DVD Movie Factory 4.0 Transition Effects Question/Problem

[leenicho]

I want to use the "FX: Fade" transition affect but it goes too slow.

I've noticed in the folder structure there is a "fade.dll" which I'm guessing controls the fade. I'm wondering if somehow this could be edited to do a 1 second fade in stead of a 2 second? (i'm guessing the current fade takes ~2 seconds)

Does anyone know how to make the fade go like twice as fast? I'm also wondering if this could be an addition affect in MF5?

Thanks, Nick

[Ron P.]

Hi Nick,

To change the transition effect time, go to File>Preferences. There you can set the durations for Transitions, Image Display, etc..

Ron P.

[leenicho]

Hi Nick,

To change the transition effect time, go to File>Preferences. There you can set the durations for Transitions, Image Display, etc..

Ron P.

So it's not quite file:prefs in MF4, but it's the icon in the lower left and then preferences.

I get Slideshow effect duration [3]
transition effect duration [3]
audio fade-in/out duration [3]

So, just to test I got in and add 113 images = 339 w/out transition
I then add transition and it goes to 563 (563-339=224)

I then delete the slideshow, change it to 3,1,1 so it should be 1/3 the time
but I get the same timings, 563. Perhaps somehow it's not saving? If I go ahead and put like 3,12,12 it stays at the same too, somehow it's not "saving"

So, I try and time it and it does seem to take 1 second to fully transition, I guess really I want it to take .5 seconds, which seemingly isn't going to be possible, so perhaps I will have to use no transitions.

Thanks for the help though, unless you have some other ideas..

[Ron P.]

When you use transitions, the duration of the transition is borrowed from the neighboring image clips. For an example if your image duration is 5 seconds (to make the math a little easier), and the transition duration is 2 seconds.

Then for 10 images without transitions the total time would be 10 * 5 = 50 seconds.

Now we add a transition:
So for our 10 images the total time would be: 10 images * 5 seconds, subtract 1 seconds from each image (10 seconds) = 40 seconds...

So when you add a transition effect, you don't add additional time, because it is an action applied to the clips, and uses the clips time.

Hope that helps...

Ron P.

[macd1995]

I am using DVD MovieFactory 6

I have changed the slide show duration from 5 to 7 to 12, and I still get the 3 second slide show. How do I fix this.

Additionally, is there a way to add slide show transition to all slides at once?

Thanks!