and see what we've got so far next i will also

disable the option for use composition shutter angle in the

transform effect

and i will also set shutter angle to 75 changing this will add a bit of motion blur to the

animation as you can see here by the edge of the frame

okay so now that we've finished this animation we need to nest this part of the clip

on the timeline we're going to right click on the cutoff part and then select

nest and then give the nested sequence a

name and click ok ok nested sequence created now it's time to add another effect

so i'm going to head over to the effects panel and i'm going to search for the

echo effect you'll find this one under video effects

and in time drag this one over to the timeline and apply it to the nested sequence

and then after applying this to the footage it might start to look a little

weird but we're going to fix this inside the effect control panel we'll start by

setting the echo operator to composite

in back next we'll set the number of echoes or the number of pages to 6 and we'll change

the echo time to -0.1 then i'm going to enable keyframes for

echo time by clicking on the stopwatch

icon and then move the first keyframe to the beginning of the transition and then create

another keyframe with value 0 and i move that one to the end

of the transition and i'm using this keyframe with value 0

at the end because we want to stop the echo effect at the end of the transition if i scrub to

the timeline you can see what i mean and also what we've achieved

so far in the next step we're going to add one more effect the radial shadow effect you'll find

this one under video effects perspective i will also

apply this one to the nested sequence we applied this effect to create some shadows at

the edges of the stacked papers but now nothing is visible because we

first need to change the order of the

effects we're going to do this in the effect control panel simply select the radial shadow

effect and then drag it on top of the echo effect and because this effect is heavy it

might take a few seconds before it gets

visible okay there it is now it's time to change some values of the effect first i'll change

distance to 1 and i'll set softness to 50 and then it should

look something like this

please note that if you chose an animation from right to left or top to bottom you also need

to change the direction of the light source as i mentioned this effect can be pretty

heavy for your system and as you can see here by this red line

it might need some rendering first so if your playback on the timeline looks like this then

you might want to render the effect for some smooth playback

go to the sequence menu and then select

render effects into out or you could also simply hit the enter key if you have the timeline

selected anyway after that premiere will start rendering the effects and you can see

the progress here and then after rendering the playback on

the timeline should look as smooth as this and this is the transition that we created in the last

couple of minutes you can save this transition as a preset to be used in future projects and

that's it after rendering the effects the transition will look like

this

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