[Jeff Feaz]

Hey Matthew,

I’m not sure I can help explain why you didn’t see this in earlier versions, because I thought it always worked this way, but when you cross dissolve between sequences, you’re asking it to start playing a portion of Sequence 2 before Sequence 1 has finished playing. That portion of Sequence 2 has to come before the in point, so if you’re starting Sequence 2 at the beginning, there’s nothing but black for Premiere to pull for the cross dissolve. Same thing with ending.

One thing you can try (if your footage permits) is just lengthen Sequence 2 at the beginning with a few more frames of the first clip but drop it into your master sequence starting with the frame you originally planned for. That way there’s some “back footage” for Sequence 2 to play during the cross dissolve while Sequence 1 is fading out. Similarly, lengthen Sequence 1 at the end so it has something to play during the dissolve.

This seems like it’s only a problem when you’re cross dissolving nested sequences because nested sequences are considered entire clips and won’t dig back into the source footage to fill a cross dissolve.

Hope this helps!