Wow do you do this in FCP5?

[Tom Meegan]

Apply a transition to multiple layers…

Razor blade or control-V to isolate the area. Option-C to nest first one side then the other. Move the nests onto their own layers because you will have to add handles inside the nests. Double click the nests to add handles for your transitions. Tweak their positions to re-align sync…

This is clunky, and a pain. There is likely a better way, but that mehtod got me over a tough spot once.

Pasting to different tracks involves auto-selects. The rules are a bit weird at first but I’ve gotten used them (mostly) with use.

Here is a link…

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/auto_select_fcp_4_balis.html

that goes into great detail.

Basically turn off the auto selects for all the tracks below where you want to paste. Or for audio, all the tracks visually above the one where you want to paste.

Tom

[Tom Wolsky]

If you cmd-click the edit points on the multiple layers you can use the keyboard shortcut to apply the default transition. Is that what you mean?

The default paste is always to the track the material came from unless you change the autoselect controls.

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

[Kevin Mcquade]

Free at last! free at last!! Thank God Almighty I’m free at LAST!!!!!!

Thanks, I was growing really tired of moving farther down the timeline, pasting, and re-positioning the clip. And placing 4 dissolves was quite annoying as well, although I guess I could have nested the clips… D’OH!

Kev