Improve workflow - applying fades

Harry Maes

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2013 04:38 Messages: 48 Offline

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Oct 15, 2013 03:54

I'm looking for ways to more quickly apply fades:

I normally double click a video in the timeline and activate fade-in/fade-out and change the duration.
New in PD12 is that these are "remembered" as KeyFrame attributes now so I can select all other videos after setting only the fade settings of one video and apply them. Pity is that for different lengths it applies the opacity settings exactly at the same spot of the original video which is only an issue at the end of each video of course. It helps to quickly set a fade-in but the fade-out needs work.

I also noticed when you paste the keyframe fades to another video and double click it, the fade-in/fade-outs are not checked in the window. Must be a bug?

So concretely:

- How can I set a fade-in/fade-out in one video with a certain duration and copy that to all other video's with only one or very few commands if that's possible? Or what type of transition will give me an identical result?

Thanks for your replies!

RobAC

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Oct 19, 2013 03:16

Not sure if this will help- but I prefer to use transitions.
In PD12 you should be able to right click the Transitions between your clips and set the Duration.

Which I think is awesome since I no longer have to mess with Duration in Preferences every time I want to lengthen or shorten the stock Fade transition.

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Harry Maes

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2013 04:38 Messages: 48 Offline

Oct 19, 2013 03:31

Quote: Not sure if this will help- but I prefer to use transitions.
In PD12 you should be able to right click the Transitions between your clips and set the Duration.

Which I think is awesome since I no longer have to mess with Duration in Preferences every time I want to lengthen or shorten the stock Fade transition.

Rob

I've been trying transitions which can be applied to all videos at once. Couldn't get the same effect as a fade out of one video and a fade in on another? Or am I doing something wrong?
Which transition do you use?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Oct 19, 2013 05:44

Hi Harry -

Do you mean you'd like to fade to black between clips?

If so, you can just apply a postfix fade to clip 1 and a prefix fade to clip 2.

If not, can you give a little more detail?

Cheers - Tony
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Harry Maes

Newbie Joined: Jan 25, 2013 04:38 Messages: 48 Offline

Oct 19, 2013 05:48

Quote: Hi Harry -

Do you mean you'd like to fade to black between clips?

If so, you can just apply a postfix fade to clip 1 and a prefix fade to clip 2.

If not, can you give a little more detail?

Cheers - Tony

Hi Tony,

Yes, that is what I would like indeed. I'm looking for ways to make this a one command action to apply to all videos? Is that possible?

I'm now using the key frame option which is already faster but I need to make changes when lengths of videos differ.

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Oct 19, 2013 06:42

Harry -

The short answer is no.

Despite the dropdown saying "Apply fading transition to all videos > Prefix", it only applies it to the END od the whole thing (not each video).

I can't offer you an easy solution.

Cheers - Tony
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Harry Maes

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Oct 20, 2013 05:43

Quote: Harry -

The short answer is no.

Despite the dropdown saying "Apply fading transition to all videos > Prefix", it only applies it to the END od the whole thing (not each video).

I can't offer you an easy solution.

Cheers - Tony

Ok, I'll find a way that's the quickest for me. Thanks for your answers!