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The Transition Curve Editor works identically to the Curve Editor you can access from any clip, except instead of using the curve to animate image transforms, you use the curve to retime the transition. Combined with eased or bezier keyframes at the beginning and end of a transition curve, you can create transitions that slowly start and quickly end, quickly start and slowly end, or any variation your project requires. A graphical representation of the curve appears as a shaded area on the transition itself in the Timeline.
— To change the interpolation of a control point: Click the control point you want to edit, and then click one of the four Bezier interpolation buttons in the Curve Editor title bar. Adding Bezier handles to a transition control point lets you create an eased transition. If you chose an option from the Ease drop-down of the Transition Properties in the Inspector, one or both of the transition curve keyframes may already be set to Bezier.
— To adjust a Bezier handle: Drag the Bezier handle in any direction to alter the curve. Whenever you customize Bezier handles on a transition curve, the Ease drop-down of the Transition Properties in the Inspector changes to Custom.
— To add a new control point to a curve: Option-click anywhere on a curve to add a new control point.
— To drag a control point on a curve: Click any control point and drag left or right to retime it, and up or down to change the value of the control point. Once you begin to move the pointer, the control point is constrained in that direction.
— To delete a control point from a curve: Right-click a keyframe and choose Delete Selected from the contextual menu. You cannot delete the last two control points of a transition curve.
— To turn a curve on and off: Clicking the white dot at the upper left-hand corner of the Keyframe Editor lets you turn a transition curve’s effect on and off, without disabling the transition. When you turn the keyframes off, the transition defaults to a linear transition with no easing.
Favorite Transitions
While DaVinci Resolve provides a wide variety of transitions by default, most editors typically only use a subset of these in their day-to-day work. Also, it’s typical to save customized versions of a particular transition in order to reuse that specific set of transition settings over and over again.
— Move the pointer over any transition, and click the star button when it appears to set that transition as a favorite. Click any transition’s star to “un-favorite” it. Favorites are displayed in the Favorites area of the Effects Library bin list in the Edit page, or the Favorites tab in the Transitions panel in the Cut page.