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Cross Dissolve makes footage skip
Please help!
This is hard to explain.
I have a DVCPRO HD project that when I add a cross dissolve to the end of a clip the footage within that dissolve seems to skip back maybe a second and plays again as it’s fading. This also happens when using the pen tool and linearly changing the opacity of a clip from 100 to 0. This happens several times in my time line.
I’ve looked all over this forum and haven’t found any similar posts.
FCP 6.04
OSX 10.5.3
Mac Pro 2×2.8 Quad core
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15 Replies
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Try rendering the effect and having another look.
– Don
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This problem still exists in my rendered files.
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Can you get a little more specific as to what you’ve tried?
Have you reconnected and or recaptured your media?
Have you put a cut in a few seconds before the dissolve and tried it to dissolve again on the small tail end clip?
Have you double checked your filters?
Does your footage play normal in your viewer?This is a rather interesting problem.
“None but ourselves can free our minds”
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Some of this footage was sent to me via FTP but not all so I can’t recapture. Some is from P2 cards that cannot be recaptured. I thought that the problem may be because some of the footage was in a different codec so I tried exporting using current settings and also used quick time as well but neither helped.
I restart often and have had this problem for over a week.
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This problem occurs on many clips in my timeline. There are no filters on the files with this problem. Yes I have reconnected the footage several times. All the footage is currently stored on a SAN.
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What are you dissolving to?(other footage,black)
Hopefully it wasn’t an orginal transfer problem. Do you still have the original p2 folders, or was it already transferred when you got it?
“None but ourselves can free our minds”
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I am dissolving to a layer of footage below the one with the transition on it. This problem also happens when I dissolve between two clips. So far I haven’t seen this occur when dissolving to black.
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I do not have the original P2 folders. Is that practice recommended? I’ve never had an issue with footage from P2 til now.
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My editor experienced a similar problem working with HD footage. The solution that he stumbled upon was adding a random filter (I’m not sure which) to the clip, then changing the filter’s settings to not actually affect the clip. The mere presence of the filter fixed the issue when the sequence was re-rendered. Hopefully this will solve your issue.
Jay D Zimmerman
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I mean it’s obviously not necessary to always have the original p2 files(mxf and all folders), but it’s also not necessary to have tapes. They’re just good backup. The issue that sucks is that if someone else is giving you the files, then you have no control on the capture or recapture, as in this case, so it’ll be hard to know if thats the problem.
Is all of your media connected to 1 drive or multiple. If not 1 i would recommend consolidating it all. more than 80% of my wierd final cut quirks have happened by connecting 1 sequence to more than 1 drive.
Try exporting a movie of the clip that’s skipping, but only like the tail end that will dissolve. And then put it in place and try the dissolve again to see if it will bandaid the problem.
“None but ourselves can free our minds”
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