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Spooky dissolves appearing overnight
I’m just curious if anyone has any input in this crazy situation.
Last night, before leaving, I set my demo project to render. This morning when I came in, it was rendered and dissolves were added to the beginning and end of every clip. Out of nowhere.
The only thing I did which I can isolate as funky is I did an XML export and re-import of my titles track in order to change font tracking size. I point that out, because I did notice that it all went well, but I could no longer edit the text of those titles. Whenever I changed the text of one of my titles in the control tab, the change would not appear in the text clip.
Any thoughts? Ghost of Christmas Dissolves?
Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
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Pilot error. You somehow commanded a pre-set transition be applied to every cut, it is in one of the control settings I’m not yet expert in.
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Unfortunately, that’s not the answer because I checked the whole movie before I set it to render. Still curious!
Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY -
Gremlins comitted the pilot error.
David Roth Weiss
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Heh. Or elves.
So, what is exact procedure of adding a dissolve transition to every single clip in your sequence?
Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY -
The only way I know of is to highlight the entire time line and with your time line indicator sitting on the first frame of video drag the entire time line into the Canvas and drop it on Overwrite with transition and it will apply your default transition to every clip that was highlighted.
Steve Cohen
Senior Editor
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See, I totally didn’t do THAT. So, the mystery remains…
Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY -
A new feature of FCP7 is to select all the video and add a transition. It will add a transition to every cut point.
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Really? And do you know how this is achieved? Or are you kidding? I’ve lost all perspective.
I must say I really don’t get some of the changes in this update. Why change keyboard shortcuts?
Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY -
[Maria Luisa Gambale] “Really? And do you know how this is achieved?”
I have done it?
[Maria Luisa Gambale] “Or are you kidding?”
Nope.
[Maria Luisa Gambale] “Why change keyboard shortcuts?”
user feedback I’m sure.
To get transitions on all cut points, simply select all and hit command-t.
Try for yourself, takes less than a second.
Jeremy
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Global transitions
Save time by applying a single transition to multiple cut points in one step. Just select a range — either a set of clips or the entire sequence — then add a transition. Final Cut Pro automatically inserts the effect at every cut point and resizes the transitions to use available media. Easily substitute different transitions until you get just the look you want.
I must’ve hit a keyboard shortcut for add favorite transition or something.
Maria Luisa Gambale
DP/Producer
Brooklyn, NY
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