Cross Dissolve Issues

[Lemonstbd]

Hi everyone,

I found some entries about this problem already but they were no help unfortunately.

So I have two different clips or Takes and I need to edit them together and put a crossdissolve on it.

clip A shows Roses and afterwards a field, Clip B shows a field and afterwards roses.

Now I only want to show the roses and make a nice transition, but whatever I do and adjust, during the cross dissolve the field will pop up for 2 or 3 frames.

I even tried it with keyframes, overlaying footage, basically all solutions I could find online... result is always different but not pretty.

The odd thing is that in 99% of my cases the cross dissolve works just fine, but today I have a project again where it doesn't work at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks  a lot!

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[christophs4940721]

YOu only want to show roses but you want to make a crossdisovle transition? I dont understand if you only want to show the roses what is it that you want to transition into?

[Lemonstbd]

That was an example for better understanding.

[R Neil Haugen]

For cross-dissolves to work properly, you need to make sure both clips have "handles", maybe a half-second of frames that aren't showing in the sequence. In other words, the clip in/out points should be a few frames in from the end of the actual clip.

Neil

[rodneyb56060189]

Most people would not do this (as it takes a lot of time and can get complicated with multiple cameras shooting same scenes and individual audio tracks, etc. Basically I didn't like not having complete control over what frame my cross dissolves start and end on... so I just do fade in and fade out manually instead, with the clips overlapping each other. Then I also control settings the keyframes give me (Bezier etc. ) so the speed and slope of the fades is what I want.

This is simple example of one camera and a music track added later ( no sync sound).

I cut exactly what I want to use from original. I copy paste up a level to 'remind myself' what I've edited (I can scrub through for quick reminder what I've already used in edit if that makes sense)

Then I move the two clips I want to cross dissolve ( fade in and out ) up further and zoom in and do the keyframes. That way I am never surprised by an extra frame that got stuck in there by doing it automatically. Like I said, most people would not do this and have better ways to do it using auto functions, etc.

[rodneyb56060189]

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[excited_Genie16B8]

Adobe Premiere: Handles and Transitions

[Lemonstbd]

Thanks for your answers! I tried to leave a few more Frames for the Transition but still, the field would Show up. When I work with opacity it has a similar result, but I was wondering why the cross Dissolve doesn't work. I will take a look into that in further Projects and maybe I figure out what was so Special about that one. Thanks again!

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Open the clips in the source monitor and see it there is enough handles (frames) to make the transition.

If its a 1 second transition you need 15 frames on each end.

Also when using one long continues clip containing different scenes there is also a good change of seeing parts of another clip.