 Hell yeah, what's up guys? This is Chris Pike. My friends call me Bigsy. I'm back in action today, we're in HitFilm Express, and I'm going to show you how to add in transitions to your videos. And not only that, I'm going to show you how to do it Star Wars style. That's right, this is going to look like it just came out of Star Wars. For those of you that are just starting to follow along this series, just a heads up, we're using HitFilm Express, and more importantly, we're using only free tools. So if you're new to video editing, or even if you're thinking about getting started on YouTube and video editing, and you're not sure where to start, this is the series for you. I'm going to show you how to be the best video editor you know, and I'm only going to do it using free tools. So let's keep rolling here. The first thing I want to show you is the Star Wars transition. Here it is. I'm just going to take my, I've added in a video here to the timeline. I'm going to grab my playhead, make sure it's at the beginning, and I'm going to hit spacebar to preview. There you go. That is the Star Wars transition. And when we go through it slowly, you'll see that it is a wipe from the left side to the right side. Very, very popular, especially in all the Star Wars series. How do you do that in your own shots? Let me show you. I'm going to just remove this here first. So I'm just going to right click on it and click remove. And the next thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to add in some stock default footage that I downloaded off of Pexels. So I'm just going to drag and drop that onto the timeline like that. And it's a bit too long. We only need a few seconds of it. So I'm just going to zoom. I'm going to change the zoom and I'm just going to reduce the length of this shot to a couple seconds. Let's see what we got here. Like two seconds worth of stuff. Yeah, something like that. Maybe, yeah. Oh, it's only one second. Maybe a little longer than that. Let's go ahead and increase the length a little. Come on, Mr. Mouse. Let's go to two seconds. Okay, good. Now I'm going to add in a completely different shot so you can see it. And I'm going to drag and drop that to the outside of the first shot. So they're both on the same video track and they're actually not touching right now. They need to touch. So I'm going to make sure they're touching. There we go. And now I'm going to zoom out a bit and that shot's a little bit too long too. So I'm just going to reduce the size as well. So I've got about four seconds or so of footage, river or water. And then it basically cuts right to the dog getting pet. Now in most videos and movies, this is the kind of cut that you're going to see. So it just goes from one scene or one shot to another shot. But adding in transitions allows you to increase your production value. It allows you to change the narrative of your story a little bit. You can show things like a jump in time or a continuation of a thought or a continuation of a location. There's a whole bunch of different reasons why you'd want to use a transition. Let me show you how to do it. Okay, so the next step, you're coming along with me, we're going to go over here to effects. So we're on media. We're switching to the effects panel. In particular, we're going to go down to the bottom and you're going to see transitions video. We're going to click on that chevron right there. And we're going to see a few different options to do the Star Wars effect. You want to use a linear wipe. Now you could try out all of these different ones. Any of them that have a that don't have a button beside them that says paid, they're free. So use them. They're all free at this time. So let's go ahead and use the linear wipe. We're going to start with that one. I'm going to left click on it and I'm going to drag it onto the timeline. And in particular, I'm going to make sure that half of the green is on the left side and half is on the right side. So basically what's happened here is the transition is applied. 50% of the transition is on the first clip. 50% of the transition is on the second clip. You can go ahead and adjust the length of the transition as I just did here by grabbing the edges and pulling them out. So this would be a longer transition and you can do a shorter transition. But again, that's not really what we're going to be looking at here. We've gone ahead. We've added in the transition. Now let's take a look at what we got here. I'm going to just click spacebar left to right wipe. Did you see that? That is the Star Wars transition right there. That's all it takes to add in a transition like the Star Wars transition inside HitFilm Express for free, guys. That's it. All there is to it. Thanks for watching this video. I have a ton more videos coming up. Stay tuned. I'll be back soon.