I have a transition clip, one of the standard FCP clips, and it's on the end of the movie. Which is fine. But, if I add another short clip after that it shortens the transition clip to a miniscule amount of 6 frames and won't let me edit its duration.
It's almost as if the additional clip is squeezing it up. Editing the duration is just ignored.
If I remove anything that's trailing after that transition clip, it reverts to its normal duration.
The lower clip, the incoming clip, has used all the available media to create the transition. It was at the very end of the available media when the transition was six frames. The application will not not an adjustment for you. It lets you decide how you want to deal with the shortness of the clip, which clip you want to adjust, or if you want to adjust the transition, or some combination of the three elements, outgoing, incoming, and transition.
The close circle transition here in yellow is only ’6’ long. 6 what I don't know, but the opening one at the start is 1:00 which seems to work ok.
I'm not real sure what your instructions mean, but I can not get that transition to be any longer. The last transition in that row is a fade out and seems to be the right length.
Ok, so it's showing the precision editor, but it will not let me increase that above the 6 frames. I did get it to work by triming the end of the main clip, then when instering it it asked me if I wanted to do aa ripple transition with it, and on saying yes, the correct length transition went in to place. Very strange to me.
The length of the clip doesn’t matter. What matters is the length of the handles, how much media you have available outside the edit selection to create the overlap for the transition. If you only have a few frames extra you can only have a short transition. Select the edit point and press Control-E for the precision editor. This lets you adjust the edit point, slide the content to change the edit point, or roll the edit, whichever works best for your situation.
Thanks, I’ll try this. I’m really new to fcp so I’m still learning.
Six frames. Select the edit point, the middle of the transition. Zoom in if you have to. Press Control-E for the precision editor. It will show you what’s going on.
Thanks. That is clear. I understand now what's happening. I can adjust things now to accommodate the variables.
Thanks for taking the time for me.
Editing duration of transition clip not working
