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Fade in/out issue with Livetype Titles
Hi,
I’ve been trying to fade out from footage and fade in to titles created with Livetype, but for whatever reason FCP is making those transitions only 1 second in length. When I click on the transition and try changing the duration within the box, the time will just revert to one second. What’s more, I cannot change the position from left, middle and right position. I have no problems placing dissolves and fade in and outs between my video footage, but I’m guessing there must be some sort of conflict due to the livetype titles. Any advice?
Powerbook 867mhz
FCP HD 4.5
Livetype 1.2
Sequence- NTSC offline RT (23.98).
Livetype titles- 320×240, 23.98fps, smpte time format -
2 Replies
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Your Livetype animations (or still images) are of only a specific length.
They START at their first frame on the timeline so you can’t “begin” a transition BEFORE the edit because there is NO Livetype image (footage) BEFORE the edit. (and if there is only a second of out-going clip, that’s all you can have.)
There’s a simple trick to make a fade slowly down to black from one source and the a SLOW fade UP to the next source:
Edit a single frame of the “slug” (or just edit out an “empty frame of nothing”) between any two clips on the Timeline.
Touch the last frame of the OUT-GOING clip (the one before the blank frame) and make it an “End on Edit” dissolve of any length.
Then, touch the first frame of the IN-COMING clip (the one right after the blank frame) and make it a “Start on Edit” dissolve of any length.
If you need more “pre-footage” on a Livetype animation (to allow for a longer dissolve), you should remake it with a delay added at the head.
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Added 2 seconds of pad in viewer, problem now fixed! 😀 Thanks!
Alex
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