Transitions on Overlay Track

vernerdrost · Post by **vernerdrost** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:03 pm

I have Video Studio 11 plus. I cannot seems to find the answere to this question: I understood that you now can add transitions to images in your overlay tracks in Video Studio 11 plus, if you can, I cannot figure out how to do it.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:19 pm

No you can't.

You can cut clips on the overlay track (something you couldn't do in previous versions), but you still can't apply transitions. Did I mention

? We can only hope that this oversight will be corrected in the next version.

There are fade in/out buttons for the overlay tracks, but that's it - fade in and fade out (well, there is a spin in/out, but I wouldn't consider that a transition). So what you could do is apply the fade out to the first clip, then apply the fade in to the second clip. Now overlap them in separate overlay tracks.

An alternate solution if you want to use other transitions is to put your clips in the main track and add the transition(s). Then render that to it's own video file. Now take that file and put it in an overlay track. If you are using dv-avi files you will not see any quality loss. Other formats could possibly suffer some loss.

vernerdrost · Post by **vernerdrost** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:25 am

How do you do a fade in and fade out?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:33 am

The current versions of VideoStudio do not include transitions though we have devised work rounds:
Transitions in overlay tracks

Word on the grapevine is that VideoStudio 12 will have transitions.
In the meantime you can quite easily do a fade in/fade out. please click this thumbnail.