FCP transition glitch

FCP transition glitch when exporting to Quicktime. When played in Quicktime the transition skips back a frame.
Dual 2.7 Ghz Power PC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

did you cut a small section out of a single clip and then transition from one side back to the other? If so, your transition is grabbing onto handles from the previous side of the clip. Ifyou trim off some of the second clip it could solve the issue.

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Transitions glitches on export with GPU activated

First of all, I'm fairly new to PP as I just switched from the FCP suite in the recent wind of change.
In PP CS5.5.1 I experience glitches on some of my film dissolves when I export with the Mercury Playback Engine GPU activated.
The source footage is AVHCD 1080 in a 720p timeline as I need the reframing possibilties and I export to H.264 720p.
If I export the same sequence many times, the glitches does not happen systematically on the same transitions all the time. If I turn the GPU acceleration off, it seems to resolve the issue but if it is an accepted practice in the PP community or if I encounter a bug due to my setup.
Any of you guys experienced this or know if there is a fix for that? I searched the forums but could not find an answer apart from "turning MPE off should resolve the issue".
Here's my set up:
PP 5.5.1 on OSX 10.7
GTX460
i7 2600
16GB RAM

I do have a hacked GPU and it could be a factor but I don't think so since everything is performing flawlessly and enjoying the GPU Boost! I read on the forum that there's some incompatibility between GPU accelerated MPE and the new 32 bits linear color processing: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3939400#3939400 but it involves more cross-fades transparency to 0.
So I'm still wondering if anybody else is experiencing these type of glitches...?!

Motion Transition Glitch - DVDSP 3

I'm relatively new to DVDSP, but I've successfully used the Menu Transition feature on a number of occations. I find it much easier and much faster than building my own transitions, especially when dealing with large numbers of menus. This is the first time that I've run into trouble.
I recently authored a project with 7 menus. 6 of the menus were "motion" menus comprised of a .pct bacground file and a .pct overlay file with an .AC3 audio track. These 6 menus were set to loop after the audio track finished playing. The 7th menu was a true motion menu with an .m2v background and a .pct overlay and again with an .AC3 audio track. This menu was set to pause on a still at the end of it's run.
I built and formated the project without incident and it played back correctly on all test systems (MAC, PC, Set-top). After reviewing the check disk the client requested that menu trasitions be added. I added the transitions and built and formated the project (after checking the disk in the simulator) reusing the original build folder. Upon review of the disk, I was shocked and confused when I discovered that rather than the motion dissolve transition that I expected to see inbetween menus, I was instead seeing seemingly random sections of my 7th motion video menu. I attempted to delete the build folder and and rebuild the disk from scratch, but to no avail. Same problem.
I was successful in solving the problem by doing three things (I'm not sure which was responsible for fixing the glitch) by saving the project under a different name (and building it in a different build folder), by removing and reapplying all of the transitions, and by removing and replacing (with the same files) the .m2v and .AC3 files from my motion menu.
Now that I've solved my own problem (during the course of writing this post), I guess that my question has become: Has anyone else encountered this particular glitch and is there a way for me to avoid it in the future?

I've tried to follow the steps in the Building an Alpha Transition, but it says that you need 2-3 different files, but no mention on exactly how to make those.
I exported from motion and have a file named Trans1-Animation NTSC Alpha.mov but I think I still need to create other files. All the tutorials that I can find show how to do this in After Effects but none explain how to create the need files from motion.
Is there a tutorial that explains the process in motion?
Powermac G5, Final Cut Studio Mac OS X (10.4.6)

FCP transition effects

I just purchased FCP and I am a little dissapointed by the effects that are built in to the video transitions. I was just wandering if I can purchase plug ins that have a variety of effects that I don't need to create each and every time. Thanks
Victor Sieff
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Victor,
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When you click on Solved, that will also mark the thread as Answered.
This will help us all.
Thank you.

FCP 7 glitch?

I upgraded from FCP 5 to 7, and I am having a strange problem.
I have my edit just right, but when I export it into a single .mov
file there are sections where some of the audio just disappears.
The audio track just flatlines into silence. The voice over is
completely gone for 2 minutes or more, even though the background
music is still audible. When I go back to the original FCP project
sequence, the audio plays correctly with no problem. And when I
export the project again, some of the lost voice over comes through,
while the rest remains utterly silent.
There's not really anything I can do between starting the export process
and looking at the result.
Also I have a clip with a ghost voice. I play the file 2 times and it sounds fine,
then on the third time I hear a word that doesn't belong, then it plays fine again,
but the ghost voice is always there in the export.
Any ideas? I'm going to try exporting via FCP 5 and see if I can avoid this
problem, although I don't yet know if my FCP 7 project will be compatible with
FCP 5.

