User Guide

86 Studio 8
TRIMMING TRANSITIONS
Although transitions are not true clips, they are handled
very similarly to clips within Studio’s editing
environment. Like clips, you can trim transitions either
directly on the Movie Window Timeline, or by using
the Clip properties tool.
See “Trimming on the Timeline using handles” on page
60 for a discussion of the first method. he maximum
allowed duration of a transition is one frame less than
the shorter of the neighbouring clips.
Trimming with the Clip properties tool
The Toolbox > Modify Clip Properties menu command
invokes the Clip properties tool for the selected clip.
For all transition types, this tool provides previewing
controls, and the ability to set two properties:
• To set the duration of the transition, change the value
in the Duration counter. A transition’s duration must
always be less – if only by a single frame – than the
shorter of its neighbouring clips.
• The Name text field lets you assign a custom name to
the clip to replace the default one assigned by Studio.
The Name field is provided on the Clip properties
tool for all clip types. Clip names are used by the
Movie Window’s List view, and can also be viewed
as a fly-by label when your mouse moves over a clip
in the Storyboard view.
Many transition effects also support a “reverse
direction” option, which causes the transition animation
to run backwards, allowing a rotary wipe, for example,
to be either clockwise or anticlockwise. The Reverse
checkbox is enabled when the current transition
supports this option.