Yikes, what’s happening with transitions!!!????

[Simon Ubsdell]

OK, it doesn’t work that way if you can be bothered to drag a transition out of the Transitions menu – but seriously!!!!!!

Cmd/T on a transition will absolutely, definitely ripple your timeline for you and that cannot be right. Surely!? Who thought anyone would want it to behave like this? It’s madness!

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[David Burch]

Madness?! THIS. IS. X!!!.

Seriously, though, there may be a hidden setting for this. It does seem a bit ludicrous if there isn’t a way to turn that off.

[Simon Ubsdell]

If anybody finds David’s secret key, please shout out!

But seriously, I can’t imagine anybody at any time editing any kind of project on any galaxy know or unknown would ever in a million light years want this behaviour with transitions.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Dave Jenkins]

Buy Ripple Trainings FCP X series. It explains alot of this things that are odd. It is a simple change in the Preferences. Apply transition using Available media works like FCP 7

Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
MacPro Two 2.8GHz Quad Core – AJA Kona LHe
FCS 3 OS X 10.6 QT 10

[Simon Ubsdell]

Thanks, Dave – there was a magic key after all.

But I doubt there’s an answer to my question of why anyone would want that as a default (!) behaviour!!!!!!! (Except of course someone who knows nothing about non-linear editing and wouldn’t understand handles.)

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Geoff Dills]

Look under settings…you can choose how you want transitions to behave. Either works like you have it now where it adds the length of the transition so all the existing footage is outside the transition or switch it to have the transition use the current footage without lengthening your timeline. I am not near FCPX so not sure exactly the exact wording.

Best,
Geoff

[Richard Truchanowicz]

In the preferences, try changing “Apply Transitions Using” from “Full Overlap” to “Available Media”. That should solve your ripple problem. The default way builds transitions using only the footage that is explicitly put on the time line. The other option uses the unseen handles to prevent the sequence from rippling. It seems like there should be an easier way to set this on a per transition basis, but I haven’t found it yet.

You can apply transitions to clips outside the main storyline by encapsulating them in a secondary storyline, however it doesn’t seem like you can use them to transition between the primary and secondary storylines. When I apply a transition to a single secondary clips it transitions between the clip and black rather than the underlying primary storyline. You can keyframe opacity to ‘manually’ fade between the two if all you’re looking for is a simple dissolve.

At least, that’s what I’ve figured out so far. I think it’s ‘mostly’ right…

-Richard Truchanowicz

[Simon Ubsdell]

Interestingly if you deselect the full overlap option and then try to add a transition without having sufficient handles you only get the option to cancel or use full overlap. You don’t get the option to shorten the transition – which is the behaviour we have come to expect from our NLE’s.

But I should have read the manual before posting … 🙁

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Dave Jenkins]

I think there will be a lot of these discoveries. Didn’t know about the (without having sufficient handles you only get the option to cancel or use full overlap) BUMMER!

Thanks for letting us know.

Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
MacPro Two 2.8GHz Quad Core – AJA Kona LHe
FCS 3 OS X 10.6 QT 10

[Stephen Bakopanos]

[Simon Ubsdell] “But I should have read the manual before posting … 🙁
“

Nah dude, it’s ok. We’re all a bit frazzled by this release. I too was tearing my hair out trying to solve this – I was at the point of deleting FCPX and tossing my MacBook in the bin, but thankfully I checked here first…

Going to spend the weekend with Ripple and see how I feel on Monday.