The ‘Drag and Drop Way’
When using Final Cut Pro, dragging the transition effect and dropping it between two clips is, amongst editors, quite a widespread way of adding a single transition effect. It is almost the same way when adding multiple transition effects at once, but not exactly:
- inside your sequence, select the clips having cuts on which you want to apply a transition effect;
- drag and drop the transition effect INSIDE one of the clips and NOT BETWEEN clips. Even with several clips selected, transition effects dropped between clips will not duplicate itself to the other cuts;
To add multiple transition effects, drop the effect inside one of the selected clips and not between two of these. - the effect will then be applied on every selected clips’ cuts.
Once applied, the length of each transition effect might vary according to the footage available for the transition to take place.
The ‘Via The Menu Bar Way’
- inside your sequence, select the clips having cuts on which you want to apply a transition effect;
- go to Effects > Video Transitions or Audio Transitions > select the transition to be applied.
From the Effects menu you can have access to all the transition effects available in Final Cut Pro.
If you have Favorite effects1 or effects set by default (right click on the effect > Set Default Transition), for the second step you can also choose between:
- Effects > Favorites > effect name
- Effect > Default – effect name
For Both Ways
If one of the cuts have insufficient media for the effect’s duration, it will show a dialog box asking if it can skip it and carry on with the other cuts. The duration of the transition effects successfully applied is adjusted to the media available.
It works on clips put on different tracks as long as we do not try to do it on audio and video tracks at the same time, as the effects are not of the same kind between video and audio.
The End