Selective Cross Dissolves / Dip to Black / Fade In & Fade Outs

Hi, would anyone also know the reason why sometimes the fade ins and fade outs don't want to apply to some tracks? My solution has been to just keep adding multiple tracks so that it could apply. What's the explanation for this?
Many thanks.

Indeed!
Welcome to the forum. We can't tell you why, but this seems to be one of the biggest hurdles for new FCP users. Especially if they came from iMovie. iMovie will nibble away at your media as needed for a transition. FCP won't. If you put an IN somewhere and want a 30 frame transition you better have 15 frames of material BEFORE that inpoint. Same for OUTs where you'll need 15 frames AFTER the out point.
Good luck, when you get past this it's smooth sailing!!
CaptM

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Thanks in advance. - renized

Thanks Shooternz & Steven.
Here are the details.
Footage is 4K RED (4096 x 2048) @ 24 fps, Audio 48000 Hz, 24 bit.
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Audio Display: Audio Samples
Sequence Settings: RED R3D 4K 16x9 24 preset.
Video Settings:
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Frame Rate: 24 fps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square pixels (1.0)
Fields: no fields
Audio Settings:
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Export Settings:
Format: MPEG2-DVD
Preset: NTSC Progressive Widescreen High Quality
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Codec: MainConcept MPEG Video
QualityL 5
TV Standard: Automatic based on source
Frame rate: Automatic based on source
Field:order: Automatic based on source
Pixel Aspect ration: Automatic based on source
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Target BTR: 7.5
Max BTR: 8
M Frames: 3
N Frames: 12
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Frequency: 48khz
Birtate: 448 kbps
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Hello. I am having trouble applying Cross Dissolve and Dip to Color to the transition between to separate clips. It works fine when I am transitioning between two clips originating from the same raw captured file (e.g. between two pieces I cut out of Raw 1), but I am unable to apply the transition to two clips from separate raw files (e.g. between a piece of Raw 1 and a piece of Raw 2).
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Enough handles?
#1 Transitions "Insufficient Content"
Shane's Stock Answer #1:
You need to make sure that your clips have enough media (called 'handles') at the beginning of the incoming clip and at the end of the outgoing clip for the transition. For example, if you have a 1 second (30 frame) dissolve, your in and out point need to be at least 15 frames from the edge of the clip.
What you are running into is that you are marking an out point at the end of a clip then adding a cross dissolve, say 20 frames in duration. Since the dissolve is centered on the cut, it will start 10 frames before the cut, and try to go 10 frames AFTER the cut...which it can't do.
What you need to do is plan how long your dissolve will be and back-time your cut so that it works.
a full 1 second crossfade reaches 15 frames into each clip. So, if you want to change a cut to a crossfade, there has to be at least 15 additional frames of each clip.
Say you're trying to crossfade from one clip into the very first frame of a second clip. FCP cannot 'create' 15 more frames of the second clip to do a crossfade. If they're not there, you're out of luck.
FCP has to extend the end of your first clip by 1/2 of your transition length, and the beginning of your second clip by 1/2 of your transition length, so those frames need to be in your system. The nature of a crossfade is mixing two clips together.
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Final Cut Pro 10.1.3, My Cross Dissolve icon is black, I have tried many option but I cannot get it to function. Do I need another plug in for it to work? Help please.

Hi,
I am trying to do a very basic cross dissolve in final cut pro 10.1.3. One thing I have noticed is that al a lot of my icons in the transitions sections are black. Is this normal? I can' t find much on this. When I drag the transition onto the clip a message comes up saying, 'There is not enough extra media beyond clip egdes', It asks do I want to over lap to create the transition. I say 'Create Transition', but it doesn't. Any thoughts appreciated.

Curiously, this picture I can see :-)
The dialog is quite normal. It just means what it says, namely, there is not enough extra media at the edges of the clips (so called "handles") to be used for the transition, so FCP X needs to shorten some of those clips to create the handles - thus the total length of your timeline will decrease.
But the fact that the transition appears as black in the browser, and that it is not applied, show that there is definitely something wrong.
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I have a problem with the "VIdeo Transitions/Dissolve/Dip to Black". That is, the sequence after rendering played on Premiere CS3 looks fine, but once built with Encore into a folder, and viewed on the computer and on a TV, the transitions are not smooth, they look "noisy", or rather the passage to or from the black is "blochy" not smooth.
Your input as to how I can remedy this problem will be greatly appreciated.

