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Methods of altering transitions in the Timeline:
 To change a transition’s type: Drag a different transition from the Effects Library onto
the current one in the Timeline.
 To change a transition’s duration: Drag the beginning or end of the transition in the
Timeline to be longer or shorter symmetrically about the current edit. Alternately, you
can do one of the following:
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Right-click any transition and select Change Transition Duration, or select the
transition and press Command-D, then alter the duration in the dialog that appears,
and click Change.
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Double-click any transition to open it in the Inspector, and set a new duration in
seconds or frames.
 To change a transition’s alignment: Right-click a transition in the Timeline and choose
a new method of alignment from the contextual menu. Alternately, you can double-click
any transition to open it in the Inspector, and choose a new option from the Alignment
drop-down.
 To remove a transition: Select a transition in the Timeline and press the Delete key. Or,
right-click a transition in the Timeline and choose Delete from the contextual menu.
Adding Transitions When
There’s Not Enough Handles
If the outgoing and incoming overlapping handles at a given edit point don’t have enough
frames to fit the standard transition duration, and you try to add a transition by selecting one or
more edit points and pressing Command-T, or by right-clicking an edit point and using the
transition options in the resulting contextual menu, then you’ll be presented with a dialog that
gives you three choices:
 Trim Clips: You can automatically trim the incoming and outgoing sides of each
selected edit point to create the overlap needed for adding the standard transition.
 Skip Clips: Don’t add transitions to the selected edit points that lack the
appropriateoverlap.
 Cancel: Cancel the operation entirely.
Adding Transitions By Dragging
to Create Overlap
There’s another method you can use to create transitions that makes it easy to create
transitions while you’re doing drag and drop editing by simply overlapping the beginning and
end of two clips where you want a transition to appear. Just press and hold the Option and Shift
keyboard modifiers together while you drag a clip or edit to create overlap with another clip.
You can do this in three ways:
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