Transitions in Premiere missing in final production...

[nrgetic]

Here's the situation..

I made a 1 year video montage of my daughter. It starts with photos from birth to her 1st bday party set to music. I use a cross-dissolve transition between pictures and all works great. I burned it as a SVCD and it was perfect.

I added some video footage at the end of the photo montage (captured at 640x480, Huffyuv) and added some special effects. I use alot of slo-mo stuff and transitions.

After ALOT of editing, the transitions stopped previewing (previewing from RAM, just the transition areas), it would just jump from one clip to the next as if the transition wasn't even there. I then burned it to SVCD (using LSX plug-in to encode.. which is great BTW). And as expected, the transitions didn't make it to the final video either. The transitions applied to the stills are all still there and fine

What's up with this? This happen to anyone else? Shoud I try to use a disk preview? Re-render the thing? Anyone?

[nrgetic]

Well, I found a fix for this if anyone has had the same problem...

I simply went back through the timeline and deleted and then reinserted the transitions, and then checked to be sure they worked via a Preview to RAM. If they work in a preview, they will work on final production. MY GUESS is that when I double-clicked the transitions to preview them, I left the "start position" slider at the end of the the clip thus negating the transition altogether. My own fault, no fault of the software.

Also, I have seen many people with the problem of having a black screen and just audio during a preview of some clips. I had that as well, and found the problem to be with clips captured in Video Studio. I suspect Premiere may be finicky about clips captured from other software since I recaptured the same stuff in Premiere and they worked fine. For existing clips that I no longer had the source for, I merely ran those clips through Virtualdub and recompressed them into Huffyuv files and viola, video was now back. I hope this helps someone, because it drove me mad.

[cushman]

I make the error of leaving the transistion slider at the end all the time by accident, and yeah that was probably the reason why your problem occurred.

As for the black video thing, I've gotten the same problem but I didn't capture them with Videostudio, I used virtualdub and it still happens.
The weird thing is that when i cut off the first 2 minutes, both of them work seperately fine. So I just exported them seperately and joined them back up in virtualdub.

[SLK001]

You can always use the "Monitor" function to make sure that Premiere is compiling your transistions properly. Once you see that it is okay, then export the timeline to video.

This is a mistake that I have made many times, so I always use the monitor function to check.

[nrgetic]

The "no video" problem occurred for me with about 50% of the clips I captured with VS6. Not sure why, but rerunning through VDUB w/Huffyuv fixed all of them.

I prefer to capture with VS6 since I can just press the button on and off as I watch the source to record clips and it auto names them sequentially. I thought I was going to have to get away from using VS6 to use Premiere, but this fix works and it takes less time to recompress with VDUB than it would to capture all the clips in Premiere. I don't have the necessary HD space to capture on long clip and then split it.

The transition thing was just a braindead mistake by me. All is well now and I can continue to use Premiere for all my needs now that I have the LSX MPEG encoder (which kicks ass if you ask me).