Jacob Brown
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Perhaps the difference is that I shifted the frames in the main timeline not within the angle editor.
Within the angle editor, ever frame was full frame. But then in the timeline, after edit complete, I was animating movement of the frames to make the figure look like it was moving around.
The only way the transition would then work for me was to create the compound clip with the white layer on top with the transparency set to darken. Who knows 🙂
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So what were the transparency settings on your compound clip?
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yeah i’m not 100% sure but i dont think i have had this exact issue with non-multicam composites before.
but putting the white layer on top and setting the blend to darken seems to work fine.
luckily it treats empty space no as dark but as empty, that saves me.
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So i was doing the compound, and i figured out how to open it in timeline and make handles, but still withe the dissolve transition, for some reason, FCPX ignores the second white layer below during the transition.
I just tried putting the white on top of the image though, and set opacity to darken, and it seems to work now.
Very strange the way it ignores the white layer when its below. i feel like this is something unique to multicam?
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ok so i just put a thin mask around the frame, and it worked perfectly. (mask shifts with the transformation which was nice, thought i was going to have to keyframe its movement)
i have feeling this is something i should know, but does masking, cause alpha to show through in a way that simply transforming the frame to the left or right does not?
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Right I get that. I guess what I want to do is fill in that empty space at edge of frame with white. (Well that’s what I have done but it doesn’t “stick” through the dissolve.)
That’s why I was trying to compound clip it with the generator but even when I do that the line reappears.
If I mask it I am still going to have a line though it may be a fade or something, it’s still not going to match the whiteness of rest of frame, right? Or am I missing something?
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The edge is actually the left edge of the clip I am transitioning from. I have translated the entire frame to the right leaving empty space. The white generator below is filling that space.
Is the fact I’m using generator the problem?
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hmm good idea, but i just tried it and it doesnt help at all.
i just tried creating a compound clip with handles manually, and still as soon as it hit the dissolve the edge of frame started showing despite being compounded with an all white clip.
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hmm yes i suppose that’s possible. though i tried a few times, so unlikely. but no way to know now!
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Interestingly, at this point it seems like just a plain retime looks the best….forgoing both blending and optical