[Victor Lin]

Sorry, I should have mentioned:

I’m on Windows 7, so no Lock and Load.

[Victor Lin]

Twixtor only slows down or speeds up the footage.

[Victor Lin]

Thanks. So it looks like there really is no way to effectively batch a bunch of video files.

That’s an awful lot of copying and pasting (ie. doing the same thing over and over and over again). Ideally you want to take something that is the same between all clips, like applying the same warp stabilizer, applying the same brightness/contrast, and only physically click ONCE to do it all for everything once all the clips are selected.

Lightroom does this easily through its syncing feature.

Even with dragging Warp Stabilizer into a group of clips, you still have to click on each clip afterwards and hit Analyse, Analyse, Analyse, Analyse, etc.

And you have to put each clip into its own sequence, which is highly inefficient. A sequence is really best for a sequence of *clips* (plural). And here I have to create all these one clip “sequences?”

Here’s another question – if Adobe isn’t able to provide this kind of fast efficient workflow that I need, what other software CAN?

I’d imagine lot of people would need this – first that comes to mind is someone who shoots stock footage. He’s got hundreds of video clips and each needs to have the same closing splash screen at the end, plus a watermark applied to the footage. You can’t do this efficiently at all with how Adobe is set up.

[Victor Lin]

There are a bunch of clips, like 10+.

They are basically walkthroughs of rooms inside a house.

So:

Living Room
Dining Room
Master Bedroom
etc

Each of these will need to have a stabilizer applied to it, some time changing (we shoot a 60fps and then drop it down to 30fps for smoother motion), and more or less the same color/contrast/exposure/shadow/highlight adjustments.

Then we want to export each one as its own separate clip.

Doing this for photos in Lightroom is a trivial matter due to how well the program is designed with efficiency and batch operations in mind.

[Victor Lin]

But what physically causes that? It’s the same lens. The same sensor. The same light. What gives? Bandwidth or something?

The same light hits the sensor. What causes it to be recorded so differently?
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[Victor Lin]

Thanks Jeff.

I guess my issue is that for this particular transition there is no logical reason why there even needs to be handles, or overlaps. It’s dip to black. I can see you needing it for something like cross dissolve, but dip to black? And as you can see from the video, dip to black still works 100% if I just go in and force it to be 2 seconds, centered at cut. I just want the first clip to fade to black and the second clip to immediately fade into view from black. No overlap necessary. No extra footage necessary to create that overlap. In fact, there can even be a black gap of zero footage in between the clips and it shouldn’t affect it.

How do you select a bunch of clips and trim 15 frames from all of them in one go? I’m not clicking on 50 clips and manually setting clip points for each clip at 15 frames. Wouldn’t I need to trim 30 frames instead since my transition is 2 seconds long?

[Victor Lin]

Right now I have a motion preset that:

1. Is Anchored to In Point

Starts at -100, 540
after 1 second ends at 960, 540

I then made another motion preset that:

2. Is Anchored to Out Point

Starts at 960, 540
after 1 second ends at -100, 540

I take my title and drag the “In Preset” to set my in. I then drag in my “Out Preset” and it writes over my previous “In Preset.”

How do I have it so that no matter the duration of a single title they’re running both motion presets that I’ve made above?

Say that I have 30 titles, all at different lengths. I drag in 30 titles. Razor 30 times, dividing each into two parts, a front end and a back end. Lengthen the back end 30 times to the length I want. Drag the In Preset to each front end. Drag the Out Preset to each back end.

So obviously it’s a lot of work. I want a way to shorten this up.

[Victor Lin]

So there isn’t an automatic way to tell it “no matter how long I drag out the title/caption for, it will always automatically start the roll back animation 3 seconds before the title ends.” I have to manually create exit keyframes for all titles? That’s a lot of dragging.

[Victor Lin]

Nice! That’s exactly the one that I want. Thanks!

[Victor Lin]

Note that if I “force” the transition to Center at Cut anyway, the transition still works properly (ie. it fades out the previous clip, and fades in the AE composition).

So you can understand my frustration at not being able to do something that actually *does* work when I manually do it.