Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 779)

• Alignment buttons: The selected button indicates the current alignment of your
transition. You can change the alignment of a transition by clicking a button (if there
are enough overlapping frames in the direction in which you want to realign the
transition).
Alignment buttons
• Recent Clips pop-up menu: Choose from a list of recently used clips. A clip is added to
this list when another clip replaces it in the Viewer (not when the clip is opened in the
Viewer). The last clip that was replaced in the Viewer appears at the top of the list.
Recent Clips
pop-up menu
By default, the maximum number of clips shown in this list is ten; you can change this
number in the General tab of the User Preferences window. For more information, see
“Choosing Settings and Preferences.”
Once the maximum number of entries is reached, a clip is removed from the bottom
of the list each time another clip is replaced in the Viewer.
• Drag hand: If you want to apply the current transition to another edit point in your
sequence in the Timeline, you can drag this to the edit point. This is true for transitions
opened from the Browser and from a sequence in the Timeline.
Drag hand
• Ruler: The ruler displays a close-up view of the frames surrounding the transition in
your sequence. The ruler and playhead in the Transition Editor are locked to those in
the Timeline. The time scale of the ruler can be changed by using the Zoom In and
Zoom Out tools or pressing Command-Equal Sign (=) or Command-Hyphen (-).
Ruler
779 Chapter 48 Refining Transitions Using the Transition Editor