effects issue

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effects issue

Posted by Casey Chinn on November 28, 2006 at 3:44 am

So for some reason all of a sudden simple effects like additive dissolves, non-additive disolves, cross dissolves and fade in and out are no longer working. These are effects that have been in the sequence I’m
editing for quite a while. But for some reason they now show up as black. As soon as the effect ends picture resumes, but no dissolves or fades, or what have you. I tried deleting my render files and then re-rendering, but that didn’t change anything/ I was able to rendeder unlimited, but that sent a bunch of clips black. And I had to go to the motion tab for the clip and select and then deselect drop shadow so I could see them again. Have any of you run into this? I even trashed my preferences, but that didn’t solve the
issue.
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Casey

Monica F.p.williams replied 19 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
7 Replies

Kevin Monahan
November 28, 2006 at 4:06 am

Case,
Tell us about your system including Mac Model, drives, OS and FCP version.
Also, give us the kind of footage you are working with.

I always suspect drives when I see stuff like this.

Kevin Monahan
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David Cooke
November 28, 2006 at 5:18 am

Whenever I slow down a clip through the modify speed, it pushes everything
to the right of that clip down and out-of sink on the timeline. If I’ve got 3 or 4 video tracks in use, sometimes if I move just this clip way up to tracks 8 or 9 and re-modify the speed, it works fine and does not throw everything out of sink, but seems to be a “hit or miss”.
Any thoughts?

Quad 2.5 Power Mac/ 16gig ram/stock video card/editing mini DV/2 500gig
g-tech firewire 800 drives.

D’s Video
Monica F.p.williams
November 28, 2006 at 5:53 pm

I do the same, Lock tracks and use another for speed change, is a real big pain …
Did anybody find a better (and faster) way to do it?

Monica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
Kevin Monahan
November 28, 2006 at 7:24 pm

Telecaser,
You might also try copying and pasting the clips into a new sequence. It might be corrupt.

Monica and Milkman,
There is a better technique.

Auto Select the Track
Park Playhead on Clip
View > Match Frame > Source File
Clip appears in Viewer
Modify > Speed
Remove any Ins or Outs in Viewer and Canvas
Finally do a Replace Edit (F11)

You’ve now done a speed change without pulling up the clip to a blank track.
No locking of tracks is necessary since the speed adjustment is done in the Viewer.
You use the Source File so you don’t muck with your Master Clip. Makes sense?

Kevin Monahan
Take My FCP Master’s Workshop!
fcpworld.com
Pres. SF Cutters
Casey Chinn
November 28, 2006 at 7:46 pm

I’m running a power mac G5 Quad with 4 gigs of memory, OS 10.4.8 with FCP 5.1. The Drives are 500 gig LaCie’s (one USB, one Firewire). Footage is mini DV. The USB LaCie is a new replacement for another drive which failed.
-Casey
David Cooke
November 29, 2006 at 4:38 am

Great! Thanks Kevin. I was wondering today if you could do a speed change somehow in the viewer window. I’m not on my machine today, but will give it
a try in the next few days. I got 1 project for each for the next 2 weeks, so
I’ll be using it.
Thanks again.
Yep, been a broadcast editor for over 12 years,(but different programs than FCP or Avid) but as you can tell, when at
home, don’t spend enough time “learning FCP” until I actually have a project
that I have to do.

D’s Video
Monica F.p.williams
November 29, 2006 at 5:46 pm

Thanks Kevin good work around,
I still wish that as every other editing systems FCP will fix that.
Ciao

Monica F.P.williams
crocodile editing

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