clips with alpha channel not transparent in FCP5

[Andy Mees]

Hi Jerome

theres been a few threads on this recently … as far as I can tell its from a corrupt installation of FCP5.
also, the general opinion seems to be that ‘upgrade’ installs are to blame for pretty much most of the problems users have been seeing.

your best bet is a fresh install of FCP5 and try it again.

best
Andy

[Bryce Whiteside]

Note this previous post:
Name:” target=”_blank”>https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=855318>Name: robinschmidt Date: Jun 28, 2005 at 5:45:03 am Subject: After effects alpha import problems with Final Cut 5

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

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[Bryce Whiteside]

Note this previous post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=855318
Name: robinschmidt Date: Jun 28, 2005 at 5:45:03 am Subject: After effects alpha import problems with Final Cut 5

Sorry, I was too fast on the Post button and posted it before I could Preview Post.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[David Bogie]

did anyone hear back from robin on that thread?

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

The reinstallation of FCP5 seems like a dumb way to fix this since the whole application might be busted if it can’t handle alphas. I’d look lots of other places first like QT7.

Over on apple.com, a pi$$ed off FCP5 user got no alpha satisfaction after reinstalling (dunno if he really knew how to do that properly) so he is reverting to FCP4. Dunno if he knows how that will work with Tiger.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Matt Galuszewski]

HI,

We had a problem were we imported a clip with an animation codec (with alpha) and the viewer would show the alpha but would not work when it was in the timeline.

This clip worked in 4.5 so we compared all the bin columns to see if anything was different.

For our problem, we noticed the FIELD DOMINANCE column was different, so we changed it on the imported clip and voila our transparency in the timeline was back and working.

I am at home right now and can’t remember if we set it to NONE or NOT SET.

Hope this helps you as well.

Regards

[Andy Mees]

hi Matt

many thanks for posting your findings … this has been a recurrent topic lately.

cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

i just checked back in an old project and that was exactly the issue … FCP had seemingly misinterpreted the field dominance on import (in my case, interpreting a clip as upper field as opposed to lower). switching the field dominance back to lower (or in fact None or Not Set) and all was suddenly rosy in alpha channel land

my humble appologies to anyone who uinistalled/reinstalled FCP5 based on my advice. (i didn’t even do it myself).

however, there does seem to be some issue with files being misinterpreted on import … does anyone know why that is happening and/or could offer some advice on how to remedy this? the same files import/interpret just fine in FCP4.5.

cheers all, and thanks once more to Matt
Andy

[Jerome]

Thanks a lot for all those answers. It now works properly on my G4 2x1Ghz/X.3.9/FCP5 … as long as i change the settings for my 200 clips with alpha one by one.