Problems with VIDEOPAD transitions

borate

When a clip end is trimmed, the excess doesn't land on the cutting room floor. Instead, VP is told to end the clip there, but the video (your hand) remains.

If a transition is made at that point, there must be video to accommodate it...so the hand will reappear during the transition. This is normal.

(The same principle applies if a clip is trimmed at its start. Video that precedes the cut remains and would be used if a transition were programmed there.)

To make this work, right-click the sequence preview window and take a snapshot (still frame) just before the hand appears. The clip appears in the Images bin. Tack it onto the end of the moving video. Drag the handles to adjust its length.

Here's an example where the koala (followed by an unwanted, deleted scene) has been extended with the snapshot.

Then a transition was programmed from clip 2 to clip 3. The length of the transition will also affect the 'look.'

Mortis_of_midian_hotmail.c

Thanks,

I found a better work around was to trim the clips before hand and save them and then do the transition using the pre-edited clip so I can choose which bits of footage I want to use for the overlap

There really needs to be a way to turn this off so that stuff on the cutting room floor remains there and the editor works with the footage it's got.

borate

Another approach - begin the transition earlier and/or make it shorter.

Don't think that you will get around the fact that there's no still video to cover the dissolve, unless it's appended. That procedure is not difficult.

Here's a two-clip example. You want to eliminate the birds, and transition from the end of the Koala to the dog.

Split the clip at the end of the Koala scene.
Right-click in the PV window and take a snapshot of the sequence.
Right-click the snapshot in the bin and Place on Timeline at Cursor Position.
Select the unwanted birds clip, right-click and Delete (ripple). Zoom the timeline if if necessary...
Drag the snapshot clip end handle and note the duration pop up. Allow ample time to accommodate the transition length.
Apply the transition.
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transition.mp4

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