not to be petulant, but i'm going to disagree with David here on this one and say this is a glitch that has been around since version 6, and it's one i encounter from time to time. it usually has to do with final cut just writing some bad render files or something. if you take a look at your audio render bar at the top of the timeline, you'll usually see a blank spot where it should show a blue/grey rendered bar. i'm not sure what the technical root is exactly, but i know that there are three things that usually fix it for me.
1) reconnect the media. even if it's already online, reconnect it, which i guess forces final cut to reconsider the waveforms in that section.
2) if that doesn't work, try matchframing to the clip that spans the audio dropout, delete the clip that's in there and then rewrite it into the sequence.
3) i've also made a new sequence with the same settings as the old one and copied the whole edit into it and that's worked. if you don't have a lot of rendering to do, that's a pretty consistent fix.
and yeah. it happens to me probably once every couple months, and it's never been an issue with anything but final cut being a jerk for a few minutes. (note reconnecting already online media also tends to solve that issue where final cut decides to render audio incorrectly by rearranging the sounds in a clip for no reason)

Audio Transition Glitches - A Different Approach

I have noticed a lot of users are having problems with the audio noise that sometimes arises when you insert transitions. The Apple workaround is to extract the necessary audio and then uncheck the video sound box in the video/audio timeline viewer as this is where the static is caused.
However, this tends to be annoying if you want to either edit or perhaps add further transitions that cut through video where you have already extracted the audio.
Another option is a workaround that I have used constantly in iMovie 3.03. That is to add a title transition (with nothing in it) that floats over the transition where the sound glitch occurs!
For example
1. In iMovie HD 5.02, cut the clip before the sound glitch using command-T.
2. Add a title effect - I tend to use a subtitle as it is usually what I'm working with, but other effects (like centred) work just as well. CLEAR the contents of the title boxes. Make it long enough to cover the audio problems and apply...
3. You will either get a magnificant solution to your problem (which is especially good as it is an undoable feature by pressing backspace after the clip is highlighted) OR you will get one more sound glitch at the end of the title effect. BUT IF YOU REPEAT THIS PROCESS by adding (and you might as well make the effect as long as possible) title effects throughout the whole project, the amazing thing is that when these effects run together - You get no noise!!!!
Ok, you might get noise if you were unfortunate enough to finish the title effect right on a transition and in this case you obviously need to ensure that you don't do this by varying the length of the transition.
IN SHORT....
1. Ignore the problem until you have finished your project.
2. (Worst case) Add long blank title effects starting at the beginning and continue adding them until you reach the end.
An added advantage is that this beats the endless audio extraction that some of you will otherwise have to do to "fix" this annoying problem.
Anyway I hope this works as well for you as it has done so for me.

I haven't tried this "stitching" (..I extract audio anyway at transitions, so that I can mix more audio into those transitions..), but Lennart has often suggested using 'blank' titles as a means to join clips together when anyone asked if there was a way to merge two clips into one.
Good detective work!
[..Audio 'spikes' are also removable using Sound Studio or other audio editing software..]

------Transition glitch - shows blink cuts of other frames.........

Hey guys,
I'm almost done wrapping up a marathon of a video series I'm putting together and just started applying
transitions = one of the last elements in my editing...
I've been looking everywhere for solution to the issue I'm about to describe but haven't found anything...
The issue/glitch is after I apply a transition - such as a cross dissolve......the cross dissolve doesn't
just go from one cut to the next...it includes a "blink" split-second glimpse of a seemingly random other frame
somewhere else in the video ---- one or two or three cuts back or forward (frames that have nothing to do
with the transition b/ one cut to the next in which the transition was applied)...
It does this for every transition that I apply...
Here's what it looks like --- the first pic is the frame I'm transition from......the second pic
is the weird glitch I'm talking about.......and the third pic is the next frame I'm transitioning to...
So number #1 and #3 pic's should be there...but not #2...
What the hell is this and do you have a solution - I need to get this fricken series done and I've
had enough of these little glitches/problems you have to deal with.......can I get an AMEN??!!
Thanks!

