Setting up transitions in Adobe Premiere isn't quite working

[mikewg]

I have Premiere 6.5 on my computer. Previously, I could take two different video clips and space them apart, and then drop a transition between them at any length I want so one clip is fading out while the other fades in.

Then I had to format my computer. Now when I run Premiere, it's not working the same way. Now... I can't overlap clips at all, I have to have one clip end where another clip begins. And when I drop a transition in between them, it stretches the end of one and the beginning of the other, making the transition not happen as smoothly.

What happened? What did I do differently before that I'm not doing now? I'm doing the same thing, it just doesn't seem to be setting up the same. Please help!

[nerd1701d]

I have Premiere 6.5 on my computer. Previously, I could take two different video clips and space them apart, and then drop a transition between them at any length I want so one clip is fading out while the other fades in.

Then I had to format my computer. Now when I run Premiere, it's not working the same way. Now... I can't overlap clips at all, I have to have one clip end where another clip begins. And when I drop a transition in between them, it stretches the end of one and the beginning of the other, making the transition not happen as smoothly.

What happened? What did I do differently before that I'm not doing now? I'm doing the same thing, it just doesn't seem to be setting up the same. Please help!

There are 2 different modes to use Premiere, one where you have two tracks and the transition between them or one where you just put one clip after another. I suspect you chose the latter. If you go into your timeline properties, you can change this back.

Other than that, I would say re-install from the original disks again.

[mikewg]

To better help you guys understand my problem, I have some more information. Check out this picture:



See how the two video clips overlap, allowing the transition to fit in between? My Premiere won't let me do that. It will only allow me to place a video clip extactly after another clip, and doesn't allow me to do any overlap at all.

Please, I've spent two days researching everything I can on this. I'm sure it's a setting somewhere but I can't find it ANYWHERE! Please someone help.

[mikewg]

I have Premiere 6.5 on my computer. Previously, I could take two different video clips and space them apart, and then drop a transition between them at any length I want so one clip is fading out while the other fades in.

Then I had to format my computer. Now when I run Premiere, it's not working the same way. Now... I can't overlap clips at all, I have to have one clip end where another clip begins. And when I drop a transition in between them, it stretches the end of one and the beginning of the other, making the transition not happen as smoothly.

What happened? What did I do differently before that I'm not doing now? I'm doing the same thing, it just doesn't seem to be setting up the same. Please help!

There are 2 different modes to use Premiere, one where you have two tracks and the transition between them or one where you just put one clip after another. I suspect you chose the latter. If you go into your timeline properties, you can change this back.

Other than that, I would say re-install from the original disks again.

I understand about the two different modes... I'm using the mode with the two tracks and a transition layer between, just like the picture above. A/B editing. The problem is that I just can't overlap videos. I can overlap them on different layers, just not when one is on Video1A and the other is on Video1B.

It must be a setting or something. Can someone give me more advice before I reinstall everything?