Problems with transition dissolves applied to nested clips ever since the last two FCP updates

[Tom Wolsky]

Could you give us a hint at the problem you’re having?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Pdames]

Well for starters in some cases it won’t even allow me to apply the filter. Then I tried to make the sequence clips independent which worked for some of the nested clips but not all.
lots of my third party filters used to work great now some of them don’t even work and rendering takes longer then it ever has. Any idea’s Tom.

[Tom Wolsky]

That may be a problem with the filter. What’s the filter? What’s the third party filter? Some of them have been broken in OS and QT updates. Can’t speak to rendering, that depends on your computer. I haven’t noticed any slow down myself.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Tom Wolsky]

To follow up: are you talking about filters or transitions? Are you trying to apply transitions between nested sequences? The material has to be rippled back from the edit point to allow a transition to be added. The application has always behaved like this.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[William Mcgrath]

I don’t know if this is your problem, but I’m also having some issues with transitions in nested items that I don’t remember having had before. In my case, when I have transitions inside the nested sequence, and then I do something else to it, like apply a widescreen filter to the whole sequence (which is, in my case, the whole point of nesting it), I get banding in the transitions, even after rendering. I’m talking about normal cross-dissolves, nothing strange.

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william

[Tom Wolsky]

Could you put up a screen shot of what you’re seeing? I’m assuming you rendered the nested sequence content and then rendered the filtered sequence and are looking at the output on a video monitor.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[William Mcgrath]

>>I’m assuming you rendered the nested sequence content and then rendered the filtered sequence

No, I don’t think so. Are you supposed to do that? I’ve always assumed -wrongly, it seems- that I didn’t need to render both.

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william

[Tom Wolsky]

FCP has in the past had difficulty it seems keeping track of render files in nest. This goes way back. I’ve always made it a point of rendering nests separately, especially for output.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Pdames]

Thanks for the input Tom. I was reffering to transitions and the third party filter is the majority of the Boris fx.

[Tom Wolsky]

Are you seeing the same problem William is seeing? Can you post a screen shot? I making the same assumptions as with him.

BorisFX went south on one of the OS or QT upgrades. Don’t know if it’s been fixed. You might want to check their web site.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs