Overlay fade in/out on VS9

grant9954 · Post by **grant9954** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:49 pm

Hi all

Is there a way to adjust the overlay fade in/out times with VS9?
It seems the longer the overlay the longer the fade to the point of being just too long.

Thanks

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:23 pm

Its a bit more work but I found well worth the effort.
Start with a blank timeline and put a colour clip first, then your video clip and finally another colour clip. Add your transitions between the clips - I found for this next effect clock or spiral one's are quite good.

Now render.

Now use this new clip as your overlay and use the chroma key to remove the colour clips at the two ends. The effect is an overlay that enters and leaves your main video with quite an eye catching result. Better than a simple fade in/out

grant9954 · Post by **grant9954** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:11 am

Hmmm. Sounds interesting, I'll have to try that.
But there's no way to just adjust the length?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:08 am

Using my above method, Because you are creating it on the main video track you can have whatever length you wish.