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Transition from nest to still – giving me the red screen.
Hey all,
I need to end a sequence with a page peel from video to a still. Simple enough. However, I need the video to freeze about half-way through the page peel. I copied the end of the video, tacked on the freeze-frame, and nested those two items (with handle room to spare). Then I replaced the end of the original video with the nest so it integrates smoothly, adjusted the out point on the nest to the last frame of moving video, and butted the still up against the end of the nest. I put the page peel on the transition between the nest and the still, and viola! It doesn’t work. I can preview it frame by frame and it looks great, but when I try to play it I get the big red screen “Display unavailable. Close and reopen window to restore.” If I try to play anywhere else on the timeline I get a “Not Found” message and it won’t do a thing. What’s the deal?
Nick
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Does the nest itself have handle. By default it does not. You have to trim the nest itself for any transition to work. Are you following me?
Kevin Monahan
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Yes, I actually trimmed the nest all the way back to the last frame of moving video (which leaves 5 seconds of freeze-frame inside there). I can see the effect at work in a frame-by-frame sort of way, but trying to play the timeline now only results in an extremely confused Final Cut.
My workaround is similar. Copy a portion of the end of the video, paste in some workspace (any blank piece of timeline you’re not using), add the freeze frame and connect it to the end, export as a quicktime, delete work material, re-import quicktime (it now sees the moving video and the freeze-frame as one item of video, this is the idea I was trying to accomplish with the nest), sync the quicktime with the end of the original video overwriting the original with the quicktime, trim the quicktime back cutting out the freeze-frame, butt the still up against the end of the quicktime, apply page peel transition, and poof! A page peel transition with freeze-frame video half-way through. Seems like more work than should be necessary though.
Nick
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