What are transitions?
By convention, the use of transitions should be kept to a minimum. The saying goes, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” When you are new to video editing, it is very tempting to think that you are adding the wow factor by inserting transitions at every edit point. Not a good idea. The concept comes from the feeling that every edit point has a visual jump to the next clip. This comes from being too close to the edit.
If you are relatively new to editing, my suggestion is, after at least a few hours, to sit back and view the exported movie on another screen. Don’t look out for the edits; try to view the movie as a complete story. If the straight cuts are jarring, then you need to do something to smoothen the edit points. That may or may not involve the use of transitions.
As you become more proficient at editing, you will realize that you don’t need a transition effect to move from one scene to the next. There...
