How to fix "There is not enough media beyond clip edges to create the TRANSITION" FCP

[@dylanjohndickerson]

Duder! Thanks so much for the shoutout 👊🏼 this tip certainly saved me from pulling out my hair many a times.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Now you can grow your hair out like mine!

[@Brad_West]

@@TheFinalCutBro But if he grows his hair out, how will we know which Dylan is which? 🤷🏻‍♂

[@dylanjohndickerson]

@@Brad_West 🤣 There will be no way to tell at that point. We will become one and our consciousness will merge together like two clouds joining each other.

[@Brad_West]

@@dylanjohndickerson 😂😂😂

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

I run into this problem all the time and it never occurred to me to use the hold frame. Another very useful tutorial Dylan. Please keep them coming. The two Dylans do it again! Scotland needs all the help it can get!!!

[@Brad_West]

Solid solution to that common problem, and your explanation was spot on! Appreciate the shoutout brother! 😄💪🏼

[@jiyere]

Nice tip Dylan ! Thank you

[@timeintheoutdoors]

Thanks for making this video! As soon as you started to explain what happens behind the scene in Final Cut, the light bulb turned on and I said “I need to add a freeze frame”. Then you said almost exactly the same thing with the hold frame. Keep up the good work! On a side note please keep putting in the keyboard short cuts. Those are really helpful!

[@TheRoamingDroneLLC]

Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something useful. THANK YOU!!!

[@alienwisconsin]

I love these short tips!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Me too! They are easier to edit 😂 Expect more in the future!

[@SparaCash]

Thanks Dylan! Keep being awesome 🤩

[@BobbyClements]

I feel ya on that! thanks for showing some appreciation in ways some can’t right now 😁

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Appreciate the idea so much!!

[@SparaCash]

@@BobbyClements Can't show it enough, Dylan is one of the best tutorial guys out there. If you can't afford it monetary, I'm pretty sure a thumb is more than enough :)

[@Osmien118]

great vid dylan, thank you!

[@BobbyClements]

fyi I cussed out loud in excitement when I realised what you have “finally” uploaded......this transition problem I am familiar with to say the least 😅 Thanks so much, Dylan

[@ThisisDigitalden]

adding “TAIL" and “HEAD" to clips with a freeze or hold is a great work around to this issue that many find out the hard way…good to help people from breaking down in tears !

[@MrFraiche]

That's a dope trick. Love it.

[@JukeboxHistory]

Dylan, you have saved me more times than I can count. Your channel is immensely helpful thank you

[@iliashardenov4934]

Thank you so much for this one Dylan ! Extremely helpful as usual.

[@MikePulcinellaVideo]

I encounter this problem often and this method will save me some time in most of the cases. Thanks for this!

[@TaniaGail]

Thanks, this was so helpful!

[@CheeseheadMedia]

I always assumed that I was just going to lose those frames and just adjusted accordingly but using a hold frame is something I'm going to do in the future.

[@Bournemouthjetwashing]

Thanks Dylan thats been something that has been bugging me for years, will certainly be doing this on the edits now fella , cheers 👍

[@irasdeejay]

I’m making my first steps in video editing and this video saved me from hanging myself. Thank you !

[@ModernUsage]

Thank you so much for this! It's been driving me crazy! I had tried the compound clip trick (creating a compound clip and then cutting it) to get around the problem, but it didn't always work, so this freeze frame trick is much appreciated. And thanks for the clear explanation of why the issue comes up in the first place.

[@stereoheartsrnb]

useful tip

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

Very helpful 🤘⚡️🤘✨✨

[@HunterTalks]

AWESOME! This happens to me all the time. Thanks for sharing the solution with us!

[@nocapzone5049]

I couldn't figure this out for the life of me! I really appreciate this video. 🤙🏿💯

[@seb-depp]

Love the shot at 1.36!! Maybe not freeze but slow down a bit before... With the whip it looks good. I guess it depends on the shots and the transition.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

100%!

[@charlesmarkman9776]

Thanks! You must be reading my mail. Very helpful tip that addresses a frustration I frequently run it to.

[@darthsnape]

Thank you very much Dylan. I needed this 💪🏼

[@KravKernow]

In the words if Gunter the monkey from Futurama "It's so obvious now! But thank you for this. I had just assumed FCP was doing something quirky when I'd be happily dropping in cross fades with no issues and then there'd be one awkward one!

[@graymatters7584]

I’ve done this before (not with the key command for that - thank you!), but sometimes I do notice that the outgoing clip is frozen. What I try next is speed ramping the last half-second or so of that clip to be as slow as I need.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Amazing tip!

[@seecraig]

Many many years ago there was an NLE called EditDV which did exactly that when you were short media for a transition. What would be nice if you could enter the duration of the Hold Frame as you created such as Hold +12 (for 1 second 24fps dissolve for example).

[@TechNest1]

Your Video always help me at the last min. you are the best. thanks a lot :)

[@chrisnowakvlogs]

Didn't work for me :/

[@davidelago3391]

you are a pro.. thanks

[@dahlhousestudios]

A Hold or even a freeze frame should be automatically created by FCP whenever we try to do this. Love FCP, but this is yet another one of the great frustrations that we run into in FCP. Apple should be making FCP into an AI-style powerhouse that does things like this for us. Another great vid. Thanks!

[@ksenialike]

Thank you very much! And if this problem appears at the end of a video, with enough media there? What can I do?

[@PianoRoadmap]

Mystery solved, thank you!

[@hottamaletallahassee]

excellent - and entertaining!!!!!

[@playingthemomgame]

This happens when I try to add transitions between compound clips- is there a way to make that work without going into each compound clip and extending the ends? Thanks!

