Dip to Black fades halfway through transition without being cut between 2 clips

[luvmykidz74]

edit: This issue is resolved. How I resolved it is in my next post. Thank you everyone for your quick and informative responses!

I haven't edited a video in 2 weeks. Now when I try to use the Dip to Black transition effect on a clip to fade to black - the effect fades to black for half the transition, then fade out of black in the second half. I'm not putting half the transition on one video clip, and the other half on the other. It's supposed to end at the one clip. I can extend the clip to the end of the entire video and it works properly. Then move it back and it does it again. It doesn't matter when or where this effect is added. It only operates based on whether or not a video clip is next. I've attached an image showing this.

None of the previous Dip to Black fixes work on this issue, which is why I'm posting this new possible bug. You can't even go to Effects Controls, and change the Alignment. It already says End at Cut, but it's ghosted out. Additionally, there's no way to adjust the Start and End to fix this - they show it's starting at 0.0 and ending at 100.0.

If this change is intentional, it doesn't seem to have a workaround that I can figure out. I need a Dip to Black that dips to black and doesn't transition back from a halfway point. Thank you!

Premiere Pro Version 25.3.0 (Build 84)

Windows 11 Home
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.4484

[Rach McIntire]

Hi @luvmykidz74,

Thanks so for all this info.  Did anything change in the two weeks?  Is this a project you started and didn't work on for two weeks, and when you came back, the effect was glitched, or was it a new project? 
I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. When I look in the Effect Controls, I do see the End at Cut option grayed out (which is what i would expect), but I can still adjust the duration and the start and end points. Are you saying those options are also grayed out for you?

Also,  I'm curious why use the Dip to Black over a Cross Fade?  It's always interesting to me.   If you add a black clip at the end of the timeline and then use the Dip to Black that might be a solution if you are set on that effect.  Sorry for the frustration, and thanks for reaching out.

[luvmykidz74 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the great responses everyone. This is user error on my part. I compared my previous project from 2 weeks ago to this one and realized I didn't apply the Dip to Black effect on the video itself. Which if done as in the Previous image, the dip to black effect works as I intended.

What I haven't realized until now is the Dip to Black feature applied to all layers dip to black at the halfway point, but the effect applied on the 1st track seems to dictate how the higher tracks operate. So long as track 1 has the effect applied, the higher tracks will stay dipped to black from the halfway point onward.

I've just used this effect for years because it works, and I haven't had problems with it. In this case I didn't add the effect to track 1 like I always do - an oversight on my part - so that's why the results I wanted were not achieved.

BTW thank you for the Cross Dissolve recommendation as well. I applied it to the same tracks as I did Dip to Black and it works even better for what I want.

This issue is fully resolved for me now. Thank you everyone!

[Ann Bens]

Its not a bug but rather how Dip to Black transition works.

If you want to use Dip to Black as a single side transition, you will most of the time have to tweak the parameters in the Effect Controls.

Dip to Black used as an End Cut:

For a clip at Start of cut it's the opposite tweaking.

IMO is best to use Dip to Black only as a double-sided transition.

But you still have the cross dissolve, which does not need tweaking.

[Peru Bob]

Keyframe the opacity instead.