• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Possible to add a transition automatically to overlapping clips?

  Posted by Sean Mcnally on January 22, 2018 at 6:41 pm

  Hi there,

  Longtime Sony Vegas user, switching over to premiere. One gripe I found with Premiere is that when two clips overlap, one takes a “bite” out of the other, and cuts it off.

  In Vegas, this was handled much more eloquently, as overlapping clips would automatically create a transition, like this:
  

  Is there any way to get this functionality in Premiere? If not, is it possible for a plugin to achieve this (even if one hasn’t been made yet?) Thanks.

  EDIT: To be clear, this is the “bite” I’m talking about. This drives me nuts!
  

  Sean Mcnally replied 8 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jerry Wise

  January 22, 2018 at 11:19 pm

  won’t you have to remove the transition after you have made the trim?
  i usually place the clip on the right on an upper layer and do the trim there.
  sometimes you just have to embrace new editing software and move on.
  i had to do that when moving from FCP7 to Premiere concerning track matte keying.
  FCP7 was a snap. Premiere not so.
  you could send a “feature request” to Adobe.
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  Sean Mcnally

  January 25, 2018 at 5:23 pm

  [jerry wise] “won’t you have to remove the transition after you have made the trim?”

  No, the functionality I’m looking for is that Premiere won’t trim overlapping clips, and will instead add a transition between them. Will consider sending a request to Adobe, or perhaps looking into the SDK to see if I could finagle writing a plugin for this…

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