There Is No Such Thing as an Asymmetrical Dissolve Transition.

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Charlie Austin] “Every second counts, the client is foaming at the mouth!”

I’m pleased to say that most of my clients don’t have rabies as far as I know 😉

Simon Ubsdell
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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Simon Ubsdell] “What issues to you have with this, Jeremy?”

Once a dissolve is created, it’s harder to select and move the cut point via keyboard.

I’m kind of a big keyboard shortcut type of person. I think the way dissolves work in X aren’t all that great. They are hard to drag around sometimes, and hard to not grab sometimes. Sometimes, it’s hard to grab the exact right part of the dissolve or edge of the clip.

For dialogue especially, I rarely need a true dissolve, but rather a fade on one side, and I find that Shift left or right bracket is really easy.

I make a cut ( which i have remapped to a simple ‘b’ key) then shift left bracket then shift right bracket, and drag fade handles

I can do that really quickly. It sounds like it would take along time, but it doesn’t. My clients are still rabies free. 😉

On video, I also do opacity fades more often than cross dissolves. Pretty much the same steps, but with a few different key strokes. I don’t use a whole lot of video dissolves, typically.

Jeremy

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I can do that really quickly. It sounds like it would take along time, but it doesn’t.”

OK, yes, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo-uk.com

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I’m kind of a big keyboard shortcut type of person. I think the way dissolves work in X aren’t all that great. They are hard to drag around sometimes, and hard to not grab sometimes. Sometimes, it’s hard to grab the exact right part of the dissolve or edge of the clip.

For dialogue especially, I rarely need a true dissolve, but rather a fade on one side, and I find that Shift left or right bracket is really easy.

I make a cut ( which i have remapped to a simple ‘b’ key) then shift left bracket then shift right bracket, and drag fade handles

I can do that really quickly. It sounds like it would take along time, but it doesn’t. My clients are still rabies free. 😉

On video, I also do opacity fades more often than cross dissolves. Pretty much the same steps, but with a few different key strokes. I don’t use a whole lot of video dissolves, typically.”

Jeremy, this is how I mainly use dissolves as well. Not as dissolves, but as fades at the start (or end) of an edit. In FCP Legacy and Premiere Pro (and Resolve 11), this happens by default when dissolves are applied to a clip with no adjacent clips on the track. The workflow I depend on takes advantage of this ability.

I think my particular problems with FCPX’s dissolves stem from what you’ve described. I’m traveling at the moment but when I return next week, I’d like to see if I can work more easily in FCPX as you describe. I’ll also post some images to make the problem I’m talking about more clear.

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