• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Gradient Wipe Works in DV Seq, Not in HD Seq Why?

  Posted by Jeff Coleman on January 25, 2007 at 6:07 pm

  I apply the gradient wipe to DV footage in a DV sequence in Final Cut and all works well. I can wipe between clips or from an empty area of the timeline to the clip. However, when I apply the gradient wipe to HD footage in an HD sequence
  (1920x1080i, uncompressed 10bit or 8 bit, Motion Video Processing Best, Normal, or Fastest, Render in 8 bit, 10bit or Precison YUV–makes no difference),
  not all is well. I can wipe between clips, but I can’t wipe from an empty area of the timeline to the clip. The wipe icon in the latter case is visible on the head of the clip in the timeline, but no wipe effect can be seen. It just appears as a straight cut. I’ve tried using a slug instead of an empty timeline, but as soon as I make the slug transparent the transition appears as a cut.
  WHATSA MATTA?
  FCP 5.1.2, QT 7.1.3, OS 10.4.7

  Jeff Coleman replied 19 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  January 25, 2007 at 6:11 pm

  try trashing your FCP preferences
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  Jeff Coleman

  January 25, 2007 at 6:22 pm

  thanks for the suggestion. Trashing made no difference. This has been happening since FCP 5.1 was installed.
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  John Pale

  January 25, 2007 at 6:38 pm

  Are you using a DV sized gradient in the clip well…if so, it might be really tiny in an HD frame.

  I just tried it in a DVCPROHD sequence, and everything seems to work fine.
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  Jeff Coleman

  January 25, 2007 at 6:49 pm

  I haven’t messed with the clip well. I’m using the same effect that works when the clips are adjacent.
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  John Pale

  January 25, 2007 at 7:25 pm

  Ah.. well the “clip well” is for adding a custom gradient.

  The transition seems to work correctly w/o a clip in the clip well in DVCPRO HD 1080i.
  I’ll try to mock something up in Uncompressed HD to check a transition, but my drives arent really up to it.
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  John Pale

  January 26, 2007 at 12:56 am

  Created some sample media as Uncompressed HD in After Effects. The Gradient Wipe seems to work correctly here. Not sure whats up at your end.
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  Jeff Coleman

  January 30, 2007 at 3:45 am

  Thanks so much for trying those clips. Well, you got me thinking…so I went to a different mac running 5.1 and created an uncompressed 10bit 1920x1080i square pixel sequence and dropped a few Bars and Tone (HD) clips from Final Cut’s generators and had the same bad result. The gradient wipe works with adjacent clips but not on the beginning of a clip with an empty timeline preceeding it.

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