Download FREE Premiere Pro templates to enhance your video editing projects. These no-cost bundles feature over 80 dynamic transition elements—free, easy to use, and ready to go.
Add a splash of vibrant motion to your edits with these FREE transition packs for Premiere Pro! Fast-paced action wipes. Raw grunge textures. Playful zooms. Dreamy light leaks, futuristic sci-fi glitches, and more.
It’s all here, it’s all FREE, and it’s all yours. Let the downloading begin!
What Are Transitions?
Essentially, these assets are animated forms—shapes, characters, and images—that serve as a stylish and seamless bridge between two clips in your video timeline.
Say, for example, you have a shot of your subject presenting in a studio environment that cuts quickly to the same subject outside on a farm. The cut is part of your vision—but upon playback, it’s too abrupt. It just seems a little off.
An animated transition can fix this for you by creating an artful, satisfying segue from one scene to the next.
These free transitions offer an effortless, drag-and-drop way to enhance the visual narrative of your project. They’re incredibly versatile; they work for corporate videos, YouTube content, event recaps, documentaries, you name it.
Download them all to infuse your Premiere Pro project with a lively, dynamic vibe, elevating the professionalism of your work and adding an extra layer of legitimacy to the final product.
Explore 80 FREE Premiere Pro Transitions Template Downloads
So, we’re saying there are 80 free transitions below because that’s how many we included when we first published the list, but we’ve been updating it and adding to it for a few years.
As you’ll see, the list now features way more than 80. So please, go wild. Download them all. We insist.
13 Customizable Premier Pro Transitions
From the PremiumBeat vault, a pack of vibrant, playful transitions tinged with a hint of retro texture. These assets are versatile enough to suit various project types. From gaming content to documentaries on classic rock, there’s always a spot for gritty textures.
The application is straightforward, but for those needing a bit of guidance, a tutorial is available to walk you through the steps.
FREE Hand-Drawn Backgrounds
Okay, this isn’t your standard “transition” pack. What we have here are hand-drawn effects that provide a distinctive way to move from scene to scene.
These naturally styled elements inject playful, creative flair into your footage. Blend them with other free transitions from this list for an even more unique look. Here’s a tutorial for this pack.
Classic Wipes Transitions
This transition pack from Film Crux offers a diverse array of dynamic effects to enhance your video editing projects. It includes various blur effects for smooth transitions, innovative bounce and warp techniques for energetic shifts, and multiple glitch styles for modern, edgy looks.
The pack also features a range of directional transitions, like slide and whip pan effects in different directions (down, up, left, right), offering creative flexibility. Additionally, it includes both clockwise and counterclockwise rolls and spins, adding a twist to your transitions.
With the inclusion of the stutter and zoom spin effects, this pack ensures you have a wide range of options for any editing scenario.
15 FREE Premiere Pro Transitions with Texture
Many transitions on this list are pre-made alpha channel assets that simply require you to drag-and-drop the media file where needed.
However, this set of transitions is generated from a set of .mogrt files. This means they are fully customizable inside of Premiere Pro and After Effects, offering you the freedom to adjust texture and color as you see fit.
The styles are diverse and intriguing:
- Scribbled pencil
- Torn paper
- Wiggly zebra stripes
- Both standard and paper-textured wipes
Each style brings its own unique aesthetic to the table, ready to be tailored to your project’s specific needs.
18 FREE Animated Gritty Textures
If you’re on the hunt for a grunge vibe, PremiumBeat has you covered with eighteen animated gritty textures available at no cost. They’re not just textures; they double as transitions, adding a raw, edgy feel to your scene changes. Perfect for when you want to inject a bit of rough-and-tumble character into your edits.
You can enhance these with Premiere Pro’s built-in transitions, such as push or slide, to give them your own flair.
16 FREE Circle Transitions
Sometimes, you just can’t beat the classics, right? Released nearly eight years ago, this PremiumBeat circle transition pack is so well-crafted that nothing new has replaced it.
It features 16 circle wipes and spins, tailor-made for dynamic product videos. They provide a quick and elegant transition between product shots and real-world use-case examples.
The transitions vary in style:
- Circle radial wipes at differing speeds and directions
- Layered circle drops
- Circles gliding across the screen
All you need to do is drop one of these transitions over your clips in your Premiere Pro timeline, apply a Track Matte Key, and voilà—your video takes on a polished, professional look.
Paranormal Glitch Transitions
These glitchy titles come from Film Bodega. While not exactly traditional transitions, the glitchy titles can effectively be used as a transition effect.
Simply slot the template into your timeline to create custom spooky titles directly within Premiere Pro. No need to juggle with After Effects—it’s all streamlined for your convenience.
25 FREE Glitch Transitions
If you’re itching for glitch transitions, download this dual offering from Cinecom. The first pack is a collection of five glitch and distortion presets tailor-made for Premiere Pro. To get a handle on how to deploy these, there’s a tutorial waiting just below.
This pack serves up three unique flavors of glitch effects—think old-school analog vibes and crisp digital styles.
In the second transition pack from Cinecom, you’ll get another 20 FREE glitches. This second pack includes even more looks you can combine by stacking transitions.
15 Free Strobe Transitions
We don’t have a video to demonstrate this pack, but this lively Premiere Pro template brings you 15 unique strobe transitions, perfect for adding excitement to your edit. The pack comes from Motion Array, and, although free, you will need to sign up with them in order to download the goods.
It’s wonderfully straightforward to use and doesn’t need any extra plugins. Inject some energy into your next project with these user-friendly Premiere Pro transitions.
How to Use Your Free Transition Packs in Premiere Pro
You’ve downloaded all of the free transitions above. So, now what? Fire up Premiere Pro, and watch the tutorial below to start using your new assets in only minutes!
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