On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Herman Robak wrote: > However, that would not suit your usecase. For you, it would be > convenient if the transition _ended_ at the edit point.
When I'm syncing the transitions to music I normally want the start of the transition to occur on the beat, so I hope that the current behaviour will remain available even if there's an option created for something else. I think what the original poster is missing is that while a transition is occurring, you are really displaying both clips on the screen at once. In effect there are two tracks even if it only shows on the timeline as one, and the clips must overlap. There's no getting around the fact that the source material must include frames past the point where the transition starts. If you try to do transitions from the very end of one clip to the very start of another, then of course you're going to have problems and there's not much the system can really do about it; you're saying "Display this clip all the way to the last frame, and then keep displaying it for one second more, but oh no, don't you dare freeze the frame during that time!" Is it supposed to create frames from thin air? Automatically reducing the clip's length by the length of the transition to create the overlap may help, but only if you don't care about the overall length of the clip; it would mean that two one-minute clips combine to be 1:59 in length. When doing music sync I *do* care about the overall length, so clipping a second off would be extremely inconvenient. I think it is the usual expected case that the clip you put on the timeline won't be an entire video file up to the last frame - that's not how video editing is normally done. Remember that an edit isn't a file, it's a chunk selected from a file. Normally one would have some extra frames on either side (the director says "Lights, camera, action," the clapboard claps, the actors do their thing, the director says "cut," and you only use the bit in the middle) and so it shouldn't be the default to expect that the clip will go all the way up to the last frame of the source footage. If things were designed such that transitions went between tracks instead of between edits on the same track, that might make it a lot easier to understand. I think it would mean an architectural change, though. -- Matthew Skala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embrace and defend. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
