Elimintating "jump" between two clips.

[SMoreland22]

First time posting, and I apologize for the for the post, but I have looked and cannot find an answer to my problem.
I have split a title clip into two clips so I can fade in the first one, and fade out the second. However, when I play it back in preview, there is an obvious "jump" between the two clips. Is there any way to eliminate this jump so the title clip flows smoothly?

[aljimenez]

Maybe adding a black or other color image in between will give you what you want?

[BrianCee]

OK - you have me intrigued - how did you manage to split a title - I have never been able to do that with a pre-made one

second question - why did you split a title - if all you want is fade in and fade out you can do that on a single clip

Is there movement in the clip you split - I can only assume you have not made a clean cut and the end of one clip is not aligned correctly

A little more info and explanation may help



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[JaRo]

Hi everyone,

I've just made a project with two fade in / out titles using Crossfade Transition. The first one is not splitted and the second one is.

Hoping this is what « SMoreland22 » wants.

Link in the signature below.

[steven120566]

I think I know what the poster is asking... and I do this all the time becausae most of my titling is done this way. I may be missing another way to do it, but my method is exactly as Smoreland describes. Difference is I make a title about 1/2 as long as I need and copy it, then change the fade attribute from "in" on the first to "out" on the second. I am able to eliminate the "jump" by making absolutely certain that the two titles are flat flush with each other (not a frame in between them), and that the attributes are exact.

Other editing software has simpler way of fading titles "in" then "out"... so maybe I am missing this simple capability within Videostudio, and both Smoreland and I are doing it the hard way?

[JaRo]

Hi steven120566,

I've made titles your way many times in past projects. Your way or mine are quite the same. The results are the same as long as, as you wrote : by making absolutely certain that the two titles are flat flush with each other (not a frame in between them), and that the attributes are exact.

[canuck]

Why are you splitting the title video? Unless you want to put "something" between the resulting segments there is no point in splitting.

Until Smoreland comes back and tells us exactly what he is doing and why, we are only guessing.

[steven120566]

Thank you canuck. Thank you JaRo.

I took Smoreland's question to be that they simply wish to fade up a title and fade it back down... say, then another, and another etc.

So the way JaRo and myself described it, and Smoreland themselves, does work. Because on the attributes tab of a title, you have to apply a preset animation. Smoreland was getting a "jump" where the two two titles "butted up" against each other, the first with the pre-created "fade in" and the next with the pre-created "fade out". And this seems o have happened either because the attributes of the two title clips differed or they were not precisely aligned to each other in the time line.

So I just went in and messed around with title clips on the overlay tracks. Seems you can right click on the title and select "customize motion", go in and set key frames and change the opacity from 0 (not visible) to 100 (full visibility) The program creates a fully customizable "fade in-fade out" for your title. You can just set keyframes, simply set the opacitys for them frames, and ignore the motion settings.

Experienced editors are prolly saying "well... duh no kidding" LOL but I just figured that one out, because title fading is simpler on some other editing software programs.

I may be even missing something STILL however, and over complicating a simple title "fade up fade down" kind of thing. It just seems to me that as awesome a program as this is overall, simple fading of titles on and off is so complex

[canuck]

Smoreland is talking about splitting a title. How does that have anything to do with any of your solutions?

I wish SMoreland would come back and give an example of exactly what he is seeing.

[lata]

Hi Guys
My take on this….
I am sure there are a few ways to edit our Titles aka Text boxes

The Customise Motion option offers many ways to do this.

However the Text Editor has its own animation options, some pre-sets can be applied to our text, but we can use the manual approach by selecting the two “TT” ‘s symbol.
That opens small animation panel where we can apply our settings.

OK
1 / create a text / title using Drop animation, choose the two TT
2 / I set unit type as Character.
3 / play the clip to view the animation.
4 / right click clip on timeline and choose Copy, drop copy to right of first clip, drag to butt up to first clip, no gaps.
5 / Select second text on preview screen and apply animation, change from Drop to Fade
6 / two TT’s again to set Fade as fade out.

VSP of these settings is attached

Text Animation X8.zip

opens using X8 and X9

(1.97 KiB) Downloaded 100 times

[steven120566]

Thanks lata.

In the last day, I have been messing around with the customize motion control on title clips. It is actually insanely versatile and now my preferred way to do "non preset" titling Having used it to cleanly do the "fade in fade out" titles, now having fun with the rest of the options in the customize motion box!

I don't think I will ever be able to use Videostudio to its full capabilities, but having fun getting closer to it... It is really the best hobbyist editor IMO.

[lata]

Hi

Customise Motion is indeed quite powerful and does a good job in animating our clips.
However if you have many lines of text that you intend to scroll then not all lines are displayed at the same time, now Customise Motion has a problem. The solution would be to reduce the font size to show all lines on preview screen or create a transparent image of the text, using that for Customise Motion.

Using the text editor if I wish to Fade In and Fade out the TT’s has a Cross fade option,
To Fly In and Fade Out then I have to use two clips, as your original post.

Some animations have a Pause Duration, notice the blue bar below the preview screen, we can customise that timing, allowing the fade to be fast or slow.
Some info here.
http://lata.me.uk/corel/trimbar/trim_bar.htm

I am not sure if SMoreland22 will reply as the poster not been on forum since original post?

[steven120566]

So many options to control titles! Awesome, man Thanks for that information.

Maybe he won't return to here... but the reason I am presumptious about his issue is because I experienced the exact same thing, I was using that same method he was to fade in a title and fade it out. I also had that disturbing "jump" effect. I don't really think he wants to have to use two clips to do this, because I certainly didn't like doing it that way. It was time consuming, and had minimal control of timing. Fortunately I have now realized there other ways to achieve it. Hopefully, SSmoreland will get the assistance from here by returning