Applying Video Transitions in Final Cut Pro 5

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This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am going to show you how to apply transitions. So let's go ahead now and just apply our first transition and this way I can explain to you and kind of walk you through what it looks like. So come up to the effects tab and then go ahead and scroll down video transitions and then go to dissolve and then go to cross dissolve. It has a line underneath it. Click and drag it and just bring it in to the Time Line. Now before we drop it, you can only place transitions in between two adjacent clips. You can't place it in the middle of a clip. It has to be in between two clips. So when you mouse over that you can see now, it has an area. It is telling you where it's going to drop it. It won't drop it over here, you get next but you can drop it here. So go ahead and drop it right in the middle there. All right, let me just zoom that and make it a little larger for you to see. There you go. Now you can see the cut point between it here. You see this little line. That is where your two clips are cut at; that's the middle part. That's where the clips have been cut so you can still see that. Now you see these gray slopes here. The gray slope in the transition indicates the speed alignment and the direction of the transition. Now by default, this is one second. All the transitions are defaulted by one second in their length, their duration. You can change that in the settings which I will show you in a little bit. Now clips, they must have handles. If you want to transition between them and handles are extra media frames before the in point and after the out point of your clips. So let me just pull up a clip in the viewer here. Okay, now what that means with a handle is that extra media frames means is you notice here in the Time Line that, let me go ahead and delete this, here's the end of this clip and the beginning of this clip. All right so when that is put in there you notice now that it crosses over so essentially what that is doing, your clips are doing this; this one's going a little further this way and this one is going a little bit further this way and they are fading out as they go that extra distance.

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