Transitions in premiere 6.0

[cdcox]

What is the easiest way to ad a transition to your timeline and not have your video in and out points change. If I have a clip that I cut with the razor blade at a sceene change and make both clips 10 sec in length, when I add a 2sec transition, both video lengths get extended to cover the transition. So what you end up seeing is Video a transition into the last 30 frames of video a and pop into video b. With studio which is what I am used to, you clip length does not change. The transition ends up covering your clip, so 2 10 sec clips stay 10 sec but 1 sec of video a and 1 sec of video b become the transition.

[racer-x]

The easiest way to add a transition is:
Bring the edit line to the point on the timeline you want to add transition.
Click on the little rectangle icon below and to the right of the playback window. This will insert the default transition where the edit line is. You can set whatever transition you want as default. I always use cross-fade.

I've never noticed the video getting longer when adding transition, so I'm not sure what your talking about. If it does grow 1-2 sec longer, then just trim 1-2 sec off video if length is important.

If you just want to add a simple fade to black and back, then just add black video in the track above the joined video clips and use the alpha chanel "Ruber Bands" to adjust the fade in and out of the black video. This will not effect video length.

[cdcox]

yea I have the same default transition set. It is hard to explain what I am experiencing but if you use it and don't notice the duration of your clips getting bigger when you add a transition, then there has got to be a preference setting that I have set that I don't want. I am new to premiere, and I'm still in the learning stage. I will hunt some more in the preferences to see. Thanks racer-x.

Here is a better way to explain my problem:
I have 2 jpeg images that are on v1 timeline, I have my default duration set to 300 frames or 10sec. When I import each jpeg to the timeline, then highlight the clip, right click and go to duration, it reads 00:00:10:00 which of course is 10 sec.

I then move the scrubber to the position where the 2 jpegs meet and apply my defualt 2sec transition.

If I now go back to either jpeg on the time line, highlight and check duration they read 00:00:11:00