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WARP TRANSITION

Presets

Ready to beam up some easy but impressive presets for slides, swirls, and other creative transitions? Engage! Simply keyframe the Mix duration (see below) and tune to taste. Find these presets via the blue Open Dashboard... button or the Choose a Preset... button below it.

As with all other Universe tools, you can modify or create a Warp Transition look and then save it under its own name by pressing the Save Preset... button.

Getting Started in a Timeline

1. Drag the transition over your edit in the timeline, placing it at the end or beginning. Alternatively, you can place it between two successive clips.
2. Modify the Duration of the transition either by entering a length in the field or dragging directly in the timeline.
3. You can choose the Alignment (Center at Cut, Start at Cut, End at Cut, or Custom Start) either by positioning the transition in the timeline or by choosing from the Alignment drop-down in some host applications.

Getting Started in a Compositor

1. Apply the transition to the layer from which you want to transition.
2. Choose the footage layer you would like to transition to in the Transition B drop-down menu. (Note for Motion users: Drag the footage layer up to the Transition B box.)
3. Animate your transition using the Mix slider from 0% to 100 percent. Set a keyframe for 0% where the transition should start, then set another at 100% for the end.

Modify the Transition

• Transition Type determines whether the transition will Zoom Forward, Zoom Backward, or Slide from one part to the next. Compare this clip using Slide to the Zoom Forward type (based on the Zoom Forward 180 preset) used above.
  
• Slide Direction sets the direction of the Slide when its Transition Type is used. The following triptych shows three frames from around the middle of the above clip's transition as it slides to the right. The stills give a better sense of the distortion and light blooming happening amidst all that glowing motion.
  
• Lens Distortion adjusts the amount of distortion applied while mixing imagery. This comparison shows the values of 10 (left) and 100 (right).
  
  Use the Channel Settings (see below) to adjust the various color distortions that occur within this effect.
• Clip A/B Position sets the location to which the zoom applies when Zoom Forward or Zoom Backward are selected as the Transition Type.
  
  
• Scale controls the size to which the clips offset during the transition. Note that the impact of this control may change depending on your selected Transition Type. For example, with Zoom Backward selected, this is the 2000 (maximum, left) and 100 (minimum, right) difference on our B clip just after the midpoint of our transition.
  
  
• Rotation sets the angle to which the clips rotate from level during the transition.
• Animation Curve contains a list of speed presets that determine how the transition executes. For more information on what these presets mean, visit the Animation Tweens page.
• Dissolve Start/End set at what percentage of the Mix completion the transitioning between clips occurs.
  
  
• Channel Settings
• Red/Green/Blue Distortion changes the position of the distorted color channel in the footage. Below, we have values of Red: 100, Green: 0, and Blue: -15. Notice how the distortion effect grows more prominent the farther you get from the center. This is why, on the left alien, -15 moves the blue channel more to the left than 100 moves the blue channel to the right.
  
  
• Radial Blur softens the lens distortion effect toward the layer's focal point. Below, we show values of 0 (left) and 70 (right).
  
• Zoom Blur adjust the blur effect that moves through z space when working with a Zoom Forward or Zoom Backward transition type. This blurring can greatly enhance (or restrain) your zoom effect, as shown in this comparison of 10 (left) and 700 (right).
  
  
• Slide Blur , much like Zoom Blur, adjusts lateral blurring when working with the Slide transition type.