Overlay - fade in / fade out

rs02931 · Post by **rs02931** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:32 am

In VS9....when using overlay fade in and fade out the fades seem to take seven or eight seconds when I play them back in Preview???? haven't had time yet to try rendering, then seeing how long they take. anyone had this or know if its only on playback???? didn't see any options for fade timing....

Thanks,
Bob S

madhaus · Post by **madhaus** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:38 pm

This sounds like a playback quality issue. Check your preferences settings and see whether you are using Instant Feedback (which is lower quality) or the better quality feedback. The better quality would require rendering the video to play it, and that takes up extra room on your drive. How much memory in your system; the less, the more UV9 stutters like that. 256Meg is a minimum (that's what I have and it barely functions).

In the second tab on preferences there is a setting for Good/Better/Best playback quality.

When you edit you want to use a poorer quality due to size, but when rendering you want to use Best.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:45 pm

Don't judge the results you'll get based on the Preview -- many of the effects and filters UVS supports cannot be rendered in realtime, so the Preview is often slow and/or jumpy.

You can always select a preview range that includes the section of the video you want to examine more closely, and then switch to the High Quality Preview mode, which renders the selected portion and plays that back, rather than trying to do it on-the-fly and in realtime.

rs02931 · Post by **rs02931** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:05 pm

since my initial post I have further played around ....AFTER rendering, the problem is still the same. My playback settings are at "Instant Playback" this is NOT an issue of the video being poor quality - more that the FadeIn and Fade out EACH take about HALF the length of the overlay clip....

I'm trying to fade a clip from a second Camera - Full screen in - and it runs for approx 2 mins......seems like fade in runs almost all of the first min...then starts to fade out for the final min??????? this even after rendering.

Thanks,
Bob S

Seaslug · Post by **Seaslug** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:29 pm

Fade in, Fade out and cross fade all run the same length as the clip all you need to do is split off the first part of the clip at the duration that you want and apply fade in. Trim off the last part of the clip at the duration that you want and apply fade out. This leaves you with one clip split into three parts Butted up together in the time line Fade in-Constant-Fade out .
Hope this Helps

rs02931 · Post by **rs02931** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:38 pm

thanks Seaslug.......Thought that may be the only solution, but then again I'm getting old so thought maybe i was just having a Brain (whats left of it ) Freeze....

Thanks,
Bob S

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