Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.1.2) - Manual (Page 211)

Chapter 9 Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators 211
Effects can be added to any clips in the Timeline. Once they have been added (or in the case of
built-in effects, adjusted), you can customize the effects using controls in an inspector, onscreen
controls in the Viewer, and controls in the Video Animation Editor and Audio Animation Editor.
You can also try out multiple versions of an effect using auditions.
Most of the effects and generators can be opened in Motion, an Apple application designed to
work with Final Cut Pro, where you can customize and save specialized versions of them.
Note: If you are using a transition, title, effect, or generator created in Motion that utilizes a third-
party plug-in, and that plug-in is not installed on your Final Cut Pro system, the Final Cut Pro
project may render incorrectly or incompletely. To verify if this is the cause, open the template
in Motion; if there are offline elements, you will see a warning dialog. For more information on
how to open a template in Motion, see
Create specialized versions of transitions in Motion on
page 220, Create specialized versions of the video effects in Motion on page 248, or Create
specialized versions of the generators in Motion on page 252.
Add and adjust transitions
Transitions overview
You can add cross dissolves and other transition effects between cuts to make your program
more interesting.
Transitions replace one shot with another over a specified period of time; when one shot ends,
another one replaces it. Three very common video transitions occur over time: fades, cross
dissolves, and wipes.
You can add audio-only transitions to audio edits in a connected storyline. These transitions can
be either a fade-in, fade-out, or crossfade.
Note: When a transition is added to a video clip with attached audio, a crossfade transition is
automatically applied to the audio. If the audio is detached or expanded from the video, the
audio is not affected by the video transition.
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