How to Add Transitions in Final Cut Pro X

How to add transitions in Final Cut Pro?

When you edit videos and want to switch smoothly from one video scene to another, a transition is needed. Does Final Cut Pro support adding any transition for video editing? The answer is yes. If you are using Final Cut Pro to edit videos, you really need to read this post, which is going to show you how to add transitions in Final Cut Pro X with 3 ways.

• Part 1: Use menu bar to add transitions in Final Cut Pro X
• Part 2: Use shortcut to add transitions in Final Cut Pro X
• Part 3: Use browser to add transitions in Final Cut Pro X
• Part 4: Top 5 featured Final Cut Pro X transition effects

Part 1: Use Menu Bar to add the default transitions in Final Cut Pro X

You can use Meua Bar to apply transitions in Final Cut Pro, here is the tutorial.

Step 1 Choose the Select from the Tools pop-up menu from the top timeline, and then click on the clip edge (an edit point) in the timeline.

Then you should see one or both clip edges are highlighted in the timeline.

Step 2 Choose Edit > Add [transition name], or you can press Command-T instead.

Final Cut Pro use media handles to create a cross dissolve transition at an edit. If the video clip contains audio track, a crossfade transition will be added to the audio.

Part 2: Use shortcut to apply transitions in Final Cut Pro X

You are able to add transitions using shortcut. You can either blade a video clip into several scenes or add more than on scene to be joined in the timeline. It is much desired as transition effect can be applied only when you have two or more clips in the timeline.

Step 1 Once you have obtained your two scenes in the timeline, then choose the very first scene.

Step 2 Now open Video animation window; find the Compositing option and drag the timeline handle towards both sides of composite window to apply default transitions. In Final Cut Pro, Cross dissolve will be chosen as default transition.

Part 3: Use Transition browser to add transitions in Final Cut Pro X

Another way to add transitions in Final Cut Pro is to use Transition browser.

Step 1 Click on the Transitions button in the timeline.

Step 2 Choose a transition from the Transition browser. Move the pointer over the transition thumbnails and you'll see a transition example. You can type text in the search field to filter the list of transition names.

Part 4: Top 5 hottest transitions of Final Cut Pro X

• Cross dissolve: It is a simple but a little boring transition effect.
• Bloom: Show the saturation on one video clip before fading into the next clip.
• Pan left:Pan transition is often used in films like Star Wars.
• Fade to color: A gradual fade which inserts color between each shot instead of fading simply from one to the next.
• Light noise: Transition from one shot to another in a flash of light.

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In this article, we mainly talk about Final Cut Pro transitions. We show you the detailed steps to add transitions in Final Cut Pro. Any idea or suggestion is welcome to leave below.