Cross Dissolve in Premier Pro CC 2014

[Tim Kolb]

Well…first off, the nesting route would just be dissolving the sequence clip to itself…so the master clip has cuts and you’re just dissolving the same content to the same content.

Second…the placement of the transition works the same way it always has. If you have 10 frames of available media on each side of the cut, a 20 frame dissolve centered on the cut is created the same way it always has been…when you drop it, it will snap to the three postions from the cut…ending on, centered on, or starting on, providing there is media available.

Third…transitions on the end of a clip (not on a cut) have never been able to extend beyond the point where there’s media present, so I guess I’m not following the change you see there…

Transitions that actually have settings and parameters still show up in the Effect Controls panel for custom adjustment.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jim Collins]

Thanks Tim –

OK – just tried the cross dissolve in a nested sequence in PP CS6 – didn’t do anything – my bad (or rather my brain dead).

However, in PP CC 2014 nothing shows in effects control for cross dissolve. Went back to CS6 – can easily make the changes I want in that version. When placing a dissolve using 2 of the clips I’m having trouble with – I get a dissolve at the end of 1 clip – then in effects control drop down I can change it into a centered dissolve. Can’t figure out how to do that in PP CC 2014. It used to be so simple!!

JJC

[Tim Kolb]

Once the dissolve is placed, you can scale the length symmetrically by drag-trimming either end and both ends will scale…holding down shift while dragging the edge will trim only one edge.

I suspect the issue you may be having is that one clip is at the end of the physical file media and there are no frames to use beyond the trim point to enable the transition to span.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jim Collins]

Tim –

Thanks!

I now understand something that I didn’t have to worry about in the past as PP CS6 and earlier version could work with not having sufficient frames to use before/after the cut (I didn’t really understand that message, but I got the results that I wanted – more or less). Ignorance is bliss sometimes.

This must mean that PP CC 2014 is more “strict/precise” about not having sufficient frames to work with for the transition. Guess I’ll need to add more time to each clip for the head and tail of each clip. This also helps explain what the little triangle (or the lack of the triangle) in the upper corners of each clip means in the sequence.

Learning something new!

Thanks again!!

JJC

[Tim Kolb]

Yes, it used to be a bit more “squishy” on that requirement, but you’d see the little angled lines over the parts of the transition where it simply extended freeze frames.

Now, if you drop a transition on a cut with both clips at the end of their media, it will drop it and give you the warning, but if only one side is at physical end it seems to restrict the placement, as well as subsequent drag-trim operations.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Jim Collins]

Tim –

I like the “squishy” term. I also liked that it would work sorta.

For my sequence, since I couldn’t do a cross dissolve at the cut I made it a dip to black. My work around was to separate the clips so that they weren’t touching and add a 10 frame dissolve to the tail of one clip and the head of the next and then ripple delete the space as I couldn’t do it when they were touching.

You are probably laughing at the extra work I had to do – but it got the job done.

Best Regards,

JJC

[Jim Townley]

Jim is right in one respect. The cross dissolve dialog in Effects Control is missing in 2014. No A/B or adjust effect in the upper right, duration, or alignment. I was trying to show my students the different ways to adjust a transition. I know that I can do everything I might need to do to a transition on the Timeline. I have included 2 screen shots of CC and 2014 to show what is happening in 2014.

CC

2014

Jim Townley
Television Production
Chattahoochee Technical College
Marietta, GA

[Nicolas Laborde zunino]

Hi, I’m from Uruguay and i’m having the “reverse” experience (i don’t know if it is well said). I opened a project in CC2014 that i had started in CC, and when i click on crossfade transitions i can see the “old style” effect control. But the fact is that i cannot set the crossdissolve transition as a preset!

I think (but not tried) that i should delete or edit one file from the “profile” folder.

[Jim Townley]

That worked for me as well. Opened a project in 2014 that was started in CC and the Dissolve Effect shows in the Effect Controls. However, I added another dissolve in the 2014 Timeline and the Effect Controls does not show anything except the words “Cross Dissolve”

Additive, Non-Additive and Film Dissolves all show up in Effect Controls.

Could you try to add another Cross Dissolve in the 2014 Timeline and see if the Effect Controls shows anything?

Regards,
Jim

Jim Townley
Television Production
Chattahoochee Technical College
Marietta, GA

[Nicolas Laborde zunino]

Hi, Jim. Yes, that worked, but only with cross dissolve transition. The others transitions from the “dissolve” bin still look the “old Style”. It’s really strange. This is a great feature, and it´s a shame that i cannot use it!
Regards
Nicolás