How do I make a clip fade in from white, without affecting / overlapping the previous clip?

I also have this question. Avid lets you change the frame up/down - to/from a dissolve point. In other words, I could have a dissolve go "up" at, for example, 5 frames, and then "down" at, say, 15 frames. As it stands now, FCPX only allows you the same amount of frames on either side of the cross-dissolve. (A 30-frame dissolve is split 15 frames on either side of the transition.)

Other NLE's give you the option for a dissolve to occur at the BEGINNING, in the MIDDLE (STANDARD CROSS-DISSOLVE) or at the END of a transition. (Depending, of course, on if you have the "handles" to execute the transition,)

Can we achieve this in FCPX? Is this where we launch the "precision editor?"

Put a Generator under the beginning of the second clip.

Change its colour to white, and use the opacity handles as you mentioned.

Andy

This is another one that requirs a work around from the editable transitions of old.

If you are doing loads of these, it's worth making new transitions in Motion to start on edit and end on edit.

Or for a quick work around, make the second clip into a Compound Clip, open it up, then add your Fade to Colour.

Nathan_W wrote:

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Or for a quick work around, make the second clip into a Compound Clip, open it up, then add your Fade to Colour.

Not a quick workaround, this is the right way to do it.

Transitions are, well, transitions. If you put them between clips, expect them to affect both. If you put them at the start of a timeline, they affect only the first clip.

In this case, you need to make your second clip as the first in a timeline - that is one of the things compound clips are there for.

If you're going to disagree with something that's subjective, you could at least say why you think it isn't quick. I timed it at 3.5 seconds. Maybe quicker would be a better term. And then you go on to explain just what I've suggested...

Designing this effect as a transition is a little problematic. However, as a generator it's very easy and very easy to use.

This generator will Fade Out from a solid color (of your choice) or Fade In to a solid color or maintain a solid color throughout (if you want to put two of them together to extend the length of the solid on screen.) To change the timing, just drag the generator to the length you want it to run.

http://sight-creations.com/fxexchange/SolidFade.zip

[Assuming you know where to install.]

Actually... where DO you install this?

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Your "root" hard drive (usually called Macintosh HD) > your User folder > Movies > Motion Templates > Generators > Pick a folder or create a new one - give it a category name (like Fades) > and place the whold Solid Fade folder inside... restart FCPX.

Nathan_W wrote:

If you're going to disagree with something that's subjective, you could at least say why you think it isn't quick. I timed it at 3.5 seconds. Maybe quicker would be a better term. And then you go on to explain just what I've suggested...

I was not disagreeing with you and I was not saying it wasn't quick! I was just saying that in my view it was not a workaround, but simply the right way to do things. (A workaround is by definition an alternative way to overcome some limitation; in this case, I meant to say it was the intended way to do it).

Ahh, OK. I misread your puntuation.

By workaround I'm referring to the editable transitions where you're able to edit the start and end as in the original assumption of using a transition between the clips.