On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:56:40 -0600, "Kelly R

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:56:40 -0600, "Kelly R. Kerr" <kelly@kkinteractive.com> wrote:

>Hey gang! Having used Media 100 and Final Cut Pro in the past I thought

>this would be a no brainer in Premiere 6.0, but I guess I was wrong!

>I have a video clip on Track Video 1A that is 20 seconds long. On Track

>Video 1B I have a still clip that I want to dissolve in over the video clip

>at 10 seconds in, stay on the still clip for 5 seconds, then dissolve back

>to the video clip. Simple huh?

>Well, in this case the video clip plays, it dissolves to the still...at the

>end of the dissolve it cuts back to the video clip until it hits the

>dissolve at the end of the still, cuts to a frame of the still then

>dissolves back to the video again. This only happens when the video clip is

>on 1A and the still is on 1B. If I reverse them, so the video is on 1B

>fades to 1A, holds on the still, then fades back to 1B, it works as it

>should.

>Is this just something in Premiere that I have never noticed before, or am I

>doing something totally wrong? In Media 100 and Final Cut it doesn't matter

>what tracks things are on a transition from track 1 to track 2 stays on

>track 2 until you dissolve back to 1. Just doesn't make sense.

>Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. (That is if any of that made

>sense.) Thanks!

The best solution was offered elsewhere (using V2 or higher,

and adjusting the level "rubber bands [and remember that

you can also draw complex shapes for the dissolves - I like

"S" shapes for these...]), but even with V1A and B, this is

easy - just remember that transitions have "direction",

which can be specified (along with other characteristics)

by opening the transition dialogue box... BTW, for my

preferred set-up of Premiere, see: