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Q: Change Transition Duration in FCE 4.0.1

The answer elsewhere (Re: can't change transition duration ) is that it doesn't. I'm sorry, but THAT *****!

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), FCE 4.0.1

Posted on Jun 19, 2016 10:08 PM

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Just found Ken Stone's tutorials at http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html#qt_mac_os_utilities . Time to hit the books, and thanks, Al, for the pointer.

Posted on Jun 30, 2016 8:40 PM

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Q: Change Transition Duration in FCE 4.0.1

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  • by Alchroma,Helpful

    Alchroma Alchroma Jun 29, 2016 8:11 PM in response to mrbl
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    Jun 29, 2016 8:11 PM in response to mrbl

    I recall writing that.

    It's just how the application works.

    The newer FCP X will allow custom transition length.

     

    Al

  • by mrbl,Helpful

    mrbl mrbl Jun 29, 2016 8:39 PM in response to Alchroma
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    Jun 29, 2016 8:39 PM in response to Alchroma

    Thanks, Alchroma. (Seriously. It's no fun being the bear of bad news.)

     

    I wish I had come across your post earlier, to save me ~3 hours of trying, meticulously, to follow the Manual's directions, and having the program fail to behave in  way resembling the Manual's descriptions. I really needed transitions. But all I could get was a 4-frame durations (2 in, 2 out). I'm sorry: 4/28ths (1/7 of a second) is not a transition, it's the blink of an eye. Apparently every transition on the menu is thus crippled.

     

    How Apple's FCE team could have the Manual crew working, for 31 pages, to detail the workings of a functionality which simply didn't exist in the app. With no sign that the Manual crew was aware of this. Well, probably someone pointed this out to the FCE project managers, whose response was, "Marketing says we've got to put at least one FUBAR in, or people won't buy an upgrade".

     

    For the time being, I'll be running my finished FCE files through iMovie HD, for any transitions. I'm sorry but the situation socks (I think I spelled that right…)

  • by Alchroma,

    Alchroma Alchroma Jun 30, 2016 12:59 AM in response to mrbl
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    Jun 30, 2016 12:59 AM in response to mrbl

    mrbl wrote:

    But all I could get was a 4-frame durations (2 in, 2 out). I'm sorry: 4/28ths (1/7 of a second) is not a transition, it's the blink of an eye. Apparently every transition on the menu is thus crippled.

     

     

    If this is the case then you are not understanding how transitions operate in FCE.

    Transitions require that the clips in use have "Media Handles".

    Media handles are bits of the clips that are outside the in/out points of the clips used.

    If there are no media handles you won't even get a one frame transition.

     

    There has been a truck load of info written in this forum about media handles.

    Here is one:

    Re: Transitions require "extra media" on clips

     

    Al

  • by mrbl,

    mrbl mrbl Jun 30, 2016 4:34 AM in response to Alchroma
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    Jun 30, 2016 4:34 AM in response to Alchroma

    Thanks, Al. I did see these (fat brackets) occasionally during my time trying to get transitions to work, and I'll be glad to pursue this thread. In any case, what FCE was giving me for a "default transition", I could click through, frame by frame (four of 'em). But it looks like you've set me on the right path. (And, a few steps down this one, you'll probably see me click "This solved my problem".

  • by mrbl,Solvedanswer

    mrbl mrbl Jun 30, 2016 8:40 PM in response to Alchroma
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    Jun 30, 2016 8:40 PM in response to Alchroma

    Just found Ken Stone's tutorials at http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html#qt_mac_os_utilities . Time to hit the books, and thanks, Al, for the pointer.

  • by mrbl,

    mrbl mrbl Jul 1, 2016 4:43 AM in response to mrbl
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    Jul 1, 2016 4:43 AM in response to mrbl

    The "spot-on":

    New Tutorial: Transitions & Media Handles

     

    Love the opening sentences: "Since starting video work last April I have noticed the large number of people who have considerable difficulty understanding how Transitions and Media Handles work, and who have become frustrated when the transition has no effect - about one post every ten days I reckon."

     

    Here it is!

    http://www.today.plus.com/fce

     

    Again, thanks Al. (Boy, I'd like to delete some of my earlier posts in this thread.)