Transitions make your video shorter

robboyle18

Newbie Joined: Sep 03, 2011 01:49 Messages: 15 Offline

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Mar 31, 2012 10:49

Hi there. I discovered that transitions make your video shorter. If you have a 3 minute video and you insert a transition in the middle, the video becomes shorter by 2 seconds. This is fine unless you have locked the audio and then your audio goes out of sync in the final production.

I did a music video and I put in a 10 second clip of a "2nd camera" in the middle (just video, no audio.) I put in two transitions and the audio went out of sync. The way I fixed it was to add some time to the front of the middle clip and also to the front of the next clip. I reduced the same amount of time at the end of those two clips. I don't know if I am explaining this right (it's a bit complex for my brain) but you can see the final 3 minute YouTube music video at http://youtu.be/lZLtmCWTbwY (you may have to post this in your browser.) If anyone has comments on this topic, feel free to reply!

Rob

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Newbie Joined: Mar 05, 2012 23:05 Messages: 12 Offline

Apr 08, 2012 01:58

it's just one of those things that you need to be aware of - it can be frustrating, but once you know you're set for future projects

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Apr 08, 2012 05:24

Hi Rob

Welcome to the volunteer forum

In PowerDirector 10 you have the option of cross or overlap transitions in the preference settings - I'm sure this is the same as PD9.

You can also adjust the default transition length.

Overlap merges and shortens the clip and cross doesn't.

See image and video below

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4qkm_YqVrw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Happy editing

P.S. Just watched your video - great stuff

You said that "I put in a 10 second clip of a "2nd camera" in the middle (just video, no audio.)". You can use a PIP track to drop a '2nd' camera clip (muted of course). This maintains the continuity of the 'action'.

All the best

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Apr 08. 2012 05:36

Happing editing

Best Regards

Neil
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