Transition is working in reverse

Bastian74

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Feb 07, 2013 18:44

I put a fade out followed by a fade in, however it's forcing it fade-out followed by another fade-out.

How do you tell it which way to fade?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 07, 2013 19:06

Hi Bastian -

Does your timeline (at the fades) look like this?

Here - that is behaving as expected - the first clips fades to black & the next fades in from black.

Cheers - Tony


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Bastian74

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Feb 07, 2013 19:10

More like this


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James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Feb 07, 2013 19:21

Hi,
From the image you posted there is a huge gap between clips....try narrowing the gap... or eliminating it...gaps produuce black screens..
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Bastian74

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Feb 07, 2013 19:22

Not when there is video on an above track

Cranston

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Aug 17, 2007 02:26 Messages: 1667 Offline

Feb 07, 2013 19:50

Bastian74,

I’ve had a similar (perhaps not exact) thing happen in timeline scenarios that were like what you show in your screen shot.
At first applied transitions behave as expected, but then after further editing, these transitions now seemed to work in reverse all of a sudden.
It doesn’t seem to just be a matter of whether I’m using a Cross or Overlap type of transition, because at one time the applied transition(s) were working as desired.

So, I simply remove the transitions that are now working in reverse, save as to .pds, close my PD, re-open, re-apply the transitions and all is well again.
I don’t know why or what triggers this to happen now and then, as it seems to happen inconsistently.

Just sharing what has worked for me, when transitions all of a sudden decide to reverse themselves.
It’s bit of a hassle, but I’m a PD editor, so we do whatever works I guess.

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Feb 07, 2013 20:49

Ah - now I understand...

Yes - an annoying problem.

One way to avoid it (even though it shouldn't happen) is to set the fade outs & fade ins in PiP Designer.

Cheers - Tony


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PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Feb 07, 2013 21:18

[ynotfish] your suggestion is right, however I think as other uses also other transitions, besides the Fad in / out.
What I think is best to save the project ready, open and go straight to Producer, always works here, PD10, PD11 in not seen happen yet.

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ynotfish

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Feb 07, 2013 22:38

Yes -

I understand it only applies to a simple fade transition & doesn't apply to the other 160. Sorry - I was just talking about this particular case.

Cheers - Tony
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