Cool Transitions for Editors

thefilmaddict said:
I was looking for some good transitions and found a plug-in that I really like. Here’s a demo showing what it can do.

https://youtu.be/zPOtPyusyXw
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a lot of those look pretty dated and some of the ones that look more modern I've seen executed better elsewhere. I bought a pack of transitions for FCPX last year that I found useful, although I'm sure there's a similar offering for Adobe elsewhere. I particularly like the twirly, slidey/sheary, and zoomy ones when used appropriately. I see these sorts of things all the time on youtube, so they must be cool. ;)

this was the pack I bought: https://store.pixelfilmstudios.com/product/fcpx-transition-mega-pack/
 
ahalpert said:
I bought a pack of transitions for FCPX last year that I found useful, although I'm sure there's a similar offering for Adobe elsewhere. ]
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Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. Two or three years ago I was looking for transition packs for Premiere and all the best stuff, from multiple developers, was only available for FCP. Some really cool and creative stuff, with no Premiere version at all. It wasn't enough to convince me to migrate to FCP just for the effects, but I was jealous. I believe there is something about the Adobe software that makes it much harder for developers to create creative plugins. Hell, even Adobe doesn't have any decent transitions of their own. maybe they expect you to use After Effects for the good stuff.
 
Doug Jensen said:
Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. Two or three years ago I was looking for transition packs for Premiere and all the best stuff, from multiple developers, was only available for FCP. Some really cool and creative stuff, with no Premiere version at all. It wasn't enough to convince me to migrate to FCP just for the effects, but I was jealous. I believe there is something about the Adobe software that makes it much harder for developers to create creative plugins. Hell, even Adobe doesn't have any decent transitions of their own. maybe they expect you to use After Effects for the good stuff.
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That's surprising to me that there isn't equivalent stuff available in Premiere. I thought that AE integrated well with Premiere. The FCP transitions are all based on Motion files, and you can create your own transitions in Motion. I wonder if this is an area where FCP benefited from rewriting the whole program more recently than Adobe.
 
Just to be clear, AE does integrate well with Premiere. What I'm talking about is the sort of transitions between two clips where you just want to right-click and add an interesting transition in a couple of seconds besides a dissolve or a cube wipe or something. That is where FCP shines.
 
Actually, I spoke too soon. Most of the stuff they offer for Premiere is graphics and type. If you look at just TRANSITIONS for Premiere there is only a fraction of what is available for FCP. This what I am talking about.
 
yeah, def much less - but you can take random elements from the packs and put them over the top of two clips and they work as transitions because any distraction between two clips is essentially a transition. Not the traditional way but it works...gets the creative juices flowing, too.
 
Doug Jensen said:
Just to be clear, AE does integrate well with Premiere. What I'm talking about is the sort of transitions between two clips where you just want to right-click and add an interesting transition in a couple of seconds besides a dissolve or a cube wipe or something. That is where FCP shines.
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I think we're on the same page, but it would seem that AE does not integrate with Premiere as well as Motion does with FCPX. My understanding is that all transitions for FCPX are designed in Motion. But then you can manipulate their parameters in FCPX and use them even if you don't own Motion.

There's nothing that Motion can do that AE can't do, so I assume that Premiere can't utilize AE templates in like fashion or else we'd see all the same transitions available in Premiere.
 
Anything made in Motion can be 'published' into FCP (right-click any parameter in Motion's Inspector). So anything made in Motion that's then later sent to FCP could have an infinite amount of parameters for the user (Apple kept it simple with the stock transitions and some don't have any control at all).

FCP is most frowned-upon out of the big 3, big 4 - but the integration and power of Motion and FCP working together has to be one of the most underrated, tragically unknown subjects in post-production.

It's not AE and never will be, but it's an extremely clever application in several different ways.
 
NorBro said:
It's not AE and never will be, but it's an extremely clever application in several different ways.
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Right, although it seems like the "behaviors" available in Motion can actually be a huge time-saver. And I don't think something similar is available in AE. It's sort of a parallel to FCPX having, in some ways, less control than Premiere but much faster ways of doing stuff that you need to do frequently
 
You're mentioning something different now - but, yes, 'Behaviors' are/is the engine behind almost everything in motion in Motion.
 
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