Thanks Ann. I did apply Cross Dissolve to multiple clips in same way. But the effect was not there. There was sudden change. Please refer to my response to Warren Heaton​ Applying Ripple Edit to multiple clips did do the job. ... View more

1 Yessss. I got it finally. Thanks a ton. "You could also use the Ripple Edit tool, selecting multiple clip boundary edges at the same time.  A Marquee selection with this tool will get all of the right edges.  You'll have to shift click to get the left edges." My objective of doing Cross Dissolve on MULTIPLE CLIPS at the same time was achieved !!! _______ _ 2 But still, need to clarify some nagging doubts : Extract, Q and W will do the job for a single pair of clips. Not multiple clips at the same time (by marquee-ing them). Right ? __________ _ 3 I have come across following tip about applying transition : To place a transition between two clips (centered on the cut line), the clips must be on the same track, with no space between them. As you drag the transition to a Timeline panel, you can adjust the alignment interactively. Whether the clips have trimmed frames determines how you can align the transition as you place it between the clips. The pointer changes to indicate the alignment options as you move it over the cut: If both clips contain trimmed frames at the cut, you can center the transition over the cut or you can align it on either side of the cut so that it either starts or ends at the cut. If neither clip contains trimmed frames, the transition automatically centers over the cut and repeats frames from the first clip, or from the second clip, or from both clips, to fill the transition duration. Diagonal bars appear on transitions that use repeated frames. If only the first clip contains trimmed frames, the transition automatically snaps to the In point of the next clip. The transition uses the first clip’s trimmed frames for the transition and does not repeat frames from the second clip. If only the second clip contains trimmed frames, then the transition snaps to the Out point of the first clip. The transition uses the second clip’s trimmed frames for the transition and does not repeat frames from the first clip.The default duration of a transition, for either audio or video, is set to 1 second. If a transition contains trimmed frames, but not enough to fill the transition duration, Premiere Pro adjusts the duration to match the frames. You can adjust the duration and alignment of a transition after you place it. at : Applying transitions in Premiere Pro I am particularly referring to this : If neither clip contains trimmed frames, the transition automatically centers over the cut and repeats frames from the first clip, or from the second clip, or from both clips, to fill the transition duration. Diagonal bars appear on transitions that use repeated frames. It means that even if there is no 'spare frames' available to PP to apply the transition (Cross Dissolve), PP will still 'manage' by this method. PP will snatch some frames from the tail end of the first clip and the head of the second clip and do the job. I am not able to get this result (though my main question is resolved). Thanks Warren for the guidance. ... View more

On further experimenting, I have discovered following two sure shot methods for Cross Dissolve to work, in addition to the method of overlapping of clips on track V1 and V2 1   Cut the tail end of the clip. Then join the two clips together. Then apply the Cross Dissolve. It works ! 2    'Push' the 'head' part of the second clip 'into' the tail end of the first clip,(thereby making the total length of the two clips taken together shorter). Then apply the cross dissolve. It works ! I think this is what is meant when you say having 'handles'. I did not understood what are these handles. I also did not understood what is meant of having some extra frames for the PP to apply the transition. May be you mean what I have explained in above two methods. But then it will become very much time consuming to do this for ever pair of clips. When I am having something like 50 short clips in a sequence,it will be hell of a job. ... View more

This problem is only for 'Cross Dissolve'. For the same clips where the Cross Dissolve does not work, the other transition like Dip to Black certainly works. It means (I suppose) that the issue is of the basis requirement of the overlapping of the clips on V1 and V2 tracks for Cross Dissolve to take effect without fail. ... View more

Thanks Christian for your clarifications. Sorry for the late response. Please refer to my reply to Warren. The problem is not of multiple clips application, but even for individual clip pair also. ... View more

Thanks Averdahl. I tried it. Still same problem. Pl refer to my response to Warren above. Anyway, thanks for your interest. ... View more

Hi Warren, Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the late response. Actually, I have discovered that the problem is not of applying Cross Dissolve to multiple clips as such. Actually, I am not able to apply this effect even to individual clips. It works some times. But most of the time it does not work. There is a sudden transition to next clip, without any dissolve effect at all. I am not able to figure out the specific differentiating details of the clips when it works and when it does not work. I agree that the Cross Dissolve does work at times even without any overlapping clips on V1 and V2. At the same time, even for those clips it does not work, when I put them overlapping on V1 and V2, it is sure shot works. ... View more

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Thank Ann. This helps. Actually I was looking for applying this technique for several clips together. Apparently the option gets grayed out as soon as I select more than one clip. I have to then do 'Ctrl + U, Enter' for each clip in turn. If I am having 15 such clips, then I have to do it 15 times. Is there any way around? ... View more

