I am using the "Up and over" animated transition which utilizes a drop zone for inserting a clip within the transition. Hiow do I select which portion of that clip I'd like displayed in the transition? It seems that there ought to be a way to slip the clip in either direction but I'm not seeing it.
Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.66 Ghz Quad Core, Lion 10.7.3
I've had a fiddle with it too, and it doesn't look like you can. Some of the effects / transitions etc. are quite limited and you'd be better off using Motion to make your own or edit the built in ones.
If you don't want to do that, the best I can see is to just select the little bit you need from the event clip.
Salty- thanks for the reply. I was afraid of getting this very response. I also have tried to select just the section of the clip that I'd like displayed and it always defaults to the start of the clip and not my selection. Very frustrating.
There's actually a couple of different ways to do this. I find the easiest is to add the clip you want to use for the drop zone clip as a connected clip anywhere on the storyline (for "regular" drop zones) — but for transitions, I recommend connecting it to the start of the transition, then trim the clip to the end of the transition. Press and hold the 'T' key and click in the middle of your clip and "slide edit" the clip til it matches what you want to show during the transition. When you're done lining it up, with the clip still selected, type 'V' to disable the clip (so you'll be able to see the transition).
Click on the transition in the storyline and in the Inspector, click on the transition's drop zone "well"; then click on your (disabled) clip connected to the storyline; click on Apply Clip in the Canvas. Your transition drop zone should show exactly the portion of the clip you set up. You can then delete the connected clip from the storyline (it won't affect what you've applied to the drop zone.)
The other way to do this is a little more complicated to explain... has to do with opening your clip in its own timeline, etc...
PS: before you add a clip to a drop zone, make sure you do any needed color correction (add effects, etc...) **before** you apply it to a drop zone. You can't do it afterwards (even if you apply changes to the clip you used as the drop zone source.)
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