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Dip to Color VS. Cross Dissolve
I was wondering what the advantages of dip to color dissolve are over cross dissolve or vice versa at the head and tail of a sequence. They produce two different results and I have tried both liking the results differently in different instance. However, I am trying to come up with a standard and want to know what everyone else is using. These are sequence that start from black and end on black and dissolve in over 6 frames or so. Any suggestions or reasons for one over the other?
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It’s all aesthetics. There is no standard. Sometimes the footage calls for a cut, sometimes it calls for a cut. Sometimes a dip to black, sometimes a dip to white. There is no STANDARD for when you use them. It is all up to the editor and when the “feel” a certain transition is called for.
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I realize that the choice of transitions is really a matter of asthetics and depends on the use, but lets say for instance at the opening of a commercial, does anyone have a standard that they typically use between these two. One over the other. On a cross dissolve it doesn’t seem to completely fade out by the last frame however on a dip to color it seems to be completely black 2 frames before the dissolve is over. Is there a happy medium.
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Oh…you mean when you are fading into and out of black? I always use cross dissolve.
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Have you tried
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Also, if you have layers at the beginning or end, they will fade in (or out) at different rates according to their brightness and layering order.
My favorite example is a resized/cropped layer on top of a sunset (as a background) for example. If you use a cross-dissolve or simply keyframe the opacity, the sun will show through the top layer before the fade in/out is finished – even if the dissolve/fade in/out lengths are exactly the same.
One trick is to nest your layers and then fade/cross-dissolve the nest.
Another method for a fade out would be to put a black slug above the top layer, and FADE IN the black slug at the rate and length that you want the video to FADE OUT. Reverse this method for a fade in.
Mike Peele
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