Overlap Video Clip Without Affecting Sound

Peter13

Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2015 18:17 Messages: 45 Offline

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Jun 08, 2019 13:27

I want to split a video clip of a song, crop the video to a close-up, and then add a cross (overlap?) fade between the two without affecting the sound. In PD 13, I could do this easily by making a copy of the full video and putting it directly below the original, splitting each video and trashing the end of the first one of the first and the beginnin of the second to leave an overlap, and put in a fade effect at the end of the first and the beginning of the second. Now that I've upgraded to PD 17, I can't seem to make this work.

TDK1044

Member Joined: Apr 11, 2019 12:27 Messages: 130 Offline

Jun 08, 2019 13:59

Quote I want to split a video clip of a song, crop the video to a close-up, and then add a cross (overlap?) fade between the two without affecting the sound. In PD 13, I could do this easily by making a copy of the full video and putting it directly below the original, splitting each video and trashing the end of the first one of the first and the beginnin of the second to leave an overlap, and put in a fade effect at the end of the first and the beginning of the second. Now that I've upgraded to PD 17, I can't seem to make this work.

If I'm understanding your issue correctly, don't you just need to make an audio only recording of your song, sync it up with the audio on your video clip, and then mute the sound on your video clip? Now you're effectively editing a music video.

Peter13

Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2015 18:17 Messages: 45 Offline

Jun 08, 2019 20:54

My problems is not actually with the audio but with transitioning between video clips. I need to fade from one clip to another in a song without altering the length of the total video. I can't seem to make this work.

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optodata

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Jun 08, 2019 21:49

Quote My problems is not actually with the audio but with transitioning between video clips. I need to fade from one clip to another in a song without altering the length of the total video. I can't seem to make this work.

The simplest answer is to your question is to change the transition type from Overlap to Cross before you place the transition. That's how you can connect two clips without changing the duration of either one.

There are plenty of other ways to accomplish this, as tomasc was pointing out, so try this and post back if you need more suggestions.

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Peter13

Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2015 18:17 Messages: 45 Offline

Jun 09, 2019 00:08

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You accidentally deleted one of the [ /quotePostID ] tags in your last post, so the formatting is off, so if you can go back and edit it that would help!

The simplest answer is to your question is to change the transition type from Overlap to Cross before you place the transition. That's how you can connect two clips without changing the duration of either one.

There are plenty of other ways to accomplish this, as tomasc was pointing out, so try this and post back if you need more suggestions.

Thank you, this solved my problem!