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adding crossdissolve to 1800 photos
hi all…
i’m doing a massive video project and there’s a section with 1800 photos…
is there a way for me to add a cross dissolve automatically or do i have to do it all by hand ? -
4 Replies
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Arty,
Yikes! 1800? The only easy way to do this that I know of is in After Effects using the sequence layers command. You can tell it to set up a cross dissolve on each layer. You’d still have to make multiple comps though as I believe it’s limited to 99 layers, but I could be wrong on that. I would do it in comps of 50 – 75 or so layers just to keep my sanity. Then the resulting movies could easily be linked together in the FCP timeline.
I don’t know of any way to automate the process like this in FCP.
Another thought though is if you’re making a DVD you could do a slideshow in DVDSP.
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There is a way to do this. Create the dissolve you want in any other sequence, the make this be your defauilt transition. (Drag it to your favourites folder, click on it, then Effects > Set Default. Now gather up your 1800 photos, selecting all of them in your bin. Drag the whole set of them to the Canvas until the pop-up menus appear, and select Overwrite with Transition. Voila.
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Maxplaner,
Cool, but shouldn’t he set the still image duration to what he wants first?
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excellent suggestion…
i did find another way but i haven’t really did a true test…
after all my photos are in order on the timeline..
i select the entire time line and drag it to the viewer…
when the transition screen pops up i just let it go in the overwrite with transitions and it seemed to have worked
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