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August 27, 2012
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My transitions aren't applying correctly. With video explanation!

  • August 27, 2012
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I've set the default transition as dip to black. I select some clips and apply default transitions. Only some transitions get dip to black applied to them. I have to manually drag dip to black to the other transitions. When I manually do this the transition still works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qBzSXwwg0&feature=youtu.be

Another video. I have dip to black set at 2 seconds, center at cut. The first transition applied correctly. The second only applied for 1;16 (why?) and not centered at cut. I have to manually adjust this and it ends up working. The third transition is only 0;28 and start at cut (why???). When I manually charge it to 2 seconds center at cut it actually does become 2 seconds centered at cut. There's nothing stopping the 2 second center at cut from working, but Premiere just doesn't apply it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LBomt489cs

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    Participant
    October 13, 2022

    I noticed I was having this issue with clips that I edited in audition, done via right-click "Edit clip in adobe audition". I literally added a cut to the middle of a clip that wasn't working with another clip (couldnt add transitions or change the alignment option like you), and it let me add a transition. Looking in the effects controls panel when highlighting the contant power effect, you can see it deosn't recognize that there are other clips there? I feel this is the road to a solution. I will post with updates. 

    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    August 27, 2012

    For more info on Handles & Transitions, see this article: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/701768?tstart=60

    Good luck,

    Hunt

    Known Participant
    August 27, 2012

    I get it. There's no overlap. No handles.My issue is that for this particular transition there is no logical reason why there even needs to be handles, or overlaps. It's dip to black. I can see you needing it for something like cross dissolve, but dip to black? And as you can see from the video, dip to black still works 100% if I just go in and force it to be 2 seconds, centered at cut. I just want the first clip to fade to black and the second clip to immediately fade into view from black. No overlap necessary. In fact, there can even be a black gap of zero footage in between the clips and it shouldn't affect it, other than creating a longer transition.

    I can fix this by trimming each clip by 30 frames on each end. So how do you select a bunch of clips and do this trimming all in one go? I'm not clicking on 50 clips and manually setting trim points for each clip at 30 frames.

    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    August 27, 2012

    For the Dip-to-Black, I have never had an issue applying that Transition, even where there were no Handles, though the "location" of the Dip-to-Black is not exactly as one would expect, or experience, where you had, say two Clips, and each with full Handles.

    Good luck,

    Hunt

    Participating Frequently
    August 27, 2012

    Centered at cut isn't working for you because you have insufficient handles. See the crosshatch pattern on your transitions? Use 'start at cut' or 'end at cut' instead.