Ok...thanks for you help guys...I think I've found the method to it's madness...and the way I interpret your input so far...it's not what you're talking about - therefore I don't have a solution...but could be wrong so let me know...
My video consists of both Live Video and ScreenCasts -- as mentioned before...
The glitch isn't occuring with the Live Video transitions...
My ScreenCasts consist of PowerPoint ScreenCasts and Website ScreenCasts...this is where the glitch is occuring and the method to it's madness seems to be that the "blip/blink" frames that are showing up (pictured above) consist of a previous ScreenCast...so for example...
I have a ScreenCast video of "ABC" site...then the next cut or video is a PowerPoint ScreenCast...then the next cut or video is another ScreenCast of "DEF" site... =========== so I have one PowerPoint ScreenCast in between two Website ScreenCasts...
The "blip/blink" frames that are popping up between the two scenes consist of "ABC" site ScreenCast...
Does this make sense?
Any suggestions as to how to fix...?
Thanks so much

Audio transition glitch CS6

I've encountered a weird glitch (examples) that happens when I use the constant power, constant gain, or exponential fade transitions between audio files on the same track. This glitch only happens on render, when I playback in the editor it sounds just fine, no issues. However when rendering (H.264/AAC mp4 container) I get that audio issue, I've tried different audio options (bitrate AAC version) and nothing helps. From what I can tell it mostly affects wav files though I've noticed it with other file types as well. I've tried emptying my media cache to force PPro to rebuild, but that doesn't change anything. One thing that's interesting is that once the glitch happens it stays in the same spot and doesn't change if I re-render. Also there's no audio spikes that are interfering with the transition(which would create a similar sounding issue), this is a PPro glitch. The best work around is to drop the trouble spot to the track below and fade there. This eliminates the bug. This is quite annoying and seemingly random. I've only encountered this issue recently, within the last 2-3 months and I've been using the CS6 version of PPro (though not this install) for two years. Any thoughts?
When I first had the issue I Googled around and I think I found someone with the same issue who's using CC, but they didn't include an example so I'm not sure. From my colleagues that I've spoke with no one knows for sure what the issue is.
PremierePro is up to date (version).
System specs
Also, if I posted in the wrong place or missed something when searching please let me know. Thanks.

This problem still regularly plagues my workflow. I know that Adobe doesn't want to spend the money to actually bug fix these problems on "old" versions of their software, but does anyone have a work around that's more efficient than the one I describe in the original post?
I've got more examples from a recent project a client sent me to edit. It still seems to be random some of the fades in this project is affected and others are not.

Imovie 09 transitions glitch with (.MOV) files

Hi Guys,
Anyone help please - *imac just about to go out the window and wife very fed up of foul language!*
I have been successfully creating movies in imovie HD for a number of years and have recently updated to imovie 09. At the same time I have purchased a new Kodak Zi6 mini camcorder (fantastic HD quality clips for a tiny palm held camera, for those interested). Films in HD 720p 60fps, HD 33fps and VGA. Thought this would be ideal with imovie as films in .MOV mode and clip imported in look glorious. All goes well with all the wonderful new features in imovie 09 (new title styles are particularly good) until I try and add transitions between frames. Some work sometimes, some don't work at all. The 'Cross Dissolve' (which I love) will usually freeze the following clip in the view window although the red time line continues in the Project Library. What is even more frustrating is the same transition works between some clips and not others there really doesn't seem to be any logic at all. Thought it might be a problem with the HD60 mode having too many fps but have also tried in HD30 and VGA - to no avail. I have a new 3.06 GHz imac with 4GB of RAM so I'm sure its not a power problem. I've done all the usual reboots and opened New Projects and have even tried the clips in imovie HD with all the same issues.
Will I have to except that I've wasted my money on this camera or can anyone help - I would be very pleased if you can.
Cheers - Paul

Hi JBK
*Huge thanks for this* - the link proved very useful. I tried the MPEG STREAMCLIP option and like yourself exported to QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codex @ 100% quality (you can also export in DV mode with much the same results) - it worked fine but file sizes trebled and quality reduced (you can also. As you say its also a pain to have to go though another process. To be able to do it inside imove is a much better option (thanks to tjworld for that, who would have thought of doing that!!!) Surely this will be something Apple have to sort out in the next upgrade. So pleased that I can continue using the Zi6 as it's a really smart little camera - even though mine is pink one (the camera that is!) This is the first time I've used a discussion stream so thanks again all for the help
Paul

