Chapter 12. Applying Transitions

Lesson Files

FCP4 Book Files > Lessons > Lesson 12 Project

Media

Sahara folder

Time

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Goals

Understand transitions

Apply audio and video transitions

Change transition durations

Change transition alignments

Preview and render transitions

Copy and paste transitions

Use the Transition Editor

Work with different types of transitions

Adjust edit points under a transition

Save favorite transitions

Creating and refining a sequence is the core of the editing process. Once you've made decisions about edit selection and placement, you can start to focus on other aspects, such as adding transition effects to finesse the sequence. Transitions are very versatile. They can be used to ...

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