Transitions in FCP

[Shane Ross]

A tutorial on how to do a transition? Hmmm…I know that the ones that come with FCP will show that. But you need to buy it first.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Walter Biscardi]

There’s about 4 ways to do a transition I know of. it’s quite easy and while it may not work the same as Vegas, how an application performs a transition is not a “make or break” for making the switch. Like any other NLE the “buttons” are in a different place and you’ll need to adjust your workflow whether you switch to FCP, Avid, Premiere, or anything in between.

To make a switch you either have to be really unhappy with your current workflow, the product you’re using is going away, or the product you’re looking at has somer really great features that make your life easier.

Making a change from one NLE to another is a big deal, so be sure it’s something you really want to do before you jump in.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Jeremy Garchow]

Adjust how, for timing? Simply grab the end of the transition and drag out or in.

[David Roth weiss]

You can right click on any tranision and change its duration and its placement (end of clip, center, start of clip), and in addition every transition in FCP can be customized in certain ways by double clicking on it and loading into the viewer to customize user definable controls. For example, when loading a simple cross dissolve into the viewer, there are two sliders enabling the user to change the incoming and outgoing frames of the dissolve.

DRW

[Rocco Rocco]

Google video and Youtube have become valuable assets for beginners. Here are a few:

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2867237905327464722&q=%22final+cut%22+basic+tutorial

Good luck!