fade in/fade out with smart rendering

[bmf]

Hi There,

My camera (Sony HC96) doesn't support creating fade in/fade out effect conveniently during recording, so I'd like to apply this effect to my dv avi files.

Is there any tool that's capable of adding fade in/fade out by batch processing all avi files in specific folder - it would also be nice having this done with smart rendering.

Thanks for your help!

[peter06]

I also got the hc96 - you can create this effect and others with the cam. But its better to do this with a program.
I can imagine that virtualdub can do this job.

[edDV]

Hi There,

My camera (Sony HC96) doesn't support creating fade in/fade out effect conveniently during recording, so I'd like to apply this effect to my dv avi files.

Is there any tool that's capable of adding fade in/fade out by batch processing all avi files in specific folder - it would also be nice having this done with smart rendering.

Thanks for your help!

If you are still in DV format, you still have a frame by frame representation of your video so each frame can be edited with transitions or filters without affecting other frames. Prosumer editors support batch processing and "smart rendering" , consumer programs usually don't.

Even if DV is recoded, the losses are small compared to MPeg. PAL DV (4:2:0) is less tolerant for multigeneration than NTSC DV (4:1:1) since CbCr get reinterpolated in each pass.

I can't think of a program that does exactly what you want, but it would be easy to write one. Many consumer programs can be set for auto transitions on the timeline but not for batch processing clips.

If you were to write a program, "fade-in" "fade-out" should be done in Y or Alpha for minimal damage. Conversion to RGB should be unnecessary.