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Technically you could still use the hold frame method here. But obviously if you have the extra media, that would be way better! Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the only way is to either pre-extend your clips before you compound clip it, or jump inside, extend out the media, then adjust it in the main timeline. I would love for someone to share any extra tips on this if they happen to know!

[@playingthemomgame]

Thanks Dylan! I didn’t think of extending the clips in the first place until this video so definitely helpful!

[@ariyako]

THank you So much!

[@FromShetoMe]

Why does FCP create a really short transition if added between two clips where I have an audio fade? And it can’t be lengthened.

[@thelxstboyymusic]

CAN the adjustment layers I import into fcp be unsupported because I’m using the trial version of fcp?

[@2kime]

Hello, I have this message too when aplying crossfades. How do I solve this pls? Thanks, Frans

[@2kime]

I have 10.8 Frans

[@BobSchusterMusiccom]

What about when this occurs at a start of the timeline without any previous footage/audio?

[@sodiumchloride6431]

Or another way is place your cursor in between of the two clips then combine two clips into one compound clip and then Shift + B to cut it again and voila! You can now use transitions.

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Such a great tip I hadn't heard of before! Thanks for sharing!

[@sodiumchloride6431]

@@TheFinalCutBro No, thank you for all the tips and tutorials. You're the best, Dylan!

[@skiphorni]

I appreciate how to fix. Had this happen and had no idea what to do, BUT what causes it in the first place? It may be obvious, but to a noob (c'est moi) maybe not so much. TIA.

[@beegood]

Will this work on the iPad Final Cut Pro?

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Technically you could do the same hold frame method in this video. But to my knowledge, jumping inside the compound clip is your best bet. I may be wrong, and would love for someone to share some insight on that though! -- Generally, if you can, whenever you make a compound clip, try and give yourself handles on each side of the clip, before it's compounded. Then trim them back afterward. Obviously it's hard to think of this every time, but it does help a lot if you happen to think of it!

[@theurbanspokesman]

OMG this is so useful!!!

[@ninjinart]

Or, you can combine both clips into a new compound clip then cut that with the blade where the two original clips meet and then add a transition. There are probably drawbacks to this (you can end up with lots of compound clips), but it's a bodge that works fine for me.

[@AndrewHelbig]

Hey Dylan, thanks for the super helpful videos! I was wondering if you can make a video about something that maybe sounds kind of dry but is very important, FILE MANAGEMENT. I've started to make more videos for clients (instead of just myself) so I'm finding myself having to spend a lot of time deleting past files and compound clips I made and also sometimes just running out of space from having so many different files for many projects. Do you think you could share some tips you've learned over the years about this broad topic? Sometimes I've found myself using only 10 seconds of a 3 minute video for instance but still have to keep the full file for my project to work, which eats up a lot of space when it's 4K we're talking about. Also when downloading files from Envato, they are always super big in size, so I have to spend a bunch of time exporting smaller size versions of them to make my projects be smaller. Would be nice to know your workflow about all of this stuff. Thanks again Dylan! Andrew

[@AfoteyAnnum]

Solution explanation begins at @1:43

[@TheFinalCutBro]

Sure! If you don’t want to have any deeper understanding of what the actual cause of the problem is. Then yeah, that’s when it starts.

[@BabaGanoush512]

I totally understand why it's doing this but is this something recent? It's been a while since I've done some editing in FCP (about 2 or 3 months ago was the last time) and in the past I would be able to just select a transition drag and drop it between two clips and it would automatically overlap the clips for whatever the duration of the transition I would select, further more it would just let me grab the ends of the transition and make it as long or as short as I'd like. I must be doing something wrong or have changed a setting.

[@frankhong6313]

Is this a bug?

[@HussainAli-bf5vw]

You can just create a compound clip for them then cut it and add a transition

[@TheFinalCutBro]

This is a great tip I had never heard! Thanks for sharing this. I just tested it out, and it does work super well with transitions that have momentum. But doesn't work for stuff like cross dissolves and or wipes. But such a useful tip to know!

[@Shaggy_McPot_Reacts]

I have a film I am in production of. I have a scene where a Ouija Board floats across the room. It hovers in the air. It is a doorway into another realm. A demon opens the door and crawls through. I am having a heck of a time figuring out how to get the shot and the effect. Can someone please help. Basically the ring when the girl climbs out of the tv.

[@tolis54321]

Problem solved!

[@hubert3637]

this is bullshit. On EVERY Final Cut tutorial on KZbin , people are adding transitions without this hassle. They just drag and drop transition, plying with duration of this effects by dragging yellow transition box from left to right without creating ANYTHING in addition. And This is absolutely shocking for a new FinalCut user as me, because I though that FinalCut on default strings will not block in this stupid way timeline. Im looking for solution finding this video and.... Im more shocked by this "solution" of yours. I was using pinnacle video ediotor on Windows and transitions works there exactly how it works on Final Cut tutorials on you tube. No hassle - drag, drop between clips grab transition and expand duration. NOTHIN in addition. NOTHING. Can some one tell me which settings in Final Cut should I change and for the love of god - WHY THE FUCK this is not changed by default? If I will have to do SO MUCH WORK on EVERY time I wan to use transition... OMG what a waste of many that was to buy Final Cut

[@TheFinalCutBro]

That’s because they followed the beginning of this video.. where it says you need to just make sure you don’t hit that red edge when you have your clips on the timeline. There’s no setting to change.

[@BojanManojlovic-d7e]

aaaaand Premiere Pro does it automatically 🤣

[@TheFinalCutBro]

annnnnnnnd Premiere Pro crashes 10x more 😉