Cross Dissolve makes footage skip

[Shane Ray]

I tried that before by exporting using current settings with no luck.

[Daniel Stone]

2 suggestions:

1. Make sure your clip is long enough to play throughout the entire transition.

2. Overlap the end of clip 1 with clip 2 and manually place keyframes to fade clip 1 out to reveal clip 2.

I feel your frustration with this. I’ve found that FCP users are very crafty because you have to be MacGuyver to trick FCP into doing what it’s supposed to do. Most times there just isn’t a reason for its screwy behavior and there just isn’t an answer.

[Eric Cannon]

another trick to try would be to force render the part by adding a slug over where the issue is with a 0% opacity and rendering again. Also, make sure to Sequence>Render All>Both and then AFTER THAT go do a Sequence>Render Only>Full(under video)

The render full has cleared up some DVCProHD quirks for me with hvx time lapse and things before.

“None but ourselves can free our minds”

[Clayton Macdonald]

is this a version 6.0.3 thing? i am experiencing a similar problem with my animated project right now and i feel it’s partially due to too many media-managed transfers (project sharing).
i will try the 0%opacity slug and perhaps the random filter (bypassed?) to see if they can force the timeline to re-render the dissolves without having them ‘stick’. thanks for the posts

Clayton MacDonald
Video Editor
514.580.5627

[Jamison Luther]

I’m just starting out as a pro-videogrpaher and Creative Cow’s forums are always top of my Oh-Crap-How-Do-I-Fix-This Google Search. So after finding this thread with the exact same problem I thought I’d contribute.

I was having the same problem with footage skipping when applying a cross dissolve from 422 Pro Res LT footage to a White color solid. Looked fine in the time line pre-render, then rendered, and POP – footage skipped.

The solution was posted earlier. . . add a filter and turn down the setting so it has no effect. I added a defocus filter (cuz it was the first one I saw), turned it down to 0 and sure enough when I rendered the cross dissolve works great.

Thanks for saving the day Creative Cow Community . . . for the umpteenthtime.

Jamison
LighthouseStudios.tv