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A question about handles
I have a group of videos that I am trying to edit and put on DVD for my niece. She was not the worlds greatest videographer and there are a lot of bad spots and mistakes in them.
She just wants all the video to run with a cross dissolve between each clip. That is simple enough but my question pertains to the handles needed at the beginning and end of each clip to allow for the transition.
Assume I want a 15 frame handle for each, is there a way to put the same setting on each clip without having to bring each in to the viewer and setting in and out points?
There are a lot of clips and I can see taking hours setting each clip individually.
Any help would be great. Thanks.
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4 Replies
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I seem to remember that iMovie might do this easier.
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Just alternate the clips on V1 and V2 with 15fr offsets. Apply fades to the head and tail of V2 tracks (or rubberband opacity). As the other poster mentioned, the iMovie timeline (at least in earlier versions) will automatically adjust for dissolves between full-duration clips. If you’re just doing a simple assembly of selects that might be an easy solution.
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I agree with both of you. I also feel that transitions should be sparsely used but that doesn’t really answer the question. Forget the scenario and all that goes with it.
The basic question still remains, is there a way to place a 15, 30 or whatever frame handle at the beginning and ending of every clip without having to do them individually?
There is nothing that I see in “Paste Attributes” that would accomplish this.
Now it is not a specific question for a specific task that I am working on, rather, it is a general question about how to accomplish this with the least amount of time wasted.
Thanks for your help and advice and again I agree with you but not this question just bugs me so I am seeking input.
Yes I could use iMovie but FCP is my editor of choice as I can do so much more with it.
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“Handles” are not something that you “add” to a clip.
What you want to do is “automatically” add an IN-point and an OUT-point to every captured clip in the Browser at a specific number of frames (say, 15) after the first frame of every clip and/or before the end frame of every clip.
Then, lay all the clips onto the timeline, in order, with those cut marks already on them.
And you want to do this without putting each raw clip into the Viewer.
I don’t know how to accomplish that in FCP or Avid.
(Once you do have all the clips on the timeline with suffcient handles, you CAN add the same transition to all the cut-points with a simple “all-at-once” function.)
In pro editing, the raw clips are generally much longer than the sections used in the final edit.
So the auto-marking of IN-points and OUT-points to RAW clips you describe is not generally needed or used for pro work.
The reason I suggested iMovie is that it can “see” every scene cut during capture and make each scene change (not just on start-stop) a new clip.
Then it can automatically adjust the clips on the timeline to allow for dissolves.
That iMovie can then be imported into FCP for further work.
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