Using Transitions in a Sequence 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 use transitions in your sequence. Why would you want to use transitions in your sequence. You know that you have done pretty well so far just with straight cuts. Well again you have to think of how we visualize images. How the images translate into a motion inside the person watching. The difference between a transition and a jump cut or a straight cut is kind of like the difference between something beautiful and something ugly. You know when you watch a horse canter or a cheetah run along the desert, it is very smooth, very smooth in its movement so you perceive it as beautiful. If you watch say a alligator sliding across the ground it's very rough and rugged and it's not very beautiful. It's rigid so we think of it as kind of ugly. I don't think I have ever heard someone say wow, the way an alligator slithers on the ground is so beautiful. No, but you hear about horses and cheetahs looking beautiful as they run across the plains. So you can convey different things with transitions. One is you can convey the passing of time between scenes. That makes sense to me. If you fade from someone looking young to someone looking old, that conveys a passage of time. Instead of just a straight cut, you see someone young and then they are old. That does not show you a passage of time. It just kind of what just happened. You don't have any time to process that. You would use transitions for fading up at the beginning of a movie or scene or fading out at the end of a movie or scene. You know a fade transition would represent a beginning or an end. You can use it to create a montage of images. When you throw images together I don't care what they are images of, what kind of movement is going on in the image. When it is fading together it just has this look of being smooth. It flows and it is just more pleasing to the eyes.

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