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ClintMayers
ClintMayers
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December 3, 2023
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Dip to White or Black transitions apply to Program Out instead of just between two clips

  • December 3, 2023
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Premiere Pro ver 24.0.3 (Build 2) and 24.2.0.34 (Preview)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, X570 AORUS Master MB, 128GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

M.2 SSD 2 TB 

Applies to various files and types working with 4:2:0 8-bit formats.

Windows 11 Pro Build 22621

This issue applies in both GPU Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration and Software emulation.

 

To recreate:

1. Create new project

2. Add any three clips.

3. Add any one clip to bottom layer of a timeline.  (drag-and-drop to auto create)

4. Above, that layer, we are going to add the final two videos to create a picture-in-picture with a transition between them.  So, resize them to 50% and leave enough handles for the transitions.

5. Add a cross-dissolve to prove it works as expected.

6. Change the transition to dip-to-white or dip-to-black.

 

EXPECTED: to just have the transition apply between the two clips.

ACTUAL RESULTS:  dips to white or black apply to the entire Program output, not just the two down-scaled videos placed on a higher layer.   It's as if applying a Matte on the top layer and dippig the opacity from 0 to 100% and back instead of between the clips.

WORKAROUND: Nest clips.  But this is inconvenient.

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    Correct answer Ann Bens

    It's not a bug (tested it in CS6).

    Nest clips with dip to white, then scale this nest down (as you have been doing).

    2 replies

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    December 3, 2023

    The "dip" transitions need the clips to be on same track for "expected" behavior. Which is why Ann suggested nesting.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    ClintMayers
    ClintMayersAuthor
    Participant
    December 4, 2023

    Thanks.  If you look at the image I provided, I did place the clips on the same track.  It actually works as expected with other transitions, such as, the cross-dissolve.  I already commented that I knew it could nest, but that it's inconvenient and doesn't follow the paradigm of expected use.  It may have been like this for a long time, but I have used the transition before when it was scaled or had a mask applied, but regardless, it's not an expected behavior.

      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 4, 2023

      Cross dissolve works with transparency. Dip turns opaque on the entire frame/sequence setting.

        Ann Bens
        Community Expert
        Ann BensCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
        Community Expert
        December 3, 2023

        It's not a bug (tested it in CS6).

        Nest clips with dip to white, then scale this nest down (as you have been doing).

        ClintMayers
        ClintMayersAuthor
        Participant
        December 4, 2023

        Thanks.  I get the workaround, but it's not logically how I would expect to do transitions.  I'm not sure how this is coded underneath, but as a software developer, I would likely have it work the identical way other transitions are done, such as when using the cross-disolve.  It is on a layer of it's own and should be pre-processed and then, laid on top of lower tracks.  There should be a consistency.  It's inconvenient haviing to nest things and makes it sloppier.

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