Auto-fade in/out

PDuser97031B

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Jan 23, 2016 19:39

I am creating dozens of videos that have overlay pictures here and there in the video. I would like to have the pictures fade in and out on the video. Currently I am having to manually drag a fade to the beginning and end of each picture (on a sub track). This is very labor intensive. Must zoom in to see the fade go on (doesn't add unless zoomed in), then zoom out for further editing. I can not find a way to have PD14 automatically add the fade in/out to each picture (they are not adjacent). Doesn't seem to be a way to add fades to all pics on a track after created.

This was one of the productivity improvements requested for PD14.

Does anybody have a trick to accomplish this? Would improve my productivity dramatically.

Thanks. Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

Carl312

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

Jan 23, 2016 19:57

Quote: I am creating dozens of videos that have overlay pictures here and there in the video. I would like to have the pictures fade in and out on the video. Currently I am having to manually drag a fade to the beginning and end of each picture (on a sub track). This is very labor intensive. Must zoom in to see the fade go on (doesn't add unless zoomed in), then zoom out for further editing. I can not find a way to have PD14 automatically add the fade in/out to each picture (they are not adjacent). Doesn't seem to be a way to add fades to all pics on a track after created.

This was one of the productivity improvements requested for PD14.

Does anybody have a trick to accomplish this? Would improve my productivity dramatically.

Thanks.

The fade in, fade out function is already built into powerdirector.

Put all of you overlay pictures in the same track below the main video. select one Image(the first one), click Modify on top of the timeline.

In Modify on the left pane, scroll all the way to the bottom, Check Fade and check fade in and check fade out. Save.

Right click the image you just modified, click Copy Keyframe Attributes. Click the second image, hold Shift Key click the last image. Right click that image > Paste Keyframe attributes.

Save the pds file.

All of the images on that track will fade in display then fade out. 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.

PDuser97031B

Senior Member Joined: Sep 24, 2013 18:13 Messages: 154 Offline

Jan 24, 2016 12:25

Terrific! I knew about the Modify, but not about the Copy Keyframe Attributes. This will help a lot! :o) Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

PDuser97031B

Senior Member Joined: Sep 24, 2013 18:13 Messages: 154 Offline

Jan 25, 2016 18:47

Unfortunately this also copies the images size and proportions, so isn't a workable solution after all. Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Jan 25, 2016 20:12

Put the fade transition in your favorites and remove all others. See this link on the 3rd thread for Tony's method: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/47197.page and the details.

Let us know if this is what you want.

PDuser97031B

Senior Member Joined: Sep 24, 2013 18:13 Messages: 154 Offline

Jan 29, 2016 14:52

I tried this work-around, and it only applied the fades to track-1 - the videos - which is not what I wanted because the video track had multiple pieces that I didn't want fades in. What is needed is a button that says "Apply selected transition to selected objects". Until this happens I will continue the tedious process of manually inserting fades into my PIP track objects. Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

ynotfish

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

Jan 29, 2016 19:21

Hi PDuser97031B -

All you need to do to selectively apply transitions to all is to lock the tracks you don't want affected.

See attached screen capture.

Cheers - Tony

Filename	Fades on selected track.wmv	Download
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Filesize	2185 Kbytes
Downloaded:	394 time(s)

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tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Jan 29, 2016 22:40

Excellent! Tony

PDuser97031B

Senior Member Joined: Sep 24, 2013 18:13 Messages: 154 Offline

Jan 30, 2016 18:34

I'll give this a try. Thanks for your demo clip. :o) Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)

PDuser97031B

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Feb 01, 2016 19:36

ynotfish: Your work-around worked pretty good. I had 5 pictures in a PIP track. I locked the video track, selected a fade and "apply fading transition to all videos" - once for prefix and once for postfix. All 5 pictures got a fade in/out added. Thanks. :o)

p.s. I'd still like to see some kind of improvement where the fade in/out could be automatically included whenever I drag a picture onto a track, but won't hold my breath. Previously known as PDuser97031 (had to create a new user after changing email address)