Fade in and out again

[CSR]

Hi.

I use VS9; is there a method of fading up a clip - as if doing a normal crossfade - and then fading it out again instead of completing the transition? On a mixing desk it would be the equivalent of bringing the fader halfway up and then dropping it down again. Suggestions on how this might work in VS9?

Thanks...

[Ron P.]

Hi CSR, welcome to the forums..

Yes this can be done, with a little out of the box thinking..

1. Locate the Brightness and Contrast Filter and drag it to your clip
2. Click on Customize.
3. Now on the first KeyFrame (check the manual for explanation of keyframes), set the Brightness and Contrast to -100, slide the sliders all the way to the left.
4. Move to a latter point in your clip, add a keyframe.
5. Set the Brightness and Contrast to about -50. This would be about half faded in.
6. Move to a point latter, before the last keyframe, and add another keyframe.
7. Right click on the previous keyframe (one with -50) and select copy, then paste this to the keyframe you just created.
8. Go to the last keyframe and set the Brightness and Contrast to -100.

Now you should have a clip that fades in to half opacity, then fades out.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Another option is to use the overlay track.
Apply fade-in and out.
The use the transparency option in the chrome key section.

Trevor

[Ilene]

I'm wondering how you would apply a similar affect to the Boris FX Transition "Snap Shot"

I love to use this transition to segway from one segment of my video to the next. I often like to hold on it for an extra second. To do so I make the second frame just a black color screen and I make a still image of the midway point in the transition. I find that when I do this the transition kind of fades and then sharpens as the new image appears - which doesn't look great. As a work around I use the cross fade before the new still image that I created and delete the Boris effect. THis isn't exactly what I want. I wish I could use the Boris and then go to the still I created.

Any suggestions. FYI - I don't like to make the black screen longer because then you end up with a black screen before my next image or video clip and that looks funny too.

thanks.

Ilene

[Ron P.]

Ilene,

If I read your post correctly, you are using a camera flash effect, correct? If so myself and Brian posted a way to achieve this smoothly using VS. See this post:
Camera Flash Effect