This operation could not be completed, cause it will split a transition… right

[Bob Flood]

Anders

“Could somebody tell me WHY I need to be told that I can’t cut in a transition, and why I am not allowed to do it. ”

because you were a bad bad boy! 🙂

no actually its more mundane than that:

Its an issue with FCP that has been around since day 1. The Program cannot calculate what happens if you want to cut a transition.

Perhaps the thinking is that an editor would add the transitions last, after he is happy with the cuts only version of his edit. (sort of an editing haiku thing) Or perhaps the original developers of the program forgot about transitions (“no no no its called Final CUT, not Final Cut and Dissolve”) or perhaps the underlying code just cannot support the calculations necessary to do what every other NLE in the world can do easily. wahtever the reasons, we know about it, we hate it, and we do not know why apple wont or cant fix it.

the good news is there are a couple of workarounds. Usually the transtion in question is the one nearest to and inclusive from your in and/ or out point. simply delete that transition and all will be good.

If its a transition you have customized, you can drag it to a bin and save it, or copy it and the clip its on and paste them to an upper video track outside of the range of your ripple delete.

then once you have ripple deleted, you can replace it by dragging it back.

does this help?

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Anders Haavie]

Thanks Bob. I am a hardcore finalcut guy, and there are some many things I love with this app, but as you’ve said.. there are certain things in fcp that are a mystery to me. And you are right, I have been a bad boy.

If they just could give me a decent TC window I would try to forget about the annoying errormessage.

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