welcome back everyone my name is joel and today's quick tip is how to add transitions
between each of your clips if you want within final cut pro 10. here we go
all right let's throw three minutes on the clock and let's take a look at final cut pro
and where the transition lives to spice up our our project between our clips we have
final cut pro open i'm just i'm going to create a brand new project we're just going to call it
gym not as in gym like gym but gym and i have some favorites already so i'm going to go to favorites
and we're going to bring some of these clips down to our timeline
and there we go your transitions within final cut live in the bottom right hand side or on the
far bottom right underneath on this toolbar and we have this little button next to our
our filters this very last one here is transitions in our transitions we have lots and lots and lots
of different transitions we have blurs lights dissolves movement ones now some of these like
morph cut or motion vfx you're not going to have unless you purchased or downloaded those
additionally but you will have a handful of all of these these clips for these transitions here
now if i take this move my cursor on top of any of these at any given time it's always going to show
me how these video clips or how this transition would look and all i have to do is drag this on
top of the clip where it has the splice between each joining clip and it automatically adds that
transition if i want to change the duration of that that transition i can grab it from the side
here and either shorten it or make it longer now you'll only be able to make it as long as the clip
allows if you have a very tiny clip you're not gonna be able to expand it very far if
i double click on here i can actually see the precision editor which allows me to see where that
first clip is fading out and where the first clip is fading in so this tiny clip here it actually
ends right here so it's fading in and i can adjust the transition of where it's
of where it's joining that other clip if i double click on that again notice how it's a little bit
tinier now i can just skim through the clip here and notice in the top right in my preview i can
see that transition in action if i select this i can go to the inspector and see if there's
any attributes that i can change for this and it looks like there's a shading option
which then allows it to shade a little bit better from one clip to the next
if i don't like this transition i can always drag another one on top of it to override it
so let's say i take this multi one here drag it on top and it just automatically replaces
it now notice here this one is more interactive it has drop zones for me to place within this
visually so if i scan if i zoom out a little bit what it's wanting me to do is select a source
notice i have the inspector open it's wanting me to select a source for what's going into this
what's going into this transition so i'm going to click on this clip here select the next clip click
on here select the third clip click on this clip select the fourth one go here and then
here in the viewer i can say apply clip so now if we zoom back in and if i play this
or if i scan through it notice it has those four video clips it breaks apart
and it goes into the next clip and i can extend that to make it longer also
and there it breaks into the floor and then it goes in and out
so all of these different transitions some of them are pretty straightforward you can't edit them
some of them allow you to do a little bit tweaking to make them a little bit more visually
appealing so i can go through here and find other transitions and i can drag this
just on top of those now also keyboard shortcut if i click on either the end or the beginning clip of
adjoining clips i can do command t on the keyboard and that's going to put the default transition
if i ever have a transition that i often use the default one is going to be the dissolve
but let's say that i wanted this flash one for example to be the default if i right
click on this i can say make default so now if i select the cut where two clips are do command t
it's now going to put that flash one as the default and i don't have to keep on dragging
it i can also hold down option and drag it from one transition to the next to quickly
use the same one that i just did so if i wanted this one here i can actually hold option on the
keyboard drag it to another location drop it right on top of that adjoining clip and now
it has copied that transition from one splice to another so that is transitions in final cut pro
pretty self-explanatory pretty intuitive there's lots of different options but just remember to
open up that inspector see what other options are available because there may be additional choices
per each transition that you're playing with so i hope you enjoyed this tutorial if you liked it
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