The Fly By
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Here’s a transition
you see all the time on TV that’s easy to create.
We call it the Fly By.
Play back your Timeline and you should see the image Fly By the screen a few times. One trick to make this process easier in the future is to save the Push Slide as a Favorite.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
- Choose your Effects tab in the Browser > Video Transitions > Slide > Push Slide. Double-click Push Slide to load into the Viewer.
- Make the duration of the transition something short (four frames works well).
- Change the angle to 90 for a Fly By to the right or -90 for a Fly By to the left.
- Locate an edit point you want to add a transition to.
- Drag the transition from the Viewer (use the little hand in the upper right hand corner) to the edit point on the Timeline. Make sure that you don’t center the transition on the edit; you want to start on the edit. If you’re not sure what you did, right-click on the transition and choose Transition Alignment > Start on Edit.
- Position your playhead at the end of the transition you just added (it helps to have snapping on) and press Control + V to add an edit (make sure you either lock your audio tracks or toggle Auto Select off or you’ll be adding the edit to your audio as well).
- Drag the transition from the Viewer to that edit point again, making sure it starts on the edit.
- Repeat the
process one more time.
Play back your Timeline and you should see the image Fly By the screen a few times. One trick to make this process easier in the future is to save the Push Slide as a Favorite.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.