• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Multicam Editing transitions

  Posted by Eric Buist on October 20, 2009 at 1:48 pm

  I am doing a multicam edit of a wedding that was shot a few weeks ago. The guy I am doing it for wants to have 15 frame crossfades over everything.

  Is there a way to make every cut a fade, without going through and manually doing it?

  Thanks,

  Eric Buist
  Video.AfterEffects
  http://www.buistmedia.com

  Eric Buist replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mark Hollis

  October 20, 2009 at 5:15 pm

  I’m thinking not. But there is a way to deal with this quickly:

  Go into your preferences (General) and set your video transition to 15 frames. Open up your video transitions, choose Cross Dissolve and make that your default transition by right-clicking that in your transitions and pick “Make Default Transition.” Then go to your start and use the [Page Down] button on yout keyboard and hit [Ctrl]-D to do the dissolve on your first cut. Repeat for length-of-show. Enjoy.

  I don’t do wedding videos any more. Last one was in the 1980s. They tend to completely rewrite the rules on what makes good, watchable television.

  According to the grammar of television, a cut (to me) means a change of angle during an event that is in the same place and time. A dissolve means a change of place or time. A dip to black means someone passed away. Wipes are rarely used or needed (save to mask things or as a special transition for keyed elements).

  I’ll bet you’ll be asked to do a heart wipe.

  What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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  Jon Barrie

  October 21, 2009 at 1:33 am

  There is in CS4. Select the group you want to have the default transition applied to (for video transition only select only the video by holding the alt key down while selecting.) Go to sequence>apply default transitions to selection. all clips that cut against another will take on the default length of the default video transition. Set length in Preferences>General
  – JB

  Jon Barrie
  aJBprods
  http://www.jonbarrie.net
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  Eric Buist

  October 24, 2009 at 3:51 pm

  I had already done that, I was just hoping for a quicker way.

  Weddings are not really my thing, simply for that reason. The rules change entirely. I really do not like dissolves (and never would think of using them in a short film except for the reasons you described).

  I am really hoping there is no heart wipe at the end…

  Eric Buist
  Video.AfterEffects
  http://www.buistmedia.com
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  Eric Buist

  October 24, 2009 at 3:52 pm

  I wish I could use CS4 now…

  Thanks for your help though!

  Eric Buist
  Video.AfterEffects
  http://www.buistmedia.com

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