problem with cross dissolve

Hello,

So my problem is this when I right click a cut and add a cross dissolve it doesn't play back smooth. Sometimes the last frame of the dissolve will have a frame or 2 of a weird dark outlined version of the first clip.

FCP 5
G5 Dual

Any ideas?

Em

Maybe start over fresh, delete time line clips and re-insert. I've seen artifacts that get left behind if I've messed with the edit alot; or maybe there's the end of an ajacent clip in the clip's handle.

I've deleted it and re-inserted all the clips involved it has the same problem. I'm doing a cross dissolve from a clip to black slug then dissolve to another clip. I've tried some work arounds like keyframing the opacity from 100 to 0 but it still has this problem. What happens is when it dissolves to black right before it goes to black it will fade up to this pixelated negitive version of the original clip. It's driving me crazy. I have another system running the same project and clips and it is working fine.

Help!

Open another sequence and try the edit there. If it works, copy/paste back to your master sequence.

I would next dump render files. Something is still hanging around.

Scott

okay so I figured out that it only happens when I desolve to black slug. Or if I keyframe the opacity to 0. I've tried several work arounds to achieve this but the same thing happens. I've also tried it on other time lines and I get the same problem.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Em

> Or if I keyframe the opacity to 0.

I'm thinking that's your problem.

Zoom all the way into the timeline and look carefully at your final opacity keyframe. Is it really at the last frame of the outgoing shot? If not, you'll see the rubber band shoot back up after the keyframe and that's a classic mistake when applying opacity keyframes to use as fades.


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I also had lots of troubles just recently with dissolves in my last trailer posting. I checked the handles and all that, but the dissolves weren't coming out clean; they two shots didn't fade out fade in properly -- so I went to a dip to color dissolve which left a dark section inbetween. I left them like that.

I don't know if this is some user preferences I've selected for the dissolves or what.

I'm thinking of doing the dissolves manually now by overlaying two clips and manually fading out and fading in.