Yes, you got a new editing program that does dissolves, star-shaped wipes, spiral dissolves, clock wipes digital bouncing block transitions and more.
When you watch a movie, or network TV, do you see any of those effects? No. Why not? Because they’re stupid. Because they’re packed into editing software by engineers trying to bump the “feature count” to justify the price. But just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you should.
As for dissolves, they have occasional uses, but they’re mostly from an era gone by, where people needed more time to understand that the movie just went from … Read the rest
Steve Stockman is a writer/ producer/ director in Los Angeles. How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck, available in 9 languages, is the best selling video how-to book in the world. You can find the updated (2017) edition from Workman Publishing wherever you get books, ebooks or audiobooks. 
