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Can premiere pro do a quality cross dissolve?
Hello and Happy New Year!
I am working on a project that has driven the daylights out of me.
I have come to the conclusion that premiere cannot make a smooth cross-dissolve transition between clips. It only does it linear.
I have small clips that must be dissolved into one-another, and cannot enlarge them. Premiere dissolves them not from 0 opacity, but from about 10 opacity, very sudden. Is there any way to make the curve of the transition any smoother, like a brazier or something?
Also, if you have the time, i would very much appreciate any input of how to achieve the dissolves between the pictures in this clip (after the opening animation)(its the first one):
https://www.sfintii-inchisorilor.ro/69/emisiunea-semne-de-ce-nu-canonizam-sfintii-inchisorilor/
As you may notice, the pictures go from full opacity to full black and not so sudden as a cross dissolve or fade to black transition will make. The dissolves are smooth, fast, and don’t just dissapear from the screen at about 10 opacity.
Can premiere do this, or 5 years of premiere pro aren’t enough to understand transitions?:)
Thank you,
Sebastian Plamadeala -
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You can drag the crossfades/dissolves – like you do to clips when you trim an edge – to make them longer or shorter, or you can hold CTRL and click on the opacity envelope inside of each clip to create a keyframe. Create 2 keyframes, then drag one to 0%. Then you can adjust the handles on the keyframe to make bezier curves if you want.
Paul Del Vecchio – Director
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Furthermore, if you right click on your keyframes, you have the option of making them bezier as they are natively in Final Cut Pro. Therefore, giving you more control over the seamlessness of the transition and not having it be so cut and dry as a linear default.
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Thank you guys, fair enough with those, but for what my client is looking for, its not good enough.
I’ll keep trying.
Thank you,
Sebastian -
If bezier curve control is not good enough, what exactly is your client looking for? (Enguiring minds want to know.)
Cheers
Eddie -
I’ve discovered that it depends on how you place your dissolve. If you dissolve between 2 clips on the same layer, then the dissolve is smooth. If you stack clips and dissolve the clip on v2 to reveal the clip on v1, that’s where Premiere loses it’s damn mind and the transition abruptly cuts off.
Sam Crutsinger
Media Kingpin
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You do realize that you replied to an eight year old thread?
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It’s 8 years but that problem still exists…
Only way i found is to use Filmimpact plugin “Impact Dissolve” (its included for free in 1st package)
Its still not perfect, but at least it doesnt jump from 0 to 20% transparency like default cross dissolve. -
Agreed. I finally got fed up trying to make an even dissolve (one clip on top of the other), tried all the dissolves in the PP tool box, even tried “Chroma Leaks”, which worked great dissolving in (not chroma/luma flashes), but dissolving out it’s name was quite apparent.
I even tried keyframing the opacity. No go. Amazing.
So, I’ll try filmimpact. Thanks, Karlis!
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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In Sequence Settings, uncheck Composite in Linear Color.
Done.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
BOOM! Thanks! That was quite magical! I’m surprised i hadn’t heard that tip before. Does unchecking that box change the look of anything else? It seems like it certainly might, and not always in a beneficial way.
thanks for helping out a bonehead!
__________________________FCS3 / Adobe CC
3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
24GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)
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