In video editing, what are transitions?
Transitions are authoring tools a video editor can insert between two video clips or still images to create an artistic, professional effect. There are a multitude of transitional effects available, the two most common being the crossfade and dissolve. Although video editing used to be reserved for professionals, digital cameras and camcorders created a market for nonprofessionals. Drag-and-drop video authoring programs like Apple™ iPhoto™ and Microsoft™ Movie Maker™ have brought video editing to the masses, making it possible to combine vacation videos or still images into movies or slide shows. In creating projects, one of the first things that becomes clear is that transitions make a project look professional. A slide show without transitions is just a series of photos flashing on and off the screen, much like the old slide projectors that cranked a carousel of slides through a projector light. Using transitions, special effects are inserted between photos to artfully move from one
