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Simple Dissolve Problem that Dips to Black First
I have a simpe dissolve I’m trying to do between two clips on the same timeline (Video 1). The footage I’m coming from has enough footage to get through the dissolve. The problem when I put the Cross Dissolve on when I play it, it goes to black, then the dissolve. It’s very frustrating as this is just a simple dissove yet I can’t figure out why it won’t work.
Please any help would be appreciated.
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4 Replies
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> … it goes to black, then the dissolve
Are you saying the first clip fades to black, then the next clip Fades up from black?
Are you saying the first clip fades to black, then the next clip “pops on” at full intensity?
Try to describe it more precisely, I’m not sure what you’re seeing.
Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ
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Make sure the 2 clips are butted together, drag the dissolve transition in between the 2. That should be it.
They have to be on the same track…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I had posted this issue on Adobe’s forum as well and here’s what the problem was and how we fixed it.
I had two opacity keyframes at the beginning of the video as my fade up from black and a cross dissolve at the end to the second clip on the same video layer. The problem was at the first frame of the cross dissolve to the second clip, it actually cut to black, then did the dissolve.
After some tests I tried turning off the Mercury Playback Engine and used software only which fixed the problem, but not the best way of working with my hardware. So, I then took out the opacity keyframes at the beginning and replaced it with a cross dissolve, turned the MPE back on, and the wierd cross dissolve to the second clip went away. Hope this helps someone else if they come across something like this.
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I know this is an old post but here’s what solved the problem this morning:
I was trying to extend a motion background by adding in one more clip, then adding a cross dissolve. In the first incarnation of the problem, it dipped to black at the cross dissolve. In the second incarnation, it got brighter at the dissolve.
Here’s what solved it:
1) making sure all opacity keyframes were gone from both clips (my main opacity was still at 36 though)
2) making sure the blend modes of the clips matched (I hadn’t gotten to changing it to multiply yet when I dragged in the new clip and was applying the dissolve first).
Hope that’s useful to someone out there.
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