Hello,

I've searched awhile on this forum and thought I came up with a fix for my problem, but it seems my issue's still there...

I'm editing footage from a wedding in which 2 cameras were used for different angles. I understand that there is only one master video track in PD8, so the footage from camera 2 gets put in a PIP track. Perfectly fine, until I discovered there is no ability (to my knowledge) to apply transitions (fade is all I use) from camera 1 to camera 2!!! What???

In reading through these forums, I found a workaround in which the edited footage is produced to .avi, which is then reused as a new project. I split the timeline at the appropriate points at which I wished to apply the transitions, but then found that since the fade function requires overlap of the footage on either side of the transition (obviously) that the AUDIO is also transitioned. Which absolutely messes up dialog (it mixes either side so as to sometimes become unintelligible), to say nothing about what happens trying to transition during music situations! Terrible!

I've used Adobe Premiere, as well as Ulead products in the past, and never have I ever experienced a product which cannot transition easily between 2 different video tracks, using one common audio track. This should be a simple part of any editing program as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy a lot of the features of PD8, but this one thing may be a deal breaker as far as what I need a video editor for...

Am I missing something here? Is there any other procedure that I haven't tried that I should be trying?

Thanks for any help!

Jason