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Hi Bubba,
There will be two projects, each with about 200-300 pictures and several short videos. If you have advice or examples for me, (which I would appreciate) it may be best to do so by a new thread or pm.
Regards,
Pax
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There is a related thread at http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/16642.page#83068 which is worth a read.
Actually, I am coming around to Bubba's approach, believing that one can be too lazy. 
On the other hand, fading to/from black takes an awful lot of key strokes if there are a lot of clips. It makes a really good transition. That cannot be done by placing a fade transition in favorites, or in any other way, so far as I know. Can't someone explain how to accomplish this on a wholesale basis??
Pax
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Dave,
I'm sorry. I went back, just to make sure, and I was wrong. All of the clips that are in favorites play randomly, if there is more than one clip in there.
Sorry. Don't know what I was doing differently before, if anything. Perhaps I just goofed.
Pax
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The path that Adrian gave you works today; however, in PD9, it is not necessary to clear out the favorites. Regardless how many favorites you have, simply highlight the one you want repeated and then select "apply random transitions to all", then click "cross fade".
Pax
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Hi Ralph,
I just checked the Introduction To Creative Movie Making book posted by Niel of Cubbyhouse Films. (You need to download this book). On p. 15, it says that it will import MPEG4-AVC / H.264. Since Wave Editor is a stand alone program which accepts PD9 material, you can be confident that it will edit it also.
Hope this helps.
Pax
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Thanks Neil,
I see this was first published in 2011! WOW, now I what CL support has been doing. I have begun to look it over, more than 280 pages, and am already convinced that THIS THING IS A GOLD MINE.
Pax
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Hi Dave,
The reason you are having the problem is that the clip you are trying to insert is larger than the space into which you want to put it.
If the space must stay the same size, and the others cannot change size or move, place the new clip in a track below (or above) the track which contains the space.
If you want to place the clip in the space, you must either enlarge the space or trim the space to fit. That is done by overwriting part of the clips adjacent to the space or by inserting it.
Actually, it doesn't matter if there is any space for the new clip or not. Even if you are inserting over a solid clip, PD9 will do it for you. If you overwrite, none of the other clips move over to make room, but an amount of media equal to the new clip will be removed. If you insert, everything moves over to make room.
If you opt to move everything one way or another to make plenty of room for the new clip, after doing so, you can right click on the remaining gap and choose "remove and close gap" from the menu, and PD9 will do so.
There are more interesting aspects to this, but that should get you into the swing of it. By the way, Hal gave You good advice too.
Pax
P.S. It doesn't matter whether the clip comes from the library or not.
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Congratulations Tony, for consolidating your teachings in this thread into your first post. I think you fully and accurately set out, so that all can understand, the way transitions are selected with the new menu in PD9. In my book, you have risen from hero to Cheerful, Patient and Generous hero.
I see that Danny is happy too.
Pax
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Thanks Tony. 
Pax
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Barry, you are a humbling experience! Why didn't I think of that.
Pax
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Thanks Nina,
I should have done something like that in the first place.
Pax
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It takes time.
Welcome to the forum.
Pax
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Hi Nicole,
The movement on the timeline is because PDd9 is keeping your resized clip in the same relative position viz a viz the other clips in that track.
If you want to resize a clip and do not want it to affect other clips in your video, put it in another track. You have 100 available to you.
Keep it up.
Pax
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Hi Paula,
There is a template (see attachment) in Director Zone, which you can download for free. It has 97 examples of use.
Welcome to the forum.
Pax
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Hi Nicole,
Your issue is actually a little complicated. We do not have enough information to pin point what you are doing.
You just need to understand the commands a little more. I suggest you start with the help files. You can start by searching for the word "insert", one of the subjects discussed is "drag and drop media to a desired position on the timeline", among several others.
Regards,
Pax
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Hi Nina,
Sorry to be too wordy.
1. As Tony says, his toot still works for everything but fade from/to black.
2. The menu in PD9 is different. Tony's toot shows no sub options, even though it still works. So, go ahead and use it, even though it is different now.
