Transition duration not cooperating

Ancient_Printer

I have already upgraded as you say to 8.74. I will plough on for now but come back again if I get anything more specific. It appears that the choices for transitions from the lower section of the window (those that need further parameters) work as expected. Only the upper ones such as Diamond will not respect a stretching of the grey band.

borate

Don't know what to tell you As shown in the above video, the diamond transition operates correctly, no matter what its duration.

You might try an uninstalled/reinstall of the program. And, under OPTIONS | DISK tab, Clear Unused Cache Files, just in case there is corruption.

Ancient_Printer

OK Thamks - enough for one day! I'll have another go along the lines you suggest tomorrow.

One more point for tomorrow--- two clips abuting each other - how do I join them to be one clip?

If the split was done in error but only spotted much later so Ctrl Z is not suitable how to rejoin them?

Thanks for all the help

borate

Select the clips, right-click and GROUP CLIPS. Then they will move in concert whether both are selected or not.

Sometimes, right-clicking the handles on the split will offer an UNsplit choice. If a single clip is split but not trimmed at the split, no action will occur.

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Hi Ancient Printer

".....Q2. Can anyone provide a fast way to split the single clip into its 110 slides and a quick way to apply the same transition to each change? ...."

If all the slides/images are equally spaced in your video of the Power Point presentation here's a even easier way to extract them...

Place the video on Track 1 and in Options set up Dual Preview Displays.

Determine the time interval between the center of image one to the centre of image 2...Let's say it is 10 seconds
Create a blank image of 10 seconds duration. (Same duration that you found above)
Move the red cursor line to the centre of image 1. The image will appear in the Sequence Display.
Right click the display and Take a Snapshot of the Sequence
Overlay the blank image at the cursor
Click the >II button to step the cursor to the end of the blank on the overlay track. This will center it on image 2
Take snapshot
Slide the blank along Track 2 so it grabs the cursor line
Click the >II button to step the cursor to the end of the blank This will center it on image 3
Continue in this way until you have copied all the slides. (110?)
Clear the timeline and open the Image clip bin and drag all the snapshots to track 1 for editing further.

You are using the blank image as a "spacer" above the main track to position the cursor on the next image. It assumes that all the images in the video are equally spaced and that the original transitions are also equal.

Nat

Ancient_Printer

borate wrote:

Select the clips, right-click and GROUP CLIPS.

Many thanks!

19 hours ago, borate said:

You might try an uninstalled/reinstall of the program. And, under OPTIONS | DISK tab, Clear Unused Cache Files, just in case there is corruption.

I have done uninstall/reinstall and cleared caches. Looks as if this MAY have cracked the problem - "watch this space!"

Ancient_Printer

Nationalsolo wrote:

Hi Ancient Printer

".....Q2. Can anyone provide a fast way to split the single clip into its 110 slides and a quick way to apply the same transition to each change? ...."

If all the slides/images are equally spaced in your video of the Power Point presentation here's a even easier way to extract them...

Place the video on Track 1 and in Options set up Dual Preview Displays.

Determine the time interval between the center of image one to the centre of image 2...Let's say it is 10 seconds

Create a blank image of 10 seconds duration. (Same duration that you found above)

Move the red cursor line to the centre of image 1. The image will appear in the Sequence Display.

Right click the display and Take a Snapshot of the Sequence

Overlay the blank image at the cursor

Click the >II button to step the cursor to the end of the blank on the overlay track. This will center it on image 2

Take snapshot

Slide the blank along Track 2 so it grabs the cursor line

Click the >II button to step the cursor to the end of the blank This will center it on image 3

Continue in this way until you have copied all the slides. (110?)

Clear the timeline and open the Image clip bin and drag all the snapshots to track 1 for editing further.

You are using the blank image as a "spacer" above the main track to position the cursor on the next image. It assumes that all the images in the video are equally spaced and that the original transitions are also equal.

Nat

Many thanks for this. My original video unfortunately doesn't have fixed intervals between slides so I shall go the slow way and get there in the end.

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