Transitions double 1st frame/drop last frame: a solution

I have found that Transitions in iMovie 5 are problematic. The first frame in a Transition doubles and the last frame drops out. This is not noticeable in a slideshow but can be very noticeable in an exported video.
Transitions cannot be edited frame by frame unless one exports video out to a camera and then imports it back into iMovie. The original clips and transitions are now seamless clips. One can delete extra frames and then find and import the missing frames from original sources. HOWEVER, this process is incredibly frustrating and time consuming.
THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET INTERESTING.
To avoid the above, I thought I would add textless Titles over a few key clips and transitions where the glitching is most obvious. I had noticed that Titles longer than the clip they were inserted into, merge together the clip with its transition and following clip.
i.e.,
1. DEselect 'Over black' in the titles window.
2. Select a title format and then a length longer than the 'glitched' transition.
3. Split the clip so that the Title can be inserted.
4. Insert a TEXTLESS Title that spands the clip, transition and into the next clip.
5. Then edit out duplicate frames and insert missing frames from the the now 'single' clip.
STILL just a piecemeal. STILL labour intensive.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS MORE INTERESTING.
I tested this on a couple of clips and, LO AND BEHOLD, 'Title-merging' a clip with its transition and following clip results in the duplicated first frame of the transition DISAPPEARING and the previously dropped frame of the transition, REAPPEARING. A fix.
One could blanket a video with long textless Titles (i.e., 45 seconds at a time with Rolling Credits) to fix the transition glitches.
I know that this is not a great solution, but it does allow me to export video with the quality I need.
Is there a better solution? (I find it ironic that years later, iMovie 2.1.2 is still, for me, the most successful of all the iMovie applications.)

the duplicated and dropped frames move to the beginning and end of the added short (4 seconds, for example) texless title. Using a longer title (10 seconds, for example) fixed also this.
if I understand your original reply correctly, it is important that the blanket transition ends in the middle of a clip and not a transition.
In my tests I used a blanket title (did you invent this descriptive word?!) that spans some of the previous clip (I split it 1-2 seconds before the transition so I could add the blanket title), the transition and some (1-2 seconds) of the next clip.
If it ends in a transition, the transition plays and then the ORIGINAL clip plays, duplicating the first part of the clip.
I didn't quite follow. I just tried this with a 30 frame transition. Then I added a 1:15 blanket title 1:00 before the transition (so the blanket title ended in the middle of the transition). Result: The first frame of the blanket titles was duplicated and the last frame of the blanket title was dropped. Otherwise it played as expected.
shift select the clips to establish a total length of the video clips and them add a title that ends just inside the last clip.
Yes, I did just that to measure how long a title was needed. In my tests it seemed that it was important that the blanket title wasn't very short (<4 seconds) because then the problem frames were just moved to affect the title. Using a longer blanket title (10 seconds) seemed to fix the problem for both the transition AND the blanket title.
<div class="jive-quote">With a textless title blanketing an entire video, my COMPRESSION TIME to Quicktime is incredibly shortened (1/3 to 1/2 the time).
That's interesting. I've noticed that simple projects (i.e. not much cuts) export faster than real time to Full Quality .dv. But complex projects take MUCH longer to export as .dv. AFAIR this didn't matter in iMovie 1-4. Maybe the blanket title simplifies the relevant parts of the project?
[sigh] I wish we didn't need to be aware of the plethora of obscure gotchas and workarounds like this. I don't expect there to be an iMovie HD 5 update anymore. I guess some bugs will be fixed and some brand new bugs will be introduced in v6.
The same thing happened with iMovie 4 bugs. ...So this time I thought to quickly gather AND report all iMovie 5 bugs to Apple so they could quickly fix them during the first months. ...but it seems that the iLife team just isn't granted enough resources to fix them. Many known old bugs are again just described in the knowledgebase articles.

How do I make a circle like transition in Motion?

I am very new to motion and I need some help. How do I create a transition similar to the circle transition in FCPX, but instead of a circle I want to use a shape I created in photoshop? In other words Transition A will be replaced by transition B with my object sweeping in. Sorry if my question is very elementary.
thanks,
Brian
SDG

You can absolutely use an image you create in Photoshop. Here's how I would do it.
-Create a new FCP Transition in Motion.
-Set the A/B image to the full length of the project.
-Import the graphic you want to use (Circle, Star, Heart, Pokémon, etc.)
-Animate the shape to fill the screen (scale parameter with keyframes, grow shrink behavior).
-Apply an image mask to the Transition A layer (command -shift-M).
-Add the shape to the image mask.
-In the image mask, I'd publish the Invert option. This way you can flip which is inside or outside. When you are in FCPX you can just click the checkbox in the inspector to get what you want.
This is just a starting point, but you can get much more fancy with publishing and rigging when you get more comfortable with Motion. Good luck.

Are the fcp lpugins compatible with fce?

