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Opacity, Keyframes and dissolves
Hi, so this is what I used to do in FCP7 if I simply wanted a 1 second fade from black on my footage.
Either:
1) drop a dissolve transition on the start of the clip so it dissolves up from 0 to 1 second (rather quick and easy, sometimes caused glitches so then I would….)
2) Go to the start of the clip, add a keyframe for 0% opacity in the nice big motion panel, keyboard shortcut forward 1 second add another keyframe for 100% opacity then right click the keyframe and change to smooth.
Again, very quick and easy.
So, now in FCPX… and please point out if there is an easy version of doing this because though I am moaning I want to know what it is as i do this quite a lot
1) Drop the dissolve transition on the start of the clip…. oh, you can’t, you can only add a transition across two cuts.
2) Go to start of clip, add keyframe for 0% keyboard shortcut forward 1 second… oh wait, no, only 10 frames, ho hum, keyboard forward 10 frames + frames + 10 frames then back arrow 5 times, add keyframe for 100% then open up the Video Animation on the timeline right click keyframe for smooth…. oh you can’t, ok, right click it in the inspector… nope. So no way of changing the ramp and it ramps up really quick and looks a bit rushed.
So, not so super dooper fast really. Can’t see the advancement from FCP7 in this.
Sarcasm aside, if someone can tell me what I am doing wrong and how to do this simple and oft repeated process in a really simple and quick way in FCPX I will be very happy.
I truly do not get some of the design decisions. This, for example, is not a new paradigm. It’s not evolutionary. It’s just either naive, lazy or sociopathic design.
Cheers
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Cmd + T to add transition to beginning of Clip. Right click on Transition – Change duration. Use numerical keys and “.” for seconds, drop it for frames.
In Preferences/Editing you can set the default duration to whatever you want …
-paul.
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1. Answered.
2. Add keyframe to 0. Cmd-P +1period enter. Change opacity to 100. The ramp is exactly the same as legacy versions.
All the best,
Tom
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OR add 1 second black before the clip and drop a dissolve between the two.
BTW Ripple training is HIGHLY recommended
Steve Connor
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Hi Julian,
Just highlight the edge of the clip (not the full clip) Then use the shortcut ‘command T’ instead of dropping the transition on. Hey presto – done! You can change the transition duration in FCPX prefs…Much quicker than 7 methinks!
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You are correct, Julian.
X is crap compared to Legacy. None of this is because you simply don’t know enough about how it works yet.
And by all means, continue to start off ALL your posts framing them on how things were done on software that’s no longer being sold or supported,, cuz that’s totally going to help you make your personal transition to X. Everyone here knows that clinging to the warm comfort of legacy techniques, accelerates your transition to the new program.
And be sure to keep making that case that because you’ve only yet discovered one less efficient way to do an operation, that is the core reality of the issue there are no other options out there, regardless of the 5 posts above this one.
Just please excuse me, personally from trying to help you in the future.
I think my time is better spent with those who come to X with an attitude of honest interest, rather with a grudge. Prying open closed minds just takes too darn much time.
Good luck.
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I’m bewildered you thought key framing a dissolve in the motion tab was an efficient way to do things in legacy.
BTW I love how transitions in legacy don’t ease in/out and don’t have motion blur. Boy do I miss that.
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Hi doesn’t seem to be working, but thanks. Highlight clip (tried to make the yellow edge appear in different ways so as to test all the variants of highlighting the clip), cmd+T transition spans the two clips next to each other.
FCP7 was just drop it on the clip and done.
Thanks anyway.
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Well, everything was in a single window. The zoom in / out was a pretty crap but apart from that I could do it all there.
Just tried to move a keyframe from 1 second to 2 seconds in the Video Animation area on the timeline. Put my playhead at the 2 second mark, grabbed the keyframe. Playhead moved to the keyframe rather than allowing me to drag the keyframe to the playhead which was marking my spot.
Don’t tell me, the old way was bad because it did what I want and I just need to learn to bow to the apps’ will rather than hoping the app would, you know, do things with a modicum of common sense.
I’m having to use FCPX. I’ve accepted that. Doesn’t mean it has some pretty serious design flaws in it.
Not being able to drop a transition on the start of this clip solely is a design flaw. Before we had choices. Now we have less (and despite some gentleman above trying to help me it doesn’t seem to be working).
Having to go from Shift + -> to jump forward a second to Shift + + then 1 then . then Enter just because the arbitrary figure of 10 frames has now been deigned to be the only jump forward shortcut, is a design flaw.
There is a long long list, and it is nothing to do with me ‘not knowing’ the software. These things are lacking. Full stop. (or rather as it may be in FCPX Shift + CTR + pirouette then \ \ then CMD + P then Full stop)
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In legacy FCP you could not place a transition solely on the start of a clip of it was inline with another clip. It would always extend the other clip if there was available media. You could shift the center of the transition bit you could not disconnect the transition, not without detaching the clip from the inline clip.
I don’t know how to pirouette and I don’t need to. Really moving one second is that difficult for you? Jeez.
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In legacy FCP you could not place a transition solely on the start of a clip of it was inline with another clip. It would always extend the other clip if there was available media. You could shift the center of the transition bit you could not disconnect the transition, not without detaching the clip from the inline clip.
I don’t know how to pirouette and I don’t need to. Really moving one second is that difficult for you? Jeez.
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