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  • transition problems

    Posted by Matt Babinec on March 21, 2006 at 2:08 am

    hi,
    i am making a slideshow with still images in avid, and i want a transition betwen every image, so i go to the cut in the timeline and hit the quick transition button. but there are no extra frames for avid to use for the transition…. it wont let me do it. this is what the quick transition box looks like,
    https://people.uleth.ca/~matt.babinec/quick.jpg

    also, when i drag a transition in from the effects list, it doesn’t do anything… it just sits there and it is still a hard cut from the first image to the next.

    how can i fix this?

    thanks for the help!

    William Busby replied 20 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Liam Stephens

    March 21, 2006 at 4:06 am

    i think AVID is trying to fade in using heads/tails of the image which u don’t have.. U may want to set your in/out points a second or two inside of the end/start of your image. Not in front of the AVID at the moment but seems like a similar problem if u have not enough footage at the end of your clip to do a transition. Make any sense??? Good Luck
    L

  • Satesh Ramjattan

    March 21, 2006 at 4:09 am

    place the “in” point to somewhere in the middle in your source monitor, and overwrite that edit, and then try it.

  • Matt Babinec

    March 21, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    is there any way that i could do this automatically because if not i’d have to change the in point on like 500 images….

  • Karen Cerino

    March 21, 2006 at 4:56 pm

    Try selecting all your pictures and use batch import from the clip menu. Select the all clips option, then click the overide clip settings with current settings in the import options. Click the adjust current settings button, and extend the duration for a second or two longer. This should provide enough time for your transistions, without having to redo the entire sequence.

    Karen

  • William Busby

    March 22, 2006 at 8:26 am

    from another forum. In the future…..

    In the bin with the stills, display them in script view.

    Select all of the stills.

    Press the “Go 10 Frames Forward” key however many times you need to get the amount of handle you want. For example, if you want 1 second of handle, press the key 3 times.

    Mark in.
    Press the “Go 10 Frames Forward” key however may times are required for the duration of each still. For example, if you want each still to be one second long, press the key 3 times.

    Mark out.

    Your stills have in and out marks leaving handles. If you want individual lengths of time for each still, then this won’t help you at all, and you’ll have to do each one individually.

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