Sound effects tag

Transition Sound Effects

Transition sound effects for getting from shot to shot without anyone noticing the join. Or for making them notice it. Whooshes, swooshes, risers, hits, glitches and menu swipes, in every flavour from cinematic trailer to retro game. Some are meant to be heard, others slide by underneath. Pace matters more than anything, so match the whoosh to the speed of the cut.

Libraries
312
Publishers
81
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $830
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Recorded or designed
RecordedDesigned

Recorded means captured in the field or a studio. Designed means built from other material.

Channel format
MonoStereoM/SSurroundAmbisonic

Mono for 3D positional audio. Ambisonic and surround for immersive mixes.

Embedded metadata
Tagged for Soundminer or UCSUntagged

Soundminer and UCS fields written into the files.

All 312 libraries tagged Transition.
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All 312 libraries tagged Transition

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44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Cinematic trailer sound effects featuring over 100 designed risers, impacts, explosions, glitches, whooshes, tension builds, drones, stingers, and transitions for film trailers, game promos, and multimedia projects.
115 files · 127 MB · Metadata
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44.1 to 48 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Podcast sound effects featuring over 500 production elements, including censor bleeps, interface notifications, crowd reactions, musical logos, digital glitches, stingers, and designed whoosh transitions for multimedia editing.
595 files · 509 MB · Metadata
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professional motion-based sound effects collection featuring 62 WAV files, including ambient subs, risers, flybys, and whooshes, expertly crafted with premium audio processing.
62 files · 450 MB · Metadata

Most transitions are built from the same basic parts. A Whoosh carries the eye across the cut and a Riser pulls tension into it. The hit lands the new scene. Get the timing right and the edit just flows. They come in all sorts of styles: big cinematic swells for trailers, quick swipes and pops for short social videos, UI transitions for menus and apps, and melee swings that work as fast movement too. Glitches handle the broken-signal look, like a radio or a TV jumping between channels. YouTubers, motion designers, trailer editors and game teams all use them. Everything here is royalty-free, so they can go straight into paid work.

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