Long time to change transition length

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Long time to change transition length - my solution

Watercolorwilly

Senior Member Location: Phoenix Joined: Mar 13, 2011 11:35 Messages: 211 Offline

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Oct 15, 2011 14:59

Since PD 8 I have complained to tech support and forum about my dislike for the unusual length of time to apply a length change of a transition already on the track.

I happily just upgraded to PD 10 and, despite the wonderful new features that I am enjoying, the transition length problem continued to take up to a minute each time (an eternity in software times. My workaround was to use the Preferences to change the default time to make the change instantly as I applied the transition between photos.

UNTIL . . . I inadvertently changed the Behavior of the transition in PD 10, which I learned about in the tutorial which displayed its new graphic window. I had left it at "Overlap" default over all the versions as it didn't matter to me. Now, as I evaluated Cross versus Overlap, I noticed with delight that in changing the length of the transition, in accomplished instantaneously when my choice is"Cross."

I wonder if I'm the only one who has observed this solution. I think a number of users have complained about this in the past.

Bill Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM

rbowser

Contributor Joined: Aug 08, 2011 16:48 Messages: 515 Offline

Oct 16, 2011 01:23

Great tip, Bill - I think you'll be generally happier with "Cross" as the default action anyway. "Overlap" can cause all sorts of problems if the user isn't ready for their clips to become totally out of sync with the timing they had previous to overlapping.

RB

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