How to add a Fade-In on a Clip but not create a Transition?

I understand your desire for this, and I presume you used feedback to ask for it, but it's not actually going to do anything for bendermac's problem, if I understand it correctly. I believe he wants to fade up from black when there is a clip adjacent to it. Any system that does transitions inline, as FCP, Premiere, and Avid do, will extend the adjacent shot regardless of whether the transition starts on edit, is centered on edit, or ends on edit.

Yes Tom you're right, I might have read his post too quickly. Ending on cut or starting from cut transitions would of course extend one way or the other material on clips. If he wants to fade from or to black, he needs either a gap clip or a transition going through black. Anyway I did send apple feedback, hope they'll listen!

I hope so too. It can't be that big a deal.

Opening the Fade to Color transition in the Inspector and changing the Midpoint to 0 means it will effectively cut from "Clip A" to black, then fade into "Clip B" from it (basically, just a fade in on Clip . Setting it to 100 means "Clip A" will fade to black, then it will cut directly to Clip B (basically, just a fade to black for Clip A). The "Hold" slider, along with the length of the transition, will then affect the amount of time it stays black onscreen.

bendermac wrote:
how would you apply a fade-in in this example (see screenshot below) without a dedicated fade-in filter like the one from alex4d or from motion provided by dgwvideo? afaik you have make a connected clip to get it to work.

This is a small quirk of the UI, since it "helps" you by turning a transition between two adjacent connected clips into a dissolve between them, which is what you're not asking for in this situation. To add a fade-in here, I will usually select that second connected clip and nudge it a frame over so that it's no longer adjacent, apply the transition, and then nudge it back. It's just a little extra step.

Actually, select the clip by itself, right-click, make it its own Connected Storyline, add the crossfade. It'll ignore clips outside of the Connected Storyline.

bendermac wrote: ... i want to add a fade-in on a clip but no matter what, fcpx always adds a transition because there is a clip in front of it. ...

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for me, the stupid alien (maybe I'm just lost in translation):
What is the difference btw. a 'transition from black' (not wanted by OP)
and a 'fade in' (wanted by OP)??? :S

Another few ways of getting Final Cut Pro W to do what you want:

1. Connect the Custom generator (from the Solids category) and add a crossfade transition to it.



2. Connect an Adjustment Layer and fade its opacity in (or keyframe its Opacity)


3. Create a black generator with a built-in fade in Motion to connect when you need a fade in.


Sadly the answer isn't "Press Command-Option-P-R"... yet.

@Alex4D

(The 'W' is for 'Workaround')

"What is the difference btw. a 'transition from black' (not wanted by OP)
and a 'fade in' (wanted by OP)???"

Same thing.

BenB wrote: ... Same thing.

Then I don't understand the original question: ...




a) the primary storyline is not in use ... why? cmd-alt-arrow down the top layer, and the OP can apply any dissolve/transition/fade/from black/whatever he wants ...

b) if it's not a fade btw. two clips he wants, it HAS to be a transition from black to clip ... 'fade' means partial transparent = so, what ELSE does he wants to see? Nothing? The clip underneath? No.the clip before? No. Plain black? That's the clip before. Or, using the fade-to/from-color transition, as mentioned before....

c) ... or is the whole story about magnetic timeline/free positioning, loosing timing, etc ...?

:blink: me confused, sorry for no contribution to solve this riddle .... Will be interesting, what the OP finally does ...

my imagination is limited, ............. again. :lol: