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Slick Transitions in FCPX

If Slick Transitions don't work in FCPX, does FCPX provide substitute ways of smoothly going from one slide to the next?

Posted on Aug 6, 2013 8:13 AM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2013 9:04 AM

Crossfade?

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Aug 11, 2013 8:19 AM in response to David Fahnestock1

David Fahnestock1 wrote:

… My titles and credits are usually displayed over a moving texture such as Drift from LiveType.

Your suggestion would work if I used a solid back-ground for the text.

my suggestion was meant on the topic of this thread - … 😉


You lost me in the middle:

you don't want to dissolve btw. two clips, but btw. two titles ?

Titles are on transparent bg, no colors involved, so …??


Or, do you mean like that:


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in FCPX' list of titles, there's one called Dissolve

in its optional settings (info pane), preset is 'per character', which gives a nice animation.

in my example, the title is just a word, so I set to 'word' (could be the whole line)

=> as you can see, the title is faded (lower right: the full 100%)

… over 'animated' background, aka video clips of whatever nature ....


.... or me lost in translation again? 😟

Aug 11, 2013 1:02 PM in response to Karsten Schlüter

Karsten,

I'm not sure if we are on the same page.

Below is how I do fade in / fade out for my titles and credits.


This the ending of one of my videos. I use yellow Basic Text over a moving, blue blackground. Each text clip is seperated by 4 frames. I then select all four, double click cross dissolve. The text will fade in/out of the background.

The effect is very pleasing and effective.



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Aug 12, 2013 12:39 AM in response to David Fahnestock1

David Fahnestock1 wrote:

Karsten,

I'm not sure if we are on the same page.

Below is how I do fade in / fade out for my titles and credits.

… we are, we are!


My mistake: the title I'd like to recommend has a diff. name,


http://youtu.be/92krd5MNFeo


… shows how I'm using it and demoes some fading title under water …


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Using the 'Fade' title makes it obsolete to apply 'pauses' and disolves and whatsoever.

The whole 'trick' is, to customize it, instead of pre-set 'character' animation, I select 'line'.

In my example, I set-up title#1, then copy/paste it (including the spell error…) - done.


Works for me faster …

Aug 13, 2013 2:55 AM in response to David Fahnestock1

David Fahnestock1 wrote:

Karsten,

I like the way you suggested. …

I'm a huge fan of those 'breathing edits' - fade in, fade out, fade in, fade out ... mostly seen in Trailers for horror, scifi and other dystopia movies. 😁


So, I was lucky, somebody else showed me these (hidden) settings - I don't like 'dancing' titles, but those fade-ones are exactly my taste. Same time, I noticed that fade-thru-color dissolve, I mentioned above - another good one to make an edit 'breath'....


btw: your nature recordings? … nice area, with such flora&fauna …



happy movie making!

Slick Transitions in FCPX

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