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FCP6 & Motion – Dissolve Puzzlement
OK…heres a real stumper…any suggestions appreciated…
1. Build a simple series of cuts in s FCP6 sequence.
2. Go to the second cut (duration of 3 sec) and send to Motion
3. Build a multilayer title treatment/open.
4. Save and return to FCP.
5. Try to dissolve out to cut 3…but only 1 frame diz is created since the Motion clip is too short (only 3 sec).
6. Open the clip in Motion and extend all the elements to 4 sec. Save then return to FCP. Confirm in the browser the clip is now 4 sec.
7. Apply a diz…still only 1 frame..but we know that there
is enough of a clip now to allow the diz.
Whats up with this? It is something editors need to do quite often. What do you do when a client requests this?
Tom -
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Did you double check the clip in the timeline. Is it also showing up as 4 seconds?
One easy thing to do is simply throw the Motion element onto a separate video track and apply the dissolve to the end of that clip. Place the element you’re dissolving into right below it. I do this all the time.
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Thanks Walter. Yes, the clips does show up as 4 sec. in the timeline. The second track solution is a good work around.
I guess 12 years on the DS helped me forget how I used to do
multipe track diz on the Composer when it first came out.
I do appreciate the insight!
Tom -
Hi guys,
Does the clip in your timeline show a duration of 4 seconds as currently edited? If so, you’ll need to make the Motion clip 3:15 in order to do a 1 second dissolve to the next clip. Also, double-check that your Clip 3 has at least 15 frames of heads. This is assuming you are applying a dissolve that is centered on the edit (and does not begin or end there).
I hope this helps.
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The clip was extended in Motion fron 3 to 4 sec, which then was confirmed in the FCP browser (and by checking its length on Trk2 of the timeline), so yes…I definately had enough tail. The diz I wanted was to START at the edit point,
(not in the middle or end at the edit point) which would work with clip 3 just fine…except it didnt.
Still a mystery , but now with a Walter Workaround.
Thanks for the response though.
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