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Very Annoying Premiere Quirk
I’m a long time Premiere user and I love the program. However, there is something that just bugs me and I wanted to see if it is a problem for anyone else. One common thing that I do in my projects is use stills with a little motion added by keyframing the scale property in Effect Controls. Everything is fine until I add transitions between stills (usually a dissolve).
Once I do this it effectively produces an awkward pause in the movement of the frames. Premiere should intuitively move the keyframe to cover the additional frames of the overlapping clip. But it doesn’t. It keeps the keyframe at the beginning of the still which, because of overlap, is not the beginning of the still any more. Then I have to go in and manually move the keyframes so the movement between stills is fluid.
Anybody know how to deal with this in a better way?
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6 Replies
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I totally agree, it is a pain. I have to go into every still -start and stop – and move the key frame over to the end-end.
It’s the same in FCP.
Chris Tompkins
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In those cases….
perhaps it’s better to create your edit of stills checkerboard track to track.
this way you can:
1) visually see the overlap
2) Easily adjust the transition
3) Keyframes will already be at the clip extents so you won’t have the problems of correcting for the additional frames added by the transition as in same track editing.or
the other thing you can do is save presets for common moves that are set to have keyframes scale.
that way, even in a same track scenario, after you apply the transition, you can simply reapply the preset and the motion will auto magically extend….Hope that helps….
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Good advice. I’ll give it a try. Thanks Alex!
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The old Premiere 6 and 6.5 does it better. The 2 track a-b roll makes it clean and neat
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I’d suggest adding your transitions first, then keyframe the motion.
I typically park the CTI somewhere in the middle of the clip (working in the effects control window), set my beginning framing, then move the CTI a little later and set the end framing. Then I select each set of keyframes in turn, and drag them to the beginning and end of the clip (including the full duration of the transition). This goes quite quickly.
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Yeah, I’ve done that too. It just seems like a hassle sometimes. Plus once you move the keyframes to the beginning and ending, if you have something like dissolves, you can’t see the first few frames any more. Maybe if there was a simple FX shutoff switch like there is in AE it wouldn’t matter.
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