Transitions

Add a transition

• Drag it from Effects ▸ Video Transitions onto the left half of a clip (its start) or the right half (its end). When two clips touch, dropping at the cut makes a transition between them.
• Or select a clip and press Apply (both ends), or press ⌘D to add a Cross Dissolve at the edit nearest the playhead (or both ends of the selected clips).

The transition plays a short preview automatically. Press Space to watch again.

Edit a transition

Transitions appear as striped boxes on clips. Click one to select it; Effect Controls shows its Type and Duration. Right-click it to change the type, set the duration or clear it. Press Delete to remove a selected transition.

Between two clips

A transition on a cut is centred on the cut: the first clip continues past its end and the second starts before its beginning. When the source has extra footage there ("handles"), real frames are used; otherwise a frame is held.

Single-sided

On a clip with nothing next to it, the transition goes from/to transparent — so Push slides a title in from the side, and Cross Dissolve fades it.

Shortcuts show the Mac keys: on Windows and Linux use Ctrl for ⌘ and Alt for ⌥.