How long are your transitions a fades in/out?

CrazyRussian wrote on 7/19/2003, 9:41 PM

Just wondering, what is everybody elses preferences for transitions and fade in/outs?
I, seems, to use for:
a) one episode to onother fade out to black for 3 sec and new episode with fade in from black for 3 sec
b) for scene changes in the same episode, I do simple transition for 2 sec

Comments

beerandchips wrote on 7/21/2003, 8:50 AM

Totally depends on the director/editor. (ie. YOU) You do what you want, it's your project. When I edit for my station and it is a promo or commercial I use 10 frame fades. If I dissolve I prefer 20 frames. Whatever looks good for you is best.

kameronj wrote on 7/21/2003, 9:09 AM

I'm in agreement with BeerandChips....it's totally up to the director/editor.

And, IMHO, it totally depends on the project too.

Some of my transitions are nothing but jump cuts (because that is what the project demands). Some projects "just start"....some I like to give a good 5 second fade in.

Most end projects I do I do a fade out from video to a still and fade out for 5 seconds.

It's like with some songs I record. I always try and put a two second buffer of silence at the start and end. This, coupled with the two second default pause inbetween tracks when burning an audio CD gives a good pause between the tracks.

But one of the last CDs I produced I didn't want or need a two second gap between the third and fourth track. I needed four to start precisely after the last downbeat of three. When played back to back .... it's a great transition - but they are two separate tracks.

Hope that helps a bit.

(if you want to check out the audio tracks I mentioned...pop over to my website at www.KJVPresents.com and click on the "Snipples" page and check out the MC Lisp demo.)