Transitions in PD14

7Phil77

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Mar 20, 2018 00:30

I am making a video of 100 photos with a music track.
Each photo is joined to the next photo by a Fade Transition and made to happen at the beat of the music..
The choice is either Overlap or Cross.
I have chosen Cross but alas they are all clearly showing as Overlap. This is evidenced by the next photo starting to show at the same time as the Fade Transition starts to take effect on the previous photo.
Am I doing something wrong?
Or will the finished video show the correct Cross Fade effect?
If so, this is very misleading.

Another problem is that if I want to add a Zoom In special effect to each photo this causes some difficulties with the (Cross) Fade Transition. As soon as the cursor touches the Cross Fade Transition the next photo is beginning to Zoom in but when it actually reaches the join between the two photos the second photo immediately zooms out to full size.
Or again is this not what will show in the finished video? Phil
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The Shadowman

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Mar 20, 2018 08:04

Quote I am making a video of 100 photos with a music track.
Each photo is joined to the next photo by a Fade Transition and made to happen at the beat of the music..
The choice is either Overlap or Cross.
I have chosen Cross but alas they are all clearly showing as Overlap. This is evidenced by the next photo starting to show at the same time as the Fade Transition starts to take effect on the previous photo.
Am I doing something wrong?
Or will the finished video show the correct Cross Fade effect?
If so, this is very misleading.

Another problem is that if I want to add a Zoom In special effect to each photo this causes some difficulties with the (Cross) Fade Transition. As soon as the cursor touches the Cross Fade Transition the next photo is beginning to Zoom in but when it actually reaches the join between the two photos the second photo immediately zooms out to full size.
Or again is this not what will show in the finished video?

Hi Phil

Have you selected "overlap" in Preferences Editing? Have you tried giving the photos a longer duration? Lastly, have you considered the "Motion" slideshow. By what you describe I would say it's just what you want as it is fully customisable.

Worth a shot

Robert Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

7Phil77

Senior Member Joined: May 27, 2009 02:54 Messages: 195 Offline

Mar 20, 2018 09:20

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Quote I am making a video of 100 photos with a music track.
Each photo is joined to the next photo by a Fade Transition and made to happen at the beat of the music..
The choice is either Overlap or Cross.
I have chosen Cross but alas they are all clearly showing as Overlap. This is evidenced by the next photo starting to show at the same time as the Fade Transition starts to take effect on the previous photo.
Am I doing something wrong?
Or will the finished video show the correct Cross Fade effect?
If so, this is very misleading.

Another problem is that if I want to add a Zoom In special effect to each photo this causes some difficulties with the (Cross) Fade Transition. As soon as the cursor touches the Cross Fade Transition the next photo is beginning to Zoom in but when it actually reaches the join between the two photos the second photo immediately zooms out to full size.
Or again is this not what will show in the finished video?

Hi Phil

Have you selected "overlap" in Preferences Editing? Have you tried giving the photos a longer duration? Lastly, have you considered the "Motion" slideshow. By what you describe I would say it's just what you want as it is fully customisable.

Worth a shot

Robert

Robert, Thanks for that advice. I also found a video explaining the Preferences in Editing and was surprised to see it was set at Overlap so I changed it to Cross. I never knew this existed before and have made several similar videos using photos.
I was equally surprised to see from the video that I needed to manually place a Fade Cross Transition at the end of one photo and again at the beginning of the next photo to get the effect I needed on all the photos between the first and last. Multiply that by 52 photos and that is a lot of manual placing of 104 Fade Cross Transitions with a duration of 1 second each. At the beginning and the end I use a longer Fade Transition.
The duration of the photos seems not to be a problem.
The Zoom In problem has been eliminated with using the Fade Cross Transitions.
Thanks again. Phil
Tell the truth - but gently.

PD14 Ultra
i5-6600K OC CPU, Asus Z170-P Motherboard, 4G Asus GeForce GTX 960, 240GB SSD, 1 x 1TB Seagate HDD, 1x 1TB SSD external backup HDD, 8GB RAM