How to Fade in/out captions without overlap?

[Kekzilla]

If you cross/film dissolve 2 caption graphics that are linked up, the text doesn't fade out nicely. It dissolves into the other one and looks messy.

If you move both captions apart, add the dissolve to the end of 1st clip set to 00:00:00:06 duration and then add another to the start of 2nd clip and set duration to 00:00:00:08 then move the captions back together it'll look nice and fade out. That 00:00:00:02 gap seems to make the difference.

Unfortunately that takes up a lot of time when all I want to do is CTRL-D and mass add a dissolve to all captions.

Is there an efficient way to accomplish that proper fade-in/out without doing this one by one?

[Sami Succar · Accepted solution]

You'll wanna use the Dip To Black transition instead of the Cross Dissolve.

You can find it in the Effects window, under Video Transitions > Dissolve.

If you want Ctrl-D to apply the Dip to Black, you'll need to set it as your default transition, simply right-click on it in the Effects window and set it as default.

[Richard M Knight]

I wouls also turn off 'composite in linear colour' in the sequence settings, I find it makes fades look better.

[Ali Jaber · Accepted solution]

As Sami said, use Dip to black. But dip to black will, as the name suggests, dip to black which will cover your underneath clips with black during the transition. So, you need to set the blending mode of your captions into "Screen" for this to work.

[Kekzilla]

Perfect. That worked great. Now all I do is CTRL-D, set 1 caption blending mode to "screen" copy it and paste it to all captions at once. Seems to work perfectly. Thanks for the help to all of you that replied.

[Ali Jaber]

Great, I was afraid that you have dark strokes or shadows applied to your text, because in this case, these will be removed by the screen mode.