ABSTRACT
Transitions are most often used in NLE (video editing) programs, as one video clip cuts to the next. In After Effects, it’s a slightly more manual process. Most transition effects have a Transition Completion value that the readers need to animate from 0% to 100% in order to have the transition completely replace the clip. Noticeably absent from the After Effects transition video roster is the most popular of video transitions, Cross Dissolve, which is a soft crossfade between clips. The Block Dissolve is fairly simple, but it needs a little help to be useful. Its default settings look like a layer using the Dissolve blend mode (that’s bad). The purpose of this effect is to transition to transparency by removing the layer in blocks. The Iris Wipe effect is quite unusual. It creates a transition by essentially creating a transparent geometric shape on the top layer. Once the shape is larger than the layer, the transition is complete.
