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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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    March 1, 2024

    Hi,

       I have created a video to demonstrate my doubts:

    In the first part of the video, you can see Edius working mode. I take two uncut clips, put them in the timeline. As you can see, the total duration is 12 seconds and 23 frames. Now I apply a 2-second transition, and as you can see, the total duration becomes 10 seconds and 23 frames. The two clips overlap for 1 second. For me, this is correct.

    Now let's see how it works with Premiere: I insert the same two clips into the timeline, apply the transition, and Premiere says there's no material. Premiere creates a still image of the first frame of the second clip (okay, this is documented). Is there a setting to do the same thing Edius does?

    Now, still with Premiere, I cut the end of the first clip and the beginning of the second. If I now apply the transition, you will see that the second clip starts correctly (the white table is exactly at the left edge of screen) but the first clip is elongated (and I don't want this). If you look closely, I cut the first clip when the floor start to be visible, but when I apply the transition, you can see much more floor because the clip has been elongated. I would like to avoid this. Is it possible with Premiere?

    Thank you.

     


    Edius is not working the way most professionals have worked. You are changing the length of the cut by applying that transition, which would anger so many editors.

     

    They trim to exactly the frame they want, just as the eye comes up level ... now apply a transition, and that is nearly impossible to see as it fades out on the eye coming up level.

     

    Further, it's now way off from the music track, and the pace of the timing of the cut they'd meticulously set.

     

    No, very few editors will want transitions to cut the length of a clip.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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