Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 710)

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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. 375)
 Adding Transitions (p. 379)
 Moving, Copying, and Deleting Transitions (p. 384)
 Modifying Transitions in the Timeline (p. 386)
 Working With Default and Favorite Transitions (p. 389)
 Detecting Duplicate Frames Over Transitions (p. 391)
 Video Transitions That Come With Final Cut Pro (p. 392)
Note: This chapter mainly focuses on video transitions. However, Final Cut Pro 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 308. 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.