Sequences & the Transition Editor in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip we are just going to continue and talk more about using the transition editor. Now going back up here into the main part of the edit like I was dragging my clips before, you notice that there is a top bar and a bottom bar above and below our transition. Those represent the two clips that are to the sides of it. The top one is the clip on the left and the bottom one is the clip on the right. You can see the tape thing here. Depending on the view of your sequence depends on the view up here. I have thumbnails turned on to my sequence so up here you see the thumbnail. Also I have named turned on so you can also see the name. Now if you notice when you get to the edge, you can ripple edit. So it is basically like if you were to delete that transition and then do a ripple edit at the edge of this clip. Bring editor back up here. You can do it with the effect still applied, the transition still applied. So by clicking and dragging you then ripple. You ripple that effect. You can do the same thing for the clip below it which is the clip to the right of it and you can just go ahead and ripple it so you can see exactly how that corresponds. Now let's go ahead and open up a separate effect now. One that has more parameters to it. Let's go over here to transitions and let's grab a wipe. Let's do a clock wipe. Once you click and drag that clock wipe down and replace that crosses off. Now you notice in your viewer, it auto updated itself to be now the clock wipe. Now if you previewed this clock wipe, you can see over in the canvas that it is pretty much revealing the next footage like it were a clock wiping across. So what parameters can be changed. Well there are a lot more parameters you can change. For starters let's look at the start wipe. This is the position. Right now it is starting at 12:00. You can start it at 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 and you notice now there is a different start point before the transition begins. You just keep it at 12:00 for right now. Now the center point is basically the fulcrum of this. Okay, this middle point right here. You can set that by typing in values or just clicking this plus sign and then dragging it over. You notice that there is already a red plus sign that is because that is where the center is right now. I click over here. I just created a brand new center. Again, you can click and move and if you want to reset it, you can just put it back to 0. Put the value back to 0 and then they go to 0. Now the wipe direction clockwise or counter clockwise, is the same as if I clicked the reverse button. So watch what happens if I click the reverse button. If you click it, it reverses to the other side so instead of wiping in a clockwise motion, now it wipes in counter clockwise. You do the same thing down here in wipe direction from clockwise to counter clockwise."