[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

This sounds close to me-

https://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/2217/mp3/410071_SOUNDDOGS_BU.mp3

And this one sounds even better-

https://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/2193/mp3/219819_SOUNDDOGS_gu.mp3

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[scott dodds] ” that’s just data being copied and so a constant data rate in that context isn’t important. “

Until the transfer rate lags the medium, like a transfer to or from a rolling tape.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[Shawn Whiting] “lots of interviews, classroom situations, walking and talking shots, etc.”

[Shawn Whiting] “I will likely be solo shooting this most of the time”

[Shawn Whiting] “I have very limited experience in sound”

Wear headphones 100% of the time and if the audio does not sound “right” at any point.
stop shooting and fix it.

Your best bet is to find and hire an experienced audio operator for the job.

Anything less may likely yield anything from “poor audio” to “unusable audio.”

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

A useful alternative that I use is to create a project that is all set to my normal starting set-up.

I call it “New Project” and then lock the file (in the “Get Info” window.)

Then, when I’m ready to start a new edit, I just open that project, it opens with the timeline, etc.
configured the way I like it, and just begin with a “Save Project As…”

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Did you try trashing the FCP Preferences?

(Are you sure you shot the tape in the mode you think it is?)

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Try it this way-

1- Open the Effects Tab in the Browser.
2- Find the Cross Dissolve effect (audio or video) that you want to use.
3- Change the length (in the Length Column.)
4- Drop that effect onto the edit point.

You can drop the effect just before the cut, “on” the cut, or just after the cut-

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[walter biscardi] “So what happens when you right click between the two clips and add the dissolve, which the way I add most of my dissolves here since it’s faster.
“

Don’t do it that way if you want to edit to a clip that has no handles.

What can I tell you?

The reason I persisted is that several very seasoned editors were saying that FCP and AVID simply wouldn’t DO those kind of dissolves.

I’ve been doing them ever since I first touched an AVID (version 4.)

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[David Roth Weiss] “Avid did not invent the transition. Transitions and many other aspects of non linear editing were designed to emulate film style editing, and in film style editing, if you don’t have the frames on both the outgoing and incoming negative, you’d be hosed when the negative was conformed. So, that’s where the procedure originates, and that’s why it exists. The fact that Avid decided to abandon the old method, or that FCP decided to keep it, is neither right or wrong for either system, it just is what it is, and you have to learn to adjust.
“

I don’t know what you’re saying.

I’ve been dissolving with only one clip having handles on AVID forever.
Didn’t need handles on both clips on a flatbed, either.
You needed at least “leader” to keep the incoming clip threaded, but if the dissolve didn’t
start until the exposed frames began (“Starting on Cut”) you never saw the leader.

FCP does not require handles on both clips.

The handle only is required to be on one clip or the other.
(It CAN be on both, of course.)

Am I not understanding the discussion?

I’m sitting here making dissolves that begin on the very first captured frame of the incoming video.
No problem at all. There is no handle overlap on the incoming clip. None.

Here’s how I’m doing this:

1- Open the Effects Tab in the Browser.
2- Find the Cross Dissolve effect (audio or video) that you want to use.
3- Change the length (in the Length Column.)
4- Drop that effect onto the edit point.

You can drop the effect just before the cut, “on” the cut, or just after the cut-

Before the cut: “End at Cut” Dissolve
On the cut: “Centered on Cut” Dissolve
After the cut: “Start at Cut” Dissolve

If there is no handle on one of the clips, you just need to drop the dissolve on the side of the
cut where there is no handle.
Then, FCP will use only the OTHER clip’s frames to create the dissolve.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[walter biscardi] “Yes, even on a “Start at Cut” edit, FCP will still want to see handles on the incoming clip. Pretty much all NLE’s work this way. “

I’m not exactly sure what Walter is talking about, but it’s not about “Start at Cut” edits.
I have been making “Start at Cut” edits for years starting at the very first frame of an INCOMING captured clip on Avid and Final Cut Pro.

As long as the OUTGOING (first) clip has enough handle at the end, the editor (FCP) will begin and complete the dissolve even starting at the very first frame of the INCOMING (second) clip.

I just tried it again right before posting this to make sure.

Conversely, for “End at Cut” edits, even if you are at the last frame of the OUTGOING (first) clip, you can dissolve to another INCOMING (second) clip as long as that second has enough PRECEDING frames (handle) to overlap it back into and before the previous clip ends.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

I guess I should point out that this is primarily a VIDEO PRODUCTION forum
(“Event Videographers”.)