Can´t drag transitions to my clips

[adrianam75305136]

Hi everyone. I have looked everywhere for an answer and can´t find it anywhere. I´m having this specific problem that I can´t drag a transition to my clip. When I clic on top of the transition, before start dragging, the mousse shows me a hand with a cross on top. Any ideas why? I am really new at this so it might be something simple I am missing. Help!

[stefan_gru]

If I understand Spanish sufficiently, it looks like you're trying to drag the Cross Dissolve effect to a clip. Apologies if you already know this — but the Cross Dissolve effect works on the ends of clips, so you have to drop the effect where two clips are joined.

Before dropping the effect:

After dropping the effect:

[Roei Tzoref]

When I clic on top of the transition, before start dragging, the mousse shows me a hand with a cross on top. Any ideas why?

when you drag it, it shows you you can't drop it in the effect's panel itself. this is normal

the question is, does the "no entry" sign appear once you are above a clip? or can you do this?

more about transitions here:

Apply transition effects to video and audio |

[megh17096176]

i am having the exact same problem as above. yesterday it worked, today it isnt. i have updated premiere pro to PP CC 2018 and updated my system to the latest software update.

[J.Lacerda]

Hi friend,

the layer may not be selected.

[defaultzuitg2riannx]

I am having the same problem. I have tried dragging every transition all the way to the clip, both with the clip/layer selected and without it selected, and it behaves as if I am not holding anything. Has this been resolved? I haven't found another thread solving this yet.

[Mathew26764142jh27]

I have just encountered this problem today immediately after updating to the latest version of PP.

If anyone has worked out a fix or work around, any inisght would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks.

[R Neil Haugen]

Which effect are you trying to use ... and where are you dragging it to? What's the media on the sequence?

Neil

[Ann Bens]

I have just encountered this problem today immediately after updating to the latest version of PP.

If anyone has worked out a fix or work around, any inisght would be hugely appreciated.

By @Mathew26764142jh27

Reset preferences

[healthc24016878]

I'm having the exact same problem right now. Whenever I try to drag a "dip to white" effect I always get the "no entry" sign. My clips are not at the beginning or end. I can't even drag it to one clip, much less the two clips I want the effect to be added. Any help would be appreciated. 

[R Neil Haugen]

It's got a bit of a weird behavior. As when you drag it to the active track area, it disappears, right?

But if you keep holding the mouse clicker down, when you get the cursor to a spot at the end or beginning of a clip, right tight to the 'join' spot, then suddenly it appears. Let go, it's applied.

You may need to zoom into the tracks a bit, make things bigger, to easily do it.

[AdamWattsCaptures]

Got similar issue but had to hold CTRL key (PC) down while I dragged to clip and it would apply but worked to apply to left side of the clip.

[Ann Bens]

Crtl+drag will add the transition either at the end of the cut on the first clip or

at the start to the beginning of the second clip

Just dragging is at Centre of cut..

[Ann Bens]

Screenshot shows effect but same goes for transitions.

[Ann Bens]

[islagoldie]

Did you figure out what was happening?

[J Lo 06]

I am having these same issues out of nowhere too. Any clue on a fix?

[Relaxasaurus]

I got it to work by dragging the effect to the bottom right of the clip, versus just the right. The hand still turns to an arrow (annoyingly) but if I keep holding left click and move the arrow to the bottom right of the clip the effect magically appears. 

Can't believe this is still a thing. I'm on a fresh install in May 2024 with Win 11.

[AdamWattsCaptures]

I read a few of these and was having a similar issue where I could only drag trransitions or effects to the left side of a clip while trying to add a fade out transition. It would never work between 2 clips (X-Fade) and when going to the effect controls panel for the transition  I could see the  Alignment option was greyed out for some reason.

Try holding down the CTRL button  (PC) while dragging the Transition to your clip and it worked. Gonna reset prefs once finish this project.

[CarolynUX]

Was experiencing this issue too, but all I had to do was Zoom in (enlarge) the panel to see that I was adding it to the first video!