Retention of dissolves.

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Bret,

If you apply a cross dissolve between 2 clips and remove one of the clips, the effects will go away, that makes sense to me.

If you apply the dissolve to a single clip (you will need to have a gap between the clips), you can them move the clip freely and the dissolve will stay there.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Brett Cole]

Thanks for the reply. I’m not talking about removing one of the clips, just simply shifting it some on the timeline, the overlap between the two is still there, but any time I move any of the clips at all the crossfade is removed. It can’t really be that poorly designed can it? Doesn’t make any sense. I’ve never used another editor that behaves that way.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Brett,

There are a couple of options –

1) Position the Selection Tool (arrow) at the cut between two clips and get the red bracket that you would use to trim the beginning or end of the clip – hold the CTRL key and bracket gets bigger, then you can trim clip and keep the dissolve, everything shifts with your edit

2) Use the Rolling Edit tool to simultaneously change out/in points between the two clips

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Brett Cole]

Thanks, I don’t want to trim the clip, I simply want to move it, to shift it on the timeline. This doesn’t seem to be possible.

As for the rolling edit approach it only seems to work if I’ve already trimmed the clip in the source monitor, which is not what I want.

I want to be able to bring in entire clips, cross fade, then simply move them around and keep the transitions. This is really straightforward in Vegas. Also when I overlap two clips and then separate them it trims them automatically. This is not helpful to the way I edit and is not the way I’m used to working in Vegas. Is it possible to place a clip, place another, overlap the first with the second, then move the second back down the timeline, leaving the first unchanged?

I’m new to Premiere but very old to software UI and Adobe Products. Whereas the rest of the Creative Suite is brilliantly designed, Premiere seems to be really clunky as far as basic editing. Just doing the most basic things is like pulling teeth. I like the fact that’s it’s faster and more robust than Vegas, but I can see why so many Vegas users went back to Vegas after trying Premiere.

[Todd Kopriva]

> Premiere seems to be really clunky as far as basic editing

If you ever run into something like this that you don’t like, and you have a suggestion for how it can be better, please submit a feature request. The same goes for bug reports.

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[Brett Cole]

Ok, thanks Todd, I will submit some usability improvement suggestions. I like PP in general. The engine is obviously powerful, and the render quality is excellent. I think there is room for improvement in the UI/way of doing things, particularly in the editing basics. Thanks for the response.

[Chris Buttacoli]

Yes, rolling edits would require trimming your clips, otherwise you would not have any footage to roll with. BUT, why not use the slide tool – shortcut ‘U’ key?

[Alex Udell]

Still confused…are you speaking of same track video edits or alternating track video edits?