Quote: I am putting a cross fade in between two clips and it goes in there but when I play it back it stops and jumps back to the start of the clip. why wont it keep playing through so I can see if I want it or to see if I want to make it longer? Why does it just stop and not keep playing through?
how do I make a fade longer if I want it longer?
thanks

Not sure I understand right, this bit confusing to me.
Seems to me that you are trying to put a transition between two clips, but she insists on adding the beginning of the second end of the first clip or clip.
If this is because it has a gap between 2 clips, you should remove the gap, to clip touch other clip. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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Did you select "movie" under the main Preview window instead of "clip" ?

Also place your timeline scrubber before the transition then select "movie" and hit play.

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I did not see that before so now I know to click on movie every time is add a transition. Rather cumbersome I be thinking..
I added some transitions and it threw me out of synch between the audio track and the video. What's up with that? Seems like the cross fade adds time to the video. That's no good is there any way to add cross fade without it throwing me out of synch?
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Quote: I did not see that before so now I know to click on movie every time is add a transition. Rather cumbersome I be thinking..
I added some transitions and it threw me out of synch between the audio track and the video. What's up with that? Seems like the cross fade adds time to the video. That's no good is there any way to add cross fade without it throwing me out of synch?
Thanks

Change the transition (Right Click>Modify Transition or change in Preferences) from Overlap to Cross

Here's a tutorial explaining it:



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Thanks for that. I'll try it in the morning. There wasn't a link for the tutorial but I should be able to get 'er done

Keeping cross fade in cross fade mode works and doesn't alter my timeline and throw me out of synch with my imported audio track. I also noticed in prefs/editing that I can check mark "switch to movie mode automatically during playback" which makes more sense to me.

another question about cross fade. It looks like to me that it zooms in and out during the transition. Are there other cross fades that keep the same size but just cross and not zoom in and out? Maybe available to be bought or gotten otherwise?
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it looks like the fade transition works better for me. thanks