Cross Dissolve Issues

Silurian · Post by **Silurian** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:04 am

Okay....I have Adobe Premiere Pro......and I'm trying to cross dissolve these two clips together..........><! But no matter what I do..two different scenes show up during the disolves. Its like a shadow effect. Am I using the wrong effect? I just want to merge the two clips together, fading one onto the other. ^.^() Hope I'm making sense.......

Real question: How do I get it so that it doesn't show other scenes during the disolve?

Note: I've already tried shortening the clips back a few notches....ends up being a lot of notches with no improvement ><

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:49 am

have you tried shortening the effect ? instead of the clips themselves?

Kerydwenn · Post by **Kerydwenn** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:23 am

I only started to use Premiere Pro recently enough, so I hope I'm not mistaken on this (if I am, someone please flail me with wet noodles), but cross-dissolves, from what I've noticed, take the whole clip into account: whether you have cut or shortened it at some point to only keep the scene that you want doesn't matter.

Example: say you have two clips, Clip 1 and Clip 2, the latter containing scenes 1, 2 and 3. You want to keep scene 2 only, so you shorten the clip to show scene 2 on your timeline, and then apply the cross-dissolve, with part of it on the end of Clip 1 and the other part on Clip 2. The thing is, the cross-dissolve will still "detect" the frames from scene 1 that come previously to scene 2; here's what I think is your problem of an unwanted scene showing up during the dissolve, because while to your eyes, the clip is indeed "cut" to show the right scene only, for the software, the unwanted scenes are still here. Of course, this also works for Clip 1, if some unwanted frames are contained in it... etc.

What you can do:
- Try to do it using simple fade effects instead.
- Make sure to cut/time your scene 2 clip so that frames from said scene are also "contained under" the cross-dissolve.
- Shorten the cross-dissolve.

... Does this sound complex, for something that should be easy to explain... Bah :/

Silurian · Post by **Silurian** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:03 pm

I tried to shorten the effect and that only led to the clips skipping without any effect at all. Just like a jerky clip change.

I also looked for another effect but the only one that doesn't do it would be the fade to black...and that kills the effect I am looking for...

I tried the cutting too, no matter how short I time the clip is still shows the other scenes

So...I dunno if I'm just being completely stupid or what ^.^() nothing seems to work.

SacredArrow18 · Post by **SacredArrow18** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:17 am

hmmmmm....that problem is familiar to me. I had that happen to me before with Premiere. Well I have Premiere 6.0 not Pro. What are you using to fade a scene into another scene? If its with the transition on the timeline, forget that. that does not work that much, well it does but it doesn't work that well. You can try using the Faded Rubber Band Effect, I don't know if thats what you are using, if you are, I don't know how I could help you not have that problem.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:07 pm

Kerydwenn wrote:I only started to use Premiere Pro recently enough, so I hope I'm not mistaken on this (if I am, someone please flail me with wet noodles), but cross-dissolves, from what I've noticed, take the whole clip into account: whether you have cut or shortened it at some point to only keep the scene that you want doesn't matter.

are you sure? becuase ihad this problem but when i shortened the length of the cross disolve the next scene did not pop up... im using adobe premiere pro 1.0 btw

Silurian · Post by **Silurian** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:05 pm

I have 1.5....and I shortened the effect and it didn't matter just...the effect didn't last as long ^.^()

Apeotheosis · Post by **Apeotheosis** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:13 am

I really don't know how your effect wouldn't work, but worst case scenario you can create the effect manually by adjusting the opacty of both clips and overlap in your timelime.

Silurian · Post by **Silurian** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:12 pm

how would I do that? If I over lap the clips they'll just kill the 2nd clip wont it? *blink*....I will have to try this...but then wont I have to cut half of it to overlap so that the rest of the clip isn't faded too?

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:23 pm

The14thGOD wrote:a way you may be able to do this, idk exactly what you want to do, but, if you wanted to do maybe a cross dissolve, you could take the video on Video Track 2 and animate the opacity setting, and then at the end of the clip (where the opacity is 100%) you can just have whereever that leaves off and add the clip to track 1. like i said idk what you are trying to do but maybe thatll lead you to something else

i wrote taht in another post thought it may be of use here
but you would also have to animate the opacity settings on track 1 too