User Manual

Working With Transitions
Transitions provide another way of bridging the change from one clip to another, and are often
used to indicate a change in time or location when changing scenes. DaVinci Resolve supports
a variety of transitions ranging from various forms of the traditional cross dissolve to different
types of wipes, allowing for great flexibility when finishing creative edits. In addition,
DaVinci Resolve supports third-party OpenFX transitions that you install on your system.
Transitions are applied at edit points, and appear as editable objects in the Timeline.
Video and audio transitions in the Timeline
The default transitions that come with DaVinci Resolve appear within the Toolbox panel of the
Effects Library, while OpenFX transitions appear within the OpenFX panel.
Adding and Editing Transitions
The following procedures describe how to work with add and edit transitions in the Timeline
using both the mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
Methods of adding transitions using the mouse:
 To add a transition by dragging it from the Effects Library: Drag a video transition
from the Effects Library to an edit point in the Timeline so that it’s centered at, ends at,
or starts at the edit point. If there is no overlap between the heads and tails of the two
clips, you may not be able to add a transition where you want.
 To add a transition using the Effects Library contextual menu: Select one or more
edit points (one per track), then right-click a video transition in the Effects Library and
choose Add to Selected Edit Points. That transition will be added to every selected edit
point at once.
The Transition contextual menu in the Effects Library
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