Edit Transition Effects in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am just going to finish up talking about modifying your transitions. So now let's say you don't like your cross dissolve. Let's watch it, you know. The cross dissolve is kind of sucky. It's too basic. I want something more flashy. Well you can actually change the filter, the graphic going along that transition. There's a couple of different ways you can do that. The first way would be to select it, go up to effects, bring that down to video transitions and then you have your different filters here and you can just go ahead and let's say you want to do a wipe. Well basically whatever transition you select here is what it is going to change to whether it is a stretch or page peel or if it's Iris. We will just use a wipe. We will just make a. Let's see what is really cheesy here; a jaws wipe. Yeah, that's my favorite. Not. So now you can also see too that there is a little bit more complicated transition so you can't really time render it that well unless you have a faster computer. Another way to do it, let's undo that, is to just drag a transition from the effects tab up in the browser. To go up to the browser, click on the effects tab, click on video transitions and let's find that same wipe, down in wipes and you now have them listed here. So instead of going up to the top and selecting it, you can just go right into your effects tab in the browser and let's grab a zig zag wipe this time and just drag it and drop it on. It will pick up all of the parameters that are set on this. It will just basically just change the effect that is going on with that. Now for audio, you can just control click it or right click it. I hope to god you have a right click mouse and then you can just change the different type of fade down here reaching cross fade 0DB, cross fade +3DD. Now the difference between those two is that the 0DB when they are cross fading between them, their level wipes actually kind of drop a bit. So the musical fade slightly before this other song starts. The +3DB gives it a little boost right in the middle there. So it will stay a consistent volume between both songs. That's the default because honestly it works better than 0DB. I would suggest you usually want to use +3DB. You can change that right here. "