Can't remove transitions

RichMitt wrote on 3/19/2004, 11:07 AM

I can't figure out how to remove transitions from the video track. Under Help I found the following instructions under transitions:

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"Remove a transition

Click the icon [a square with a diagonal line dividing it into blue and white sections] on an event to display the Transition dialog.

Click the Remove button to remove the current transition."

I can't seem to find the "Remove button." The icon that shows in Help looks like the "Video Output FX" button only it has a red X just above it. The "Video Output FX" button is the far left button in the group of buttons in the upper right-hand corner of the Video preview box.

I thought the "Remove button" might be in the dialog box that pops up when I right-click on the icon in the center of the transition event, but I don't find it there. Does anyone know how to remove a transition (that was embedded in the video time line and saved many steps ago)?

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tjw wrote on 3/19/2004, 11:25 AM

Click on the black/blue square on the transition you want to remove and the transition properties window opens. The REMOVE button is in the upper right, next to the question mark.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/19/2004, 11:42 AM

tjw is right. You can delete the transition you've applied -- but there will STILL be a cross-fade there as long as the clips overlap.

To remove that, you'll need to actually slide the clip to the right until it no longer overlaps the one before. If you uncheck "automatic crossfades" from your options, it will make it easier to butt the two clips next to each other without accidentally overlapping them.

RichMitt wrote on 3/19/2004, 2:32 PM

Thanks, tjw and grisetti. Between you, you have cleared up that problem. One thing that caused confusion was that in some cases I had only inserted a simple Crossfade. There was no blue/black square on that, only a gray/black square, and I couldn't bring up the Transition Properties window with the "Remove" button when I clicked on that. The Remove Transition step was not necessary for the simple Crossfade. All I had to do in those cases was to follow grisetti's instruction for removing the Crossfade.

By the way, one I slid the clip to the right so that it didn't overlap, I still had one portion of the Crossfade on each side. On the right-hand segment I grabbed the tab in the upper right-hand corder of the fade and dragged it to the left until it disappeared. Was that the correct procedure?

Got another one along the same line. How does one remove a fade from an audio track? Grab the quarter-round icon that I used to create the fade and slide it back until it disappears?

RichMitt wrote on 3/19/2004, 2:34 PM

Let me rephrase that second paragraph:

By the way, ONCE I slid the clip to the right so that it didn't overlap, I still had one portion of the Crossfade on each side. On the right-hand segment I grabbed the tab in the upper right-hand CORNER of the fade and dragged it to the left until it disappeared. Was that the correct procedure?