Comments on: Tuesday Tips: Adding Transitions

By: Sean Lander

Sean Lander — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:55 +0000

What I do is map Video transition to the “[” key and audio transition to the “]” key as these keys are duplications of the trim keys found at “,” & “.” anyway.

By: editblog

editblog — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:32:19 +0000

The #6 method is a great one that can save a lot of time if you’ve made a custom transition … but Sean is right, map the transitions to a single keystroke and you can save a lot of time.

By: X

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:26:34 +0000

Same transition on multiple clips at once:

select the default transition first.

Then select all your clips.

Then overwrite with transition.This is a trick to do the same transition on every cut.

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:43:34 +0000

I’m late to this party but this is so good. X is certainly right but for completeness:

Same transition on multiple clips at once:

1) Make and SET the default transition first. (Select a stored version and right-click to SET.)

2) Set timeline target destination to the track containing all clips to be joined, as if preparing for an edit, and Home the Playhead to the beginning of the group. This establishes an In point for the operation.

3) Then select all your clips.

4) Drag the entire group to the Canvas Heads-Up Display, and to the Overwrite with Transition box. Release mouse.

5) Clips should be deposited right back where they came from– with your Default Transition between each.

Sorry, you can’t skip cuts. All the group or nothing. You can of course step through and remove undesired tansitions by hand.

- L