FCP 7 corrupt cross dissolve

I am using FCP 7 and I am now suddenly having problems with the cross dissolve. When I insert a cross dissolve into the timeline the second image sometimes jumps when the video is played. Then when I exported the video and played it at every dissolve the video looked corrupt and sometimes froze. (The audio was unaffected). I tried restarting FCP and the computer but that did not help. Any help with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

As Meg wrote above...
If you are working with H.264 or mpeg source material, you need to convert it to ProRes prior to editing in FCP7.
That is the source of your problems.
While it might appear to work, sooner or later H.264 and other highly compressed MPEG formats will bite you in the backside.
There are thousands of posts on here that go into more detail on the subject.

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I know everybody has this problem, and I've read about handles countless times.
I fully understand the concept of handles, I just have no idea how to apply that
knowledge in FCP. I am not getting any type of error message at all, it simply
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Explanations will not help. What I need is a step by step list of what to do.
(click here on this menu, type that, etc.)

Hi -
Qbert wrote:
I have to apply a transition before I can adjust its duration right? I can't apply a transition at all...
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Type "- 30"
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Curiously, this picture I can see :-)
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1237141&tstart=0
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This is not a solution but might help you get some work done.
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