Lightroom to Final Cut Pro Problem

When I compose a series of .jpg stills in Lightroom and then import them into Final Cut Pro 5.1.4, then apply cross-dissolve transitions, and then export to QuickTime, just before each transition begins there is a momentary ''blink'' to black (this appears in the QT output but does not occur when playing back the series within FCP). When I import the same files directly into FCP without going through Lightroom, the transitions run smoothly in the QT output. This suggests that there is something happening to these files in Lightroom -- does anyone know if this is a bug or is there a setting that I can change to eliminate the problem?



I am running Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a 3GHZ Mac Pro Quad, 6 GB, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT w/512MB, Apple Cinema 23'' display. Thanks!
Lightroom to Final Cut Pro Problem
Jan --



I haven't run into this. I've had no problem with Lr exports for FCP, either as TIFFs or JPEGs. I export from Lr to a Desktop folder with Resolution set at 72 ppi, and then import into FCP. Since I'm typically mixing stills with video, as opposed to building a slideshow, I don't apply transitions between all stills. But where transitions are applied, I've seen no flashes of black. The only thing I can think to ask is: are your FCP imports from both sources -- Lr and the other (where's it coming from?) -- at the same resolution, and is it 72 ppi? And are all cropped to the same dimensions? FCP can sometimes hiccup on too-big stills.



Regards,



Jack
Lightroom to Final Cut Pro Problem
Hi Jack -



Thanks for your response. I don't think too high a resolution is an issue. The images in both cases are full 8-megapixel jpeg's shot with my Canon 20D, and I did no cropping. I did a mixed still/video series of 400 clips via Aperture before, and there was no problem. Now, even when I assemble a 6-clip mini-experiment, using Aperture and Lightroom, only the Lightroom one glitches. This is really odd!



Jan