Nick Ryan
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I’ll 3rd that… You have no idea how many times I say to my co-workers “Well, the folks on Creative Cow say…”
Nick
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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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Thanks! Yes, I could. This would probably be better wouldn’t it. That won’t create issues with my playback settings will it? (Playback set at YPbPr instead of RGB.) I’ll switch it around tomorrow.
Nick
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Just be careful… if the clips are too large and you wind up with a corrupt file down the road – you’ll lose that whole chunk.
Nick
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Great idea – thanks!
Nick
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“Gang” will work on audio with no associated video (unlike “open”), however it seems that it allows you to set an arbitrary sync. So when you move the playhead in the viewer the playhead in the timeline WILL move as well, but it’s not necessarily at the same spot. Good thought though.
Nick
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I’ll give it a shot…
Nick
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Oops, I got a detail wrong. I’m trying to add the keyframes to tracks 3&4 first, those are the tracks without corresponding video, and apparently playhead sync doesn’t work on audio tracks by themselves. If I do it the other way around, turning the playhead sync on while I keyframe tracks 1&2 first, it’ll work. *Sigh*
Nick
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I feel your pain. I spent many a frustrating moment wondering why I was getting random scale changes for no good reason. Like the fellow above just mentioned, it was a render issue for me. If you don’t want to render your entire sequence in full. Make sure that “full” is selected in “render selection”. Set in and out points on the timeline before and after the offending dissolve, and then “render selection”. Usually takes care of it for me.
Nick
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Sorry to say, but it’s the way it’s supposed to be. It’s actually preferable this way – you might be changing the parameters of that first clip based on what the 2nd one looks like, for instance…
Nick