Applying a trannsition to multiple clips

[Steve Eisen]

Have you used the help section (manual) in FCP? The answer is there.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Stevec]

Yes I have used the help manual.
I actually looked in there before coming here.
Maybe I missed it or looked in the wrong section, but I read the entire chapter 21 of Part III of Volume II Editing (Adding Transition) and did not find the answer to my question.

Maybe you would be nice enough to tell me at least the page # that the answer is on.

Thanks

Steve

[Tom Wolsky]

See if this helps

https://www.fcpbook.com/Effects2.html

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Bryce Whiteside]

1. Set your default transition to apply to all you cuts
2. Select all the clips to apply the transition
3. Park the CTI (Current Time Indicator) at the beginning of the first clip
4. Drag the selection up to the Canvas and drop on the Overwrite with Transition

This thread was a bit kinder to converted Avid editors How do you add/delete multiple transitions? by mushyosh

HTH,
Bryce Whiteside

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

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[Stevec]

Tom thanks for the useful answer.
I read your suggestion and that will work, but upon looking into this further I found that if you command click on the transition points that you want then you can drag any transition from the effeects menu on to them and it is placed on all the selected points.

It’s not as easy as lassoing the group of them and dropping the effect on top, but it works,

Thanks

Steve

[Tom Wolsky]

That doesn’t work for me. Command click does nothing in my version of FCP. You can only select one edit point at a time.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Stevec]

I’m using FCP 5 with a Kensington 2 button mouse ( I don’t think the mouse makes a difference)

If I hold Command (or Apple) and click on the edit point it will allow me to select multiple clips.

Then I can right click (control click) and add a transition or go to Effect/Transitions and choose and one that I want, but I can’t take it from the effects browser like I said before.

Thanks

Steve

[Tom Wolsky]

Could someone else confirm this please to see if it’s just my systems that are strange. I’m using 5.0.4 BTW. As far as I know you’ve never been able to select more than one edit point at a time.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Stevec]

I’m using 5.0.4 also.

I found that it will let me do it on multiple track, but not along the same track.

So I can multiple select the edit point on track 1, 2, 4, & 7, but I can’t do 3 different points on the same track lie track 3 or 5.

Thanks

Steve

[Tom Wolsky]

Yes, that’s right. You can apply to stacks. Sorry I didn’t realize that’s what you were doing.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD