Cannot add transitions to video

Hi There,
I am trying to add transitions to a video but none are showing up in the library on the side bar.
I tried to disable automatic transitions but I cannot click on window> movie properties
There are no transitions in the video right now.
Anyone know how to fix this?

Hi:
As others said, you can create a short video to use as transition after your menus. You can take a frame of your menu animation as starting point and edit some animation in FCP, i.e. making your buttons (I mean the graphic/text you use as buttons) go out of the screen or something like that. I think the best inspiration is the way that menus "go away" in a lot of commercial movies DVDs.
You can add an audio track with some effects in FCP with some synchro with the movie.
Remember that if your menu background is animated, you cannot control in what point of the loop the viewer will press a button, but that happens when you use the standards trasition too.

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