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  • Batch Fade In and Out

    Posted by Johnny Knox on December 10, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    I am in the process of editing about 40 – 50 hours of home VHS video and converting it to DVD for Christmas. Right now I have all the clips in .mpg format which I ripped strait from the DVD. I could go through one by one in premiere and add fades, but does anyone know of a way where I could ask After Effects to add a 2 second audio and video fade in and fade out to about 100 video files.

    Anyone got any idea, I would really appreciate any insight?

    Mark Likosky replied 14 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Adriano Moraes

    December 10, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Well I would put all the layers in the begginin’ of the comp.

    Hit CTRL+A to select all.

    Hit ALT+SHIFT+T to add a opacity keyframe. Hold ALT+SHIFT and hit the right arrow key 6 times to move those KFs 2 seconds ahead. Set another keyframe at the beggining, this time changing it´s value to 0%.

    Then go to the end of the layers. Hit ALT+SHIFT+T to add a opacity keyframe. Hold ALT+SHIFT and hit the left key arrow 6 times to move those KFs 2 seconds back. Again set another keyframe at end, this time changing it´s value to 0%.

    Then right click any layer and chose keyframe assistent>sequence layers

    Then chose the right ovelap value.

    It´s the easyest way I can think of and I do it all the time. If the clips are of different lenghts you can go to the last one and hit CTRL+A then ] to align them all at the end before setting the out opacity values. Then back to the beggining and hitting [.

    Act like a robot and it all will come out nicelly.

    Hope I was of some help.

    Cheers.

    ninguem

  • Adriano Moraes

    December 10, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Something came to my mind after I hit post.

    You can simply select all and go keyframe assistent>sequence layers and on the dialog box where it says transition chose dissolve front layer.

    Some adjustments and you´re good to go.

    Easier that way ain´t it?

    Did it work?

    Cheers.

    ninguem

    ninguem

  • Eric Bradberry

    December 11, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    why not just add frames of black above intro and outro and add a 9 fram e dissolve on each. duh

    Eric Bradberry
    Avid Editor
    Mix it down!

  • Mark Likosky

    February 22, 2012 at 12:48 am

    I’ve found presets that I like but I’m having a tough time saving one to automatically fade out at the last 7 frames of any given assigned clip.

    I tried saving it from the time line but it just fades in to white in the beginning. I only want it at the end.

  • Mark Likosky

    March 16, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    I was able to add Easy Ease Out and save that as a preset but how do I automatically add this to the last 7 frames to any given clip?

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