• Adobe Premiere Pro

  adobe premiere, credits, how to make them dissolve

  Posted by Justin Zaza on April 18, 2011 at 6:00 am

  I want to make a certain credit dissolve, while at the same time having a new credit appear. Any advice is awesome!!

  Eric Barker replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Eric Jurgenson

  April 18, 2011 at 7:56 pm

  Putting them on seperate tracks and using the opacity rubber band (or keyframes)to create the dissolve will give you more flexibility with the overlap timing (as opposed to putting them on the same track and using a dissolve transition).
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  Eric Barker

  April 18, 2011 at 11:52 pm

  Not sure how this isn’t any different from a simple “Cross Dissolve” Transition. If you butt the two clips next to each other and throw a cross dissolve between them, one will dissolve out at the same time as the next dissolves in.

  The above poster suggested using the opacity automation, but frankly, I have to dissagree. Opacity automation is only really useful if you don’t want a linear ramp on your dissolve, which in MOST cases, isn’t neccessary. If you need different dissolve times between clips, then use two video tracks, throw cross dissolve transitions on the begginging and ending of the clips, then adjust the transition lengths to what you want each one to be. You might not get the Nth degree of flexability in drawing non-linear automation, but it’s far easier to adjust later, especially when needing to change the duration of the clips themselves.

  Now, maybe we’re completely missunderstanding you. At first, I thought you were asking about a credit roll, instead of still frames. Maybe you’re describing that the credits will fade in and out as they come into an area of the screen. If that’s the case, a simple trick is to throw two “Linear Wipe” effects on the credit roll. Set the angle of one to “0” and the other to “180”. Then set the feathering to how much you want the clips to fade at the top and bottom, and adjust the percentage to determine where you want them to fade in and out. This might not be what you’re describing, but it is a handy trick that many may waste time in After Effects trying to achieve.

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