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Greetings.
I am very new to Adobe Premiere Elements, and video editing in general. I think what I am trying to do is fairly simple, but I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong.
I have two clips - A and B. The last few seconds of Clip A is garbage. So what I want to do is:
Clip the last few seconds of Clip A off
Play Clip B after Clip A
use a Cross Dissolve between the two.
I "dragged" the end of Clip A to the left, to get rid of the last few second of junk, then placed Clip B immediately after Clip A. Then I added a "Cross Dissolve" transition between the two, choosing "Between Clips" for 3 seconds.
For the most part, this has worked, except that as Clip B is fading in, I can see the last few seconds of junk from Clip A that I thought I had cut out.
How come these supposedly cut frames are appearing in the Cross Dissolve, and is it possible to get rid of them?
Thanks in advance for help
-M
A transition needs head and tail material to create a transitional segment. In other words, in a one-second transition, there is one second in which both videos are on-screen at the same time. To create this segment, a one-second transition uses half a second of video after the first video's end point and half a second of video before the second video's start point. Does this make sense? This is why you're seeing a bit of what you cut from the ends of your videos during the transition.
The only
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You will have to shorten clip A more.
You need to learn about handles:
Handles & Transitions - What are They?
That will explain what is happening.
See here, too:
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A transition needs head and tail material to create a transitional segment. In other words, in a one-second transition, there is one second in which both videos are on-screen at the same time. To create this segment, a one-second transition uses half a second of video after the first video's end point and half a second of video before the second video's start point. Does this make sense? This is why you're seeing a bit of what you cut from the ends of your videos during the transition.
The only solution is to trim a bit more off your video -- making sure that at least half a second of good video is available beyond the trim.
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Got it. Thank you for the information and links.
-M