Trouble with Fade Transition

Aaron Richards

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 21, 2010 16:20 Messages: 24 Offline

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Jan 27, 2011 16:45

Hi, its been a while since I used PD8, but I never had this problem with PD8.

I now have PD9, and when I put the Fade Transition in between 2 different sections of video in the timeline, it comes out a little blocky when I produce.

I have a Canon HFS11 and use 1920 X 1080 (24 fames) when I record onto the camera. And I use the same setting in AVC when I produce the video in PD9

It does automatically set itself on SVRT when I pick the 1920 X 1080 (24 fames) setting in Produce.

Some of the fades are smooth, and others are a little blocky and almost freeze for a tiny bit.

My laptop is a Toshiba Qosmio i7, 64bit and it was plenty fast enough for PD8

Im not sure if I have all the setting correct on "Preferences" under Produce and Hardware ?

Thanks

Aaron

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James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Jan 27, 2011 22:32

Are you using a cross transition or an overlap? Is the freeze during the fade or immediately after? __________________________________
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Aaron Richards

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 21, 2010 16:20 Messages: 24 Offline

Jan 27, 2011 22:47

Its freezing during the fade, and I used overlap.

Im going to have another go tonight. But I'll try to be very careful when I drag and drop the different sections of video around the timeline.

In PD8 if I dragged video around the timeline, from where I dragged it from, the gap between the remaining sections of video in the timeline would automatically close, but whith PD9 they remain where they are, and I have to physically drag all of them one at a time back in a continiuos line again.

I did some paragliding footage the other day, and I have lots of short pieces of footage (about 10 seconds long each) I want to put together and fade from one to the other. I tried this last night, but maybe there was some tiny gaps in between my sections of video (because in PD9 when I drag and drop pieces of footage, I get that "Gap" between the sections of video that I have to go back and re-fill in) Maybe I have missed something that I need to do in PD9 so it automatically fills the gaps in the timeline once I move a section of footage out of it.

Some of the fades were ok, but there was alot that were blocky.

Aaron

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Aaron Richards

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 21, 2010 16:20 Messages: 24 Offline

Jan 30, 2011 23:41

I went back to using PD8, and the fades between scenes works smooth.

CubbyHouseFilms

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Jan 31, 2011 00:30

Quote: I went back to using PD8, and the fades between scenes works smooth.

A few of us have

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Aaron Richards

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 21, 2010 16:20 Messages: 24 Offline

Jan 31, 2011 02:55

PD8 worked well, this was the video I ended up making http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpwjmWfSO4E

Aaron

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Jan 31, 2011 03:11

Great video and even better camera work

Happing editing

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Aaron Richards

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 21, 2010 16:20 Messages: 24 Offline

Jan 31, 2011 03:18

I had lots of footage I had to cut, to fit it all in a 4.5 min song.

In PD9 each fade was blocky. Maybe my computer just likes PD8 better.

Aaron

Dafydd B

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Jan 31, 2011 06:58

Aaron, did you read the following post by Robert? http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15635.page

Dafydd

Aaron Richards

Newbie Location: Australia Joined: Jan 21, 2010 16:20 Messages: 24 Offline

Jan 31, 2011 07:14

Thanks for the link. I do have nvidia video card 260 series. I did update the driver about 5 months ago. I'll give PD9 another go once it gets sorted out.

Aaron

NicolasNY

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Feb 26, 2011 17:45

Since Aaron correlation sack the subject in my post http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30/15517.page , i have noted in make case, that in almost all CROSS transitions, there is a pause in the last frame of the first clip between the two transitions. I have an ATI card with v11.1 driver installed. Now, I take the liberty of creating a test project using OVERLAP transition and does not occur.

Does in some cases (diferent computers) PD have problems with NVIDIA card using OVERLAP transitions and ATI cards with CROSS?

All vodi

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Feb 28, 2011 14:21

Yes. I can confirm that on ATI. Cross transitions seem to create more problems (release 2504) than overlap. Sometimes to the point of either a PD9 crash or what is even more STRANGE is a total halt of the program. BUT not in a way that Windows thinks that PD9 has stopped working, it just goes into a perpetual idol state that one can exit from by selecting "Cancel Rendering". Win 10, i7

mrtrainer

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Aug 22, 2011 23:53

I've found (with NVIDIA anyways) that transitions will always freeze a frame, regardless of overlap or cross, if I use the auto populate button.

Most transitions work very smooth ONLY if I manually instert it into the timeline as an OVERLAP transition. You'll know it works when you right click on the inserted transition and it does not give you the option to switch to a cross transition. I know it sucks using the overlap method as truely this is not a real transition since clip "B" is always black!

Notice I said most transitions will be smooth using this manual method. Glass 2 is an example of a transition that is NEVER smooth.

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