FCP 5.1.4 PPC transitions do not work

hello,

today i experienced a weird problem. When launching FCP from dock icon, a message appeared explaining that could not start up.
Options appeared: Ignore, Reset Prefs, and one more i cant remember.
I clicked reset. Then restarted... Nothing.
I use PPC DC 2Ghz and installed leopard 10.5.8.

I uninstalled with cleanup app. Re-installed FCP and cinema tools.
Then from a backup of pref folders etc. i copied back to the fresh folders my past settings.

FCP started up. All ok. I imported an SD PAL from a hi8 camera for a customer conversion process.
All appeared ok. I edited timeline etc. Then I decided to add transitions to each new scene clip they recorded.

I dragged some transitions to the timeline and NONE is working ! There is an X symbol next to transition name when it is on timeline.
i have 4 FXscript and some CGM DVE in my lib. None work.

The colour correction tools though work ok.

Is it an issue of Tiger/Leopard filter incompatibility or do i have to do something else to make them work back please ?

any help is appreciated

best wishes for the new month

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Vassilis Triantafyllidis
www.LemnosExplorer.com

Do you have enough handles to create the transition overlap?

[www.fcpbook.com]

All the best,

Tom

Tom,

what do you mean by handles please ?

This is how my timeline looks like. (scshot.jpg)

Screenshot of timeline

video is about 60mins and each clip long enough.

My FCP timecode is 01:00:00;00 dropframe



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Vassilis Triantafyllidis
www.LemnosExplorer.com

Did you look at the link I posted? Did you read it? What did you not understand? What was not clear? The screenshot doesn't tell us anything. Double click the edit point and open the trim edit window. Give us a screenshot of that.

All the best,

Tom

vt81400 Wrote:
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> I uninstalled with cleanup app.

Which application?

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools - Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools - Edit QuickTime chapters and metadata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools...

tom thanks for the reply.

i did not check the link, i thought it was an personal page link. sorry. i am going to read it now.

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Vassilis Triantafyllidis
www.LemnosExplorer.com

i uninstalled FCP and cinema tools and reinstalled them.

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Vassilis Triantafyllidis
www.LemnosExplorer.com

vt81400 Wrote:
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> i uninstalled FCP and cinema tools and reinstalled
> them.

How?

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools - Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools - Edit QuickTime chapters and metadata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools...

Jon: I quit all apps, run CleanApp program that i guess deletes the files and relevant prefs extensions etc, automatically from HDD.

After that i restarted, and installed FCP and cinematools from the DVD bundle disks. I have FCP studio bundle.

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Vassilis Triantafyllidis
www.LemnosExplorer.com

Tom Wolsky Wrote:
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> Do you have enough handles to create the
> transition overlap?
>
> [www.fcpbook.com]


Tom thanks for the link, very useful and solved my problem.

Indeed did not have enough handles. I followed the instructions on webpage and worked ok.

I also tried splitting with Blade tool -12 and + 12 from the Outgoing clip in timeline then deleted the segment @ the beginning of incoming clip, and thhis also allowed me to place a transition (i added 4sec) and worked also. But not sure if this is the right way compared with ripple tool procedure.

this is the trim edit window screenshot TRIM pic

regards,

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Vassilis Triantafyllidis
www.LemnosExplorer.com

The sprocket hole overlays between the two clips in the trim edit window indicate there are no handles available for the overlap.

All the best,

Tom