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Flow transition has stopped working?
FCPX 10.4.5
OSX 10.13.6
MacBook Pro Late 2016 TouchBar i7 15″ with Radeon Pro 460I’ve noticed my Flow transitions have been a bit jerky recently, and on a current interview edit, I’ve now realised that I can no longer select ‘optical flow’ video quality on flow transitions – I’m sure I used to be able to do this, but now the tick is on ‘Normal’ and all three options are greyed out.
Any thoughts?
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3 Replies
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Hi Rikki:
“Flow” is a transition…you don’t add “Optical Flow” processing to transitions. That’s why it’s grayed out.
Evan -
Am I just having a senior moment?
I’ve been editing with FCPX since it came out, and I am certain the video quality options have always been there for flow transitions, and I would sometimes select frame blending or choose optical flow depending on which looked best.
Even if I’ve somehow misremembered this (and I use FCPX nearly every day so seems unlikely), I’m sure that something has definitely changed recently, because transtions that looked OK on a rendered film, are now looking clunkier on a second version.
Something about flow has stopped functioning, and I’m desperate to find a fix because what used to work brilliantly in interviews is now looking clunky and amateur.
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Hey Rikki,
The Flow transition doesn’t have any visual / quality options, just the audio curves.
I’ve noticed, at least when I’ve used it, that I need to park the playhead over the Flow transition until it’s done analyzing (indicated by a little note in the the lower left corner of the viewer and the progress indicator at upper left). When I fail to do so, those transitions are indeed poor.
Try deleting one of your Flow instances, re-apply a new one, and park the playhead there for a few seconds.
Doug Metz
Dalton+Anode
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