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There Is No Such Thing as an Asymmetrical Dissolve Transition.
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I’ll probably get in trouble by trying to help, but Aindreas, what Charlie’s saying is that the rate of the dissolve up and the rate of the dissolve rate down don’t really matter. This is because both sources are active and equal partners in a DISSOLVE by definition. If you were going from Source A to black and coming into Source B from black, then shifting the ramp durations would make a difference. But in a simple dissolve, the ONLY thing you can change is the mixture of two fixed source over a fixed durations.
Say you shift your crossover (edit) point downstream to when 90% of the dissolve is source A and 20% is source B. There’s STILL a point of 50/50 equilibrium – it’s just now ahead of your cut. And it’s exactly like not having shifted the cut point at all. 50/50 is 50/50 and it’s always going to be in the middle of the entire transition duration, regardless of where the cut point it placed.
You can’t change this by shifting the edit point. It’s impossible in a dissolve. That’s why the ramp speed is essentially irrelevant.
You can change the temporal intervals coming into and out of the dissolve, and that’s probably what is meant by the asymmetrical dissolve, but then is it actually a dissolve at all?
All of which bring my poor head back to the big brouhaha about why X calls it a “cross dissolve” rather than simply a dissolve.
I think that’s another way to say what Charlie has properly sussed out. Maybe?
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Him, who?
Tim
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What?
Tim
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Clearly star wipes solve all problems
Tim
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And again I say…What? This is in response to the simple reference to a lap dissolve?
Tim
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And once more – who exactly are you talking about here, ace?
Tim
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Why do you sign your posts? Do you sign text messages also?
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Who are you talking to. If it’s me I do not sign my posts. Whatever information is there about me is what i supplied when I registered with the Cow. Ands what is wrong with taking responsibility for one’s posts?
Tim
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Am I some kind on moron for signing my posts? Do people not do that in the modern times?
Tim
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