can't drag cross dissolve into timeline

[bartonlew]

I can't drag a cross dissolve from video effects into my timeline.  Actually in about 1 out of 50 tries I can.  Then it doesn't work - for another 50 tries.  This is so frustrating.  I am a Windows user and my version of Premieree is 14.9.0 (Build 52).  Why can't Adobe make it easy to do such a simple task and how can I do it, anyway?

[Graeme Bull · Accepted solution]

I personally never saw a problem but I jumped from 14.3 to 15 (skipping 7 buggy versions) and I don't have a problem in this version. Maybe can you update? 15 seems ok so far 🙂 Outside of captions it seems. If not, I'd think that it's a UI "targeting" issue, meaning that the UI doesn't think you're dropping it on the right place. What if you zoom in? What is the zoom on your monitor? Windows is a bit funky with that kind of thing and Premiere might just be struggling to figure out EXACTLY where you're dropping the darn thing.

[bartonlew]

I think you're right.  After playing aorund with it, I found that I had to be fairly precise about where I dropped it - right at the end of the clip but obviously not beyond.  So it seems like it's more finicky about the placement than I realized.  I'll assume that's the problem and continue to see what happens.  Thank you.  

[George36892193ylbp]

Had the same problem.    Just figure out the issue.    Increase the duration from the default of 0.5 sec to 3 sec.  Then drag the DISSOLVE icon to the time line.  This will work.

This explain why sometimes with a shorter file, because of the relative shorter time range, the 0.5 sec duration provided sufficient resolution for DISSOLVE to work.

[Ann Bens]

IMO it is best to use frames instead of broken up seconds like 0.5.

1/2 second in a 60 fps timeline would be 30 frames.