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Most video editors have a range of transition effects
that you can use to cut from one shot to another.
You can have wibbly-wobbly effects, you can have things flying through the air
or spinning around. The sky’s the limit.
Thing is, though, using these effects doesn’t make your video look more professional.
What it does do is to distract attention away from the content of your video.
It says to people: “Hey, my video might not be very interesting,
but just look at what my video editor can do!”
The professionals know that what you need to do
is to keep people focused on the content of the video itself:
the stuff that you actually filmed.
And so 99.9% of the time you’re going to be using three different kinds of transition:
the hard cut,
the cross-fade or dissolve,
and fade to black.
And that’s all you’ll ever need.
Ow!
Does anyone have a light?