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Fade a keyed shot?
I have video of talent with a background and graphics keyed in. I’m having a difficult time getting a fade to black to look right. If I put a fade on each track, talent starts to dissolve into the background during the transition. I’ve tried fading in black on the top track, but that makes the colors go funky. There must be an easy way to do this. Suggestions?
Thanks
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7 Replies
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Put all the assets in a seperate sequence, replace the footage with this sequence and then add the fade to black.
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Put all the assets in a seperate sequence, replace the footage in the original sequence with this new sequence and then add the fade to black.
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Put a black video (File>New>Black Video) clip above both your clips and fade it in or out.
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Thanks Ann & Mike for the suggestions. I try to avoid putting things in a new sequence because I’m working with HD (Cineform encoded) footage and it takes so long to re-render the keyed footage. Seems kind of silly that Premiere has to re-render something that’s already been rendered just because it’s been dropped into a new sequence with no changes. But I don’t pretend to understand how it all works under the hood. I had tried fading in black video on top of all the tracks, but that caused the colors to shift (face went purple during the fade). But maybe that was just the way my computer monitor displayed it. I hadn’t checked the final product yet on a TV monitor.
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That’s a big flaw in Premiere to have to re-render a nested sequence.
Another way is render it out to hdv, import and add fade to black. -
That is one of the advantages to using Cineform when editing HDV. You can export a Cineform AVI without much loss to speak of. What they might call “visually perfect”.
Steven
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I use a much simpler method. A dip to black effect set to 50% on the key.
Vince
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