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February 2, 2024
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Apply transition without change clips duration

  • February 2, 2024
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I come from another video editing program. Is it possible to insert a transition between two clips without changing their duration? For example: clip1 is 10 seconds, clip2 is 15 seconds. Between the two clips, I want to add a 5-second transition, and the total duration of the two clips with the transition should be 20 seconds. I can currently achieve this by placing one clip on track V1 and another on track V2, overlaying them by 5 seconds, and applying the transition. I would like to achieve the same result on a single track.

 

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Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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February 2, 2024

Just cut 2 1/2  seconds off each clip at the transition point and then place them on the same track and add the transition.

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    Crisc1Author
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    February 4, 2024

    Thank you Bob for your replay, I apreciate.

    Ok, I can add some time for each clip but I can't realize why there is not an option. Imagine, I cut a clip before a bike jump (end point) then I cut the second clip (other angle) at the jump already started. I put a dissolve and... I see 2.5 sec of first clip...

    So I shold know before the dissolve/transition duration and then adjust the clips in order to have correct transition!?!

    The only solution is to work with multiple track...

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    February 20, 2024

    It  is strange, for me don't work.

    I have a time code clip 0 to 10 second. 

    I cut the clip in 2 parts: 0 to 5     and 6 to 10 seconds.

    Now I trimg back the end of first clip o to 4.

    Now I trim the start of the second clip 7 to 10 second.

    Son, now I have 2 clips, the first one start from 0 to 4 and the second clip start to 7 to 10.

    Put the 2 clips in the timeline, I add a 2 seconds dissolve transition. Now I can see in the dissolve the second 5 of first clip and the second 6 of the second clip. Seems that the transition retrimg my clip.

    I should to trim the firt clip 0 to 3 and the second clip 8 to 10, apply the transition in order to see the dissolve from 4 to 7 seconds. This for me seems to be stupid. I should to trim the clip more in order to add a transition, but if I want to change the transition duration I have to re-trim the clips...

    It is strange for me...


    Transitions use both sides of the cut at the same time.

     

    So you set it to a 10 frame transition each side ... that means that 10 frames before the cut you start seeing frames from the second clip, of course, starting 10 frames before the clip cut as it is on the sequence.

     

    And that transition will finally stop showing the first clip 10 frames after the cut point ... and those will be the ten frames of that first clip after the cut point.

     

    Those extra sections shown in transitions are called "handles" ... and are a general source of confusion to those first handling pro NLE type editing operations.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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