How can I add transitions between clips without creating a storyline?

One thing you can do is let attached clips overlap each other with handles and either add transitions to the overlapping clips or adjust the compositing: opacity slider on the video animation menu of the clip.

Hope this helps!

@ Russ

I imagine that you were addressing the OP of this thread but I wanted to give you a scenario where a connected storyline with transitions may not be desired. I've done quite a few training videos where I edited B-roll to a voice over. So picture my timeline where the voiceover is the main storyline and all the B-roll is connected clips. If the producer/director wanted to change out one of the clips with another and if that clip is of a different duration it will ripple all the transitions and other clips down the line causing my video to be out of sync with the voice over. Therefore in that scenario I find it best to leave each clip as a connected clip with handles and add transitions to the clips individually.

No.

Just curious why creating a secondary storyline is thought not to be desirable . I can't think of any downsides to it.

Russ

Use the replace from start or replace from end function so the storyline doesn't ripple.