Premiere Pro Transitions

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Fairly new to Premiere Pro and I have a question I hope someone can
help me with. Maybe I missed it in the manual, but when I add sound
transitions, I am sometimes getting diagnal lines on the timeline.
For Example, if I drag a transition to the timeline trying to fade the
sound of clapping between acts of a play, it defaults to something
like 13 frames. I go into the effects window and bump the duration of
the transition up to 2 seconds as I want it to be a gradual fade. The
transition shows that it's length has changed, but all but the
original 13 seconds has marks running through like this
|\\\\\\\|orig| with the orig being the original 13 frames. Anyone
know what this means?

 

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On 28 Apr 2004 07:28:13 -0700, jscott@accessdnsi.com (rscowboy) wrote:
>Fairly new to Premiere Pro and I have a question

There is a forum set up just for P-Pro questions
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.1de9c1bf


John Thomas Smith
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On Wed 28 Apr 2004 03:28:13p, jscott@accessdnsi.com (rscowboy) wrote:

> The
> transition shows that it's length has changed, but all but the
> original 13 seconds has marks running through like this
>|\\\\\\\|orig| with the orig being the original 13 frames. Anyone
> know what this means?

It means that there isn't enough source material to put into the
transition. A transition is a method of going from one piece of material
to the next. If the clip that follows "orig" is positioned to start 13
frames before the end of "orig", then there are only those 13 frames that
can be included in the fade-in. As you've extended the transition to a
point beyond the start of the "next" clip, premiere is indicating that it
has no material to use. I've not done this with audio, but it might work
as you intended.

If Premiere still supported A/B editing, then your timeline if expanded
probably looks like this (use fixed width font)...

[---orig---]
[XX]
[-----next-----]

Where XX is the transition. It starts before "next" begins, but ends as
"orig" ends.

 

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You may have to turn keyframes on
on the timeline

and then create the right gradual fade up or down
using the rubber band-like function











"rscowboy" <jscott@accessdnsi.com> wrote in message
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> Fairly new to Premiere Pro and I have a question I hope someone can
> help me with. Maybe I missed it in the manual, but when I add sound
> transitions, I am sometimes getting diagnal lines on the timeline.
> For Example, if I drag a transition to the timeline trying to fade the
> sound of clapping between acts of a play, it defaults to something
> like 13 frames. I go into the effects window and bump the duration of
> the transition up to 2 seconds as I want it to be a gradual fade. The
> transition shows that it's length has changed, but all but the
> original 13 seconds has marks running through like this
> |\\\\\\\|orig| with the orig being the original 13 frames. Anyone
> know what this means?

 

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> You may have to turn keyframes on
> on the timeline

I'm still not sure why that's not a default setting.

> and then create the right gradual fade up or down
> using the rubber band-like function

Definitely the best way for simple fades, at least for me.

 

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On Wed 28 Apr 2004 05:51:44p, Bob Stedenko <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> It means that there isn't enough source material to put into the
> transition.

Also take a look in the manual, page 173 - it talks about this stuff.