Assembling clips

[Jerry Hofmann]

There’s lots of ways… Use the overlay, or keyboard shortcuts… but the reason you have problem with transitions is that you must leave enough unused media to account for them. So don’t put the very beginning nor end of a shot in the sequence, then you’ll have enough room for the transition to exist. If you subclip the shots first from the master clip, you’ll not see cut points in the middle of the transitions either.

Jerry

[Jack Fox]

I thought that when I set end points that there is plenty of unused media on both ends, but I guess it doesn’t work that way. I do include more frames then I need at each end when setting end points, but how do I get excess media when the out end points of one clip is butted to the in point of the next clip?

jmf

[Jerry Hofmann]

Don’t put all of the media in the sequence when you put clips in it… you must leave some media unused so when you add a transition that’s say 30 frames in duration and centered on the cut point, you must have at least 15 frames of media past the end point of the outgoing shot so they’ll show up in the transition. 1/2 the duration past the end point for a centered transition… got it? If you put all of the clip’s media in the sequence, you have to trim off some of it’s end to add a centered transition on it’s out point.

Jerry

[Jack Fox]

I’m not sure how to leave unused media when I am marking in and out points and dropping same into the canvas. How do you get a transition to encroach on the “out point” of one clip and the “in point” on another?

jmf

[Jerry Hofmann]

Well just don’t put the whole clip in the sequence… Set in points 15 frames from the start of the clip, and outs 15 frames earlier than the end of the clips in the Viewer before you edit them in to the sequence, and then you can put a 30 frame centered transition between them without issues. Those 15 frames on either end would be considered unused media… avialble for use in the transitions.

Same thing could happen if you trim OFF the frames after you put the whole clip in the sequence. Take of 15 frames on each side of an edit point, and you can apply a 30 frame transition between them.

Jerry

[Jack Fox]

When I simply mark in points and out points, and drop the media into the sequence am I putting the “whole clip in the sequence?” I understand that I could make subclips by splicing and drop them into a sequence absent any in and out marks, but I don’t understand how I can do it any other way. Is it because I have too much media on either side of the in and out points that transitions will not work?

jmf

[Jerry Hofmann]

When you put a clip in the sequence with in and out points in it, only the media between those two points is put into the sequence.

Might help you understand this better by reading about it in the online user’s manual. Check out II-374 in the online help user’s manual… it explains this pretty well I think.

Jerry

[Jack Fox]

I do not see it in any of these manuals at page 374 (https://www.apple.com/support/manuals/finalcutpro/), but accepting that only the clip is inserted, is there a way that the transition can use the first 15 frames that precede the out point of the left clip and follow the in point of the right clip?

jmf

[Jerry Hofmann]

Look under Help…. open the user’s manual, and type that page number.

Jerry

[Jack Fox]

I do understand that I need additional media on the end of the outgoing clip and at the beginning of the incoming clip, but I am not sure how to accomplish it when the clips are delimited by out and in points. I guess by definition there is no way to have extra media after an out point and before an in point, so I’m wondering what would be the best way to put transitions into a sequence with clips delimited by in and out points. It would be nice if you could tell a transition to take 15 frames in back of the out point of a outgoing clip and 15 frames in front of the in point of the incoming clip.

jmf