Saving Transitions

[Raouliii]

Long time, intermittent user, of Videostudio, back to the Ulead days. Currently using X8 Ultimate.

A quick question.
I use a crossfade transition with a duration of 1 frame constantly on my projects.
Is there a way to save this transition with that duration or am I stuck using one with the default duration, minimum 1sec. and then changing its duration by hand each time?
FWIW, I use the short transition to smooth out cuts in vlog video. I overlap and fade a single frame from each overlay clip. I'm only capable of delivering single lines with a lot of looking down at a script in between.

Thanks for any insight
Raouliii

[asik1]

no VS can't.

[weaver]

Long time, intermittent user, of Videostudio, back to the Ulead days. Currently using X8 Ultimate.

A quick question.
I use a crossfade transition with a duration of 1 frame constantly on my projects.
Is there a way to save this transition with that duration or am I stuck using one with the default duration, minimum 1sec. and then changing its duration by hand each time?
FWIW, I use the short transition to smooth out cuts in vlog video. I overlap and fade a single frame from each overlay clip. I'm only capable of delivering single lines with a lot of looking down at a script in between.

Thanks for any insight
Raouliii

If it is the same transition you can just copy paste on the timeline.

Sorry it was my mistake. For transitions the copy/paste does not work.

Also 1 frame for transitions is not very good because within one frame there is no space to make any transitions ( movement) . The transition is distributed in 1 frame steps from beginning to end, and for any movement you need at least 3 frames (3 steps). The initial, the middle and the end frame. Anything shorter will not generate any transition.

[Raouliii]

no VS can't.

Thanks for the quick response.

If it is the same transition you can just copy paste on the timeline.

Thanks for the quick response. But I'm using these transitions on dual overlay track clips and when I select them and right click I don't have a copy option. Only Delete and Save to Favorites options. The Save to Favorites option doesn't maintain the time duration parameter when the transition is added to the favorites list.

I'm thinking it can't be done.

Maybe there's another way to achieve the fades I'm doing.
I have two green screen clips, on two different overlay tracks.
I have cut out dead time between useful lines of dialogue, so there is always some differences in body/mouth positioning so there is a visible jump between clips.
I resolved this by adding a 1 frame crossfade transition to the end of the first clip and the beginning of the next one.
I then overlap these single frames on the timeline. The two clips are 100% at only one instant of time.
It works very well.
It's just that the 1 frame crossfade transition can't be saved and 1 second transitions take a number of additional steps to convert them.
Since my delivery is wooden and awkward, I have a cut between every sentence.

I've tried other options but haven't found any other satisfactory solution.

I'll just put in the extra effort for the great result or learn to deliver more than one line of dialogue at a time.

Thanks again.

[lata]

Hi
So adding the 1 frame transition will shift the right clip left by one frame effectively removing one frame, It cannot cross fade as that would require more frames.
Why don’t you simply remove one frame by using the Mark-In / Mark-Out F3 – F4 options

If you have two videos using the same audio content then try using MCE to cut the video and sync the audio at the same time

[weaver]

no VS can't.

Thanks for the quick response.

If it is the same transition you can just copy paste on the timeline.

Thanks for the quick response. But I'm using these transitions on dual overlay track clips and when I select them and right click I don't have a copy option. Only Delete and Save to Favorites options. The Save to Favorites option doesn't maintain the time duration parameter when the transition is added to the favorites list.

I'm thinking it can't be done.

Maybe there's another way to achieve the fades I'm doing.
I have two green screen clips, on two different overlay tracks.
I have cut out dead time between useful lines of dialogue, so there is always some differences in body/mouth positioning so there is a visible jump between clips.
I resolved this by adding a 1 frame crossfade transition to the end of the first clip and the beginning of the next one.
I then overlap these single frames on the timeline. The two clips are 100% at only one instant of time.
It works very well.
It's just that the 1 frame crossfade transition can't be saved and 1 second transitions take a number of additional steps to convert them.
Since my delivery is wooden and awkward, I have a cut between every sentence.

I've tried other options but haven't found any other satisfactory solution.

I'll just put in the extra effort for the great result or learn to deliver more than one line of dialogue at a time.

Thanks again.

Hey Raouliii

I corrected myself, as there is really no option to save the transition time. On top of that I also wrote, like Trevor did above, the transition below 3 frames is no transition, it just probably shorts the clips by one or two frames. This can be easily done as Trevor described, and a dubbing cutter has always a difficult job, when somebody wants to achieve lipsync on the videos. ( try to imagine what happens if the dubbing language is different from the original !
Already the translater/interpreter has a serious job to find in foreign language the words/expressions with similar length or similar mouthwork. It is a challenge.
In a very expensive projects during dubbing mastering they sometimes even adjust the film length (adding or removing frames or changing the speed) to get the realistic lipsync.