Final Cut Pro Editing in Time Line.

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slackercats

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Ok, when dropping the little pieces of video in the time line, and I "wish" to do some fad in and fade out on both ends of each of the video bits. I get a message that something goes like this. (this is from memory). "there was insuffecient media for the request transition blah blah blah.... and the fade is at the end of the vid bits, but not the beginning.

Help? Ideas?

thank you. and cheers!
 
Are you ONLY fading that clip, or are you transitioning a fade in/out between two clips?

If the latter, you might not have extra footage for it to fade. That's why you always need to pre/post roll your shots. Try this:

Set a fade in/out on the end of the clip, but make sure there isn't another clip immediately following that clip on the same track. Instead, bring that following clip up a track, and add the same effect to the beginning of that track. It'll give you the same results, just a different way.

OR fade a slug IN at the end of the video.
 
Hawk Teflon said:
Are you ONLY fading that clip, or are you transitioning a fade in/out between two clips?

If the latter, you might not have extra footage for it to fade. That's why you always need to pre/post roll your shots. Try this:

Set a fade in/out on the end of the clip, but make sure there isn't another clip immediately following that clip on the same track. Instead, bring that following clip up a track, and add the same effect to the beginning of that track. It'll give you the same results, just a different way.

OR fade a slug IN at the end of the video.
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Dude, and thanks for the quickness. I am just doing the "browser effects" and jsut bringing down the fad in fade out dissolve. on each of the vids. I can do the transistion twice, and try to transisition on another, i get this annoying error. but the last transistion of the end of the vid will be there......

Typing Errors = Lazy to spellchek + Its sunday.
 
I'm not following what you're trying to say here. Any chance you can show me some screen grabs? Just post them here.
 
I'm not following either.

Do you have sufficient, at least 15 frame, head and tail on each of the clips to which you trying to fade with a transition? Have you tried key framing opacity.
 
Example: if you drag 3 vids into the timeline, and click the first vid (i turns brown), then drag the fade in/fade out transistion unto the vid, the first vid show both on each end, try to do the same onto the second, it only shows on the end of the vid, or i get the message, "there was insufficient media for the requested transition at one or more edit points - would you like to accept others.

duno how to screen grab - but ill look that up too. thanks guys!
 
Sound to me that you don't have enough extra footage in your clip to apply the transition. Check out the manual and read up on applying transition effects. The way you described your technique is adding more steps than you need to do a simple fade up fade out transition.
You only need One fade filter between clip #1 and clip #2 and one between clip #2 and clip#3. You can also apply it to the front of the first clip to fade your video in and one at the end o your last clip to fade the video out.
Just make sure you have in and out points set on your clips before you set them in the timeline and they are set a few frames in from the ends if you want to use the built in transition effects. Again just pick up the manual. All the answers to the questions you asked are in there and easy to find.
 
While brinks is right, I have to disagree on the "easy to find" part. FCStudio manuals are not only thick, but numerous. And sometimes if you don't know exactly what you're trying to look up, it can be a real PITA.
 
A one second transition takes 30 frames (at 30 fps timeline), 30 frames are taken from clip 1 and 30 frames are taken from clip 2 and overlaid. So, clip 1 has to have at least 30 frames left after the set out point, or the transition cannot be made and you get the message. same for clip 2 at the in point. FCP will not move the i/o points to make a transition (some editors do, which shortens the overall timeline).
 
Adding Handles to Allow Transitions

Before you add a transition between clips, such as a dissolve to make your first clip gradually dissolve into the second, you need to make sure you have enough extra material or "handles" on your clips so Final Cut Pro has excess video to work with when it applies the transition.

For example, let's say you selected two clips in the Browser and then, without editing them (such as creating In or Out points), dragged them to the Timeline and put them next to each other on the same track.

If you then tried to apply a transition between the two clips, Final Cut Pro would reject it. That's because there's no extra video to use for the transition, in which a portion of one clip overlaps with part of the other clip.

The only way Final Cut Pro could apply the transition to these two unedited clips would be to try to somehow move them on the Timeline so they overlapped. But that would shorten the movie and disrupt the timing of audio on any adjacent track.

There's just no room for a transition to be applied to unedited clips.

This means you need to make sure before you add a transition that the first clip has enough extra, unused material at its end, and the second clip has enough extra, unused material at its beginning so Final Cut Pro can apply the transition.

Thus if you want a one-second transition between two clips, you should have half a second or more of unused material at the end of the first clip, and another half second or more of unused material at the beginning of the second clip.

Adding the Handles for Transitions

If you know you want to apply a transition between two clips, you should add In and Out points to the clips in the Viewer before dragging the clips to the Timeline. Use the In and Out points to create enough extra, unused video for the duration of the transition you want to apply.

If your clips are already in Timeline and Final Cut Pro is rejecting a transition between them, you'll need to double click on the first clip in the Timeline to display it in the Viewer. Then check to see if there's an Out point near the end of the clip and enough excess material after the Out point to accommodate half the transition. If not, then you'll need to drag the Out point to the left until the unused portion of the clip is long enough to accommodate half of the transition you're going to apply.

Repeat this procedure with the second clip in the Timeline. Double click on it to display it in the Viewer. Then check to see if there's an In point near the beginning of the clip and enough excess material before the In point to accommodate half the transition. If not, then you'll need to drag the In point to the right until the unused portion of the clip is long enough to accommodate half of the transition you're going to apply.

After you've edited the clips, you'll need to drag the now shortened clips back next to each other in the Timeline (editing the clips with the In and Out points in the Viewer, shortens them and creates a gap between the two clips in the Timeline).

Now you'll be able to apply your transition to the clips, because you've marked out enough excess video in your clips to be used in the transition.
 
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