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In this short video, we're going to talk about transitions now, most of the questions I get about

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networks are about transitions more correctly, problems with transitions that people are having once

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they've set up their movies and already started their edit.

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So if you have a look at the movie I'm making, it's only got three clips so far.

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Start off with a short clip of a helicopter and it's going to jump to a clip over a city as if the helicopters

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flying.

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And the third clip is just kind of flying over the edge of an island or the edge of a beach, if you

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will.

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So what we're going to do is we're just going to add some transitions between clip one and two and two

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and three.

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So the way we would do that normally is go to the VFX button.

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We would click on the plus.

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And if it wasn't already selected, we'd go to that top and choose a mix.

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Now, in this case, we're going to do a dissolve, which is a classic fade in fade out between one

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clip and the other.

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So what we're going to do, like we normally do, is we pick it up and we put it down.

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And what we try to do is aim for both the starting and the end clip to be covered in the dissolve.

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And you let go.

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And once you let go, what happens is as you move.

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One clip dissolves into another clip, which is perfect, so that's fine.

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Now let's go between clips two and three and I'm going to zoom in just a little bit so that you can

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see what happens here, because we're going to introduce a problem.

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We're going to go back to the plus, we're going to go back to the dissolve and we're going to click

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drag and drop it exactly in that same half and half and nothing happens, which kind of gets frustrating.

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So let's go a slightly long way, which is here.

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We're going to go to the duration and the bottom left.

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We're going to click on 24 frames, which is standard.

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We're going to without an esky, we're going to move our play head forward between clips two and three

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and we're going to say apply effect.

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Now, this is a warning that a lot of people write to me that they don't understand what's happening.

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It says there is insufficient overlapping media to create a transition at this point.

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So what does this error mean?

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So we'll go back to edit.

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We can now look at scenes two and three.

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So two.

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Is our clip of the city, which is this one over here, like so let's just move our plate around.

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So that's going on there.

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Now, what you can see as my end is somewhere around just past the halfway mark and my out is all the

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way at the end, meaning that's really the last frame of that clip is my out.

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Now, if you look at my island scene, you can see that the in and out are kind of in the middle of

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the clip.

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So if we go back to the error message that we had, it said there is insufficient overlapping media.

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Know, what that means is if we apply a dissolve to any two clips.

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Those clips need a little bit before or after the in and out, which means that this clip is fine because

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there are some frames before the end and after the out.

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So if we were to apply a dissolve, it would be no problem.

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It would kind of steal a few frames from here or steal a few frames from here to create the dissolve

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effect.

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Now, if we go to clip number two and have a look there before, no problem.

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So you can see where my mouth is right now.

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That was clip number two with the city.

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That's that one over there.

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And that was clip number one with the helicopter, so where the dissolve was, was where my mouth is

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now, it's stole a few of the frames from over there to create the dissolve.

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When I go to this part over here, which is the.

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Transition between 2:00 and three, you can see that there's absolutely no frames left of the city,

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there's just no more frames for the dissolve to occur.

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So the error message is really saying, I want to put the dissolve in there, but there are no more

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frames for me to steal.

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So what do we do?

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So you've got really two choices.

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You could move your out a few frames back to try and compensate for this.

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But a lot of times when we filmed and we've cut out and that's really where the out has to be, we can't

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move the frames backwards or forwards.

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So in that case, let's solve the problem a slightly different way.

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Let's go back to VFX.

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Let's make sure that we're between clips two and three.

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Let's go back to adding a dissolve now before we pick up drag and try to do that, what we're going

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to do if I just zoom in a little bit.

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So I want to show you in a slightly different way how to solve this problem.

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So what we're going to do is we've got the dissolve selected.

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We're going to go to the direction.

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We're going to still make it 24 frames where it says the target region.

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We're going to change it from centered here, which means make it exactly halfway between clip number

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two and three.

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What we're going to do is we're going to say to here, if we now press apply effect, you're going to

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see what happened.

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So you can see that the dissolve was overlapping both.

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It was actually put into the city where there were enough frames.

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And if we were to just play this.

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You'll see the effect is almost the same, the only problem here is that I've lost more of my city clip

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than I did of my island clip.

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In this case, I don't care.

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So if I just undo that for a second, there is a fast way to do that as well so we can grab to dissolve.

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We know that picking it up here is just going to do nothing because there's not enough there.

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What we can do is kind of compensate for that by picking it up and putting the dissolve right there.

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And exactly the same as we did before, just drag and dropping it there.

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Now, let's say you tried to do the following, which has put it there.

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You'll notice it doesn't work because there are not enough frames in clip number two to run the dissolve

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into clip number three.

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So in this case, this is a good compromise.

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I'm going to put the dissolve on clip number two completely.

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It will steal a few frames from the island clip to create the dissolve, which works really well.

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So I hope that answered the questions I've been getting about why dissolve is not work and transitions

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don't work.

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And I hope that gets you going on your videos and keeping out of trouble.