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Doc95942

Newbie Joined: May 18, 2015 02:56 Messages: 10 Offline

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May 21, 2015 08:42

I am editing 4 - 1 hour takes of a stage play musical. I split a scene, then used crop to zoom in a little, then applied the straight 2d fade transition. In the transition, the scene zooms in and up, then black,then to next scene. There is no black between scenes.

Is the fade confused by the crop?

I'm a newbie on PD 13, Lenovo G570, 2GHz, 4G RAM, Intel HD GPU onboard

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 21, 2015 09:07

Quote: I am editing 4 - 1 hour takes of a stage play musical. I split a scene, then used crop to zoom in a little, then applied the straight 2d fade transition. In the transition, the scene zooms in and up, then black,then to next scene. There is no black between scenes.

Is the fade confused by the crop?

I'm a newbie on PD 13, Lenovo G570, 2GHz, 4G RAM, Intel HD GPU onboard

Most fade transitions do not go to Black. If you want fade to black you have to modify the transition to add the black.

One method: How to fade to black

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/41467.page#213894 Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Longedge

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline

May 21, 2015 13:32

Just bye the bye, I've noticed that one of several differences between fade and cross fade is that the latter does a zoom in/out whilst doing the fade.

p.s. Just to add to what Carl said, have you extended the timeline and checked that you haven't got a gap between the clips where the fade is taking place. It's easily done to get a very small gap unintentionally.

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Doc95942

Newbie Joined: May 18, 2015 02:56 Messages: 10 Offline

May 29, 2015 15:30

Thanks Carl and Longedge for reply.
There was a gap between clips, so black showed in fade.

Question 1: How do I insure that a clip I drag to the timeline is butted up without a gap?

Longedge

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline

May 29, 2015 17:07

Quote: Question 1: How do I insure that a clip I drag to the timeline is butted up without a gap?

My habit is to watch very carefully when I drag a new element on the timeline up to the last/previous one. I've got so that I can see the new clip or image snap into place. I add transitions as I go along and constantly preview the movie over the last transition. I also tend to work with the timeline stretched out so that only a small part of the project is showing onscreen and I use the scrubber at the bottom to move backwards and forwards. Just my way of working and I'm sure everyone develops their own habits. The important thing is to be aware of the (many) ways in which things can go awry so you can correct if necessary - and you're now aware of one of them

The Shadowman

Senior Contributor Location: UK Joined: Dec 15, 2014 13:06 Messages: 1831 Offline

May 29, 2015 18:59

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Question 1: How do I insure that a clip I drag to the timeline is butted up without a gap?

I'm not at my machine, but from memory you can select "turn snapping on" I think it is on the preview quality button under the preview screen. If not, its one of those buttons. Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jun 15, 2015 09:28

Quote: Follow-up to hours ago: the playback mode "Play the selected title only" does not stop at completion and return to the menu. The titles just play through in sequence.
Is it PD or is it me?

Wouldn't it be nice to just set up a template then click and drag the content to a button for assignment?

Shopping for the correct menu structure in DZM, without descriptions, seems too tedious...or is it me?
Today I spent 7 hours straight (6 hours yesterday) reviewing tutorials 3X and getting no progress.!!

The difference is Chapters vs Titles.

Chapters are when you have a single video and you create Chapters in the chapter room. (You only have one video in Create Disk).

Titles are when you have separate projects or videos and you add them to Create Disk on the Content Tab. (You have multiple videos in Create Disk).

The playback functions only work on Titles. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jun 15, 2015 21:02

Quote: Carl.
I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my head around that. Is there a PDtoots video about it?

Not that I know of.

There are several tutorials on the Power Director Menu system, but I do not remember seeing any on the Chapters vs Titles.

I will show you a screen shot of create disk with six titles and the structure. I have added three chapters to each Title. I am showing you that you can have projects that have chapters in each Title.

The first image is just the Titles. The Second image is showing the structure.

Create Disk Contents_Titles


Filename	CreateDisk_Contents_Titles_Structure_720.png	Download
Description	The same Titles showing the structure
Filesize	73 Kbytes
Downloaded:	170 time(s)


Filename	CreateDisk_Contents_Titles_720.png	Download
Description	Contents tab of Create Disk
Filesize	73 Kbytes
Downloaded:	186 time(s)

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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.