[Nevin Styre]

It’s hard because it doesn’t seem like there’s any rhyme or reason to it, it just decides sometimes that it will transition properly to the alpha, but 50% of the time it decides during the transition that the alpha is a black solid.

However, I have found if you make a working compound clip with the alpha, transition & title, you can copy and edit it without it messing up the alpha. So once you build a working compound clip copy it and use that. You might need to make a few to eventually get a working one, try it in a new project if it isn’t working in current(you can copy across projects).
Building another from scratch isn’t guaranteed to work, copying a working one seems to be more consistent. Some transitions still won’t work without messing up the alpha(moreso the cheesy or complex ones, blurs & dissolves seem fine). Some transitions will make the text appear on a black solid background in the compound clip after the transition, however back on the main timeline the black renders as transparent so it still “works”.

for some reason I’m reminded of this 90’s anti drug commercial “this is your brain on drugs”.
FCPX please come down off the acid and work with us in reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCIJNiJislo

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[Nevin Styre]

Well it was working, but now it seems to be doing weird things with the alpha channel, I will do some more testing.

[Nevin Styre]

I’ve figured a workaround to get transitions behaving right on titles. I have a feeling this technique is going to come in handy for a lot of FCPX issues.

1. You need to make an alpha slug, I just made an empty 1920×1080 document in photoshop, set the background to transparent and saved it as a PNG file called ALPHA_SLUG.png.

2.Create your title overtop of your footage, place the alpha slug in front of the title (1 second length for slug is good enough). Select both the slug & the title and create a compound clip, now open the compound clip and you can add any transition between the slug and the title, back to your timeline and voila.

[Nevin Styre]

AE definitely deals with keyframes much better with way more control, but the scaling smoothing does work in FCP7 and looks better than not having it.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu-PQTj7nko

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[Nevin Styre]

I had a similar problem, couldn’t rename a project in the project manager. then adding folders would do nothing, I kept trying & eventually after quitting and restarting FCPX I could rename it, there was also 10 new folders I had created that weren’t showing up before I restated.

[Nevin Styre]

Actually scaling in FCP7 does have the option for bezier keyframes. You just have to right click each keyframe in the viewer and select “Smooth”. I’ve used this lots to avoid the linear jumpy look like you say.

[Nevin Styre]

it seems to do some sort of auto bezier on some things.

I tested a simple text title & animated position scrolling in from the left, at first I made the start keyframe too far off frame so I added a third keyframe a few frames ahead and moved it closer to the edge but still off screen. I deleted the first, resulting in my 2 keyframes: beginning and end. There’s no bezier option so you would think it would result in a strait linear path, but no. The text scrolled in, went past the end position a few frames before the 2nd keyframe then eased back to the end position at the 2nd keyframe.

It seems like pretty much any hand animation will be best through motion until you can actually control what is happening with the keyframes… that is if you plan to use it at all.

[Nevin Styre]

can you make your composition into a compound clip then apply a transition to that?

[Nevin Styre]

no multicam support does seem odd, not just because of the pro need of it, but it seems like they could have done it 10x better than before with the new power they have under the hood now. They have auto audio syncing, so instantly line up tracks through that(if needed), and they have the new any codec/resolution engine that would allow different format sources to be multicammed.

I could see a simple interface for multicam clip building, drag clips to a screen with 9+ numbered boxes, a dropdown dialog at the top would let you choose how the clips sync (timecode, marker, audio), then a generate clip button at the bottom to add your multiclip to your project.

[Nevin Styre]

If I remember correctly from the demo the keyframes are viewable in the timeline, I don’t have FCPx but there should be a twirldown or option to show the keyframes.