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353Final Cut Pro User Guide
• Onscreen controls: Customize many of your effects using onscreen controls. See Intro
to onscreen controls in Final Cut Pro.
• Video animation: Vary effect settings as a clip plays. See Intro to video keyframing in
Final Cut Pro.
You can add effects to any clips in the timeline. After the effects have been added (or
in the case of built-in effects, adjusted), you can customize them using controls in an
inspector, onscreen controls in the viewer, and controls in the Video Animation and Audio
Animation editors. You can also try out multiple versions of an effect using auditions.
You can also open and customize most effects and generators in Motion, an Apple app
designed to work with Final Cut Pro.
Note: If you’re using a transition, title, effect, or generator created in Motion that uses
a third-party plug-in, and that plug-in is not installed on your Final Cut Pro system, the
Final Cut Pro project may be rendered incorrectly or incompletely. To verify whether
this is the cause, open the template in Motion; if there are offline elements, a warning
dialog appears. See
Modify Final Cut Pro transitions in Motion, Modify Final Cut Pro titles
in Motion, Modify Final Cut Pro effects in Motion, or Modify Final Cut Pro generators in
Motion.
Add and adjust transitions
Intro to transitions in Final Cut Pro
You can add cross dissolves and other transition effects between clips to make your
program more interesting.
Transitions replace one shot with another over a specified period of time; when one shot
ends, another one replaces it. Three very common video transitions are fades, cross
dissolves, and wipes.
You can also add audio-only transitions. These transitions can be either a fade-in, a fade-
out, or a crossfade. See
Fade audio in and out in Final Cut Pro.
Note: When a transition is added to a video clip with attached audio, a crossfade transition
is automatically applied to the audio. If the audio is detached or expanded from the video,
the crossfade is not added.