Title/Clip Duration Issues

Not sure if I'm just losing my mind or if others are seeing this as well.
Trying to create a Title Based Intro to a video using the Four Corner's template. After dropping in about 10-15 clips and modifying the text, I started going back and modifying the duration of each clip. I found that if I set the time to anything than a full second, a wide range of issues start happening. Consistently, I am unable to cleanly add new clips and modify other existing clips. When I try closing and reopening the project, none of my changes are saved.
Essentially the true solution is to delete and recreate a new project. I can't say for certain, but I believe this started happening after I applied the latest patch.
In any case, it has been a frustrating experience and I'm curious if anyone else has seen this and can set clips to half second increments.
Thanks.

Hi,
Two of those pic seem to be from Safari and you have not mentioned that or categorised this thread with that info.
The last pic seems to be OK.
From that my thought are that it is Safari only.
I tend to use Firefox myself and would not deem myself knowledgeable enough to suggest an answer on Safari.
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I didn't encountered this problem before in iMovie '10 and I've searched over at Google and found out that many iMovie '11 users have the same dilemma.
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A number of people have experienced the same problem and written about it on discussions. Lots of difference solutions as well. If you search using the title quoted above, you can read the solution I found. It's more complicated than it should be. I've never had to fiddle as much with duration times for transitions and still photos. Nevertheless, the steps I have described work for me. You will also find the steps another reader offered that may work for you if all of your transitions are set for the same durations and all of the still photos are as well.

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Hi.
Thats what happen if I try to render a project with title clips or images inserted, whatever is the output that I choose. If I hide title clips and images, the project renders
I get a popup that says
Rendering of /home/pathtooutputfile aborted, resulting video will probably be corrupted
And what I see in the error log is a little different with the output I chose:
If I choose mp4 I get
[libmp3lame @ 0xb0510e20]
Channel layout not specified
[mp4 @ 0xb050ae40]
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If mpeg2
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[ac3_fixed @ 0xb0510e60]
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I'm going crazy (a month ago everything worked fine).
Any suggestions?
I search and found this http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/rendering … lip?page=2 but no way (and I don't know if it is my issue)
(my english is not so good... sorry)
Thanksssssss

Have you upgraded the system?
I had this same problem until yesterday, only kdenlive did not render at all, with or without title clip. Googling about it, I think it was some kind of conflict with mlt and opencv. Opening kdenlive as root did not work for me. I initially downgraded to the previous version of mlt (0.9.0.1 if I remember cforrectly); with that I could render, but only without title clips present. Solution came with last update of opencv (and re-upgrade of mlt).
Also, while I was looking up this problem, I read about a similar bug being related to the sound, and installed ladspa (just in case all the previous doesn't completely solve your problem).
Last edited by Daerun (2013-07-14 13:52:30)

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Sorry for the lame subject title, but I'm not sure I know how to be more descriptive, or search for previously posted info about this.
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But in your method Alex, the transitions are adding frames at the beginnings of clips which means the new clip will dissolve completely in before moving. I'm sure that's not what the OP is looking for.
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What if you put a photo down for a set duration, and
then put the same photo down back to back with the
first one, and use the second one to make the
transition with? Then of course, use a "transition"
photo for the next clip, and then back to back with
it, with a secondary clip of the same photo to last
the desired duration before you go on to the next
clip, with a third but same photo dedicated to make
the transition with? And so on...
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Although I can't find anything about combining picture and sound in the iMovie Tutorial, I did find something about shortening clips:
Keeping Only the Parts You Want
Edit clips in the timeline view
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2. Select a clip from the iMovie timeline.
3. Move your pointer to near the end of the clip and notice the pointer change to two arrows. This means you can trim your clip.
4. Drag your pointer toward the center of the clip and notice that the duration of your clip shortens as you move further to the left. You can see the new ending point in the clip viewer.
5. Stop dragging when you find exactly the frame you want to end your clip. Notice the right edge of your clip now displays a straight edge rather than rounded corners indicating an edit has been made.
6. If you change your mind and want to restore the clip to a longer duration, simply drag the edge to the right.
7. Repeat this process with the other end of the clip.
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What I don't know is how to make it understand to put the three clips (these two shortened ones and the third I want to follow it) into ONE sound sequence, and then make it understand to run THAT sequence with the closing titles! How do I get each sound clip together with each other, then make it run together with each title clip I want? This has me at a loss. It would REALLY help if I could do this like TODAY! I will be DEEPLY GREATFUL to whoever can offer a CLUE!

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After doing a system upgrade kdelive will no longer render my project, which rendered fine before the upgrade. After I click render, it either gets stuck in "waiting" or it gives an error saying that rendering crashed. If I turn off the title clip, rendering proceeds as normal. Looking around I saw some people with similar problems fixing it by running kdenlive as root, but in my case that didn't solve anything. Anyone have any ideas?
The kdenlive profile I'm using is HD 1080p 59.94fps and I'm trying to render an H.264 video (although trying other formats encounters the same problem).
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[root@labby ~]# pacman -Qs kdenlive
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[root@labby ~]#
[root@labby ~]# pacman -Qs ffmpeg
local/ffmpeg 1:2.1.1-1
Complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution
local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
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Have you upgraded the system?
I had this same problem until yesterday, only kdenlive did not render at all, with or without title clip. Googling about it, I think it was some kind of conflict with mlt and opencv. Opening kdenlive as root did not work for me. I initially downgraded to the previous version of mlt (0.9.0.1 if I remember cforrectly); with that I could render, but only without title clips present. Solution came with last update of opencv (and re-upgrade of mlt).
Also, while I was looking up this problem, I read about a similar bug being related to the sound, and installed ladspa (just in case all the previous doesn't completely solve your problem).
Last edited by Daerun (2013-07-14 13:52:30)

Why is FCPX freezing repeatedly while moving title clips?

Hello to all.
I am facing an exasperating situation. I am at the tag end of a project and I find that FCPX is freezing whenever I try to relocate a title. Have been forcrd to repeatedly force quit! Have trashed the preferences repeatedly, have restarted and even shut down the computer, have deleted thumbnail data, but, FCPX refuses to work.
Have read other posts in which one gentleman facing a similar problem was able to shift his titles with the inspector window closed. In my case, his method of surmounting the problem has not worked.
Right now I am minded to do this:
open FCPX once again, delete the existing titles, accurately place new titles and renter the text. Shall let you know the progress.
Until then, if there is some useful input in this totally frustrating matter, I would be too happy to lap it up!
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An update.
I have done this: copy the 'problematic' section of the project into a new project and have tried to edit the title clips in the new project...but this too was not of help.
I noticed that the FCPX would freeze only when a playback is attempted with the clip selected. But it would not whimper were I to move the clips, extend or shorten them.
Upon this realisation, making a 'crude' assessment based upon the audio waveforms, I did my 'rough' editing of the titles...and, the finished work appeared 'decent' enough. The flaws would be certainly noticed by seasoned viewers.
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I guess that resorting to this 'easy shortcut' had forced me to take the 'hard long route'!
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Great that it's now working for you. As a retired teacher myself, I know what it feels like when things don't work as they should, and you have a disgruntled class breathing down your neck! Good luck with the project - sounds interesting.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL
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How to re-render a modified title clip?

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Now, I see that FCPX reads the old clip yet (probably it reads the old rendered file).
It seems it cannot realize that the clip has changed in its internal contents...
How can I tell FCPX to re-render the modified clip?

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