Doing a simple video cross fade in Edius Neo?
 

Just got Edius Neo 2 Booster and I will probably be totally crazy before I figure this software out.

I've spent the last hour-and-a-half trying to determine how to do a simple cross fade between video clips on the time line.

I have the manual and I finally figured out how to add the fade in/out buttons to the timeline menu but can't figure out how to add the actual transitions.

The manual is 600 pages and seems to jump around a lot.

Could someone offer me a tip on how to get this accomplished.

Thanks.

There are some great tutorials for EDIUS here...

Digital Video Editing | Edius5 with SP Hardware | XDCAM HD | Blu-ray | Edius Tutorials

They are generally for the full version but Neo is mostly identical.

there are many ways

you can drag the dissolve from effects palette to the point where the 2 clips touch

or you can park the curser where clips touch and press
Alt+1 for 1 sec transition
Alt+2 for 2 sec transition
Alt+3 for 3 sec transition

or yous the transition tool from the timeline toolbar

Thank you.

That helps a lot.