Cross Dissolves

[David Roth weiss]

[Ryan Atkins] “Thing is, I just want to blend them together, of course I won’t have any lead in or lead out footage, right?”

Exactly right. You have to “cut in” on the tail of the A-clip and the head of the B-clip exactly the number of frames necessary for both sides of the dissolve to have video underlying the effect. So, if you have a 30-frame centered dissolve, cut in 15 frames on both sides of your cut on the timeline before placing the filter.

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[Ryan Atkins]

Ok, so I literally need to “razor” off the end of A-clip and the beginning of B-clip. Tell me if I’m misunderstanding you.

Thanks.

[Chris Poisson]

Ryan,

I think what you have to understand is that there is sufficient media on both clips to allow for a dissolve. You still make the cut right where you want it.

Have a wonderful day.

[David Roth weiss]

[Ryan Atkins] “Ok, so I literally need to “razor” off the end of A-clip and the beginning of B-clip. Tell me if I’m misunderstanding you.”

Yes, that’s one way of doing it, or when editing to the timeline you could move your out-point fifteen frames earlier on the A-side and fifteen later on the B-side. In both cases, you’re providing handles underlying the effect on both clips, and of course ths needs to be done because you exported these clips and are now using them start to stop with no extra heads or tails.

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[Ryan Atkins]

Thank you very much. I am teaching my self most of Final Cut on my own.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Ryan Atkins] “I am teaching my self most of Final Cut on my own”

this particular situation is not really a “Final Cut” issue. This pertains to any NLE and even any linear edit suite. If you are going to dissolve/transition in or out of a clip, there needs to be video there that lasts the duration of the effect. You can’t have a transition if you have no frames to transition with…

If you are on the last frame of clip A, and clip B has some headroom on it, you can drag your dissolve to the left side of the edit point, and the transition will back itself into the first clip. Same works vise-versa. But as you see, if both clips are on their perspective first/last frame, you cant have your transition.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.
;-P

[David Roth weiss]

[Colin McQuillan] “this particular situation is not really a “Final Cut” issue. This pertains to any NLE and even any linear edit suite.”

Hey Colin, let’s not forget film… Remember, that was that stuff with sprocket holes they once shined light through to make images on walls.

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[Colin Mcquillan]

Well, Dave… I’m simply not old enough to know of such things!

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.
;-P

[Boyd Mccollum]

Editing with film was the original NLE…

[David Roth weiss]

Film and tape are actually linear. It’s the random access of audio and video and/or film digitized to hard drives that makes digital editing non-linear.

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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