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watch your dissolves in fcp 5
I had a piece of media, with a dissolve to black (empty on the timeline). A 2 second gap and then a fade up. Cross dissolve isn’t working, it’s just popping on and off. I’ve removed the dissolve, I’ve trimmed the frames a little, I put new dissolves on it, it just won’t work.
Yes, it’s a “Full” RT effect, and if you force render the effect it works, or if you put SLUG in instead of dead space it works…..
this release is just so buggy. watch it like a hawk!
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Do you see the cross dissolve in the timeline?
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[CharlieX] “this release is just so buggy. watch it like a hawk!”
Sorry Charlie, but I’d be willing to bet a fortune on pilot error rather than a bug.
Did you by any chance ever try to use a “fade in fade out dissolve”???
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It’s there. I physically see it. I can remove the dissolve and put a new one in…. no go unless hard commit to disk. I’ve been using FCP since version 2, and in a professional edit house since ver 3 – It’s not pilot error this time. I *wish* it was. Then i wouldn’t be so paranoid. Cross dissolve has worked fine in this situation for over 100 projects, but since coming to 5, there are gremlins everywhere.
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I have never seen that one in any version of FCP, including v5. I’m guessing you need to reinstall. I’m assuming you’ve trashed your preferences already.
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Charlie,
I’m relatively new to FCP, and I only know ver. 5, but I’m guessing that perhaps they’ve made a change, cuz I’ve been using fade in – fade out dissolve for this type of transition since I started, because cross dissolve wouldn’t work. I may be completely worng, but something tells me that all you need to do is try a slightly different transition…
DRW
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Charlie , I had same problem, last week, I just put the 2 clips on different layers and used the keyframes tp manually dissolve to and from.
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Thanks for confirming!!!
It worked when the director was in, but when I went to ETT, it stopped working. I need a complete re-install from the ground up and hope that cleans out some of the gremlins. But this is a really trim system to being with….
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Do you by chance have the caps lock key on?
Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
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good guess, but no. it’s off.
I honestly don’t know if FCP 5 is so much buggy as a whole combination of QT 7, Tiger, Blackmagic Drivers, and FCP 5. Guys on AJA Io systems in house can’t replicate these problems. But then again, sometimes I can’t replicate the problem on my own system.
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Well, I have to join the other camp to say that I just tried it and it is working fine for me.
FCP 5.0 on a dual 2.0 running Tiger
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