fading

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 12:11 pm

I was wondering, how do i fade from clip to clip? i tried lookin in transitions but i couldnt find a fade option. also, how do i fade the last clip into blackness, rather than another clip?

onimoto · Post by **onimoto** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:18 pm

oh and also, im trying to figure out why the hell my video clips are so blocky once i move them out

at the moment, i open an avi file in premiere, mark the in and out points of the clip i wanna use, then drag it into the monitor. but then when i play it in the monitor, or if i export it as a video and play it, it looks all blocky during action scenes (where theres alot of movement)

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:44 pm

I'm not gonna answer the fading question, because it's so simple I'm sure you can find it yourself if you just look around a bit in the help menus (that's how I found out about it on my very first video, it isn't hard), but the blockiness I MIGHT be able to help with. Are you using an extremely low quality preview codec or have your preview ratio set a lot smaller than the source files?

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:50 pm

Okay I guess I'll take the fade Q then...

Two ways of doing this...

First way use the cross dissolve or additive dissolve or non-additive dissolve transitions. There's really no need for me to go into much more detail there.

Second way - click the little triangle under Video 2 (or 3,4,5..etc) and you'll notice the yellow bar representing each clip expands and now has a red line under it (called rubber bands). Click on the rubber band to make a new point and pull it down to fade the video out.

Easy and if you want to fade to black just ensure there is no clips under the clip you are fading and it will just fade to black.

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 2:01 am

Warpwind wrote:Okay I guess I'll take the fade Q then...

Two ways of doing this...

First way use the cross dissolve or additive dissolve or non-additive dissolve transitions. There's really no need for me to go into much more detail there.

Second way - click the little triangle under Video 2 (or 3,4,5..etc) and you'll notice the yellow bar representing each clip expands and now has a red line under it (called rubber bands). Click on the rubber band to make a new point and pull it down to fade the video out.

Easy and if you want to fade to black just ensure there is no clips under the clip you are fading and it will just fade to black.

The rubberband option is the best one. It adjusts the opacity of the video frames. Premiere likes it alot better than the pre-made transitions. On the odd occasion it can take a while to render, but it is worth it.

hawrbarmsn · Post by **hawrbarmsn** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:28 am

The rubberband thingy doesn't seem to work for me. No matter how much I adjust, it refuses to fade. I wonder if I need to tamper with some other setting first ...

Warpwind · Post by **Warpwind** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:35 am

No you just need to hit "enter"

As with any effect the clip has to be rendered and that means previewing the file rather than just hitting play.

hawrbarmsn · Post by **hawrbarmsn** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:17 pm

*smacks himself*

Thanks ^_^