cross fading photos

[samsara]

I'm creating a rather long video and want to avoid transitions that I'm told, take up mgs. I thought you could just run two photos into one and other and they'd crossfade. Is the a way to make a quick transition between photos without the sudden jump from one to the other (without using transitions)?

[BrianCee]

a crossfade between two photos requires a crossfade transition - unless you fade one out and fade the next in - that would give a blank screen in the middle though no matter how short it was it would show,.

I don't know where you heard this story about transitions using up memory - they use almost nothing - in any case you either need a good looking show or you don't - if you do then use various transitions between photos.

As you are using photos they need much less file space than a video so you will be able to get a few hundred photos with transitions onto a standard DVD.

[Ken Berry]

If you insert a photo into the timeline and then insert another after it -- and if in Preferences > Edit you haven't selected to automatically insert a transition -- then you can simply drag thestart of the second photo back over the end of the first photo, and you will have a crossfade between the images. The duration of the cross fade, moreover, will depend on how far you drag the second image over the first.

But like Brian, I agree that it is nonsense to suggest that using transitions uses up lots of space.

[Ron P.]

Just adding to Ken's advise,
You need to set Crossfade as the default transition in Preferences. If not the default set by Corel is Random.

[Ken Berry]

Of course, it's Random if you select to automatically insert a transition but don't specify which. But my point was that without selecting either automatic insert or a specific transition, if you put two photos -- or of course videos -- into the timeline and drag one over the other, a crossfade is automatically made with a duration corresponding to the width of the overlap.

[BrianCee]

Sorry Ken - but in my versions of VideoStudio the transition applied if you forcibly overlap clips is the transition specified in preferences at the bottom of the edit tab - even if you do NOT select to "Automatically add transition effect" - it is not always the crossfade

[Ken Berry]

Ah had! I see you are correct. It's just that I use the crossfade nearly 100% of the time, so that is usually what is set when I select automatically insert transition. So when I unticked that box, Crossfade remains. I just changed it to something else, and that new transition appeared when I overlapped the photos.

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