I am running the original FCE 1.0 Can't exactly afford to keep upgrading. (didn't use it when I got my new computer, now I am starting to)
if i download these free filters and transitions, are they compatible with both FCP and FCE and what versions.
I don't see anything on the sites saying anything about compatability.
Thanks alot,
Jason

Normally FCE and FCP transitions and filters are interchangeable as the two programs are virtually identical.
If you click on the hotlink below you will get access to over a hundred FREE Filters etc. :-
Ian R. Brown, "FREE TRANSITIONS AND EFFECTS FOR FCE/FCP", 08:49am Sep 13, 2005 CDT
Good luck in your quest.
Ian.

Transition Issues/Problems on Exported File with FCP7

Basically the video looks fine when played back in FCP, but gets messed up when output into Quicktime or any other video player. In most programs it appears as a gamma shift during the FCP transitions and before/after any FCP generated text on the output file, again, it is fine in FCP when played back.
I'm using Snow Leopard and FCS 7. All of my footage is 24p 1080 ProRes (standard) with 16bit 48k audio. My timelline matches this. I used 5DtoRGB for transcoding. I 100% made sure to render everything (and made sure all of the render options were checked) before exporting. My settings are all default and have not been changed by me since the program was working fine. I am using some FCP notch filters on the audio, but no video filters (other than the transitions), no 3rd party filters/plugins are being used. I'm not utilizing XML files from any other FCS programs. I'm watching all of this, including playback in FCP and QT, on an Apple Cinema Display. My work files are on a G mini fw800 7200rpm drive.
Here's my typical workflow: export without self-containing file, open in Quicktime 7 and export to MP4 or Quicktime File (pros I know use this same process, it normally yields great results). When looking at the initial non self-contained file, there are very slight gamma shifts at the transition/text spots described above. After converting in Quicktime, the gamma shifts are much more apparent. I tried using compressor to export and not surprisingly had the same exact large gamma shifts on transitions/text as I did with QT7. Out of curiousity, I open the non self-contained file in Quicktime X and it actually "zooms in" during the same spots where there's a gamma shift, crazy.
Anyone want to take a swing at this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll start by saying that I've tried extensively troubleshooting the problem and reading up on the web with no solution. I just can't find anyone else that's reporting anything similar to this. Even tried a full reinstall after wiping all FCP-related files from my computer; I did this when upgrading my OS and it fixed it temporary...I had the same problem come up a couple of months ago, but I upgraded my software and OS to 10.6.7 and it went away completely for that period. This is driving me insane and costing me a lot of cash and time, plus I have six projects on deck that need to be done next week, this is the worst time this could have happened. First serious bug/problem I've encountered on an Apple program in 10 years of using their products.
Thanks.
-Dave

Great to see a reply, thanks.
In the Advanced section under the General Tab in the Sequence Settings, compressors settings are as follows:
Gamma Correction: Automatic (should this be turned off by chance?)
Interlaced (not selected)
Enable Chroma Filtering (not selected)
Video Processing Settings for Sequence:
Render 10-bit material in high-precision YUV
Process Max White as: White
Motion Filtering Quality: Normal
Render Controls for Sequence:
Filters and Frame Blending for Speed (both selected)
Frame Rate: 100%
Resolution: 100%
Codec: Same as Sequence Codec
Master Templates and Motion Projects (Quality=Normal, Best Quality is not selected)

Is there a way to make a custom transition

Okay so Is there a way I can make my own custom transition for final cut pro and once it's made use it as if it's a normal transition. Like I know you can create templetes in motion for final cut but I want to make a transition instead. I was thinking it would just be something like you set the drop zones to be what ever clip is before and after wherever you are placing it but I can't seem to figure out how to do that. Thanks in advance.

come on Bogie, don't you remember those cheesy video toaster transitions with silhouttes of women doing gymnastics across the screen as a transition. They were very popular in public access here in NY.
to the OP, do a search for alpha transitions in the fcp manual. I think that's probably what you're looking for. You can also customize many of the attributes of the existing fcp transitions and save them for reuse by simply dragging the transition to the browser effects tab.

Photo Montages + Transitions

Hi All,
2 Questions:
Anyone know of a great plugin or stand alone app for the easy creation of a nice looking photo montage? I've heard of ImageFlow and it looks good... any others out there?
How about anyone selling FCP transitions that are 3D animations? I mean, I'm talking about somewhat cheesy cartoon transitions here. All I can seem to fine are nice blur/wipe/zoom/dissolves...
For example, a soccer ball wipe, leaves falling, snow falling, etc... the more cartoonish the better.
Let me know if you can lead me in the right direction,
Thanks.
~ Jim

FotoMagico from boinx sofware.
http://boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
In Final Cut Pro, there is SupaWipes from Noise Factories, or various alpha transitions from DigitalJuice.

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