Final Cut Pro - How to Replace Multiple Transitions at Once

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This is a very cool technique that can save a LOT of work!

Christine Steele sent me this tip.

Let's say you've editing a sequence and filled it with transitions.

Let's say that some, or all, of those transitions are the same - in this case, we'll pretend we are using the Cross-Dissolve transition.

Let's say, further, that all those transitions are different lengths and are scattered throughout the sequence.

Finally, let's say that we woke up one morning and realized that we needed to change all those transitions to something different -- say a Fade in Fade Out Dissolve.

The challenge we face is daunting: find all the Cross Dissolves and change them without changing any durations, locations, or other transitions that aren't Cross Dissolves.

Here's an automatic way to do this:

1. Select the Timeline with the transitions you want to change.
2. Select Edit > Find (or press Command+F).
3. Enter "Cross Dissolve" (or the name of the transition you want to replace)
4. Press Find All
5. Final Cut will select all the transitions in the timeline have that name -- something that can't be done any other way.
6. From the Effect menu, select the transition you want to use in place of the selected transition.
7. All selected transitions will be replaced by the new transition, which will inherit the old transitions duration and location.

Very, VERY cool!

In FCP 7, Apple added the ability to add multiple transitions at once. Set an In, set an Out and type Command+T. Much, MUCH faster!!