What Does the Transition Editor in Final Cut Pro 5 Do?

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This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am going to talk to you about using the transition editor. So now I will talk about using the transition editor. This is going to be quite a long discussion because you can get pretty in-depth with adding transitions to each other and changing their parameters. So just stick with me and we'll get through it. Now if you want to make more precise changes to a transition, then you could edit in the time line or if you want to create custom settings for transitions that you use frequently, that's when you would want to use the transition editor. So what does the transition editor allow? Well, it allows you to change the duration of a transition which we did previously. This is just a couple of different ways you can do it. You can adjust the alignment of a transition which we've also done but again there is another way to do it. Trim the edit point between 2 clips that are adjacent to the transition and you can also ripple, edit each clip to the other side of the transitions edit point. Then adding on to that even further, you can then adjust the percentage of completion of a transition which I will cover but each transition has a percentage completion between 0 and a 100 percent. You can also reverse the direction of a transition which is definitely handy. Then the last thing you can do is modify custom settings for transition. Some transitions will have more customizable settings than others. So first let's go ahead and let's just open up a transition in the editor. First we need to place one. Let's just replace the basic which is a crosses off so just right at a point and add transition, cross dissolved. Now we double click it and now you notice up in the viewer, there is now a new tab. Okay, this is a special tab with the transition. Basically indicating that the transition has loaded or it's opened so you can view and modify the transitions setting up in here. Let me go ahead and just enlarge this for you so you can see better. Now there are tons of different parameters you can set in here so first let me talk about the properties that are common to all transitions. Then we will go over some effect specific properties. So the time code duration field; up here in the upper left corner, we touched on this before and again this is how we can set the duration with time code. If you want it longer than a second which is a default, You can set it to 2 seconds or 23 seconds; whatever you prefer. You can change that and it will automatically update in your time line. Let me go ahead and change that so you can see it auto updating. Now watch it auto updates itself in the time line and also up here in the editor.

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