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Transistion Making Background Show Through Unevenly
Ok, so basically I was shooting some short videos with a blown out white backdrop, similar to Apple commercials, etc.
I had lights on the talents face and they are partially in the shot. I figured i could just crop them out, and drop some white image below the video so its totally seamless white. It looks great and it works until i try to put a fade in or cross dissolve on either end of the video.
When i do this, even with the cropped video and the white img below it as a Compound Clip, it still occurs…The stupid thing is, i’ve done this before somehow – no problem!
Obviously i can’t see what I’m doing wrong, but maybe someone out there can tell me where I’m missing?
Ive attached an example of what the transition looks like vs the actual video…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tru1zxjx815kyqg/transitionissue.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ffdmyaqsmeiipl5/transistionissue1.png
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What are you fading or cross dissolving to?
Try putting the incoming clip as a connected and opacity fading.
If its to black, add a black solid and dissolve to it.
Is it just the normal cross dissolve?
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When I’m working with a couple layers and don’t want to compound or nest (wasn’t nest just easier to say?), just place a custom black generator on top of the white clip and video (essentially v3 in ol’ skool terminology). If it’s a fade in from black, add an opacity change ramping the generator down to 0 – or just put a cross dissolve at the end.
Michael Garber
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A stone age way to do this would be to export your clips with handles and then import those complete clips. This may seem like a lot of work, but it is easy and pretty fast.
I often do this type of work in AE, you have lots of control there and then I import the rendered file. In AE you can easily match the bg perfectly in case it is not true white or whatever. This can also be done easily in motion as well using feathered masks.
Olof Ekbergh
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ActuAlly I tried exporting the entire clip and reimporting… Amazingly enough, same thing happens!
Its only happening on that one video too…I’ve started a new project multiple times to no avail.
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[Shane McGee] “ActuAlly I tried exporting the entire clip and reimporting… Amazingly enough, same thing happens!
Its only happening on that one video too…I’ve started a new project multiple times to no avail.”
Can you please give the exact details to try and reproduce it? A screengrab of the timeline would be good, too.
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