Dissolves

When I stick a cross dissolve on the begining or end of a clip, I usually get a fade in or fade out with both the audio and video. However, when I add a widescreen matte, the video will not fade in or out, only the audio.

Any advice?

Thanks

FCP5 on a G4

I think you have to export the transition then add the matte. I've tried other ways and failed but this for all it's long windedness worked.

hmmm.. never noticed that before.

if you disolve to slug, or some other source of black it works.

nick

> When I stick a cross dissolve on the begining or end of a clip, I usually get a fade in or fade
> out with both the audio and video. However, when I add a widescreen matte, the video will
> not fade in or out, only the audio.

You can eliminate this issue by using a widescreen mask on a top video track rather than using the unwieldy, inconvenient Widescreen Matte filter:

[www.lafcpug.org]


www.derekmok.com

How do I add a widesreen mask to the top video track?

Did you actually click on the link I'd provided above?

The methods are also in the FAQ:

[www.lafcpug.org]


www.derekmok.com

derek means a wide screen mask clip, not the filter.
you can make your own in photoshop or similar,
or use 2 bits of slug in FCP cropped of repositioned, which would require 2 tracks.

here's a way to create a wide screen mask in FCP:
lay up the 2 slugs,
then make the V1 clip invisible (select, and control b)
the screen will be black, of course, but you can check that it really is a wide screen mask by switching your canvas to checkerboard background.
(no real need to do this, but it's re-assuring, and looks cool)
now make a freeze frame of this. (Shift N)
drag the freeze in to your browser.
it;s a widescreen mask!

make your still /freeze duration appropriately long before you do this,
do that in your user prefs, in the "editing" tab.


cheers,
nick

Nice tip/trick Nick. Can I use it?

Michael Horton
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I remember this Nick Trick from months ago but it wasn't mentioned during the last round of widescreen discussion we had...we should add that to the FAQ.


www.derekmok.com

I just added this to the FAQ. Could you check it for accuracy Nick? I did a bit of editing. Ta.

[www.lafcpug.org]

thanks for that, Jude.
i now realise that there's no real need to set a duration via the user prefs.
so i;ve made one small change:

once you've made the mask, you can set it to any duration you like just by entering a number in the duration field.

nick

> once you've made the mask, you can set it to any duration you like just by entering a
> number in the duration field.

You can also just paste it multiple times. I actually like having multiple widescreen masks rather than one long strip -- I use them as a quick way to do partial timeline renders.


www.derekmok.com