Cross Dissolve in Premier Pro CC 2014

[Jim Townley]

Nicolás,

You can still work with the Cross Dissolve in the Timeline to adjust where the effect starts by dragging it on the timeline, As Tim pointed out earlier in this thread, you can change the length by dragging the edges of the effect or one side by holding down the shift key while dragging. If you just want to change the length without dragging, you can double-click on the effect and a box will pop up with a duration that can be changed.

Going to Effects Controls is really an extra step for a cross dissolve when you can do everything on the Timeline.

Jim

Jim Townley
Television Production
Chattahoochee Technical College
Marietta, GA

[Nicolas Laborde zunino]

Hi, my english is not so good, so i didn´t explain quite good. What i meant when i said “is a great feature” i was referring to the new “save transition as a preset”! For example: i use a lot the black dissolve, but i cannot save it as a preset (and it hasn´t got a shortcut)because it appears as the “old Style” transition effect. I´ve never used the “old style” transition effect. I have read in adobe forums people asking for the old look and i can´t believe it!
I don´t know if I make myself clear. I really appreaciate the time you are spending with me!
(If I don´t get my english better, I will never will be able to work in Hollywood! jaja)
Thanks!

[Michael Ma]

Everything about this change looks like a bug and things we are doing to get around it are workarounds until they make it back the way it was.

True, we can double click on it to change the length, drag it, etc, but you can do this will all other transitions on top of working with the effects panel where we can simply scrub the length of time precisely to what we want, rather than guessing, or double clicking into it and typing it in.

I really hope they change it back. That tab looking thing is very unintuitive and does nothing.

[Mike Cohen]

Might as well add my transition question to this thread.

In CS6, if I positioned the play head at the end of a clip, and hit ctrl+D to apply the default transition, which for me is cross dissolve, it would apply that on all active tracks.

With CC it only applies the transition on the targeted track, regardless of how many tracks are selected.

I have been using CC for 2 week2, but previous versions of Premiere since the beginning of time.

Thanks

Mike Cohen

[Jim Collins]

I’m assuming the transition is only being applied to the track with the “V1” marked on the left hand side of the timeline. PP CC 2014 seems to require that you be very specific about what you do and how you do it. Previous versions of PP were looser as to how your actions were implemented. Hadn’t decided if I really like this more precise methodology or not. I’ve found lots of places were adobe has changed “features” like this.

Good luck!!

Jim Collins

[Mike Cohen]

this extra precision (what happens to a particular track rather than loosey goosey days of CS6) seems to be an attempt to make Premiere act like Avid.

In watching people use Avid, you cannot apply an effect or many other functions unless the V1 indicator is moved to the target track. Seems like it adds more clicking. For example, if I have say 6 tracks and I want everything to dissolve at the same point, where before this would be one press of ctrl+D now it will be 6 presses.

This Avid-ification of Premiere is perhaps an effort to convert Hollywood and broadcast Avid editors to Adobe without forcing them to learn a new workflow. Instead current Adobe users will need to adapt.

Maybe Walt or Tim could chime in and explain if this is actually the case

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

it seems to be more than applying transitions

You used to be able to ctrl+K to razor all active tracks. Now it only affects all active tracks if no single clip is selected. If a clip is selected, it only cuts that clip even if more tracks are selected. This change increases the amount of mouse clicking.

Is there any way to bring back CS6 functionality to the sequence? Adobe? Bueller? Anyone?!

[Patrick Baumann]

I know this thread is old, but i just happened to face the same problem. In my opinion this is a bug, but can be worked arround by using any other transition, set it to the right length and position and then replace it by alt+draging the cross dissolve ontop.