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Q: Keep getting problems using transitions with backgrounds

Sometimes its fine, but many times I get the error:

There is not enough extra media beyond clip edges to create the transition.

Do you want to overlap (ripple trim) your media to create the transition?

 

This will decrease the total duration of your project.

 

I can hit Cancel or 'Create Transition' button and then nothing happens - no transition (cross dissolve) is added.

If I step back til  before I add the background the transition is added to footage just fine.

User error or some known bug?

Posted on Apr 9, 2012 3:43 PM

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  • by patrickfifth,

    patrickfifth patrickfifth Sep 17, 2013 7:12 PM in response to dj108
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    Sep 17, 2013 7:12 PM in response to dj108

    My Russian is worse.  Harasho, specieba, whatever, great answer and thank you very much!

  • by jdeezee01,

    jdeezee01 jdeezee01 Oct 11, 2013 2:50 AM in response to dj108
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    Oct 11, 2013 2:50 AM in response to dj108

    My man, dj108, thank you, thank you!!!

     

    I experienced the same problem/bug/error and have been "monkey-ing" around trying to fix this bug for over an hour.  I finally came to the support forum and found your solution.

     

    Thanks again,

  • by dj108,

    dj108 dj108 Oct 30, 2013 6:57 AM in response to wondering77
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    Oct 30, 2013 6:57 AM in response to wondering77

    you r welcome)

  • by dj108,

    dj108 dj108 Oct 30, 2013 6:58 AM in response to patrickfifth
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    Oct 30, 2013 6:58 AM in response to patrickfifth

    you are welcome! great!)))

  • by dj108,

    dj108 dj108 Oct 30, 2013 6:59 AM in response to jdeezee01
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    Oct 30, 2013 6:59 AM in response to jdeezee01

    i am glad that could help u !)))))))

  • by JJTV1,

    JJTV1 JJTV1 Dec 30, 2013 9:19 AM in response to dj108
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    Dec 30, 2013 9:19 AM in response to dj108

    This did fix the intial problem, but I rarely use 1 second dissolves.  I normally have a 10 to 15 frame default rate.  How can I have a 15 frame default and not get this error?

  • by shmeditor,

    shmeditor shmeditor May 22, 2014 11:17 AM in response to JJTV1
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    May 22, 2014 11:17 AM in response to JJTV1

    I'm in the same boat - tried to save time by setting my preferences to 7 frame edits and kept getting error messages. So much for saving time - this extra step is extra annoying! Thanks for the solution dj108!!

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky May 22, 2014 11:30 AM in response to shmeditor
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    May 22, 2014 11:30 AM in response to shmeditor

    What error messages? Can you post a screen shot of your transition preferences? You can't set a transition preference of seven frames. Transitions are based on decimal percentages of time. 1.0 is one second. 2.0 is two seconds. 0.5 is half a second. 0.25 is a quarter of a second. Half a second means 12 frames in a 24fps project, 15 frames in a 29.97fps project, and 30 frames in a 59.94fps project. By setting it in decimals it means you don't have to change your transition preference every time you switch between projects with different frame rates.

  • by hypeman,

    hypeman hypeman Aug 4, 2014 7:14 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Aug 4, 2014 7:14 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    The post I made here today has been removed on the basis of so-called "advertising."

     

    I have a problem with adding transitions to clips in my timeline. Final Cut Pro X is not working properly. In looking for a solution, I made a video that visually describes my problem and frustration with this particular Apple product. There is no advertising. There was a link to a video illustrating my problem. Please help me find a solution Apple and the Apple Community.

     

    Apple is not the company it use to be. This statement alone may have me banned from ASC for life if they find this against policy as well. Wow.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Aug 4, 2014 7:29 AM in response to hypeman
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    Aug 4, 2014 7:29 AM in response to hypeman

    I saw the video you posted.

     

    It is quite possible that you are experiencing the effects of a bug, but it certainly is not one that is widespread.

     

    Every time I have seen people complain about the dialog box "There is not enough media...", well, there simply wasn't.

    I may of course be wrong, but you do not seem to understand what *handles* are.

    You say there is enough media. But that is not the point. If you have a one-minute long clip and select the laste five seconds and drag to the timeline, you have 55 seconds *before* but zero seconds *after*. That means a transition before the clip is ok, but not after.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Aug 4, 2014 7:37 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Aug 4, 2014 7:37 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Also: try double-clicking on the edit point to actually see how much handles you got. This is what is called the "precision editor". The outgoing clip is above, the ingoing is below. You can see that I have a lot of extra media before the edit point in the incoming clip (a big "handle"), but relatively little after the edit point for the outgoing clip. The size of this smaller handle will be the limiting factor when it comes to the duration of the transition.

     

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  • by hypeman,

    hypeman hypeman Aug 4, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Aug 4, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    I appreciate your reply. Really.

     

    I do understand the term handles and have more than enough space on both sides of each and every clip. It just seems to be a hit or miss situation. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Hardware is plenty powerful enough. I'll close the software, reopen and same issue rears it's head that wasn't there prior.

  • by pskolstad,

    pskolstad pskolstad Jan 4, 2015 2:49 PM in response to dj108
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    Jan 4, 2015 2:49 PM in response to dj108

    Thanks DJ 108, problem solved. The duration was set to 0,01sec. Probably an programming error from apple and my be was ment to be set at 1,00 sec.

    I´m running 10.1.4 did never have that problem on 10.09

    Thanks again from Norway

  • by vladislav238,

    vladislav238 vladislav238 May 19, 2015 9:49 AM in response to mbpm
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    May 19, 2015 9:49 AM in response to mbpm

    I had same issue when I accidentally choose Select instrument, when I switch to Position instrument it's working okay.

  • by Darkhitect,

    Darkhitect Darkhitect May 16, 2016 1:03 PM in response to dj108
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    May 16, 2016 1:03 PM in response to dj108

    This also worked for me! Thanks dj108

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