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I am inserting a 38 second segment over a 2 minute video background and when I add a crossfade over in and out points there is a jumpcut before the 2nd crossfade starts.

If anyone could let me know what I am doing wrong I would appreciate it.

Thanks
Greg

You might not be doing anything wrong. What you might try is creating the insert in another project. Use the clipboard to bring the base clip and the insert into an empty project. Place the 2 minute scene on the storyboard, insert the 38 second clip and Range to taste. Add the crossfades and then create a scene of it. Clipboard the scene you just created back into your original storyboard.

Hello Greg,

Your jump cut during the crossfade ...after an insert. may be caused because the scene under it is being exposed during the transition and there may be a change in that scene of a frame or two showing when you don't want it to. You can test this theory two ways......first, by shortening your insert by two seconds with the range control and then placing the crossfade in there again and see if it shows the jump cut after the transition. Then you know what the problem is. It's the base scene changing during the transition.

Or secondly, you can look at the end of the base scene with the "Trim" button and examine it frame by frame to see if there is a misplaced image of another clip at the end of it. If you did an "Auto Split" and didn't check the beginning and end of each scene.....sometimes the software doesn't put the split in the correct place and you can have a frame or two from another clip dangling at the end of your scene that you don't know about until you either look at it or try to run a crossfade over it.

An interesting side note to this that some readers here may not know about. When you look at a scene with the "Trim" button using the "In" control and scrolling or clicking to the right.......you are seeing one "Field" of the video frame and skipping the other field. When you come from the end of the scene backwards using the "Trim" feature and clicking on the "Out" button and then moving from the end of the clip backwards.....you will be seeing the other "Field" of the frame. It is very possible to have a really bad field and not be able to see it if you are clicking in the wrong direction to see it. So we always recommend that you examine the last few seconds going in both directions to find a glitch or a flash or a bad field. Many times, if you are trying to sync up cameras by using the photographer's flash at a wedding and you just can't find it on one of the camera's tapes......examine that one going the other way and it'll usually show up. This is espcially true if the photographer is using a very fast flash time. It may show up on your tape on one field and not the other if it's faster that 1/60 of a second.

This of course is for normal "Interlaced" video and does not apply to progressive HD footage at all.

Just remember that the "in" button reads one field and the "Out" button reads the other field when in the "Trim" mode.

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Greg

There has been an anomaly when dealing with specific insert locations since DAY#1.
I hope I can explain it right. :

ISSUE: If the editor places an INSERT atop the very first frame of a scene (I think the last as well) in the SB then adds a dissolve transitions between the preceding and present scene, a jump cut appears at the end of the dissolve transition as it appears that a short migrating clip from that preceding scene is observed.

NOTE BENE: This will NOT occur if an INSERT is placed at any other location within the scene...only at the beginning or end of a scene.

Workaround:

Place the INSERT onto your designated scene.

Make a SCENE of JUST that clip with the included insert.

Replace/add that new scene above in your storyboard and eliminate the original insert clip. You will now have a clean INSERT included in your scene.

ADD the dissolve or any transition as before. You will not have a jump-cut look to the transition.

If this was not your problem, the above is still a valuable way for others to avoid this continuing issue.

GregB wrote:Good Evening

I am inserting a 38 second segment over a 2 minute video background and when I add a crossfade over in and out points there is a jumpcut before the 2nd crossfade starts.

If anyone could let me know what I am doing wrong I would appreciate it.

Thanks
Greg