CROSS FADE IN PD9

Peter Ilyk

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 18, 2011 07:15 Messages: 27 Offline

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Jan 19, 2011 07:23

i wonder if anyone can help with an issue I have with PD9. I've been trialling PD9 for a couple of weeks - and find that it is a relatively gpood editing program with a lot of good features (but several limitations in the audio department. My problem is with the transitions - or really one transition in particular. There is no transition called 'cross-fade" (which is generally one of the most used transitions in editing). There is a transtion called "cross" - which I assume is the PD version of the normal cross-fade transition. But this is a let down - because there is no nice fading in/out of the 2 clips to which it is applied. Instead, the clips turn dark at the start of transition point rather than having a nice clean fade in/out of the clips from the start to the end of the transition.This completely spoils the effect. I've never seen this sort of cross-fade transition elsewhere - certainly Corel Movie Studio Pro X3 doesn't doesn't do this - neither does Final Cut Express. Is there any reason why PD9 does this - and is there any way of fixing this so that there is a nice clean cross fade between the clips to which the transition is applied??

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Peter Ilyk

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Jan 19, 2011 10:26

Peter,
1. Please download the latest trial and test that.
2. The Transition FADE is what you're after.

I think you're using an earlier build trial which has been corrected - I'm concerned you're having problems with your current trial build.

The transition does fade when placed between clips, you can also select the length - using click and drag. There is also a selectable (right click) Cross Type transition rather than the Overlay Type which is now the default transition. Placing a black color board provides the fade to black.

alternatively PiP Designer offers a FADE which when activated offers editors a manual "rubber band" keyframe adjustment in the tracks OR altering the keyframes from within PiP Designer. I prefer this last method.

Fade is fully available in PD9 and many of us use the feature in editing.

Dafydd

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pjc3

Senior Member Location: Australia Joined: May 29, 2010 19:33 Messages: 247 Offline

Jan 19, 2011 14:03

May I just add that if you place the fade transition at the end or beginning of a clip it will fade to black, but if you place it across the end/beginning of adjoining tracks it will blend the two tracks as a crossfade. Panasonic SD9, Panasonic TM700, Panasonic SD600, GoPro HD Hero.

Peter Ilyk

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 18, 2011 07:15 Messages: 27 Offline

Jan 20, 2011 02:09

Dafydd/PJC3

Thanks for the quick response.

This does indeed work. My problem was that in the preferrence settings, the default transition is called "cross fade"[which is the usual name for this sort of transition]. So when I was editingf and looking in transitions, I couldn't find anything called "cross fade". I assumed that the "fade" transition was the usual "fade to black".

But having used the "fade" transition between 2 clips, it is indeed a nice cross fade (which is what it is called in preferences). A pity they couldn 't keep their naming consistent throughout the program. But all's well that ends well!!.

So thanks for you great help. I'll probably add this program to my other editing programs as it is quite good (although some of the audio editing features could be improved).

Thanks again

Peter Peter Ilyk