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Adding transitions

Adding transitions

- Now that the sequence is built, let's add a few transitions. These will add blends from one shot to the next. To access these, just click on this little icon here. This is the transition menu, and you'll see different options available. They're pretty basic, fade, crossfade, fade with black, white, or color. The challenge with these is that if you pick something like crossfade, you'll see that the shot actually gets shorter and it won't time out to your music anymore. So be very careful about using those sorts of options as it actually shortens things. If you're going to do those, add them while you're adjusting the duration of each shot so things stay in sync. Instead, I'm going to go with some simple fades to white, and I'll just drop these onto each edit. By placing it between the shots it adds to both sides. If I just put it on one side, you see that it doesn't do the same effect. So what we'll do here, let's…

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