Im stumped! Please Help..

shane2801 wrote on 12/3/2014, 3:51 AM
Hi everyone
When editing a movie, why is it, when I select a transition to use and move it down to the timeline the time line's first frame becomes the last frame?
Say for instance I use a standard "clockwipe" transition, when I replay the transition I see for a split second a picture of the last frame in the timeline?

Thanks

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 12/3/2014, 8:34 AM
This is because you don't have adequate "head" and "tail" material on your event clip.

When you add a transition between events, both events are visible on-screen during the transition -- which means that, during a one-second transition, you will need half a second of video beyond the end of the first event and half a second of video beyond the beginning of the second clip to create the transitional segment. (I illustrate this on my book on Amazon if that isn't clear.) If you don't have that extra footage, the program will "loop" your clip(s) and borrow footage from the other end of each clip.

There are two solutions:
1) Trim off half a second from the beginning and end of any events you'll be transitioning so that the program has the extra "head" or "tail" footage; or
2) Overlap one event over the other (with Auto Cross-Dissolve turned on) to create the transitional segment to create a Dissolve between the events and then add the transition to that Dissolve.

BTW, this issue isn't unique to Movie Studio. Every program needs head and tail material to create a transitional segment. Vegas and Movie Studio are unique, however, in "looping" an event's clip if there isn't adequate head or tail footage.
DocSatori wrote on 12/3/2014, 9:18 AM
Other solutions, depending on various things, might be:

Seeing if you still have that problem with your clip AFTER you've added a second clip at the end of the first and transitioned them together.
Turning OFF the looping of the clip.
Sometimes playing with a clip's time properties while it's on a timeline can solve the problem - again, depending on your clip and what you're doing.

HTH