Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 537)

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Adding Transitions
You can add cross dissolves and other transitions between
cuts to make your program more interesting. You can also
add a cross fade audio transition to smooth abrupt
changes in audio.
This chapter covers the following:
 Learning About Transitions (p. 537)
 Adding Transitions (p. 541)
 Moving, Copying, and Deleting Transitions (p. 545)
 Modifying Transitions in the Timeline (p. 547)
 Video Transitions That Come with Final Cut Express (p. 550)
Note: This chapter mainly focuses on video transitions. However, Final Cut Express does
come with two audio transitions you can use to smooth audible changes between
clips. For information about using audio transitions, see “
Using Audio Transitions to
Smooth Audible Changes ” on page 471. To apply transitions, both video and audio, use
this chapter.
Learning About Transitions
A transition is a visual effect used to change from one clip in your edited sequence to
the next. In the early days of film editing, the only transition you could immediately
view was a cut. Even the simplest transition, the dissolve, had to be specially set up in
an optical printer and sent back to the editor for viewing. The whole process was
expensive and could take several days.