transition effects question

Misonne

Newbie Joined: Nov 26, 2006 02:51 Messages: 1 Offline

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Nov 26, 2006 07:21

Hello,

The first thing I would like to do is congratulate the developpers of "Power Director" : Their program is of a great ease of use and it allows to achieve very professional results. The fact this software became number 1 at www.toptenreviews.com does not surprise me !

However, I have a question regarding "transition effects" : Power Director version 5 (my version) allows very surprising and fabulous transition effects to put in between your video footages but I wonder this :

When you want to apply the most basic transition, just the first video "melting" into the next one which is called a "crossfade", how can you make this in Power Director version 5 ?

I was not able to find the answer by myself and that's why I decided to post that here !

Thanks for your support, thanks for helping me

Bruno

CC

Newbie Joined: Nov 21, 2006 14:42 Messages: 32 Offline

Nov 26, 2006 10:48

Hello,

To add a transition between video clips, select the Transition Section located on the left side of icons; the "transition" icon. There will be a big list of the transitions. Click on the one you want. You'll see it being shown in the preview window.

Drag and Drop it to your timeline in between the videos. Go slow. See that there is a dotted line box that you are moving around. That's the transition. If you dont see it in the timeline once you drop it, open up your timescale line by putting your curson on the timeline bar (it may be yellow?) and dragging to the right. See how the timeline opens up ? You'll see the transition box in there on the timeline. If you want to change the duration of that transition, click on it (you'll see it now is highlighted in green), right click, pick "set Duration". the value is in seconds.

I had a hard time getting used to previewing my movie. Note under the preview window there is Clip and Movie. If you dont see your special effects or transitions being previewed, click on Movie. Then you'll see them ! Sometimes when you want to keep working in Movie mode, the Clip button gets clicked by default. So you have to watch that.

have fun!

CC
ps and please save your project often. It will help in case of errors.

Shawn

Newbie Joined: Aug 04, 2006 16:08 Messages: 33 Offline

Nov 26, 2006 15:37

Hey there,

I'm not sure about Cross-Fade, but Power Director 5 Premium has a Fade transition that might be what you're after. I use it a lot. Should be there in the list somewhere--although if I recall, the trial version didn't have Fade... if you don't have 5.0 Premium (just 5.0) it might not have the Fade transition--it would be too bad if it didn't.

I agree with you. PowerDirector is a great program. I've had some frustrations with limitations, but it's an unbelievably simple program to use and it does so much!

Hope you like using it!

Shawn