Applying Transitions to Titles Programs Needed: Adobe Premiere 6.5(also works with earlier versions) Description: This tutorial aims to add two transitions to a Title created in the 6.5 Titler and then use the title to show over a still image, but this could just as easily be video footage. STEP ONE: Create your title and drag it to the Video1A track. Select your first transition to introduce the title and drag it to the transition track, here I'm using the Swing In transition to bring the title onto the screen. Make sure the direction of the transition goes from B to A Now choose a transition to use at the end of the title sequence and drag it to the transition track, I've chose a random blocks transition to clear the title from the screen, this time the direction of the transition is from A to B Your timeline window should look something like this You can preview your sequence so far to make sure the effect and timing is as required Set the timeline cursor to the left of your title and use Timeline/Preview or hit the Enter button NB if your Titles are black it will be difficult to see them at this preview stage, so you may want to create a new colour matte and position this in Video 1B just to help with viewing the transitions, you can then delete it before proceeding with the next step To create a colour matte File/New/Colour matte, pick a colour that will contrast with your title and save the matte then add it to V 1B. Once you are happy with the result we need to make a virtual clip Select the Block Select tool from the cursor options on the Timeline Window, circled in red below and then position the cursor at the left edge of the title, left click and holding the mouse button down drag to the right edge of the clip and release, you should now find the cursor has changed as per the clip below. Now drag the cursor to the right, positioning and releasing in Track V2 and a virtual clip is created Change the cursor back to the standard arrow. We now need to add to Video Track1A the still image or video clip that we want to appear below our title, here I have chosen to extend the image for a few seconds each side of the title sequence, giving time for the title to first appear then disappear. The virtual clip now needs to have transparency activated, so open the Video Effect window and click on transparency set up. These steps are illustrated in the following image.   The transparency set up window now appears and in this case we need to choose Chroma from the drop down key type list and set the required chroma colour, move the cursor over the image shown in the Colour setting box, the image will be black at this stage ( the first frame of our title before it appears on screen ), the cursor will turn to an eye drop tool, use this to select the colour to black, this will fill in the small colour box to the top. The desired effect can now be viewed in the small sample window at the right by moving the play button both right and left   The project now needs to be rendered and your title is ready to use. I often export this as a DV avi movie for use in a separate project but you could now begin to build up your project clips starting from this virtual clip sequence.