Outgoing & Incoming Handles in the Transition Editor in Final Cut Pro 5

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This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, we will continue to discuss further how to use the transition editor. Now the outgoing and the incoming handles, you can click and drag to lengthen the transition inside of the viewer so everything you could change down in your sequence, you can change in the viewer too. So as you notice when my pointer comes to the side here, I can click and I can extend this side or I can click. It's on the end data right now. I can't extend the other side, only the one side. Let me switch to middle and then I can switch it either side whatever I prefer. So you can adjust it just like you did down in your time line. If you use a tool down here, you can also do a shift or a roll as it is called. So you can roll that left to right. I clicked the wrong tool. I know you noticed that. Yeah, the roll tool. You don't actually have to have the roll tool selected though. You can just use the selection tool and then you can roll it around. You'll notice again it is still auto updating down in my time line. Let's talk about the percentages. Okay, well here's the percentage meters. You have your start and your end. What these eyes basically wear in the transition, do you want it to start. Zero percent represents the beginning of the transition and a 100 percent represents the end. So for a fade, it is going from no fade to full fade end of the clip. So that clip is fading in and out. Okay, if I change the start to 56 percent, instead of that clip starting at 0 opacity, now it will start at 62 percent so watch what happens when I play this. It is like a little jump. It jumps, it's not a smooth fade because it starts at 60 percent opacity. Now these parameters work differently for other filters as well but this is a general use so if I click end and bring that down to 56, it will end not at a full fade but only at 56 percent of a fade and then it will cut to the image. So really for a dissolve, it is not all that useful but it is for other applications. Right next to it here you have the reverse button. You click this and you notice this arrow will change direction and it reversed. Click it, put it back. Reverse it, put it back. I'll show you how to utilize that with some other filters.

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