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Transition Questions…
OK, I never deal too detail with those problems with transitions here with Premiere. Would someone shed some light here on the following messages or situations?
1. “Insufficient Media. This transition will contain repeated frame.” OK, I looked at the transition frame by frame and see that the frame from previous video kind of freezes at transition point while the next video animates over the previous video frozen frame. So, how do I avoid it to behave this way? Both videos have plenty of length for that 1 s transition.
2. Sometime when a transition is dropped onto between certain video, PPro only allows “Cut at start” or “End at cut” instead of “Center Cut”. Why? How to avoid this?
Thanks for your help.
Perry
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8 Replies
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If in fact there is enough video to extend into the transition, then thats a problem – otherwise both things happen when there is not enough or no video to extend. Are using sub-clips maybe?
Try putting each video on it’s own track and then extending the video by dragging it’s edge forward 15 frames and back 15 frames, as appropriate. If that works, then just dissolve up 30 frames on the top track to get the same effect.
If THAT doesn’t work, then PPro thinks there isn’t any video to extend … and so it might be that you are editing sub-clips .. in which case you need to increase the in/out points of the sub-clip or find the clip in the source material and edit with that.
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These 2 videos are 1min longs (60x30frames, why would there be not enough frames?), same video (avi) that I just tried to test the transitions.
P.S.: These are not sub-clips!
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It doesn’t matter how long the clips are, it matters how much “handles” you have on the clip. If you use the entire one minute clip in the timeline, then you don’t have any “extra” frames to dissolve out of or into.
Look up information on Handles if you’re still having trouble.
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I think I finally got it, but is there a easier way of creating transitions? Other than trimming back some frames and trimming forward others?
Perry
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You could put the end of the first track on top of the beginning of the second track and fade out the top track. This method is a different way of doing it, but it’s not any easier. All it does is make you have to keep alternating video tracks, which can be a pain.
Either way, you need frames to dissolve out of and into. If the length of your clip is only long enough to put exactly where you want to begin or end in the timeline, where are you going to get the frames to dissolve out of a shot or into the next one? That’s why Premiere makes freezes of either the beginning or end of the clip if you don’t have enough to transition.
Whenever you digitize footage, you always want to grab at least a couple seconds more at the beginning and end than you think you’ll use, and now you see why.
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Perry, if you think how transitions are done in the film world you’ll be able to visualize the process. If you need a crossfade with two pieces of film adjust the printing light in order to gradually underexpose the “out clip” and increasingly expose the “in clip” while printing on the same piece of film. Using digital doesn’t change this basic fact of physics. You need handles for each clip. If you need to fade to black you need enough “exit frames” to be gradually blacked out. If they are not there then only solution is to duplicate the last frame, hardly a satisfying solution.
Actually Premiere is handling this more graciously than FCP by duplicating the frames, FCP flat out refuses to do it. Regardless, if there is no enough material there is no way you can create the transition. When acquiring the material be sure that you have 2-3 seconds of handles at the beginning and end.—
Paolo Ciccone https://www.paolociccone.com
Hellriser Digital
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Thank you all, I got the concept finally. I just wish there is a faster way of doing so. Thanks again.
Perry
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Perry,
Im with you on that,I use a program called Edius which gives you the option of automaticly rippling back to allow for handles in the timeline. Or you can leave it the way it is it sync or length is a factor. I really hope Premiere adds something like that in the kind of work I do it saves hours. that and being able to add a bunch of dissolves all at once saves ALOT of time too.Randy Johnson
Rando1968@comcast.net
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