Q: Transition timing in iMovie 10

If you select the Transition in yourtime line you should see an option above to change the type of transition and the duration. You might not be able to change the duration depending on the length of the clips you are transitioning.

Open the original version of iMovie, it's still in your Applications folder, then you can see what the transition names and length were. Take note, and go back and change them in the new version.

I'm having great difficulty in changing transition durations as well.  I'm working with a project which was started from scratch in iMovie '13, and my clips are all 3+ minutes each.  I cannot, however, change the transitions between them to last more than 1 second.  This leads me to believe the bug may not have anything to do with importing the transitions from legacy projects.  Any suggestions in this instance?  Could it make a difference as to whether the transition was dragged in from the transition menu or inserted with command-T?

I'm having the same problems with transitions , brand new project in Imovie 10 on Maverick and i cant get longer than the default 1.0 sec transition

Same issue here. Upgraded to Maverick and can't change any transition durations from older or new projects. Any ideas?

Only way I could get longer ones was to change the time at the top and hit "Apply To All Transitions" ...but then they are all at that length. Can't do individual transitions that I can find yet...

I've tried that as well, but the timing just changes back to 1 second immediately.  I've also tried setting the default transition duration via the movie properties, but it similarly has no effect.

Not sure why mine stayed longer... To get them longer than 1 sec, I set the time to 3 sec and got 1.6 sec transition.

Still a bit random this , I tried setting the default duration to 2 Seconds and then switched on Automatic in the movi preferences and it did set the durations to 2 secs , however it also chose different transitions than i previously had selected . so i replced them with the originals and the duration remained at 2.   I then used cut and paste to reuse these transitions further in the Movie ( you have to use control x & V as the menu cut and paste is greyed out)

Al least i think thats what happend, havent had chance to retrace my steps on this to check the hypothesis.

I have been on the phone with an AppleCare rep for hours the last two days on this issue.  I am having the identical problem described above - place a transition between clips, double click on it and attempt to change the duration length in the dialog box at the top with no success.  He is turning it over to the Engineering division since it seems to be a problem for some but not for others - it worked fine on his computer but wouldn't for one of his colleagues.  Should get an answer back in a few days.

Apple Care advisor also couldn't change transition times. He is notifying engineering of this problem, which is not unique to me after reading all the threads. However, he showed me a manual way to adjust length.

1. keep cursor on transition. Press Control and Click

2. choose Precision Editor

3. Advisor said transitions are 1.0-1.4 seconds by default in Maverick version. Since transitions take footage from clips to its right and/or left, moving those clips to overlap more will allow more room for a longer transition. Place cursor at the beginning of the second clip and move to overlap the first clip. Plus or minus numbers appear very quickly depending on how much the clipa are moved.

4. I returned to normal play and the transition had been lengthened. But I also had to repeat steps 1-3 several times to get the length I wanted. Tricky, but accomplished. This problem is deffinitely one that needs to be addressed so that it is automatic!!

Ive been using imovie for years without any problems now Im on imovie 10 and Mavericks system and just tried working on my next project.

It took a bit of getting used to but I found the importing much quicker and assembling the project worked fine.

When it comes to adding transitions though.....rubbish!

All my transitions seem to be stuck at 0.2 duration and try as I might to follow all the instructions nothing happens it seems useless!

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