Cross dissolve transition not working correctly with MPE CS 5.5

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Cross dissolve transition not working correctly with MPE CS 5.5

Posted by Ted Doss on June 21, 2011 at 8:36 pm

Hi all, I have already posted this on the adobe forums and submitted a bug report, but I still have the issue. so, perhaps you guys can help.

Adobe forum post: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/866299?tstart=0

Zip file with affected project (on my system atleast) + a small video export of showing the issue isn’t only a preview issue: https://www.mediafire.com/?f5wgglytc69tdbj

When adding cross dissolves to a project that I’m working on, I’ve come across an odd problem. I say odd because this should be dirt simple, but Adobe seems to have messed this up. Please advise on any solution or work around, or perhaps simply see if you can recreate the issue so we can get Adobe to fix this.

Problem:

Cross dissolves transitions don’t seem to work consistently for me in cs 5.5. Note: I know how transitions work, and I’m not doing something stupid like trying to apply a transition to a cut without actually removing any video between the two clips (assuming the clips came from the same source video.). I’m able to recreate this issue on two different systems with premiere pro cs 5.5 by doing the follwing:
Create a new project and sequence with the default settings.
Enable the Mercury Playback Engine if it isn’t already enabled.
I import the Wildlife.wmv video that comes default with Windows 7 systems.
Drop it the video into the sequence.
Ripple delete about a 2 second section of the video. be sure to do this in the first half of the video, and make sure the the video changes the scene during this period so that you will notice the cross dissolve transition when it is applied.
Apply the default cross dissolve transition to the edit.
Review the edit. For my test, this edit always seems to work fine.

This is a screen capture of the working cross dissolve transition.

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-3746278-72572/cross+dissolve+works.png

Now let me show you what happens when I do a similar edit somewhere in the second half of the video clip.

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-3746278-72573/cross+dissolve+doesn%27t+work.png

As you can see, for the duration of the transition, only the clip to the left is shown. At the end of the transition effect the program out preview jumps to displaying the clip to the right. There is no transition.

Additional notes:

This second transition works fine with MPE disabled, but because of my other problem (https://forums.adobe.com/message/3725642) that is not a viable work around.

Help?

Thanks,
Ted

Eric Sanders replied 15 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 3 Replies

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Jon Barrie
June 22, 2011 at 12:07 am

Any particular reason you are using the WMV for this?

If you are having a problem with this then a work around for now would be to add one of the clips that you want to cross dissolve over to the track above and have the extra video underneath a dissovle on the above clip only. That way the clip dissolves literally over the top of the other one.

I am sure adobe are looking into the bug report, but this work around should get you working again.

– Cheers, JB

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Todd Kopriva
June 22, 2011 at 1:52 am

> I am sure adobe are looking into the bug report…

Yep.

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Eric Sanders
June 22, 2011 at 6:55 am

Thanks Todd – right you are.

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