-
Customizing Cross Dissolve
Is it possible to customize? For example can you take a 30 frame cross dissolve and have it start 10 frames before the cut and finish 20 frames after?
Thanks.
-
8 Replies
-
No, but you can achieve that with two cross dissolves, or w/ manual opacity keyframes.
“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!) -
Try setting one up on your timeline then making it a favorite.
-
Can you explain this further in terms of execution?
On a side note- why would Apple/FCP not have an easier option for doing something so simple?
-
Correct me if I’m wrong…but how I achieve this is to use the roll tool to slip the transition to where I want it. Not as clean as the AVID dissolve dialogue, but if you want a 30 frame to be offset by 5 frames off center, then just slip the cut 5 frames back and now your “centered” transition is where you want it.
-Jason
-
I’m not sure if I’m executing correctly but this isn’t working. When I use the roll it moves the clip… as in changes the duration of the clip.The dissolve remains centered over the cut. I just want to change the timing on the dissolve.
If you have a step by step procedure that works please let me know.
-
[Jesse Adlin] “When I use the roll it moves the clip”
It doesn’t move the clip…just revises the start of it. – Make sure you are using the roll tool and have it placed OVER the dissolve, not the clip.
*I may be wrong here…because I am very new at FCP, but…*
A dissolve in FCP can be 1 of 3 things…start/centered/ending at cut. You simply change the “placement” of the dissolve by moving the edit point underneath it. It does revise the length of a clip, but so does adding a dissolve. If you put a 20 frame dissolve on a clip and it’s centered, then it extends the use of the media incoming and outgoing by 10 frames…this is with any NLE I’ve ever used.
Does that make sense?
-Jason
-
Using some free plugins, I’ve added more controls to many of the standard transitions including Cross Dissolve:
As well as changing the shape of the curve using a couple of bezier points, you can also set the transition to start a specific percentage in. Using your example you would set the transition to be 40 frames long (centred on the edit), and set the Start % to 25. This starts the transition 25% of the frames in (10 frames in) – it will continue to 100% of the frames (20 frames after the edit point).
Download the transitions from my website.
___________________________________________________
Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
-
Thanks. This is a clear explanation.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up