Transition Durations

[bgstencel720]

I am making a video using the videowave editor. I can adjust the duration of the transitions individually but it will not allow me to apply the duration time to all. Is there something I am missing? I used the trim function and the set duration time function and still have the same issue. Any help would be appreciated.

[Equine]

Gotta laugh sorry. This sounds a bit like what I have and it's frustrating as hell!!

 

This is my issue: I have small scenes, ( all slow motion - it's an introduction) about 2-3 seconds long for each scene and have the disolve transition set on all between 2.30 and 2.60 secs long. When I play the movie, it pauses on a transition then goes really fast then normal, then on the transition pauses, then fast forwards again and so on. I have too tried changing the times for transitions and also the times for the scenes, but the problem is still there. The guys have tried a few suggestions which I have tried but they do not work for me. Just wondering if this sounds anything like what problem you're having??

 

This is what they wrote:

 

Transitions take away 'time' from each clip before/after it. Think of it more like overlapping the clips and then applying an effect. There must be enough of the clips left over after subtracting the transition time. Perhaps that is why you can't change the length of some transitions?

 

For example, you can't have two slides that are 2 secs each (4secs) and then apply a 4sec transition.

 

[bimicher]

Gotta laugh sorry. This sounds a bit like what I have and it's frustrating as hell!!

 

This is my issue: I have small scenes, ( all slow motion - it's an introduction) about 2-3 seconds long for each scene and have the disolve transition set on all between 2.30 and 2.60 secs long. When I play the movie, it pauses on a transition then goes really fast then normal, then on the transition pauses, then fast forwards again and so on. I have too tried changing the times for transitions and also the times for the scenes, but the problem is still there. The guys have tried a few suggestions which I have tried but they do not work for me. Just wondering if this sounds anything like what problem you're having??

 

This is what they wrote:

 

Transitions take away 'time' from each clip before/after it. Think of it more like overlapping the clips and then applying an effect. There must be enough of the clips left over after subtracting the transition time. Perhaps that is why you can't change the length of some transitions?

 

For example, you can't have two slides that are 2 secs each (4secs) and then apply a 4sec transition.

 

IF you have 2 clips each 3 seconds long, I doubt you can have transition durations of 2 secs without rendering getting mixed up.

[REDWAGON]

I am making a video using the videowave editor. I can adjust the duration of the transitions individually but it will not allow me to apply the duration time to all. Is there something I am missing? I used the trim function and the set duration time function and still have the same issue. Any help would be appreciated.

 

This problem (not being able to do what the actual option says) started back in EMC 10 and still has not been corrected in the newest version of Creator 2009. The function to change the duration of any particular transition and then click on the option to change all of the duration time to the same time works very nicely in EMC 9, however.

 

I suggest making the duration time for the slide before the transition and the slide after the transition each longer than the transition duration time itself. Most of my photo slides I have set at 5 to 8 seconds and the transition duration times each around 2 seconds, especially for 3D type transitions. At 2 seconds, 3D transitions look pretty darn good.

 

Frank...

[bimicher]

This problem (not being able to do what the actual option says) started back in EMC 10 and still has not been corrected in the newest version of Creator 2009. The function to change the duration of any particular transition and then click on the option to change all of the duration time to the same time works very nicely in EMC 9, however.

 

I suggest making the duration time for the slide before the transition and the slide after the transition each longer than the transition duration time itself. Most of my photo slides I have set at 5 to 8 seconds and the transition duration times each around 2 seconds, especially for 3D type transitions. At 2 seconds, 3D transitions look pretty darn good.

 

Frank...

 

The change of the duration time for all the transition to the same time does work in EMC 10 and C2009 but it has a bad side effect - it also changes all the actual the transitions to the same one. I believe it works exactly the same in EMC 9. Of course the transition durations have to less then some duration time for the adjoining images otherwise th program sets some "strange" value.

[bgstencel720]

Gotta laugh sorry. This sounds a bit like what I have and it's frustrating as hell!!

 

This is my issue: I have small scenes, ( all slow motion - it's an introduction) about 2-3 seconds long for each scene and have the disolve transition set on all between 2.30 and 2.60 secs long. When I play the movie, it pauses on a transition then goes really fast then normal, then on the transition pauses, then fast forwards again and so on. I have too tried changing the times for transitions and also the times for the scenes, but the problem is still there. The guys have tried a few suggestions which I have tried but they do not work for me. Just wondering if this sounds anything like what problem you're having??

 

This is what they wrote:

 

Transitions take away 'time' from each clip before/after it. Think of it more like overlapping the clips and then applying an effect. There must be enough of the clips left over after subtracting the transition time. Perhaps that is why you can't change the length of some transitions?

 

For example, you can't have two slides that are 2 secs each (4secs) and then apply a 4sec transition.

 

The problem is I am trying to reduce transition time. Maybe I can't reduce because it will take away from the actual transition time. I will try to mess around with slide times and so on.. Thanks for all the replys.

[bimicher]

The problem is I am trying to reduce transition time. Maybe I can't reduce because it will take away from the actual transition time.

 

I don't quite understand what you mean by this. Reducing transition time is no problem except there is a minimum transition time limit beyond which you cannot "reduce", something like .33 secs.

You can set the transition time for all transitions at one time. Right click a transition, then set the new transition time and select "apply to All". As I stated above that also changes all transitions to the selected transition which I consider a bug but apparently is by "design"

[REDWAGON]

The change of the duration time for all the transition to the same time does work in EMC 10 and C2009 but it has a bad side effect - it also changes all the actual the transitions to the same one. I believe it works exactly the same in EMC 9. Of course the transition durations have to less then some duration time for the adjoining images otherwise th program sets some "strange" value.

 

You are correct Walt that it does work in 10 and 2009 but it changes all of the transitions to the same kind---I forgot to mention that-=My bad. However, if you are using EMC 9, it does NOT turn all of the transitions to the same kind. It actually does what the option says it's supposed to do and changes all of the transition durations to the same time but not the transitions themselves. That was the point I was trying to make. And I agree that it is a BUG !!!

 

 

Frank...