Today, we’re going to learn
how to make custom transitions in Final Cut Pro.
You don’t need buy and download any expensive plugins,
you don’t even need Motion.
All you will need for this is an adjustment layer,
which you can easily make yourself,
or download for free.
If you need one, I’ll leave a link in the video description
to my website where you can download one at no charge.
Let’s jump into Final Cut Pro and get started.
First example we’ll take a look at today,
is a simple spin transition.
With the two clips you want to transition between in your timeline,
open your titles and generators browser,
and locate your adjustment layer.
Add this adjustment layer above your clips,
and ripple trim it to about twenty frames in length.
Select the transform tool, and add a keyframe.
Place your playhead between your two clips,
and with the adjustment layer selected,
change the scale all value to 600 percent,
and change the rotation to 180 degrees.
Move your playhead to the end of the adjustment layer,
change the scale back to 100 percent,
and set the rotation to 360 degrees.
Set your playhead between your two clips again,
open the effects browser, and select the blurs category.
Add the radial blur effect to your adjustment layer,
set the amount to about 50
and add a keyframe to the amount slider.
Move your playhead to the start of the adjustment layer,
and bring the amount down to zero.
Move to the end of the adjustment layer,
and bring the amount down to zero again.
Render out your timeline for this custom, spin transition.
The next example we’ll take a look at today,
I call the Overexposure transition.
Once again, add an adjustment layer above your clips,
and this time, make it about 1 second long.
Move your playhead to the start,
make sure the adjustment layer is selected,
head up to the inspector window, and select the color inspector.
Add a Color Wheels correction, and add a keyframe.
Move your playhead to between the two clips,
and adjust the exposure until your clip is barely visible.
Move your playhead to the end of your adjustment layer,
and double click on any controls you adjusted to reset them.
Just like before, adding some blur to your adjustment layers
makes this look even better.
Set your playhead in the middle of your adjustment layer,
add the Gaussian Blur effect,
bring the amount all the way up,
and add a keyframe to the amount slider.
Go back to the start, and bring this back down to zero.
Do the same at the end.
Give your clips a few seconds to render out,
for this cool overexposure transition.
Using this same method with certain video effects
makes for even cooler transitions.
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Now, back to Final Cut Pro.
The first effect we’ll use for a transition today
is the Comic Look effect.
Add an Adjustment Layer above your clips,
and once again, ripple trim it until it’s about 1 second long.
From the Effects Browser,
select the Comic Looks category,
and add the Comic Basic effect to your adjustment layer.
Move your playhead to the start,
bring the Mix slider all the way down to zero,
and add a keyframe.
Move to the middle, and bring this slider all the way up.
Move to the end of your adjustment layer,
and bring the Mix back down to zero.
There’s a couple more things we can do
to make this transition look even better.
First, I feel like this particular transition
would benefit from being longer.
Adjusting the length is fairly simple.
Just ripple trim your adjustment layer out to make it longer,
say about three seconds,
select the adjustment layer,
and press Control V to bring up the Video Animation viewer.
Grab the end keyframes,
and drag them out to the edges of your adjustment layer.
Another thing we need to deal with is
is the hard cut between our two clips.
To soften this cut, select the end handle of your first clip,
and press Command T to add the default, cross dissolve transition.
Here’s our result.
The last example we’ll take a look at today will be a texture transition.
Just like before, add an adjustment layer above your clips,
and make it about three seconds long.
Head over to the Effects browser,
select the Stylize category,
and add the Texture effect to your adjustment layer.
Here, you can use the default wood texture,
or, if you want to, you can add your own texture clip
to the drop zone in the inspector.
With your playhead at the start,
bring the amount slider down to zero, and add a keyframe.
Move to the middle, and bring this slider all the way up.
Go to the end of your adjustment layer,
and bring the amount slider back down to zero.
Add a cross dissolve transition between clips
and render out your timeline for this cool texture transition.
You can use this method with basically every effect in Final Cut Pro,
giving you quite a few transition options.
Try it out, and see what you come up with.
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you back here next week.