TRANSITIONS

JohnJ wrote on 7/18/2012, 9:46 AM

Thanks to everyone who has helped me so far. I have a new problem in that when I create a transition the overlap contains the first scenes from the first clip as if the first clip is looped. if I disable looping the clip becomes a still. This has only just begun to happen so I think I must have changed a setting by accident.
Can anyone help please?

Comments

jetdv wrote on 7/18/2012, 10:20 AM

Sounds like you've extended the first clip beyond the length of that clip. You need to shorten the clip so that it is no longer extended beyond the loop point. Once you do this, the transition will be shorter. To make the transition longer, you will need to move the event on the right farther left.

mudsmith wrote on 7/18/2012, 10:28 AM

From my limited experience, I would agree with this assessment.

Having the clip switched on for looping can create some extremely non-intuitive results, especially after extending it past its end and then "un-extending" it. It sometimes seems that you have lost the original content as you move the right clip edge back and forth. This can be sort of logically compounded if you happen to have left the Ripple on.

So, if you have actually turned off looping on that clip, I would follow the instructions in the post above by bringing the clip edge way back into the known portion of the clip. If that is still yielding strange results, I would delete the clip then re-import to the timeline.

Since looping seems to be a default switch, I have tended to turn it off pretty quickly with new clips to avoid this confusion.