Thanks. It worked for me. Never in my wildest dreams I would have imagined that this could be a solution. While I am happy to fixed it, I am still scratching my head as to what is the connection!! Also wondering how you stumbled upon this fix. __________ _ Further input I had Microphone Blue Snowball as my input device. As suggested by you, I reset it to 'No Input' option. My clip then played in normal speed. Not content with this, I then re-selected the input device back to 'Microphone Blue Snowball'. I then played back the clip again. It again played at fast forward manner. Then I physically 'unplugged' the Microphone Blue Snowball cable from my PC. The input device in the PP was still showing as Microphone Blue Snowball. I then played back the clip. And then it played at NORMAL speed! I then again plugged in the cable from my Microphone Blue Snowball cable to my PC. The input device in PP was continuing to show Microphone Blue Snowball. I then played the clip. And voila.. It played at NORMAL speed. Final outcome => I am still having a somewhat same audio hardware input preferences as before while my clip is now playing at normal speed - albeit through the process of unplugging the wire and plugging it in. ... View more

To put it differently, allow me to borrow the concept of 'Rolling Edit'. In similar way, we need 'Rolling Speed Ramping' of Video Track only ... View more

OMG. I thought I have only marked your short answer of AE = After Effects will be marked as Correct Answer. Instead, they have marked my original question itself as 'ANSWERED'. I did not mean that. Thanks for pointing it out. I have made the correction and marked it as Unanswered. ... View more

You can try your hands on this hit bollywood song. There is part where lip movements are there. You leave them untouched. There are some visuals which doe not show any lip movement, though the song continues to play in the background. You may slow down the video of this visual while maintaining the lip sync of the remaining part. ... View more

OK. I got it. But still, the issue remains. The Audio part should not be slowed down alongwith the video part as it will then break the flow and the tune. Unless, the AE does the auto chopping work of the video part as I have mentioned in my original post and which currently I am doing in a hard labor way. ___ _ P.S. : I am not conversant with AE ... View more

When we slow down a video in some part, then obviously the overall video length will increase, without increasing the audio track length, and rightly so because this is a song and the audio should not be 'stretched' to keep the flow and the tune.We need to cut down the additional length of the video to keep the original length of the audio. This should not be done by cutting down the end part. It has to be done by chopping of the immediately succeeding part of the video after the slowed down part. Only then will the video and audio will have proper 'lip sync'. I hope I am clear. ... View more

Sorry Ann. I did not understand. Do you mean to slow down video and audio together ? In that case the lip sync issue will be solved. But the tune of the song will get spoiled. If is just a background music, then not much of an issue. But a audio part of the song may not be 'stretchable' in this manner, if I understand you right. ... View more

Thanks Bro for the tip. Your suggestion does solve the problem of lip sync and the total length of (expanded) video and audio is matched. However, inserting blank music space (or some sort of filler music) at the slowed down part of the video will completely break the flow of music of the song and will spoil the overall tune. I feel the only solution (I will certainly like to be corrected here) is to cut the part immediately succeeding the slowed down portion of video clip by EXACTLY the same incremental amount so that the overall length of the ORIGINAL Video and Audio Clip is maintained, and thereby the lip sync part is taken care of. The question is HOW ? I have done it manually with some precision efforts. Can it be done by some sort of tool (if one exists) or trick on Auto basis to save the efforts of precise video chopping operations. For this purpose, I think it doesn't matter if old version of the new version. It is a basic problem. I was just wondering how come it was never covered in any of the video tutotrials on Utube.or on this forum. ______ _ Let me clarify. I do not intend any LITERAL meaning of lip sync. Actually I am editing a video clip of a lady on the flute. There is no 'slowing down of the lip'. What I have done is some interesting and appealing visual part of the clip is slowed down. ... View more

Thanks MTSTUNER I had the same problem. The layer was locked. I unlocked it and the Smudge tool worked fine. Thanks a ton. ... View more

Hi Thanks for info. After I press 'Browse' it took me to the rood directory of C, D. Can you guide where are the "premiere folder with your loaded templates" located ? ... View more

Thanks Bro. It worked for me. Just thinking - what is the negative side of it? While it did solve the problem of App crashing, just wondering will it cause any other programme deficiency? ... View more

I had the same problem. I am a novice in Premiere Pro. Tried all the tips given above. None worked. Then luck by chance I stumbled upon a solution. I am talking about the keyboard shortcut Q and W. This shortcut does not seem to work when there is a single video track. It works fine when there are multiple video tracks and you select one of the track. Then it works fine. I have not come across any other keyboard shortcut which does not work. All the shortcuts which I have tried so far had worked fine. Only the issue was with this Q and W shortcut. It is now resolved just by chance. Looks like it is a bug in the programme. ... View more