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Whenever I use a transition, all the clips forward move a few seconds. Is there a way to add trasitions but without it happening? I mean, adding transmitions but the clips stay on the right second
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
The only time a transition will alter the length of the video is when you have no "handles" on the clips.
This means that you are using the complete clip with nothing cut from the beginning or end.
Normally every clip an editor uses in the timeline will have had at least a second cut from both ends.
Okay, now I know what's going on I can explain it properly, though it will take a bit of explaining:
A clip in my project has a sudden change of scene. I'd like to change this to a cross-dissolve. I cut the clip at the scene-change (using the Blade), and then put in a cross-dissolve with Cmd-T.
What happens? Well, it does exactly what it's supposed to, but it appears not to, since the sections immediately before and after the Blade are blending with exact copies of themselves.
(I can see the grey rectangle which indicates a cross-dissolve but when I play it I just see the same crude jump from one scene to another.)
Now, in 10.0.1 I could instruct Cmd-T to force an overlap to get the effect I want to. (It was an option in the Preferences). But I can't do this in later versions.
So how do I do it? One way is to turn every single clip into a Compound Clip. By doing so, it has no handles, so when I make it cross-dissolve it will shorten my project and produce the ('true') cross-dissolve effect I want. But this means clicking on each clip individually and making it a Compound, and since I need to do this about fifty times in my project, it's a bit tedious. So is there a quicker way?
Thanks, and sorry for the previous mis-post.
MST
You have to trim back the two shots. Select the left side type -15 enter. Select the right side type +15 enter. Press Cmd-T.
Yes, I thought of that. But there are fifty-plus edits in the project, all of which need the same treatment, so that's a bit tedious. In 10.0.1 I could just select the whole project and hit Cmd-T once: job done.
Ah well, such is progress.
Trouble with transmitions HELP!
