End of one clip, start of next not smooth

Beelzebob wrote on 7/24/2004, 10:50 PM
I just finished an eighty minute video with about 400 clips. I used very few transitions, but sometimes the end of one clip and the beginning of the next are not as smooth as I would like. Often I can expand the timeline and find a space that shouldn't be there or some frames at the end of a clip that shouldn't be there, which is easy to correct. However, sometimes I expand the timeline all the way, see nothing wrong, yet there's obviously a frame or two that makes the video less than smooth.

Am I making things too hard? My hope was that if the little blue triangles (tabs?) lined up, I had a clean transition from clip to clip (again, I'm not using transitions much, but I don't know any other word to use here). I've found that's not true. When I made this video, I enabled snap to frames. I found I had to disable that to get rid of some spaces.
It also appears to me that when fully expanded, the timeline is not reliable as clips end and begin.

Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading it.

Best,

Bob

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/26/2004, 11:10 AM
Usually, when snap to frames is enabled and automatic crossfades is disabled, you can ram one clip up against another and they will hook together without any spaces between them.

If auto crossfades is enabled, of course, you end up accidentally creating a crossfade when you push two clips together.

Occasionally, you're going to get a gap (or an accidental overlap of clips) but, most of the time, with snap to frames enabled and auto crossfades disabled, you should be okay.

I have to admit, though, that this is a logistic element of this program that does occasionally annoy me. In fact, sometimes to avoid the issue completely, I simply enable ripple edits, put the new clip a second or two away from the old, double-click to select the gap and then hit delete. This definitely ensures that the ends of the clips meet perfectly!
IanG wrote on 7/26/2004, 2:47 PM
>Usually, when snap to frames is enabled and automatic crossfades is disabled, you can ram one clip up against another and they will hook together without any spaces between them.

I usualy have both enabled, and I've never had this problem! But, I've just noticed that if I zoom out as far as I can and then snap 2 clips together there's a gap between them. If I zoom in a little MS behaves itself again. It looks like there's a bug!

Ian G.


Beelzebob wrote on 7/26/2004, 10:40 PM
Thanks, Gris and Ian, I'll try snap on, auto crossfade off. I may just crossfade all the problem clips, might be the easiest thing to do.


Best,

Bob
ChristerTX wrote on 7/27/2004, 6:48 PM
I have seen the very same thing as well.