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[Vax]

I didn't test out the keyframing yet. Mostly because photoshop is 10x easier and fun. One thing I need right now for a school assignment is cross-fading. It just doesn't work. It pushes the clip. Does it have to be done by layers or something? One more thing are the presets in the beggining while seting up your project. They put down 720x480 as 4:3. I couldn't find a way to make it 640X480. It's not that big of an issue since I can export 640x480, but it will be nice to know how to work with that. I guess that's it for now. Thanks in advance.

[GloryQuestor]

One thing I need right now for a school assignment is cross-fading. It just doesn't work. It pushes the clip. Does it have to be done by layers or something?

You could use the Transition Effect "Cross Dissolve", but the manual way is more instructive:

To fade out one clip on one video line while another clip on the video line above is faded in, find the two areas where you want to cross dissolve; then, right-click and use Fade Out Video on the clip before the transition and Fade In Video on the clip after. Line up the two keyframe spots that begin / end the fades to whatever point you would like, as long as the fade out begins at the same moment your fade in begins. If they do not, then you end up with a transition that isn't a "cross" fade.

One more thing are the presets in the beggining while seting up your project. They put down 720x480 as 4:3. I couldn't find a way to make it 640X480. It's not that big of an issue since I can export 640x480, but it will be nice to know how to work with that.

There isn't much you can do, sadly. The only two Aspect Ratio presets are 4:3 and 16:9. However, I do not recommend ever using the latter one, as the 16:9 option is very hard to work with in post-production. So, work with and export your video with the 4:3 AR.

After you export (preferably in MPEG-2 or AVI), index the MPEG-2 (if you used that as your export), then open VirtualDubMod. If you used AVI, go ahead and use File --> Open Video as AVISynth... and select your AVI video with AVISource (Default) selected. Otherwise, open the AVISynth script used to index the MPEG-2. Either way, now you have AVISynth script access which will be able to clean up any lingering problems and resize the video to either AR -- both 4:3 and 16:9. Then save your release builds from VDubMod (or your release sources for MP4 conversion).

[Vax]

I'm getting used to it alot now. The school project helped me test some stuff out. But is there anyway you can get .wmv as a format in there, because my computer teacher's camera imports as .wmv and exporting as .avi causes some glitches. The rendering, I realized I did it wrong the first time. I set the marker to render the whole movie. My ram was fine. It exported a 5 minute 720p .avi in 30-45 minutes. I also saw they didn't have mpeg-2 as an exporting option. Is there a way to get/load extensions to export with? Some of the file formats they had were pretty stupid.
And wouldn't another way to crossfade be just by making the bottom clip fade out, and putting a clip above it and make it fade in, but it would have to be in the middle of the fade out? I don't like cross-dissolving. It looks sort of ugly.
Thanks a bunch GloryQuestor. I owe you big time. I guess I'm an Adobe Premiere user now

[Vax]

Instead of making a new thread, I'll save the space and post my problem here. When I export in any format. I get this glitch.


Is this easily fixable?
Thanks in advanced.