Premiere Transition Problems

[dansleethmovieman]

Theres bound to be a simple answer to this... Basically I am using two bits of footage I had encoded using Premiere 6.5 MPEG Encoder and I want to put a transition from one angle of footage to the other. When I place the transition on the transition bar (with 1 video above and 1 below), it streatches the footage so the overlap the transition bar, but it never shows up on the preview screen - I have a decent machine and just thought 6.5 was suppose to give you the transtition straight away. I used the preview function AND encoded it when that method failed, but the transition never happens, it just cuts from one to the other and on rare occassions, the video is just a black screen?! Help please!!

[q1aqza]

I am new to Premiere and yesterday I did my first Premiere 6.5 project on home DV footage and I experienced the exact same problem (it only seemed to happen with the default cross dissolve). The only way I overcame it was to delete the transition and replace it with something like a 3D cube spin or something and then drag the Cross Dissolve over to replace it (i.e. did not use the CTRL-D shortcut).

I was going to take a look on the Adobe forums but I haven't had chance yet.

[dansleethmovieman]

What file format did you capture your footage with? I had two 70min footages to capture (2 camera angles of the same thing) and I converted the captured files (two 25Gig DivX files :P ) using the Premiere MPEG encoder (gave me two 699MB files). I wondered if it was because it dosnt do transitions on MPEG?? I cant reconvert the files coz the disk space is too much... Think im a bit buggered.

[Gazorgan]

As I recall, transitions must be rendered to be seen. Also, for disolves/fades, you have to overlap the videos; That is both segments are playing at one time as the fade/dissolve happens. Don't but-fit the segments.

Premiere is NOT for the faint of heart. You should be working in lossless video, and that means about 10-15 GB/hour of footage. You source should be a lossless codec(HuffyUV). Nearly lossless is good also, like MJPEG at 90%+, or the raw rip from a DVD. Do your voodoo. Then render the final project back out in HuffyUV or RGB. Then take that final file and enocde it to DivX/XviD/SVCD the usual way.

Lotta work? Hell yes. Want studio quality graphics and transitions? Want those really cool watermarks? Watermarks at random times and places? Then use Premiere. Want to convert DVD's, use the standard apps.

[LanceSteel]

As I recall, transitions must be rendered to be seen.

Gazorgan is right. If you play the video without rendering you see a small 'X' in the upper corner of the video which means that the transistion is there but not rendered. After you render the video then you will see them in the monitor/preview window.

[kickbxn5]

6.5 does do realtime preview, but you must have the right specs on your computer. Off the top of my head, I think you need a P4 processor. Try this, it works for me. Make your preview from RAM instead of disc. The program will render what needs to be previewed and wa-lah...you can view your work.

[q1aqza]

I can't speak for dansleethmovieman but my PC will do RT preview in 6.5 and I was editing a DV video file captured from camcorder. Even rendering teh tranistion or exporting it did not make any difference. To me it looks like a minor bug as I was able to overcome it by doing what I described earlier in this thread.