Transition Help

[johnb92603452]

Hi there - I'm creating a slide show for my rehearsal dinner and I'm having trouble with transitions between pictures while using a background.  I'd like to use the background but it bleeds through the pictures during the film dissolve transition.  Is there any way to block out the portion of the background video during the transition? 

Any help you can provide is appreciated!

[aaronallsop]

I may not be understanding you correctly but if you have the photos and the background on different tracks (the background in v1 and photos in v2) then you will just add the transitions to the photos and the background won't be affected.

[johnb92603452]

I have the video in V1 and the photos in V2 and V3.  When the photo transitions from Photo 1 to Photo 2 you can see the background video bleed though during the transition. 

I'm totally new to all this so I may not be describing it properly so I've attached a screen shot

[Peru Bob]

Please post a screenshot of your timeline.

[johnb92603452]

[Peru Bob]

One way:

Move v3 and v4 to v4 and v5.

Put black video on v3 the duration of the transition and crop it to the size of the photos so that it covers that part of the background that is bleeding through.

[johnb92603452]

OK let me try that - thanks for all your help!

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

If you use the transition like this (double sided) you wont have the issue.

[johnb92603452]

Thank you for the suggestion but the background video continues to break through

[johnb92603452]

NEVER MIND!!  I see how you did it after looking again and it totally worked!!

Thank you!!

[aaronallsop]

That screenshot helps out a lot, thank you for posting that.

What is happening is that with the film transition it is dropping the opacity of the first photo and brining up the opacity of the other. Because of that there are times when the opacity are so low that the background bleeds through.

Something you could do is change the transition to dip to black, which will have the first photo fade to black and then the second photo will fade in from black.

[johnb92603452]

OK so I changed the transition to dip to black and that worked for the pictures but it also dips the background video to black as well