[Bill Kinkle]

I am near completion on a short video and need to add fade outs and fade ins to several sequences. Everytime I add a fade the screen gets very bright at the first frame before the fade out. This is very awkward looking. Any suggestions what I may be doing wrong?

[Axo1ot1]

Originally posted by Bill Kinkle:
I am near completion on a short video and need to add fade outs and fade ins to several sequences. Everytime I add a fade the screen gets very bright at the first frame before the fade out. This is very awkward looking. Any suggestions what I may be doing wrong?

I've never had that bug, and it's been a long time since I used FCP 2, but one quick workaround I can think of is to do the fade by varying the opacity of your video track over time. Make sure the keyframe overlays are turned on, then use the pen tool to make a point on the opacity bar on your clip where you want the fade out to start, and where you want it to end, then grab the point where you want it to end and pull that down so that it's at 0% opacity. You can also control-click those points to change them to curves instead of corners.

Hope that helps.

[beanbag]

been a while since I used FCP2, but I remember that bug well.
Do you have Cleaner installed? There's an extension that'll mess up FCP renders. Dig around and look for the Radius DV encoder then trash it. It's an old DV codec so you won't miss it.
Then check your FCP preferences. Can't remember where it is in FCP2, but there's a checkbox for "alwas render in RGB" Make sure it's unchecked.
That should do ya. Upgrade to 4 when you can spare the cash - it's a whole world away from FCP2