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Chienworks wrote on 10/7/2003, 6:53 PM
Drag them apart so that they don't overlap anymore. Overlap = transition. No overlap = no transition.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/8/2003, 8:14 AM
It's really as simple as grabbing the frame on the timeline and dragging it right until it no longer overlaps the frame before.

If you've built up several events following this frame, simply click on it, then right-click and choose "select to end". Then you'll move everything to the right at once.

Or you can choose the frame and drag the edge in to shorten the length of time the still is on-screen (and maybe doing the same with the frame before it).



vwcrusher wrote on 10/8/2003, 2:59 PM
Oh, so the crossfade timing impedes the overall time line?

Somehow I thought that the 5 second frame view was in addition to the one second transition. When I originally added a crossfade between two pictures, the overall length of the two frames didn't seem to stretch.....

Or do I have this wrong?

Thanks
Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/8/2003, 3:13 PM
The five seconds is the length of time of the entire event, the entire time your your still takes up on the timeline.

If you overlap for a one-second transition with the still before it, that means it appears only four seconds post-transition. Crossfade for one second with the picture that follows and it means your still gets only three seconds to itself.

But, in most cases (unless you're synching to the beat of music, for instance), that's just the right amount of time to expose a still photo, fortunately.

On the other hand, if you want the still to take up a certain amount of time as soon as you drop it on the timeline without your having to tweak it, you can re-set the default time.

Does that answer your question?
vwcrusher wrote on 10/8/2003, 6:55 PM
grisetti,

Yes, thanks.
I will try it out.
Just in case I need to....how do you reset default time?

Allen
Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/13/2003, 9:04 AM
Hold down your shift key as you select Preferences and you'll see a whole new set of "Internal" settings.

Look for the still frame length setting which, by default, is set to 5. Change it to however many seconds you'd prefer. (Although, I must say that, after I tinkered with some other numbers, I eventually just went back to 5, which seems to be pretty ideal for a default.)

By the way, you can also make a trimmer available by changing its FALSE setting to TRUE. This little feature comes in handy if you just want to grab a short segment from a longer video clip.
IanG wrote on 10/13/2003, 5:05 PM
>Look for the still frame length setting which, by default, is set to 5

The default is 5 seconds, but the number is 50,000,000. Why you'd want to set the display time with an accuracy of 1 10 millionth of a second is beyond me, but there you go!

Ian G.
Chienworks wrote on 10/13/2003, 6:17 PM
That was probably done so that you could enter 333,667 for a single frame at 29.97fps. This is only off by 0.000000098% and would probably take years for the error to cross a frame boundry. If the setting was millionths of a second then the closest you could come is 33,367 which is off by 0.00089901% and the error would become apparent much sooner.
IanG wrote on 10/14/2003, 3:05 AM
Makes sense - thanks for that!

Ian G.