Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 719)

384 Part III Fine-Tuning Your Edit
Moving, Copying, and Deleting Transitions
After you add a transition, you can move it or change its edit point. You can also copy
transitions to quickly add the same transition at another point in your sequence (then
modify its properties later, if desired). You can also delete the transition.
Moving a Transition to Another Edit Point
You can move a transition from one edit point to another. The transition is removed
from the previous edit point and located at the new edit point. If there’s already a
transition at the new edit point, it’s replaced by the new transition.
Using Transitions in Projects to Be Exported as EDLs
Edit Decision Lists (EDLs) were developed for older tape-to-tape editing systems with
limited capabilities. Therefore, they can only describe a narrow range of transitions.
Typically, these transitions match standard transitions found on most broadcast video
switchers, designated by codes that have been standardized by the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
Although today’s nonlinear editing systems have introduced a much wider variety of
transitions and effects, the EDL format continues to reflect the simplicity of older
systems. As a result, not everything that you can do in a Final Cut Pro sequence will
show up as expected in an exported EDL.
Keep the following in mind when creating a sequence that you may export as an EDL:
 EDLs don’t support transitions in any tracks other than V1. If you use transitions in
other tracks, they won’t appear in the EDL.
 Anything other than a cross dissolve or simple wipe is mapped to the closest
approximate SMPTE standard wipe pattern.
For more information on EDLs, see Volume IV, Chapter 10, “Importing and Exporting EDLs.”