3. This does not answer Danny's question; i.e., is there a way to apply a fade to/from black to all clips?
4. Tony and Jaime apparently do not believe so.
QUESTION, does anybody have a workaround? Perhaps some sort of macro?
Regards,
Pax
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Thanks Tony.
You said, "and wouldn't it be nice if you could copy and paste the combined postfix/prefix fade transitions! That would save a lot of dragging and dropping. At least it leaves out the black colour board between each clip that was necessary in PD8." It seems that we are on the same side of the street. If so, I do not understand your response as to my earlier post.
I respectfully point out that your PD Toots http://www.youtube.com/user/ynotfish77#p/u/18/y2aWV4QR3T8 does not show any sub menu of the library menu when in the transitions room. (See attachment)
My PD9 2702 does have three sub options to both "Apply Random Transitions to all" and "Apply Random Transitions to Fade" (See attachment). You seem to acknowledge these options in your response. These sub menus, not appearing in your screen shot of the PD Toots, are what I have reference to in my earlier post. I do not know when these sub menus were applied to PD9, but, because of them, I cannot replicate the actions you describe in your PD Toots. I don't doubt that your Toot is complete as to PD8, but my PD9 is different.
Perhaps you will clarify. Do you have some further advice about this? Is your version of PD9 different than mine? Some sort of work around is what I was hoping for in my earlier post.javascript:emoticon(''); But, if I understand your response, quoted above, you do not have a work around? 
Regards,
Pax
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Hi Danny,
Things have changed since Tony made the PD Toots he refers you to. Now, you can indeed apply random transitions to all clips, except fade in from black and fade out to black. That can only be done as a prefix transition to the first clip and as a postfix transition to the last clip with specific provided commands. There is a remaining command that applies the transition to all clips, but it does so as a cross transition, which is not to and from black.
In order to have a transition to and from black, you must put a fade transition to the end of a clip and another fade transition to the beginning of the next clip. The transitions work quite nicely together, but they are very labor intensive to apply. There is no easy work around, of which I am aware. Hopefully, Cyberlink will add this option at some point.
In the meantime, if anyone knows how to apply, or has developed a macro or something, that applies a fade to and from black to every clip, please explain how to do so or provide the workaround for Danny, myself, and many others. This is my preferred transition. I have earlier requested this transition when we were asked whether we preferred it or cross transitions as the default. I guess I, and those who voted with me did not prevail. However, I do not understand why we cannot have both, at least as options.
Pax
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Quote:
Here's the scenerio:
I cut or remove the clip on the left (the 25 second long clip).
The clip on the right snaps to the left positioning at point 00:00
I want the second clip to remain on the timeline at the original point.
Why is this happening?
Thanks. I'm new to this video editing world.
I think the guys explained how to cope with your issue. However, an explanation as to why this is happening might be a more direct answer to your question.
Having raw video "snap to" the left is a great help during initial editing, especially when the video is large and has a lot of waste footage. As you are deleting the throw away stuff, the snap to keeps the edited footage intact and cohesive. If gaps were left by default, you would have to realign the edited footage into cohesive footage. The insert and overwrite commands, and using the option to lock all tracks while using multiple tracks, are especially useful for finer editing.
In other words, I think the set up is correct, as planned, and not a quirk. I agree with Bubba. That is the way it worked in PD8 too. I do not have as much experience as most of these guys and I could be wrong, but that is the way I see the answer to your question. Others may prefer not to have the snap to, just like some of us prefer fade over cross transitions as the default.
Since you were using a small clip, this advantage would not be so evident. However, I am currently trying to edit two hours of HD video of alligators and such, taken from a moving vehicle in the Florida swamp. There is very little of the raw footage that is usable (I am hoping for ten minutes) and I am happy for the snap to when I initially trim it.
Welcome to the forum. Keep asking questions. These guys are good and willing to help with whatever problem you may be having.
Pax
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Hi smarc1214,
Transitions and cutaways are just scratching the surface.
Pax
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Ron, Don't give up the ship. We need you on the forum.
Pax
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