Transition only for one video track?

Not sure what you're doing here.

What version of FCP are you using?

Can you post a screen grab of your four tracks so that we can see what's happening?

Andy

On reading again, I think you have your clips in a Compound Clip and have added a transition to that. Remove the transition, then open up the compound clip by double clicking it.

You may then need to make a compound clip of each of the Connected Clips as you can't add transitions to Connected Clips unless they are made into compound clips.

Andy

That's interesting - I didn't know you could add cross-dissolve to Connected Clips, but obviously you can.

I just copied what you have done but it works fine on my system.

Have you tried trashing your preferences?

Unexplained faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).

Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

With Preference Manager, you can backup the Prefs when FCP X (or any of the Apple Professional Applications) are working normally. Then when either of the applications are acting strangely, Trash the Preferences, then Restore from your backups (just a mouse-click).

If you trash the prefs and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then your backups are up to date.

Doesn't fix every problem, but it fixes a lot.

Andy

I tried to do a little video to recreate the situation, using two clips, resized and placed , and it worked consistently well (setting a fade in for a clip does not affect the others - in the screenshots, notice that only the top left clip is faded, as it should be).

How come your screenshots don't show ANY video from the lower track at all? Are you sure you are resizing them and placing them right? Can you see the video of the lower track at any point in the timeline? Did you see it before applying the transition?

Here are the screenshots from my little test:

The time line, with four clips (at a point where only one of them is fading in):

The viewer, at that point. The faded clip is top left. All others aren't faded:

Steffen Bendix wrote:

The same problem occurs on my other Mac. It occurs with every project.

That's really strange - I was going to suggest trashing the application and reinstalling, but if you have the app on two different macs and it happens with both, it suggests it's caused by something you are doing, rather than some error in the system.

As I said earlier, it works fine for me.

Hopefully, Tom Wolsky will be getting out of bed soon. Let's hope he can throw some light on the matter.

Andy

Steffen,

I see you have your upper clip in the primary storyline, and the connected clip below it (where I would normally put the audio).

Try putting the lower clip in the primary, and the connected clip above it.

(Just a hunch, because when you press 'Q' to add a connected clip, FCP X puts it above the primary storyline by default).

(And I just remembered that version 10.0.2 fixed the problem of adding transitions to connected clips).

Andy

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Do they show all right WITHOUT the transition? I would try deleting the transition, make sure they show correctly, and then try and add it again.

Steffen,

Open a new test project and then find the 'Ladies' View' clip in the Event Browser. Select it, and press D to add it to the primary storyline.

Move the playhead back to the beginning of the storyline and then find the 'Ohne Titel' clip. Select it and press Q to add it as a Connected clip.

It should appear ABOVE the 'Ladies' View' clip.

Now add your transition to the 'Ohne Titel' clip and see what happens.

(Can't try it myself because FCP X is tied up with something else at the moment but I thought it was worth a try).

Andy

If I remember correctly (help) D overwrites the clip to wherever the playhead (or skimmer is positioned) while E appends the clip to the end of the Storyline.

Andy

Andy,

Sorry to hijack this topic, but I tried your 'D' and 'Q' suggestions and ended up with the following:

I was thinking both clips would be stacked on top of each other... i tried moving the top one over to the left and it didn't work.

Thanks