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Sending clips with dissolve to Motion
I am attempting to send a clip to motion that has dissolves on both sides of the clip, but when I do so, it does not send enough media to properly create the dissolve.
For instance I have a 30 frame shot with ten frame dissolves on each end. It should send 50 frames of media to Motion, but it only ends up sending 30. Is there a way to fix this?
All of my shots are lined up in the sequence with dissolves and I need to put moves on them in Motion, but it isn’t going to work unless Motion receives all the frames it needs.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much!
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2 Replies
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Potentially foolish question: Are you trying to send only the shot that is between the transition? It may be that you need to do 1 of 2 things; move the clip in question up into another track, remove the transitions and add the handles. Or, include the shots that are being transitioned to and from. That way the media will need to be in the Motion project to create what you’ve sent to motion.
Hope that makes sense and/or helps.
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Thanks for the reply. Certainly, I can move it up and add handles manually, but I was (foolishly, I know) assuming that FCP to Motion integration would be smart enough to take all the media necessary over to Motion to be modified. Does it think the dissolve or transition is there for no reason?
If you use a filter in FCP on a clip with a dissolve you can add keyframes all the way through the clip including the portions with transitions, so why should Motion treat this any differently? Final Cut Pro is really the system of the Workaround” nothing really ever works (at least as well) as advertised and you constantly have to figure out how to outsmart or out think FCP.
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