There Is No Such Thing as an Asymmetrical Dissolve Transition.

[Shawn Miller]

[TImothy Auld] “Am I some kind on moron for signing my posts? Do people not do that in the modern times?

Tim”

I guess not… I must be a moron too then. 🙂

Shawn

[Timothy Auld]

I really cannot imagine what would prompt you to post this nonsense. A few posts back I posted a single comment about how something someone else posted about reminded me of a lap dissolve. Did I offend you somehow with that comment? Otherwise I cannot understand why on God’s green earth why you would ask my why I sign my posts.

Tim

[Chris Harlan]

[Shawn Miller] “[TImothy Auld] “Am I some kind on moron for signing my posts? Do people not do that in the modern times?

Tim”

I guess not… I must be a moron too then. 🙂

Shawn

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I never seen it as a faux-pax; I just figured you folks were nicer than me.

[Chris Harlan]

I’ve only ever done what you’re talking about with layered tracks, and dissolves or key-framing on each of the tracks. That’s on Avid, Legend, and Pr, as well as many others. Could be me, I suppose–I didn’t know you could sub-frame cut audio tracks on 7 until I was nearly ready to abandon it.

[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “I’ve only ever done what you’re talking about with layered tracks, and dissolves or key-framing on each of the tracks. That’s on Avid, Legend, and Pr, as well as many others. Could be me, I suppose–I didn’t know you could sub-frame cut audio tracks on 7 until I was nearly ready to abandon it.”

Me too. This whole thing came up when someone said you can’t do asymmetrical dissolves in FCP X, and you can in Pr and FCP 7 etc. I thought you could, and set out on a quixotic journey to illustrate it. Which, to be fair, was confusing, as I never used dissolves for this either. I always A/B stuff and tweak the fades.

Then, after poking around, I realized that you can’t do that with a dissolve in anything (without keyframing within it or something) thus this post. I’m not the only one who’s unclear on this, so i wanted to toss it out. As I said, I did discover a nifty little trick in X on my journey.

On a completely unrelated note… you running MC 8? If so, anything worth upgrading from 7, particularly for someone who barely uses it? And saying “barely” is being generous. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Timothy Auld]

A hundred years ago when I joined the Cow there was a field for “signature.” I had no idea that it would one day be a point of contention – most especially in a world where one is not supposed to “post about the poster.”

Tim

[Chris Harlan]

[Charlie Austin] “On a completely unrelated note… you running MC 8? If so, anything worth upgrading from 7, particularly for someone who barely uses it? And saying “barely” is being generous. :-)”

I’ve been crazy busy, so I could be wrong, but as I understand it, 8 is currently the rental version of 7, and there are no differences, yet.

[Charlie Austin]

[Chris Harlan] “I’ve been crazy busy, so I could be wrong, but as I understand it, 8 is currently the rental version of 7, and there are no differences, yet.
“

That may be, there’s separate DL for 8 vs. 7, but maybe its because of how the license works. Just curious… Thanks!

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Chris Harlan]

Well, you made me look!

8.1 does have some changes. Little ones but nice. You can finally invisible a clip or track. Its worth the upgrade for me!

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[Tim Wilson]

[TImothy Auld] “A hundred years ago when I joined the Cow there was a field for “signature.””

There’s a place to add your signature on the FIRST PAGE of the signup page. Our assumption was that most people would use them, so we put it right up front where you couldn’t miss it.

Apparently the first page is not far enough forward.

Hence also that box just below the text entry area for your posts: “Add Your Message Signature.” You can set the default on said front page of your settings. Depending on how you set it, that box will either be selected or not selected appropriately for the default, so that you can always add it or not on a post-by-post basis.

[TImothy Auld] “most especially in a world where one is not supposed to “post about the poster.””

True…and if it wasn’t, I’m as mystified as you are. It REALLY never crossed my mind that somebody would get their chops busted for this. Half of our most frequent posters have them. (I just checked. Yes, HALF.) So I have no idea why it’s coming up at all, much less NOW, more than 19 years after we started.

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