Sooooo next class if anyone has had this happen to them can you please please help me!!! I am editing a waiting scene and all i need is to fade from one scene to another and final cut keeps saying i have insufficient media. Which is crazzzzyyyy ahhh so frustrating if anyone knows whats going on please help
I don't know if this will work, but in your menu window, open the effects tab and double click on cross-fade or whatever effect you want. When this happens, information for the effect itself should appear in the preview window. If you go to the part of the preview that indicates the duration, you can try to changed the duration of the effect to a smaller amount of time which may be the problem if your clips are very small. I doubt this will work, but just an idea I had.
ReplyDeleteI imagine the transition you are talking about is not a fade but a cross-dissolve. In this case what FC needs is enough of each scene to overlap each other to process the dissolve.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, you have two scenes and a straight cut from one to the next. If your cross-dissolve is about a second long (24-30 frames) it means that you must have at least 15 extra frames beyond the cut for each of the scenes to overlap. If the dissolve is 2 seconds then you must have at least 30 extra frames in addition to where the cut is. Is that clear?
So Face is right, but you don't even need to open the effect tab. Simply adjust the length of the effect by simply dragging the end of the effect until it ceases to give you an error.
If you want to confirm this length problem simply move one of the tracks in turn to V2 temporarily and drag the edge out to see if there is enough material One of the shots might have enough but not the other. I know it sounds harder that what it is, it would be so simple to show you. If this does not work you can check with me sometime tomorrow after 12.