This tutorial demonstrates how to create a smooth zoom blur transition effect in Adobe Premiere Pro. In addition to showing you how to achieve this style, Justin’s sample clips serve as good examples of why you might choose this transition effect for your own video.
One of the most useful aspects of this tutorial was the way Justin applied his effects onto separate adjustment layers, which allows for precise work that is easily cut-and-pasted onto multiple clips. Before watching this, I didn’t realize you could add multiple adjustment layers to the same clip! While he speaks quickly, following his cursor will allow you to see exactly where to navigate in the program to achieve this outcome — there’s no extraneous cursor movement, which helps make this a great tutorial. You can use this tutorial to make extra smooth montages, which will help articulate the relationships between different clips and set the overall mood of your piece.