VSP X3 remove ALL transitions at once?

[spotmom]

I have started a project and had the transition crossfade as a default and put it at 4 seconds, not realizing it would walk over some of my shorter clips too far.

I changed the default to 1 second and clicked the transition and told it to apply current effect to video track, it asks me if I want to overwrite the transitions and I click yes, and absolutely nothing changes. New transitions are 1 second, but all the old ones are still 4.

I dread having to go in and manually remove some 80 odd transitions one at a time. I read all I could find and found no answers from user boards, corel or the help files.

Any Suggestions?

Video Studio Pro X3 Trial
Win XP, SP3
4gb RAM
512 mb Radeon video card

[aljimenez]

Never done this, but I eagerly await someone's good suggestion. Have you tried applying transitions to the entire project to replace the existing ones? That's what I would try... Al

[spotmom]

Never done this, but I eagerly await someone's good suggestion. Have you tried applying transitions to the entire project to replace the existing ones? That's what I would try... Al

Tried that, too. Different clip of the proper length, then reapply the clip I wanted. No change in length, just the clips.

I just went ahead and deleted every one of them (actually were about 150 of them!) and then had it fill in with the new length. That worked, but then a new problem...

I had ripple edit enabled and it did not "do its thing"! I now have to go back and manually move all my titles to their proper places. At least there is only 10 of them.

Sigh. 4 hours I have been looking for a simple fix to my problem, reading instructions and watching tutorials and all I have accomplished is making another problem, not a single minute of new work accomplished.

[Luna Esterhuizen]

I suggest that you remove all the clips (images) after you've set your default to 1 sec and just add the same images again. The new transition setting will be applied. To remove and add images is much quicker. Hope they are not scattered all over different locations on your pc but more or less in one folder. At least you do not have to remove the transitions individually. Hope this will help you.

[mitchell65]

I think Spotman that as you are clearly just testing VS x3 that to undertake a project with 150 transitions was a bit ambitious. Perhaps you would have been better starting with a smaller project that didn't require so much forward planning but then hindsight is a wonderful thing

[spotmom]

I think Spotman that as you are clearly just testing VS x3 that to undertake a project with 150 transitions was a bit ambitious. Perhaps you would have been better starting with a smaller project that didn't require so much forward planning but then hindsight is a wonderful thing

I have had VSX2 for quite some time (and created a 9 DVD 7000 photo slide show with it) and heavily used Windows Movie Maker before that so I am not a total noob, but I never had this situation come up before and did not realize it could happen.

I am editing a 2 week vacation we just took and there are a zillion little clips of 1 to 5 minutes , plus some stills, and I am cropping pretty heavy to make it as short and interesting (to myself) as possible. That's the reason for so many transitions.

If the "replace transition" with the new one actually worked it would not be a problem, same with the ripple editing. Why did it not move all the titles to stay with their respective clips? They did not move just a little, they are miles away from where they started.

A previous program I trialed before going with VSX2 (I can't remember which as it was so many and so long ago) had a "remove all transitions" option. Guess that should go on the wish list for a new version!

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

As LE said the quickest way would be to remove/delete the images from the timeline, then replace them.
You could of course drag them all to the library first. You have a copy and can easily drag back.

or
Transitions

Story Board View may be best, use your keyboard arrow keys to move to next transition, use delete to remove.
Double click a transition in the library will insert the transition to the first available in the timeline, a bit quicker than dragging and dropping.

I don¡¦t think there is an automatic way to re-size the transitions.

[spotmom]

Hi

As LE said the quickest way would be to remove/delete the images from the timeline, then replace them.
You could of course drag them all to the library first. You have a copy and can easily drag back.

or
Transitions

Story Board View may be best, use your keyboard arrow keys to move to next transition, use delete to remove.
Double click a transition in the library will insert the transition to the first available in the timeline, a bit quicker than dragging and dropping.

I don’t think there is an automatic way to re-size the transitions.

I had already just gone through and mouse click/delete button the transitions from the story board, that was much faster than moving and replacing all the clips. It was fast enough I had to let the computer catch up with me once or twice Then I refilled auto with the 1 sec transitions. Job done, but other programs do have the "remove all transitions" capability.

[sjj1805]

........I have had VSX2 for quite some time (and created a 9 DVD 7000 photo slide show with it) .......

How many boxes of popcorn do I need to bring round?

[spotmom]

........I have had VSX2 for quite some time (and created a 9 DVD 7000 photo slide show with it) .......

How many boxes of popcorn do I need to bring round?

A couple anyway .

It was not a "normal" project. I had the duty of scanning, identifying and labeling my husband's mother's entire family photo albums from 1929 to 2004 after she passed away and we became the keepers of the photos.

It took 5 years off and on to properly identify and label them all then the finished product was put on DVD's so the entire families on all sides could have all the photos in all the albums instead of the usual tearing up and breaking apart the family photos after a death in the family. Plus they are now scattered across the country so there is a backup in numerous states.

I did them so the label was a large type caption under each photo so when viewed on a TV you can see who and what the photo is. I do believe I had posted some questions here when I was working on that project, too!

[Ken Berry]

Yes, you did -- almost exactly a year ago as we speak!!

[Luna Esterhuizen]

I must congratulate Spotmom for doing such an unselfish act for the family in law, I hope they know what it takes to do such an enormous project and appreciate what you did. But I suppose we'll all do that for our family and we enjoy what we do.

Back to the topic. I did some tests to see why the text didn't move with the slides, but it did not happen to me.

The only thing I found, is that when I intended to apply the text to go with a certain image and the text overflow with the transition, this text will stuck to the previous slide on the left and not the slide that it was meant for if you remove the transition. But it still shifted with the slide when removing transitions while ripple editing was applied to all layers.

I made a nice snip from a screen shot to show my point but do not know how the paste it here.

So I still wonder what happened with your project.

[Black Lab]

So I still wonder what happened with your project.

Could be that his transitions were in the overlay track. Ripple editing only works with changes to the main track (why, I don't know).

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Ripple editing can be difficult to control, there are many anomalies when using this option.

If you were to set you¡¦re images as 10 seconds and apply a 3 second transition.
Set the title to start at the beginning of the transition extending into the image.

Now reduce the transition duration, I found the title now started on the previous image, certainly not where I wanted it.
If I were to set the title over the image and not over the transition it would remain on the image.

So its not all black and white, it really depends on your timeline content.

Ripple Editing
Deleting frames from the end of a video clip.

You can use the scissors to cut the clip to delete the end, this will cause a ¡§Clips related to this clip to be deleted will also be removed. Do you want to continue.¡¨
Most of us will have seen this message.

Instead of cutting the clip, use the yellow trim handles or Mark-in / Mark-out brackets to resize the clip.
The message above does not appear, you have performed the same edit, removing frames from the end of a clip. The ripple editing results are completely different.

I use ripple editing sparingly¡K¡K¡K¡K

[spotmom]

So I still wonder what happened with your project.

Could be that his transitions were in the overlay track. Ripple editing only works with changes to the main track (why, I don't know).

The transitions were in the main timeline, then the titles were in the first title track. I would have expected a little shift when all the "extra" seconds were removed, but last night when I fixed all the titles I found they were not even in the same clip area, they were sometimes 2 clips, up to 5 minutes away from where they started.

Guess I will never know.