Dueling Fades - How to get rid of them?

RalphM wrote on 6/25/2004, 7:37 AM

Somewhere in the process of moving some events, I've ended up with several video events that begin with fading up from black and fading down to black simultaneously, resulting in a hard cut from black to video.

How do I get rid of them? I've got the same situation on some audio fades, but I assume answering the video question will also answer the audio.

Any help will be appreciated.

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 6/25/2004, 8:13 AM

For video tracks you need to hover your mouse over either the left or right edge of the event very near the top edge of the track. Then you'll see a sort of 1/4 circle with a line extending into the event. Grab ahold and drag to increase or decrease the fade. Dragging all the way to the left at the start gets rid of the opening fade, dragging all the way to the right gets rid of the ending fade.

Audio fades can be corrected the same way unless you used a envelope then you'll also need to move the nodes up or down. The middle position (the point the envelope line is at across the event) is netural.

RalphM wrote on 6/25/2004, 8:21 AM

Thanks for the Reply BillyBoy,

Unfortunately, what I have are crossfades at the beginning and end of several events. I believe thay are left over from having selected automatic crossfades between events, then separating the events later. Pulling the opacity icon back to the beginning of the clip does not remove the cross fade. It's there when I try to do a fade up from black again.

JL wrote on 6/25/2004, 10:09 AM

Try one of the following:

Right click > Transition > Convert to cut
or
Cntl Num /

JL

DGrob wrote on 6/25/2004, 10:54 AM

Do you by any chance have two events superimposed?

I will occasionally pull a crossfade apart and wind up with one white fade line X'd with another in the transition . If I select the event left-click, hold and drag to another track, I'll find the same event uncovered behind the original. Curious. It's only happened since I went to V5b. Darryl

RalphM wrote on 6/25/2004, 1:54 PM

Thanks for the replies all,

DGrob, it was exactly the situation you described. I pulled the event to another track and there is was, still on the first track as well. Deleted the duplicate and no more strange crossfades.

Thanks Much - BTW, this happened with 4.0c. I have V5 sitting in the box, but don't want to install until I clean out projects already underway in V4.

dvdude wrote on 6/25/2004, 2:00 PM

Oooh - this is scary. I've had this happen in V4 and V5a but thought (perhaps correctly) that I was being a moron and dropping clips on the timeline multiple times or something.

jetdv wrote on 6/25/2004, 2:03 PM

Sounds like you're holding down the CTRL key and just slightly moving the clip with the mouse. This will create a copy of the clip.

dvdude wrote on 6/25/2004, 2:18 PM

COULD WELL BE THAT!! I didn't know it did that. I often hold the control key and click things for multiple event selection (not necessarily consecutive ones).

I guess that's not the right approach huh Jet? How'd you do that?

jetdv wrote on 6/25/2004, 2:26 PM

CTRL-Click is correct for multiple selection. Just make sure you don't accidentally drag too.

DGrob wrote on 6/25/2004, 3:17 PM

Good answer. Makes sense, I'll be more careful. Thanks to all of you. Darryl

dvdude wrote on 6/25/2004, 3:27 PM

Is there any way to turn it off? I can always use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy an event.

DGrob wrote on 6/26/2004, 5:13 AM

Ya know, I've got a 1920x1200 screen. When I Control-Click to select multiple events, I'll bet I'm getting a pixel or two of drag just in the clicking motion. I'm with you dvdude, I'd like to turn this off!! Darryl