OK everybody,
I have toiled with this problem, bult on disk, on image then on disk via ImgBurn, according to the advise I was given, could not get rid of this problem. Then I went back to Premiere, I created a black slide and used cross-dissolve just in case....I searched the Premiere forum as well the Encore forum, could not locate any similar problems.....I tried different methods, but whenever a "black" is involved I do not get smooth transitions. Can somebody give me a clue please All my clips are DV avi captured in Premiere, all the slides are made via Photoshop NTSC-preset.
I have a problem with the dip to black transition on my computer and on the DVD, although the movie created with Premiere CS3 plays fine on my computer.
The slides are fine, they don`t flicker, cross-dissolve is very smooth, it is only the dip to black in any shape or form that is not smooth. Maybe the word "flicker" is inappropriate, pardon my English, I don`t know how else to say it. It is just that the transition to and from black is not smooth, all else is perfect.
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Hello all ...
I'm try to create a simple cross-dissolve between a black-and-white photo (imported into FCE as an RGB Photoshop file) and a color (1440x1080) video clip. My problem is that FCE will only insert the dissolve on the right (video) side of the edit, the result being that the photo abruptly goes to black, followed by a gradual fading-in of the video. This is not the effect I want – I'm hoping to create a smoother transition between the two. I suspect that I haven't saved the still photo in the correct format, but I can't seem to find any help in my various FCE books.
So: How do I apply the transition to both sides of the edit? Is it even possible?
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Alec

Tom, I figured it out. The audio for the video clip was overlapping the edit (i.e. it extended to the left, so that the video clip's audio ran under the still pic). When I got rid of the (easily replaced) audio, the regular cross-dissolve worked.
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Background disappears after adding a cross dissolve to a keyed clip.

I have a clip that has a Keying filter (as well as being cropped and scaled down) on it over a white background. After adding a Cross Dissolve to the keyed clip, the white background disappears for the duration of the Cross Dissolve, leaving a black background behind the keyed clip. This black background is present both in preview and after rendering.
Any advice?

not positive this will help, but try this:
remove the transition
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return to your storyline / sequence
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Cross Dissolve fades to black...I want it to be white.

Can anyone help me on this? I'm using Final Cut Express 3.5.1. I have my cross dissolve where I want it, but it fades to black, and I want it to fade to white. I have made the background white, but it still fades to black.
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Hi(Bonjour)!
If I understand correctly, you want a fade to white after the outgoing clip.
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The keyboard shortcut is Shift-F9.
Michel Boissonneault

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FCP User Manual, page 798.
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How do I get rid of the purple vertical bar that appears at the end when I use a default transition (cross dissolve) or dip to black?

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How does one create a video cross dissolve without an audio cross fade in FCP-X??

Greetings:
This is a no brainer in 'legacy' Final Cut, but I am completely stumped in FCP-X. Situation is thus:
Main story line consists of a speaker. I would like to drop stills onto/into the storyline while the speaker continues uninterrupted. I've tried connecting to the storyline, overwriting to the storyline, creating a secondary storyline, creating transitions with available media, with full overlap -- all for naught. The outgoing bits of the cross dissolve have a weird audio hiccup that I cannot get rid of. I simply want to fade a still in and fade it out (I appreciate I could keyframe opacity with a still connected to the main storyline, but that seems slightly nuts -- this should be a keystroke). I am assuming I'm missing something -- possibly something really simple, so, apologies for being a dolt, but I could really use a hand here.
Many thanks
longstrider

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I inserted three graphics clips with transitions (cross dissolve default) at the beginning of a sequence. The transitions only seem to work as fade-ins I have plenty of extra frames beyond the edit section of the clips. I tried to adjust the transitions in the transition editor - it shows the transition aligned to start at the edit, but won't allow mw to choose to center it on the edit or end on the edit.
Thanks for any help you can provide

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Cross Dissolve Transition applied two clips briefly turns black can it be white or not go to black? Thxs.

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