Quote: At first it worked fine but now my clips are freezing just before they fade out.

Shortening the dissolve length will lessen the impact of a CROSSFADE freeze. In that mode, as the dissolve begins the TO image is frozen until the halfway mark. Then the TO motion commences and the FROM clip freezes until the effect is complete. That's the nature of the beast.

You can get rid of the freeze entirely by choosing the OVERLAP mode. EDIT|PREFS|EDITING to set the default. Or right click on the effect and make a one-time change there by clicking on "modify transition behavior." Be aware that the overlap mode changes the length of the clips involved. CROSS does not.

Or you can place the two clips on different tracks and use keyframes to set opacity: as the FROM goes to black the TO fades up.

HELP for "transitions" has the explanation.

Thank you, Id actually just worked out that Id inadvertantly set my default to cross last night, hense the problem. Was going to post my mistake on here, but thanks for the answer. I havent tried using keyframes yet. Is there any advice / tutorials on this anywhere? Thanks again, Glenn

Quote: I haven't tried using keyframes yet. Is there any advice / tutorials on this anywhere? Thanks again, Glenn

Search the WEB for "PowerDirector keyframes" and you will come upon several tutorials. Some are for earlier PD versions, but the same principles apply.

In the illustration below two stills area overlapped on separate video tracks.
The first is double-clicked (same as clicking on MODIFY) to bring up the PIP designer.
Clicking on the small diamond to the left of the OPACITY field creates a keyframe.

At the left is the OPACITY slider (scroll down to see it)...
Move the scrubber (the red vertical bar) to the right by a second or so, then set opacity to zero. That creates a second keyframe.
Preview the effect. You will see that as opacity decreases the first track fades and the second pops on.

Double-click that track and set the keyframes just the opposite of the first track - starting at zero opacity, then rising to 100% at the second keyframe, about a second later. Thus, track one fades out as overlapping track two fades in.



Experiment. Keep in mind that the distance between keyframes determines how quickly the action - opacity or any other - will occur. Note the line with dots in each clip. That line graphically displays the opacity level and keyframes. You can drag that line and its keyframe dots to alter opacity and timings - just as you can in the PIP designer.

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Quote: recently started using power director 12 and I mostly use the fade transition between clips. At first it worked fine but now my clips are freezing just before they fade out. with another editing program that happened if the clip ended and you coulkd trim it down a bit, but that doesnt help here, anyone got any ideas? thanks, Glenn

And common PD12 stumble during the transition when the preview, however after rendering should play normally.
Besides the transitions shown in PD12 was added the option overlay video, drag the video over another, see image

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Good input here, a good read, thanks.
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