Transition only for one video track?

You pressed D and the close-up clip went onto the primary storyline and then you pressed Q and the 'over the shoulder' clip appeared as a connected clip at the playhead position. That's perfectly correct.

To get the connected clip above the first clip, you should have pressed 'Home' to return the playhead to the beginning before pressing Q.

Andy

Running 10.0.5 and I cannot figure out how to apply a transition to just the top video track. As you can see in the screenshot, I try and drag the transition to the top track, but it defaults to the one below. I've tried compounding both tracks, breaking apart both tracks, i've also tried starting the proejct over again, but it's still not working. Highlighting the top track and pressing Command T works, but it just gives me the standard cross dissolve, which isnt the transition I need.

Select the edit point at the end of the clip and double click the transition.

thanks, I tired that but it's still applying the transition to the clip below too.

When I do it I get this?

What do you get?

I get exactly that, the only diffrence is that the transition gets applied to the video track below as well as the one it's intended for. The only way i've been able to limit the transition to the single track is when I do Command T with the end point selected, but this only gives me the choice of a cross dissolve; I wanted to apply a transition from the transistions browser. Thanks again

What's the transition? Many require two video clips to interact.

it's the static one, I just tried to add a clip next to the clip I want the transition on but the transition still shows up on the tracks below. Incidently, tracks above the target track do not get the transition.

Static uses transparency to create the effect so it will always interact with the underlying image. You have to expand the audio and trim back the video so there is no picture underneath the transition.

Hey there:

I had a similar problem where I was trying to apply a Cube Spin transition to titles above the storyline.

I wanted the transitions applied ONLY to the titles, so they appeared to "rotate" into place one after another.

Applying the transition to the titles caused all clips below them to be "grabbed" by the cube transition, with ugly, undesired effects. This is how I beleive my problem relates to yours: the transitions appled to tracks above the main storyline were affecting all clips below.

@Tom Wolsky mentioned that many transitions require two clips to work properly, and this was the key to solving my problem.

1) I turned each title into a Compound Clip

2) I entered the compound clip and used the Position tool (P) to move the titles so there was a gap before hand

3) I appled my transition between the gap and the title

This caused the cube transition to affect the title only... Whew! That was driving me nuts!

Hope that helps some other peeps with the same prob.

~r

Well, I have read everything and I am having the exact problem. Have photos stacked on two timelines, I apply a fade to the top photo and the one under it fades also. Using 10.0.8 FCPX and have trashed preferences, made the top photo a compound clip. Still fades the photo under it. DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!

Can you please post a screen shot of exactly what you're doing and what you have selected? Why have you made the top photo a compound clip?

That's what I kept reading that you had to do to add a transition.

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