Big X on top all any transition. What the F….?

[Shane Ross]

Have enough handles on your footage?

#1 Transitions “Insufficient Content”

Shane’s Stock Answer #1:

You need to make sure that your clips have enough media (called ‘handles’) at the beginning of the incoming clip and at the end of the outgoing clip for the transition. For example, if you have a 1 second (30 frame) dissolve, your in and out point need to be at least 15 frames from the edge of the clip.

What you are running into is that you are marking an out point at the end of a clip then adding a cross dissolve, say 20 frames in duration. Since the dissolve is centered on the cut, it will start 10 frames before the cut, and try to go 10 frames AFTER the cut…which it can’t do.

What you need to do is plan how long your dissolve will be and back-time your cut so that it works.

a full 1 second crossfade reaches 15 frames into each clip. So, if you want to change a cut to a crossfade, there has to be at least 15 additional frames of each clip.

Say you’re trying to crossfade from one clip into the very first frame of a second clip. FCP cannot ‘create’ 15 more frames of the second clip to do a crossfade. If they’re not there, you’re out of luck.

FCP has to extend the end of your first clip by 1/2 of your transition length, and the beginning of your second clip by 1/2 of your transition length, so those frames need to be in your system. The nature of a crossfade is mixing two clips together.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Steve Eisen]

Have you applied a transition from a third party demo version?

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Dan Riley]

Yep, that’s what it was.
I read the Boris trial info wrong.
I thought it said 30 days. It says 14 days.
I though I had a few more days before I had to call and order.
I was deep in the offline and didn’t have time.

Now I just went through the order process and come to find out
you don’t get an unlock key immediately. It takes a day or so it looks like.
This really is weird. If they have a download option,
why don’t I have the unlock code as soon as they get my money?
This is totally my fault of course, for not reading EVERY LITTLE THING
on their web site about unlock codes only given out the next day.
But really….. I’ve been downloading software for years and always
receive the serial number and can use the software immediately.

Dan

[Steve Eisen]

E-mail Boris and they will send you an unlock key by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Bret Williams]

That’s weak.