Fade to white - A follow-up post to an earlier one, having an issue

goody_fyre11

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Sep 29, 2019 09:25

A while ago I asked if there was a way to use the Fade transition to fade to and from white rather than black, and that I needed it for some videos. I was told that no such transition exists. Since changing 00000000 to FFFFFFFF is seemingly too hard for PowerDirector's developers, someone did provide a workaround.

Their workaround was to create an all-white clip, either an image or a video, then use two Crossfade transitions to transition to and from the white clip, giving the same effect.

I tried this and ran into an issue. As you can see from this example clip, the Crossfade transition has a "zooming" effect that will ruin the videos I'm adding a white fade to. I don't see an option to get rid of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YalEjbpDacc

Is there any way to make Crossfade transitions WITHOUT that zooming in and out effect? Just like the bitrate limit, this zooming effect was unnecessarily added and should be optional, not forced.

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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Sep 29, 2019 09:46

Several ways to achieve without the zoom. Just use a fade at the end of one clip and then the beginning of the next clip. One can also use the PIP fade option with fade in and fade out or grab the green opacity line at the top of the clip in the time line, add a keyframe and reduce opacity to 0 or your liking and adjust duration with the keyframe.

Jeff


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goody_fyre11

Member Joined: Jul 10, 2018 21:18 Messages: 56 Offline

Sep 29, 2019 17:42

A fade at the end and the beginning? I tried that but Fade just fades to and from black, not white like I need, so the Fade transition isn't useful in this case.

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Sep 29, 2019 17:47

You simply need a white colorboard as in track 1 in the pic, then it will fade to white, or for that matter, any color of colorboard that you use, default is a black screen.

Jeff