is it possible to add a cross disssolve without adding frames???

[Steve Brame]

If the length of the dissolve is greater than the number of frames(handle) after the tail of the outgoing clip plus the number of frames before the incoming clip, then PPro really has no option but to duplicate frames. So yes, you can add a dissolve without this frame duplication in three ways…

1 – Shorten the end length of the outgoing clip, increasing the handle
2 – Shorten the head of the incoming clip, increasing the handle
3 – Adjust the length of the dissolve itself to match the number of actual frames available.

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[Steve Brame]

I’m pretty sure that FCP as well as any other editing program does this. If you only have handles totaling 15 frames, and you put a 30 frame dissolve there, the only way that this can happen is for the software to duplicate frames or automatically adjust the length of the dissolve for you. Perhaps PPro is just more vocal about it.

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[Nick Natteau]

HI Steve,

Thanks very much for your reply. I’m actually just looking to do an opacity fade really. I was hoping that there was a keyboard shortcut for fading opacity up and down without adding frames. Thanks again.

[Steve Brame]

I’m assuming then by ‘frames’ you mean ‘keyframes’?

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[Mike Cohen]

if you position your outgoing clip on a track above the incoming clip, and add a dissolve on the 1st clip, as long as it is overlapping the 2nd clip, you may get what you are looking for, though basically the same thing as a regular dissolve

Mike Cohen

[Alex Udell]

single track editing always exposes additional handles beyond you original in and out…(otherwise your run time would be affected with every transition)

If you edit track to track (say v1 and v2 for example) creating the visual desired amount of overlap between clips you wish…then add dissolves on the upper track, on the clip at it’s heads and tails

this is going to give you what you desire. I think you will tire of it quickly….but this is how it’as achieved.

In this case then, the keyboard shortcut is the same as would be used the transition in any other instance…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Nick Natteau]

Thanks very much everyone for all your replies. This really helped.