Cross Dissolve Issues, Ridiculously Hard to Add a Simple Transition?

[cosmiccobweb]

For the past few HOURS I've been trying to figure out how to do a simple crossfade effect between clips where there is no dip to black. It appears as though I can only apply the transition between one set of clips where it will actually work. When it works, the transition shows diagnoal lines.

Cross dissolve works here...

If I try to apply the effect to any other pair of clips in the project, it simply just doesn't work. There's not error notification, rendering doesn't help, etc. 

Cross dissolve does not work here...

I've read about "handles" and tried working around to create the effect with the clips overlapping. Not even sure why I have to account for this when the only working instance doesn't overlap? Regardless, when I attempt this it just does not blend smoothly. There is always a dip to black or the footage juts. 

Can somebody please tell me how to troubleshoot this.

[Rach McIntire]

Hi @cosmiccobweb,

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums! We are glad to see you here. You would need handles because the dissolve goes into the next clip. How are you adding the cross dissolve? If you add handles, does it work? We need a few more details to help with this issue. Please see: How do I write a bug report?

I hope we can help you soon. Sorry for the frustration! 

[cosmiccobweb]

If I add handles, or what I am interpreting handles to be, it does not dissolve smoothly and dips to black as you can see in this picture. I've tried adjusting the in-out crossfades many many times, adjusting the overlap and can't achieve a smooth transition....

Whereas the one instance where it works (without having to overlap the clips), the footage does not get dark in between and simply fades. I simply just dragged and dropped the effect between these two clips.

When you say handles, am I correct that it meansoverlapping footage? Because as you can see in the second instance I did not need an overlap for it to actually work. I also see numberous video tutorials that show that that is not needed as well, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyq9h2zzCzc

[MyerPj]

Handles are just extra frames you didn't use in the cut.

Easy way to test. Drop a clip on the timeline and put a cut in it.

Drag each cut point away from each other (at least a second) (which makes each clip shorter.

put those two now shorter clips next to each other again, and with the edit point selected, press ctrl-d

That should show you it's working.