Final cut pro transitions help

Hi all,

first off wow i love this forums made my life so much easier for editting in fcp however i still have a issue

am editting 100gig of route 66 fottage from my gopro and i cant for the lfe of me find out how to have a soft merge between scenes.

best way i can discribe what am after is on the gopro studio if once you create the story line you click a plus between two clips what that does is fade one clip out while bringing in the next one. so they is no black screen in the merge etc.
at the moment when my story move from one click to the other it very rough feeling like a stop start no soft merge.

hope that makes sense

so with that in need how do i get this to happen?

thnaks

Danny

Hi Danny
Welcome to the forums.
This is a simple cross dissolve available in Transitions Effects. Sounds like you want to customize it.
If you want you can create a custom cross fade transition, change the total duration, manipulate the fade handles and curves and save as a preset. You can adjust all these parameters in the info pane. You can also double click the Transition itself. Then make it the default transition and then use keyboard shortcut cmmd+T to apply.
If you have attached audio, it applies an automatic cross fade as well.

Here is Apple's take on this… support.apple.com/kb/PH12592?locale=en_US

Finally, you can do even more by right clicking the Cross Dissolve transition and "Open a copy in Motion" where you can get even more creative. Assuming you have Motion installed.

Hope this helps, Greg

It is the Transition parameters in the Inspector, not the Info pane. Yes, I'm being way too picky, sorry, still waiting for coffee this morning...